With a dynamic line-up that included a keynote address, workshops, panels and hosted discussions aimed at building their self-worth and empowering them to strive toward success through education, nearly 800 middle- and high-school Latino and African American male students from local Los Angeles and Long Beach Unified school districts, and from California State University, Dominguez Hills were brought together for the Fourth Annual Male Success Alliance (MSA) Summit, a day-long event hosted on May 9 in the Loker Student Union at the university in partnership with Inglewood-based nonprofit Social Justice Learning Institute (SJLI). Kicking off the event was an inspirational and edgy ... Read More
Male Success Alliance
Summit Aimed to Empower Minority Male Students to Succeed in School and Life
Ten young men, all African American and Latino students, stood in front of an audience of about 600 of their high school and college peers during the California State University, Dominguez Hills Male Success Alliance Third Annual Spring Summit held in the Loker Student Union ballroom on April 24 as part of an exercise to illustrate a point: the odds against male students of color completing high school or college are staggering. Making the point graphically real, motivational speaker and guest keynote Ernesto Mejia of CoolSpeak, a youth engagement company that campaigns for minority students to stay in and finish high school and college, asked the students why they want to go to ... Read More
ASI President Looks Forward to Refreshing New Era at CSU Dominguez Hills
Last April at the Earth Day celebration on campus, Mardel Baldwin and members of Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), handed out 750 refillable aluminum water bottles to encourage the use of a filtered water dispenser that had been recently installed in the Loker Student Union (LSU). This fall, Baldwin hopes to provide another form of refreshment for his fellow students by serving as ASI president. “This year, we’re hoping to have more student involvement,” says Baldwin, who served as ASI’s director of Student Services last semester and funded the bottles with a grant from the California State Student Association. “We’re going to be there on the walkway... in the classrooms, and make our ... Read More
