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Education changed their lives. CalPERS will carry them into retirement
PERSPECTIVE
Oct. 14, 2026
Ken Shultz, CSUSB professor emeritus, psychology, was one of three educators featured in an article by CalPERS that highlighted their careers as they looked forward to retirement. “These three changemakers now work for an educational system that equips millions with keys to a better future,” the article states. “They and their fellow California State University (CSU) employees represent 12% of CalPERS’ total membership.”
Shultz, the first in his family to graduate from college, talked about teaching at Cal State San Bernardino for 34 years, and that “it’s well beyond what I could have ever imagined growing up in Syracuse, New York.”

Community Chorus of Redlands will present ‘Transcend,’ featuring choral settings of American poetry
Redlands Daily Facts/The Sun 
Oct. 13, 2026
Jessica L. Luck, a professor of English at Cal State San Bernardino and a member of the Community Chorus of Redlands, will give a short talk before the chorus presents “Transcend,” a concert featuring choral settings of American poetry, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 419 S. Fourth St., Redlands.

Rare fossil of T. rex cousin goes on display in New York before heading to auction
Associated Press
Oct. 13, 2026
Stuart Sumida, a biology professor at California State University, San Bernardino and president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, was quoted in an article about the planned Oct. 27 auction by Sotheby of a nanotyrannus, as this smaller, nimbler predator is known, is on view in the lobby of Sotheby’s headquarters ahead of its Oct. 27 auction. The society is opposed to the private ownership of such fossils, saying it prevents scientific study of the specimens.
“No peer-reviewed scientific study can be published on specimens that are not held in the public trust,” he said. “Once in private hands it can never be studied, and generations of children and adults alike will never see it again.”

Jury selection to begin in federal hate crimes trial over Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket shooting
Associated Press
Oct. 13, 2026
Brian Levin, founding director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and retired professor, was interviewed for an article about the start of the federal court proceeding for the accused shooter of the 2022 Tops Friendly Market mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. It is believed to be the deadliest hate-motivated shooting targeting Black people by a lone gunman in the last century.
Black people have comprised the “no. 1 numerical target” annually since the FBI began collecting data in 1991, said Levin, who now serves with the California Association of Human Relations Organizations. The record high was 3,670 anti-Black bias incidents in 1996.
“Unfortunately, he (suspect Payton Gendron) fits the pattern of young, mostly white males undertaking targeted massacres which are then justified by manifestos, which are also part of a continuing chain that references prior attacks often but seeks to encourage future ones,” Levin said.

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