California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) President Thomas A. Parham has been elected to serve on the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities’ (CUMU) executive committee as a member at large. The coalition is the world’s largest organization committed to serving and connecting urban universities and their community partners. The CUMU executive committee is made up of presidents and chancellors of universities that are “anchor institutions” in the regions they serve. The committee serves more than 100 member campuses worldwide. “It is a privilege to have been elected to serve on the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities’ executive committee on behalf of ... Read More
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Professor Patricia Kalayjian Receives Grant to Digitize Letters of Novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick
(Carson, CA) – The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Patricia Kalayjian a three-year, $289,076 Scholarly Editions and Translations grant to co-create a digital edition of the complete letters of 19th Century American novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Work on the digitization project will begin in January 2020. Titled “Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters,” the digitization project will be led by Kalayjian with the support of co-project directors Lucinda Damon-Bach, professor of English at Salem State University in Massachusetts, and Deborah Gussman, professor of American ... Read More
CSUDH Hosts Beam Signing Ceremony for Innovation and Instruction Building
(Carson, CA) – California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will host a beam signing ceremony on Nov. 14 at 11 a.m. for its new four-story, 107,600-square-foot Innovation and Instruction Building to mark a new phase in its construction, and celebrate its role in the transformation of the physical campus. The building is scheduled to be open in time for fall classes in 2021. During the ceremony, CSUDH President Thomas A. Parham and members of the campus community will sign their names and messages on the last steel beam to be placed during the framing phase of the Innovation and Instruction Building. Adding their mark during the beam signing ceremony will be Carson City Council ... Read More
Theatre and Dance Presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s Comedy ‘Fuddy Meers’
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance presents playwright David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Fuddy Meers,” referred to by the New York Times as a “poignant yet brutal comedy that traces one woman’s attempt to regain her memory while surrounded by alarming and bizarre characters.” The play will run Nov. 8, 9, 13-16 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 10, 15-17 at 2 p.m. in CSUDH’s Edison Theatre. Claire, the protagonist in “Fuddy Meers,” has a rare form of psychogenic amnesia that erases her memory whenever she goes to sleep. There is her chipper husband, her pot smoking son, her mother – a recent stroke victim whose speech has been compromised, and a ... Read More
South Bay History Symposium ‘Untwists’ Compton’s Legacy
(Carson, CA) California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) 3rd annual South Bay Symposium, entitled “Compton 1969: The Changing Face of Politics, Dreams of Our Fathers,” will take place Nov. 2 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in CSUDH’s University Library North, 5th floor. The program commemorates the 50th anniversary of the election of Douglas F. Dollarhide, the first African American mayor of the City of Compton. Focused on “untwisting the legacy of Compton’s history,” the symposium will feature remarks by Los Angeles County Supreme Court Justice Hon. Kelvin D. Filer, and USC Law Professor Jody Armour, and include a panel discussion about the former mayors of Compton. “Mayor ... Read More
