(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and the California State University Board of Trustees will bestow an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on 2012 Olympic gold medalist and CSUDH alumna Carmelita Jeter on May 17, at 6:30 p.m., during CSUDH's 2019 Commencement Ceremony. Jeter, who earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from CSUDH in 2006, will be recognized for her athletic achievements and continued contributions to the sport of track and field, her dedication to her community, and her success as a speaker and businesswoman. She will receive the honorary degree and give the keynote address at the College of Health, Human Services and ... Read More
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Arbor Day Foundation Honors CSUDH with 2018 Tree Campus USA Recognition
(Carson, Calif.) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) was honored with 2018 Tree Campus USA recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. The Tree Campus USA program honors colleges and universities for excellent campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Currently, there are 364 campuses across the United States with this recognition. CSUDH achieved the recognition by meeting Tree Campus USA's five standards: maintaining a tree advisory committee; developing a campus tree-care plan; dedicating annual expenditures for its campus tree program; hosting an Arbor Day observance; ... Read More
Novelist Will Alexander will be Featured Speaker for the Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture
(Carson, Calif.) - Nationally-renowned novelist and American Book Award winner Will Alexander will be the featured speaker for California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) 2019 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 23, from 7 to 9 p.m., in Loker Student Union Ballroom. The free lecture is hosted by CSUDH's Department of English and is open to the public. Alexander has written more than 30 books and chapbooks, including Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, which won the American Book Award in 2013, and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome and Across the Vapour Gulf, recent collections of poetry from New Directions Press. He was also honored ... Read More
Comedian DL Hughley Hosts Inaugural Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival
(Carson, Calif.) - The Mervyn M. Dymally African American Political and Economic Institute (Dymally Institute) at California State University, Dominquez Hills (CSUDH) announces celebrated comedian and television and radio personality DL Hughley as host of the inaugural Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival. The festival takes place April 27, 1 to 10:30 p.m., at Dignity Health Sports Park (formerly the Stub Hub Center) on the CSUDH campus. Hosted in partnership with Rainbow Promotions, the Dymally International Jazz and Arts Festival will deliver a day filled with live music from two stages featuring jazz, reggae, Afro-Cuban, and R&B acts from four continents and the Caribbean, ... Read More
CSUDH Presents Shakespeare’s Beloved Comedy, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
(Carson, Calif.) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) will present Shakespeare's most beloved comedy of love gone wild, “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” as the final play of its 2018-2019 season. The show opens April 12 at 8 p.m. and will run multiple dates through April 20 in CSUDH's Edison Theatre. Directed by CSUDH theatre lecturer Kelly Herman and choreographed by dance lecturer Sarah Cashmore, Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. What: “A Midsummer Night's Dream” When: April 12, 13, 17, 18 and 19 at 8 p.m., and April 14 and 20 at 2 ... Read More
