California State University, Dominguez Hills is recognized as one of the nation's top 100 universities granting undergraduate and graduate degrees to minority students, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. In the magazine's “Top 100 Undergraduate Degree Producers” published this month, CSU Dominguez Hills ranked 52nd nationally in total number of bachelor's degrees–and 85th in total number of master's degrees–awarded to minority students during 2011-12, the year of the most current data reported to the U.S. Department of Education. In 2011-12, 1,639 minority students, representing 72 percent of the graduating class, earned their bachelor's degrees from CSU Dominguez ... Read More
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Five Alumni Forge Friendship at CSUDH, Blossom into Business Partners
If it is charming when two friends who are so close finish each other's sentences, then it's even more so with five friends–and maybe the perfect recipe for a successful business partnership. Alumni Adrian Arceo, Chris Avalos, Corey Cohen, Bryan Papp, and Jeff Saign were transfer students who met and bonded during their first year at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Today, they co-own Philly Steak & Subs, a predominantly take-out- and delivery-based casual restaurant in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood of Long Beach. “We actually met in classes. I think it was what, summer school?” Cohen said, ending in unison with Saign, who went on to say that four of the men later ... Read More
Adjunct Professor, Fulbright Scholar Elizabeth Jackson Melds Disciplines for International Instruction
Elizabeth Jackson, an adjunct professor in negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding (NCRP) at California State University, Dominguez Hills, has been a guest lecturer in 17 countries, with her latest assignment taking her to Russia. Through the Fulbright Specialist Program, Jackson spent a 30-day residency this past April at Ural Federal University (UFU) in Ekaterinburg, Russia, where she presented lectures to 26 graduate students studying communications on objectivity in international journalism from the perspective of psychological biases. “[The students] were absolutely mesmerized. They had never had this kind of offering before, because it was a cross-cultural discipline,” ... Read More
Incoming CSUDH Students, Parents Become Familiar with Campus and Gear up for Ultimate Goal–Graduation
By the end of summer, nearly 3,000 new students–and in some cases their parents–will be a little more familiar with the California State University, Dominguez Hills campus, and that much more prepared for the fall semester thanks to New Student Orientation (NSO). A daylong program offered at various dates throughout the summer, NSO includes campus and university housing tours, academic advisement, fall registration, and informative workshops tailored to address the unique needs of transfer and international students, as well as incoming freshmen, for whom the program is a requirement. “We're trying to develop a program that not only gives students what they need to register for their ... Read More
University to Host National Park Service Planning Meeting On Tule Lake
The University Library at California State University, Dominguez Hills will host one of several public workshops organized by the National Park Service this summer to plan a vision for the Tule Lake Unit of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, which preserves the Tule Lake Segregation Center site where more than 29,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed and incarcerated during World War II. The meeting, which is open to the public, will take place from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday, July 25, on the fifth floor of the Library's South Wing. The Tule Lake Segregation Center was one of 10 camps where 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II ... Read More