California State University, Dominguez Hills Interim President Willie J. Hagan helped kick off CSU Super Sunday, a system-wide event held at nearly 100 predominately African American churches throughout the state in February and March, when he attended services at the historic First AME (FAME) Church of Los Angeles this past Sunday, Feb. 10, and spoke before the congregation about the importance of college. Reaching more than 100,000 churchgoers, Super Sunday is produced by the CSU African American Initiative - a partnership between CSU campuses and African American religious leaders with the goal of increasing college-going rates among African American students. It is in its eighth ... Read More
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Ericka Verba Granted NEH Fellowship for Life’s Work
Ericka Verba, associate professor of history at California State University, Dominguez Hills, has been awarded a Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to undertake the writing of a biography of 20th century Chilean artist Violeta Parra, the culmination of decades Verba has dedicated to the study. The project submitted to the NEH as “A Transnational Biography of Chilean Folklorist, Musician and Visual Artist, Violeta Parra (1917-1967),” earned Verba two potential awards from the organization. She was the only candidate to receive both grants this year. However, required to accept only one, she chose the NEH Fellowship grant over the NEH Award for Faculty. ... Read More
$200,000 from Keck Foundation Supports Unique Chemistry Lab Redesign
California State University, Dominguez Hills has received a $200,000 grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to support a unique chemistry lab model aimed at addressing barriers to the sciences for part-time, working students. For nontraditional students who work and/or commute long distances to campus, spending hours in a lab each week can be daunting and is often a deterrent in the pursuit of a degree in science, mathematics, engineering and technology (STEM) fields. Recognizing the large population of part-time, working students, as well as students underrepresented in the sciences who attend CSU Dominguez Hills, the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry sought a more flexible model ... Read More
Sam Enriquez: Above the Fold at the Wall Street Journal
Sam Enriquez (Class of '85, B.S., economics) is featured as a CSU Dominguez Hills alumnus in the CSU Working for California campaign. His list of accomplishments are highlighted on the CSU website and as part of banner displays in the State Capitol Building. --- Just a month after his promotion to national news editor of the Wall Street Journal in 2008, Sam Enriquez found himself reaching back more than two decades to his courses in economics from California State University, Dominguez Hills. That fall, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., a global financial services firm and then the fourth-largest investment bank in the U.S., declared bankruptcy, ushering in a historic autumn of frozen credit ... Read More
Q & A: Hamoud Salhi on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Hamoud Salhi, associate professor of political science, specializes in international politics and comparative politics with an emphasis on the Middle East and Northern Africa, terrorism and counterterrorism, and political change in the Third World. He was in Algeria over winter break, during which time he joined a panel of experts to discuss American foreign policy and the Arab Spring. Dateline caught up with Salhi last week and asked him about this trip and his thoughts on events in the Middle East. Dateline: Why were you in Algeria and for how long were you there? Hamound Salhi: I was in Algeria for 10 days. I was invited to join in a panel on America foreign policy and ... Read More