By:Wyahee Tucrkile How do I build the life I want to build? How do I create the space around me to make that structure strong enough to withstand the things that it might need to withstand? As students and faculty from California State University, Dominguez Hills and local high schools including Fremont, Firebaugh, Crenshaw, and Lynwood High School, sat in a nearly packed Loker Student Union ballroom, speaker Tricia Rose challenged students with difficult questions for the university's first Women's Conference on March 7 titled “Students as Architects of Their Own Lives.” Hosted by the newly reopened Women's Resource Center, the conference kicked off Women's History Month with a ... Read More
Political Science
Panetta Institute Internship Introduces Business Major Nicole Leonard to U.S. Political System
As something she and her mom used to do for fun, Nicole Leonard would often spend weekends spontaneously dropping in on real estate open houses in and near Torrance, where she was born and still calls home. Leonard developed such an interest in residential real estate that it became her career aspiration to become a licensed real estate broker. As a means to that end, she enrolled at Marymount College (now Marymount California University) in Rancho Palos Verdes and in spring 2012 earned an associate's degree in business with a concentration in accounting. By the time she transferred to California State University, Dominguez Hills in fall 2012, something had caught the senior ... Read More
Alumna Janice Schill: Education Provides Pathway to Service as U.S. Diplomat
Throughout her husband's nearly 30-year career as a United States diplomat in the State Department's Foreign Service, Janice Schill gladly lived for years at a time in places where he was assigned, such as South Africa, China, Jordan, and Fiji. “I've traveled the world [with my husband Jim]... I've learned a lot, accumulated a lot of information, knowledge, experience,” Schill remarked. To immerse herself in the rich cultures into which she was embedded and to contribute to their communities, she volunteered at local hospitals and schools. Unknowingly, she was laying a strong foundation for her own entry into the Foreign Service. Once her husband retired from the foreign service, ... Read More
International Student Wins Honorable Mention at Harvard National Model UN
Three years ago when Arnaud Lukombo came to California State University, Dominguez Hills as a student of the university's American Language and Culture Program, his command of English was limited. Now an undergraduate in the political science department, the Frenchman is winning awards due in large part to his ability to speak and write well in English. Lukombo was recognized with an Honorable Mention award at the Harvard National Model United Nations–held in Boston Feb. 14-17–for his contribution as a member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation delegation representing Palestine on talks concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “I was quite shocked that my name was ... Read More
Q & A: Hamoud Salhi on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Hamoud Salhi, associate professor of political science, specializes in international politics and comparative politics with an emphasis on the Middle East and Northern Africa, terrorism and counterterrorism, and political change in the Third World. He was in Algeria over winter break, during which time he joined a panel of experts to discuss American foreign policy and the Arab Spring. Dateline caught up with Salhi last week and asked him about this trip and his thoughts on events in the Middle East. Dateline: Why were you in Algeria and for how long were you there? Hamound Salhi: I was in Algeria for 10 days. I was invited to join in a panel on America foreign policy and ... Read More
