Story compliled from the orginial piece written by Donna Cruz, Office of the Provost, Division of Acacemic Affairs. Photographs by Donna Cruz. When the California State University (CSU) system offered California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) the opportunity to be the test campus for the Affordable Learning Solutions (ALS) program in 2009, University Library staff ran with it, as did the faculty. Today, they lead the way for faculty throughout the 23-campus CSU system in providing more affordable, quality educational content for their students through free and low-cost e-books, and other learning materials. “The aim here at CSUDH was to get as many free textbooks as ... Read More
Service Learning
CSUDH business students help prepare SoCal ROC students for the workforce
Business management students from California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) conducted mock job interview sessions to learn essential management techniques, while helping students enrolled at the Southern California Regional Occupational Center (SoCal ROC) gain real-world interview skills to compete in today's competitive workforce. The SoCal ROC Service Learning Project took place on March 2, and included approximately 70 CSUDH students and local business professionals leading practice interviews with as many as 400 high school and other students studying a variety of occupations, from dental assistant and physical therapy aide, to welder and automobile mechanic. “The ... Read More
Cuban and CSUDH Faculty, Students Participate in Sociological Exchange
The idea to take a group of students to Cuba stemmed from an academic visit that Jose Prado made to the island nation when he was a graduate sociology student more than 10 years ago. “I made a promise to myself that, like the professors who took me and other students to study in Cuba, I'd do the same when I became a professor,” he said. Prado kept his promise. Prado, an associate professor of sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills, collaborated with Cuban academics from Havana's Universidad de la Habana and Casa de las Americas (CLA), a Cuban cultural institution, to design a week-long academic seminar, Latitudes de Latinidad en America (Latitudes of Latina/o ... Read More
MARC USTAR Scholar Cesar Deleon Discovers his Passion for Chemistry
As many a student can attest, sometimes life gets in the way of school, thwarting goals and altering paths. This was certainly the case for Cesar Deleon. He faced circumstances that could have jeopardized his education altogether, but instead he met those challenges head on, and with the help of the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (USTAR) program the senior chemistry major at California State University, Dominguez Hills is preparing for graduate school, where he plans to specialize in organic chemistry with the goal of developing new medicine. Although a bright kid, Deleon was not all that dedicated to his school work. An ... Read More
CSU College Fair: A Super Saturday for Families to Explore College
Azario Cush, a sixth grader at Wilmington Middle School, already has his sights set on college; he wants to study culinary arts. Brenda Galvan, a 10th grader at Synergy Quantum Academy Charter High School in Los Angeles, is trying to decide what area of engineering she'd like to specialize in when she gets to college. Joseph Gardner, a senior at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Riverside, wants to major in cinematography. Whether these students stick with these pursuits over the next several years remains to be seen; however, one thing is for sure, they have a better shot at success because they are preparing for college now. On August 17, they were among nearly 3,000 visitors who got an ... Read More
