Source: Daily Breeze Cal State Dominguez Hills will try to address the lack of diversity in the tech industry by training more educatorsto teach computer science in K-12 schools – thanks to a $5 million grant from the company that owns social media application Snapchat. CSUDH sudents, teachers, administrators and alumni, as well as Snap Inc. representatives, recently gathered to celebrate the launch of the Snap Inc. Institute for Technology and Education, which is housed within the College of Education on the Dominguez Hills campus, with support from the nonprofit CSforALL. The institute will train aspiring educators to effectively impart computer science skills to students with an ... Read More
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NBC4: Large Donation at CSUDH to be Used to Foster Equity in STEM
Source: NBCLA (Video) Big changes are coming to Cal State Dominguez Hills thanks to the largest single donation in school history. Beverly White reports for the NBC4 News. ... Read More
Bobbie Porter: Fighter for Equity and Diversity
Bobbie Porter's passion and enthusiasm for her work are evident the moment she starts speaking–and she's ready to put that energy to work as CSUDH's first vice president and chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer. “Education changed my life,” she says. “If you look at the statistics, there's no way I should be where I am today. But I'm here. My mission is to help anyone that's choosing education as that bridge, as that gateway to a better life. I want to help create the conditions so students can do that–so they don't just survive college, but they thrive in it. And then they go out and change the world!” Porter grew up in a military family–her father was in the Navy, so she ... Read More
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Finishing What They Started
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education Fourteen years, one baby, a marriage and divorce, and three job moves after Desirée Vanderloop started college, she's finally closing in on a goal that had always seemed just beyond her grasp. When she walks across the stage next May to receive her bachelor's degree at Morgan State University, she'll join a growing number of returning adult students who are being lured back by programs designed specifically for people like them. The skills Vanderloop learned on the job as her interests shifted from pre-med to health-care technology will apply toward her degree. So will 90 of the 102 credits she accumulated, one or two courses at a time, while ... Read More
Education Students Create Books for Local Children
Students in the College of Education's (COE) Early Language and Literacy LBS 310 course do more than study how children's books contribute to early childhood literacy. By the time the course is over, students have written and illustrated their own books. It's all part of CSUDH's Project CYCLE: Crafting Young Children's Literary Experiences, which brings the university and local community closer together. The goal of Project CYCLE is to provide the young children and families of CSUDH's Infant/Toddler Center, Child Development Center, and the surrounding community with books to read at home. It also gives the teachers-in-training hands-on experience in creating useful early literacy ... Read More
