Source: Chronicle of Higher Education California State University-Dominguez Hills started building on its current site in 1965, amid America's postwar higher-education boom, and its campus looks like a lot of regional state universities: a core of Brutalist concrete buildings with glassy, modern structures surrounding them. This campus of 16,000 students is emblematic in another way – it's racking up a mounting tab for deferred maintenance. Administrators tally the deferred maintenance there at $130 million, and growing to $252 million over the next 10 years. In September last year, the California State University system requested $1.3 billion from the State of California to address ... Read More
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Study on California’s Freight Competitiveness Presented at Public Forum
At a public forum on Wednesday, March 23, Associate Professor of Information Systems and Operations Management Jian-Yu (Fisher) Ke and his team will unveil results of the South Bay Economics Institute's latest study on the current position of California's freight system compared with other states', and policy recommendations to increase California's supply chain competitiveness. The event will run from noon until 1:30 p.m. in the Loker Student Union, Ballroom C, and is open to students, faculty, and the surrounding community. The study, “Achieving Excellence for California's Freight System,” was prompted by the recent relocations of several major California-based companies, including ... Read More
