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Exploration of Indigenous fire practices a ‘living land acknowledgment’
UCLA Newsroom
Aug. 4, 2025
Daisy Ocampo Diaz (Caxcan), assistant professor of history at Cal State San Bernardino and the co-curator of “Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art,” an exhibit now on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. She discussed the importance of the exhibit, which has been extended through April 2026.
CSUSB's Castillo named 2025 CUMU Impact Fellow
IE Business Daily
Aug. 3, 2025
Elizabeth Castillo, director of principles for responsible management education at Cal State San Bernardino, has been named a 2025 CUMU Impact Fellow by the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. Castillo, who is also an assistant professor of management at CSUSB, will lead research into how universities measure their community impact and how they can improve that process.
Violent crime in the US dropped 4.5% last year, but hate crimes increased, FBI data shows
Associated Press
Aug. 5, 2026
Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino, said 2024’s hate crime totals were the second highest reported by the FBI in the more than 30 years it has been collecting data, despite an overall decrease in crimes.
Hate crimes hit second largest record in 2024: FBI
Axios
Aug. 5, 2025
Anti-Muslim and anti-Arab hate crimes appeared to have leveled off slightly last year, according to new FBI crime statistics, but the numbers are still alarming, analyst Brian Levin, founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino, told Axios. Hate crimes in the United States last year hit their second-largest total since the FBI started keeping data, in a sign that bias-motivated crimes aren't subsiding, according to the new numbers.
Violent crime drops by 4.5 percent, but hate crime still high, in 2024: FBI data
The Hill
Aug. 5, 2025
Brian Levin — the founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino — said that, despite the overall drop in crime, last year still recorded the second highest levels of hate crime in the 30 years that the center has collected data.
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