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Political Science

CSUDH Welcomes California Senate College Tour

October 22, 2019

California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) welcomed four California legislators on October 7 as part of their California Senate College Tour. The two-year tour is primarily focused on the academic success of students from historically underserved populations. They left campus touched by the CSUDH’s broad commitment to student achievement and well being, and offered their help at the state level. The senate’s fact-finding tour was designed to provide insights into the barriers that are impeding student success in college, with a specific focus on how housing insecurity, hunger, and health issues may delay or prevent academic success. “We’re not just focused on what’s ... Read More

CSUDH Gets its Hands on a Huge Repository of Obscure and Radical Political Texts

August 5, 2019

Newsletters with evocative titles such as “Practical Anarchy” and “Bolshevik Tendencies” — tucked away in cardboard boxes bearing labels like “Anarchism Collection (Box 2) — sit, uncatalogued, in the library basement at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Shelves there contain more than 5,700 books devoted to fringe and mainstream political movements, and diverse subjects such as Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War and the American Civil Rights movement. And there are scrapbooks, buttons, video and audio tapes, personal papers of activists, and cheaply produced pamphlets — often discarded quickly, they are now rare — crammed into dozens of cardboard boxes. This hodgepodge of political ... Read More

CSUDH Receives $1.725 Million Faculty Gift to Establish Endowed Chair

January 20, 2019

California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received a $1.725 million legacy gift from Professor Emeritus of Political Science Lyman Chaffee, who passed away April 27, 2018. The bequest will be used to establish the L.G. Chaffee Endowed Chair of Global and Comparative Politics, the first endowed chair position in the university’s history. The gift was formally presented to CSUDH by the surviving family of Lyman Chaffee on Jan. 17 during a check presentation reception hosted by CSUDH President Thomas A. Parham. Other university administrators in attendance included Michael Spagna, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; Philip LaPolt, dean of the College of Natural ... Read More

Former CSUDH Faculty Member’s $1.725 Million Gift Aimed at Inspiring Students to Learn about the World

July 2, 2018

A $1.725 million bequest from a former Cal State University, Dominguez Hills professor who died in April is the largest ever received from a former faculty member and will be used to establish the school’s first endowed chair position and fund several scholarships. The donation from the 49-year Hermosa Beach resident and Prof. Emeritus of Political Science Lyman Chaffee will largely be used to establish the L.G. Chaffee Endowed Chair of Global and Comparative Politics. Another $225,000 will fund several scholarships that will enable political science majors to study abroad. Studying political science was the impetus for Chaffee becoming a world traveler who visited more than 70 ... Read More

Late Professor Gifted $1.73M to Cal State Dominguez Hills

July 2, 2018

Lyman Chaffee with Students

A recently deceased professor gifted $1.73 million to California State University Dominquez Hills, the school’s largest-ever faculty member gift. The legacy gift from the late Lyman Chaffee, professor emeritus of political science, who died April 27 at the age of 79, will establish the first endowed chair position at the university, in global and comparative politics. Chaffee’s gift also specifies $100,000 to endow a scholarship for political science majors to study abroad and another $100,000 towards the university’s general endowment for study abroad scholarships. “This gift is a testament to…the commitment our faculty and staff have to our mission and the students we serve, and ... Read More

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