(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills is among the top 100 universities in the nation to confer the most degrees, both undergraduate and graduate, on students of color. The magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education recently released its annual “Top 100 Undergraduate Degree Producers” and “Top 100 Graduate Degree Producers” rankings, and CSU Dominguez Hills ranked as high as 17th in the nation in one of the undergraduate discipline categories. Using graduation data reported by two- and four-year institutions to the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics for the 2008-09 academic year, the magazine ranked universities not only on how ... Read More
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Video Game Camp Introduces Youth to Animation Skills
Many parents think their children spend too much time playing video games, but a few have decided to help their offspring gain something constructive from their pastime. Students from local elementary and high schools enrolled this summer in the College of Extended and International Education's (CEIE) Video Game Art and Design, Cartoons in Motion, and Advanced Video Game Design summer camps, and as a result, many of them have decided to pursue a career in designing video games. Devin Aikens will enter the 10th grade at Fernando Pullum Performing Arts High School, Los Angeles this fall. He says that his mother enrolled him the in the four-day Video Game Art and Design program last ... Read More
English Department Alumni Take Interdisciplinary Approach to Branding Toyota Financial Services
Although Tatsumi Paredes (Class of '98, B.A., English, magna cum laude) and Maria Tirado (Class of '86, B.A. English lit/communications) attended California State University, Dominguez Hills nearly a decade apart, they both agreed that the education they received was instrumental in propelling them to their current positions at Toyota Financial Services (TFS). Tirado, who serves as TFS's brand manager, recently welcomed Paredes to her department as the new brand administrator. “The best thing about Cal State Dominguez Hills is that the class sizes were pretty small, so we were able to get individual attention in terms of what we were learning,” says Paredes. “It was a good opportunity ... Read More
Fighting Youth Violence Before It Starts: Students and Professor of Teacher Education Deliver Messages of Mentoring, Collaboration
Every year since Richard Gordon's 17-year-old son, Kwame, was fatally shot at a party in 2006, the California State University, Dominguez Hills professor of teacher education has honored his memory with an annual dinner to raise funds for a scholarship at the Waldorf School in Altadena. The school, which Kwame Gordon attended from kindergarten through the eighth grade, provides its students with an education that helps them grasp academics through imaginative and interdisciplinary methods. In a similar way, Richard Gordon seeks to help his neighbors understand that violence is not unique to low-income communities and underserved youth. A major component of Kwame's memorial are guest ... Read More
Geetanjali Ashok: International MBA Student Takes Team to First Place in Business Plan Contest
Geetanjali Ashok, an MBA student at California State University, Dominguez Hills, won first prize with her team in a business plan competition during the Emerging Minority Business Leaders (EMBL) Program held last month at West Liberty University in West Liberty, W. Va. Ashok's team, which was made up of students from UC Berkeley, Hunter College, Jackson State University, Miami International University, and North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University, has been invited to deliver their presentation on a glucose monitoring device for diabetics to the US Department of Commerce this fall at the annual conference of the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds in October in ... Read More
