Source: Daily Breeze Dozens of people incarcerated in California state prisons will now have the opportunity to obtain a master's degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and CSUDH have teamed up to offer a master's degree in humanities for incarcerated individuals – called the HUX program – starting this fall. It marks the first graduate degree program provided through a partnership between the agency and a state university, officials say. The fall 2023 cohort includes 33 students from 11 different prison facilities across the state, including Folsom State Prison, San Quentin State Prison and Chuckawalla Valley State ... Read More
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CSUDH and CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Launch Master’s Degree Program
Starting this fall, incarcerated people across California will have the opportunity to earn a fully accredited Master of Arts in Humanities degree from CSUDH. The groundbreaking program, called HUX, is a partnership between CSUDH and the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). It will be the first time CDCR formally partners with California's public higher education system to offer a graduate degree exclusively for incarcerated students. CSUDH first established HUX as a correspondence program in the early 1970s. Its subject-matter breadth and affordability helped it become one of the most popular and accessible humanities-based graduate degrees in the ... Read More
CalMatters: Black Women in California Are Overburdened and Underserved, New Poll Finds
Source: CalMatters A new poll finds 2 out of every 5 Black women in California are just one paycheck away from financial instability. The first-of-its-kind survey of 1,258 Black women across the state revealed 37% work two or more jobs – and 62% of them said the second job is “essential” and they would “not be able to make ends meet” without it. The Evitarus research firm polled the women last spring for the California Black Women's Collective Empowerment Institute, a research nonprofit in Carson, near Long Beach. The findings could be important for political strategists. Of the Black women surveyed, more than 80% voted in the November 2020 elections. In ... Read More
Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Workgroup Releases Recommendations for Black Student Equity
Source: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Since the 2015 launch of Graduation Initiative 2025, a state-backed project to improve graduation rates, the California State University system (CSU) has made significant progress, with students from all groups earning degrees at higher rates. But disparities persist. The graduation rate gap between Black and white students is 22.2 percentage points, .3 of a percent higher than it was fifteen years ago. Black student enrollment and persistence have declined in recent years as well. Now, CSU, the nation's largest university system, with 23 campuses and nearly 460,000 students, is making a push to close these gaps with a ... Read More
L.A. Sentinel: Emancipating Higher Education
Source: Op-Ed by CSUDH President Thomas A. Parham for L.A. Sentinel/L.A. Watts Times Avoiding the scandalous incongruence between what the emancipation proclamation preached and what was actualized. Juneteenth celebrations were in full force this week in communities throughout the country. Interestingly, January 2023 marked the 160th anniversary since the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Lincoln, which people believed freed slaves throughout the nation.”¯”¯And yet, for all of its celebratory flare, the presidential order only partially achieved what it was lauded for. The moral and symbolic power of the executive order and public policy, as profound as it ... Read More
