By:Wyahee Tucrkile How do I build the life I want to build? How do I create the space around me to make that structure strong enough to withstand the things that it might need to withstand? As students and faculty from California State University, Dominguez Hills and local high schools including Fremont, Firebaugh, Crenshaw, and Lynwood High School, sat in a nearly packed Loker Student Union ballroom, speaker Tricia Rose challenged students with difficult questions for the university's first Women's Conference on March 7 titled “Students as Architects of Their Own Lives.” Hosted by the newly reopened Women's Resource Center, the conference kicked off Women's History Month with a ... Read More
Communications
Special Education Symposium Focuses on the Topic of Bullying
By:Wyahee Tucrkile Students in Special Education Post Induction (SPE 571) organized a Special Education Symposium on March 6 in the California State University, Dominguez Hills Loker Student Union Ballrooms. The symposium and panel discussion focused on the film “Bully” by Lee Hirsch and Cynthia Lowen, and shed some light on the topic. Under the direction of Caron Mellblom-Nishioka, professor of special education, and Pat Murphy, adjunct faculty member in special education, the forum was part of the students' clear credential requirement to engage in and develop meaningful professional developmental activities. Hosted by special education graduate students, Anthony Jackson, a ... Read More
Science Fiction Author David Gerrold to Deliver Annual Pat Eliet Memorial Lecture
The Department of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills will host the annual Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture featuring science fiction author David Gerrold as the guest speaker, on Tuesday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in the Loker Student Union Ballroom. The lecture is free and open to the public. Gerrold's prolific output includes stage shows, teleplays, film scripts, educational films, computer software, comic books, more than 50 novels and anthologies, and hundreds of articles, columns, and short stories. His novels and stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages. “We're excited to have in David Gerrold, an author who is so accomplished in so many popular ... Read More
CBAPP Hosts Successful Women Leaders Symposium
“Don't ever underestimate confidence. Even if you don't know what you're doing at the moment, act like you do. Fake it until you can make it.” “Never let them see you sweat.” These are just some of the words of wisdom imparted to about 175 students, mostly women along with several men, from business classes, faculty, staff, and guests by a panel of prominent women business and community leaders at the Successful Women Leaders Symposium hosted by the College of Business and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills on Feb. 25 in the Loker Student Union. The diverse group of women, director of recruitment at Northwestern Mutual Kristin Burke, attorney at law ... Read More
CSU Student Leaders Get Help Spreading Word About Health Insurance
Student body leaders from four local California State University campuses–Dominguez Hills, Long Beach, Los Angeles and Northridge–stood side-by-side with CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White and CSU Dominguez Hills President Willie J. Hagan on Thursday, Feb. 13, in the auditorium of the CSU Dominguez Hills College of Extended and International Education and made an appeal to students that they help spread the word to their family and friends about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the new federal law that requires all Americans to have health insurance. “I'm proud of CSU Dominguez Hills' participation in this event and the role we students are playing in helping each other understand that quality ... Read More