Ten young men, all African American and Latino students, stood in front of an audience of about 600 of their high school and college peers during the California State University, Dominguez Hills Male Success Alliance Third Annual Spring Summit held in the Loker Student Union ballroom on April 24 as part of an exercise to illustrate a point: the odds against male students of color completing high school or college are staggering. Making the point graphically real, motivational speaker and guest keynote Ernesto Mejia of CoolSpeak, a youth engagement company that campaigns for minority students to stay in and finish high school and college, asked the students why they want to go to ... Read More
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Mental Health Conference Centers on Hispanic Students
For the second year in a row, a mental health conference focused on Latino students will be held at California State University, Dominguez Hills, on Friday, April 27, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., in the Loker Student Union ballroom. Geared toward Latinos aged 11 to 23, the free conference is expected to be attended by more than 150 students. Professor of Chicano/a studies and organizer for the conference Miguel Dominguez said the conference is an opportunity for students, parents, community leaders, counselors, health care providers, and educators to gain insight into the complexity of mental health issues and to begin to explore how to deal with them–mainly, identifying what constitutes a ... Read More
Lois W. Chi Named 2012 Katherine B. Loker Friend of Education
Perhaps more than any other professor in the history of California State University, Dominguez Hills, Lois W. Chi, professor emerita of biology, can say she has seen the university evolve. Chi will be presented with the Katherine B. Loker Friend of Education Award for her longtime commitment to the university, her students, and science at the 2012 President's Scholarship Reception on April 26. “I feel very honored. I [am] very lucky to get the award,” Chi said. As one of the 20 founding faculty members serving 180 students, she began teaching at the then-named California State College, Dominguez Hills in 1966. In fact, Chi taught the very first class held on the Watt campus, which was ... Read More
John Auld (1940-2012): Historian Remembered for his Commitment to Students, University
One of California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of History's earliest professors, San Pedro resident John William Auld, passed away on April 8 from complications of dementia. He was 71. A Midwestern boy, Auld was born Dec. 30, 1940, in Marion, Ohio, and later moved with his family to Bucyrus, Ohio, where he graduated from Bucyrus High School in 1958. He attended The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, earning his bachelor's degree in 1962. In his senior year he received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship award to pursue graduate education, and was accepted to Stanford University. He earned his master's degree from Stanford in 1964 and his Ph.D., specializing in ... Read More
National Military Award Recognizes University ROTC Instructor
“Leadership Excellence” is an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) motto and one that Major Heath Papkov, assistant professor of military science at California State University, Dominguez Hills, lives by. In an affirmation of this, in February Papkov was given the 2011-12 Colonel Leo A. Codd Memorial Award. Presented to one outstanding ROTC instructor from each military branch of service –Army, Navy, and Air Force–the award is also known as the ROTC Instructor of the Year Award. Army nominees must hold the rank of lieutenant commander, major, or below, and are evaluated on such criteria as their teaching performance (including evaluations by students), counseling abilities, civilian ... Read More