As a gifted curriculum writer, researcher and educator, Jeff Sapp, professor of teacher education, has garnered high respect from his colleagues, his students, and California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) 2016 Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award. Sapp will carry the University Mace, an honor reserved for highly distinguished faculty members, at the College of Education and College of Extended and International Education Commencement Ceremony at 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 21. The faculty award acknowledges that “research, scholarship and creative activities that are essential components of the mission of CSUDH, and recognizes a professor's professional ... Read More
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Ivonne Heinze Balcazar Honored with ‘2016 Excellence in Service Award’
In the past five years alone, Ivonne Heinze Balcazar, associate professor and chair of the Department of Modern Languages, has made major contributions to her department in the form of new Spanish programs and courses, adding to her multitude of accomplishments since arriving at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) 13 years ago. For the entire body of her work and service to the university community, Heinze Balcazar was honored with the 2016 Excellence in Service Award, which recognizes “contributions to university governance and development, and acknowledges that service is an essential component of CSUDH's mission.” Heinze Balcazar will carry the University Mace, an ... Read More
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus Delves into ‘The Fiction of Memory’
The Social Justice Distinguished Speaker Series, co-founded by Shari R. Berkowitz and Jennifer Sumner, assistant professors in Criminal Justice Administration at the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), is delving deep into miscarriages of justice in the criminal justice system by hosting two nationally recognized experts. Steven Drizin, clinical professor of law and assistant dean of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, will speak about juvenile false confessions on May 2 on the fifth floor of the University Library South Wing. Drizin is the post-conviction attorney for Brendan Dassey. Dassey's case has drawn international attention due ... Read More
Alumna Linda Rose’s Experience Bodes Well for LA Southwest College
What do employers need? They need people who can communicate, who “understand what they're doing,” those who can think critically and are “not afraid” to think creatively. “That's how companies are moving forward, and that's what our students need to get there,” said Linda Rose, president of Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC), and a California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) alumna. Rose should know. The oldest of eight siblings, she grew up in Compton and didn't go to college directly after graduating from Centennial High. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, she was supporting herself working for such South Bay companies as Mattel Inc. and the aerospace company TRW (now ... Read More
Miguel Rivera Shares Personal Tragedy, Teaches Youth to ‘Dream Big’
Miguel Rivera did not retain a lot of what was taught at the “Every 15 Minutes” event that he attended as a senior at Norwalk High School in 2009, but when he returned two years later he was far-better prepared. Such events takes place each year at high schools across the country. They feature gruesome, yet staged car accidents strewn with “injured” and “dead” students, and such reality checks as a Grim Reaper removing a student from a classroom every 15 minutes to die, corresponding to the frequency of teenage death in the U.S. due to drunk driving. Rivera, now a sociology and business administration double major at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and founder of ... Read More