Are trigger warnings helpful in the classroom? In today's Academic Minute, Mara Grayson of California State University, Dominguez Hills, says maybe not. Grayson is an assistant professor of English at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Source: Inside Higher Ed ... Read More
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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
Alumni Return to Campus to Help Celebrate the Investiture of President Parham
The inauguration of Thomas A. Parham as California State University, Dominguez Hills’ (CSUDH) 11th president provided the perfect opportunity to welcome alumni back to campus to celebrate a new era for the university. In a series of Inauguration Week activities that took place Feb. 5-9 and culminated in a formal ceremony installing Parham as president, the CSUDH Alumni Association invited five alumni to serve as featured speakers and share their experiences as students, impart the knowledge they have gained in their professions, and express their enthusiasm for CSUDH’s future. Raymund Diaz (’02, B.A., political science/English literature), deputy district attorney of Orange County, ... Read More
Summer Bridge Academy Helps Build Peer Networks for Incoming Freshmen
Learning to tap their potential as new California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) students while developing long-lasting friendships and connections on campus, more than 1,000 incoming freshman are participating in the Summer Bridge Academy (SBA), their first step to becoming the graduating Class of 2020. For six weeks, the students participate in a variety of programs that are critical to developing a strong support system, and essential personal strengths and skills during their first year at CSUDH. The SBA’s overarching goal is to strengthen the English and/or math skills of incoming freshman who require preparatory courses in those subjects based on their English ... Read More
