Isabel Quintero, a first-generation CSUSB graduate and award-winning young adult author, found her voice at Cal State San Bernardino. Inspired by her immigrant parents and growing up in the Inland Empire, she champions stories that reflect her heritage and underrepresented communities.
The university and the high school district, through a memorandum of understanding, will launch the High School University Program (HSUP), which allows qualified students to begin their college education before they graduate from high school.
Ahlam Muhtaseb (media studies), Mike Stull (entrepreneurship), Jessica Vierra (communications lecturer) and Brian Levin (criminal justice emeritus) were included in recent news coverage.
The “AIDS Quilt Songbook” is a collection of songs and poems dedicated to those impacted by AIDS — honoring lives lost, acknowledging the stigma and fear surrounding the disease, and offering a tribute to those affected since its emergence in the early 1980s.
Cal State San Bernardino will host the 2025 Global Influence in Sports Management Lecture on March 27 from 11 a.m.-12 p.m., featuring Olympic badminton champion Tony Gunawan and Global Badminton Academy co-founder Eti Gunawan. Attendance is free for all CSUSB students, faculty and staff.
The San Bernardino City Unified School District’s third annual Natural Hair Day, held at CSUSB’s Santos Manuel Student Union North, celebrated the rich history and cultural significance of natural hairstyles worn by African American women.
Cal State San Bernardino graduate student Pedro Aceves will showcase his MFA thesis exhibition, “Out of Sight Out of Need” at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art’s Dutton Family Gallery from March 20-27, with an opening reception on March 20.
The NSA’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity (NCAE-C) program, housed at CSUSB, recently celebrated its 25th anniversary with the publication of the “NCAE Executive Edition,” a 422-page resource profiling cybersecurity education programs across 480 institutions. Led by Tony Coulson and Amy Hysell of CSUSB’s Center for Cyber and AI, this initiative aims to bridge the nation’s 500,000-person cybersecurity workforce deficit through education, outreach and other resources.
Cal State San Bernardino’s “Visual Language” exhibition at RAFFMA showcased the work of five MFA students, each exploring themes of identity, culture, technology, and self-reflection through diverse artistic mediums.
Cal State San Bernardino’s Project Rebound will host the Supporting Successful Reentry Conference on Wednesday, April 16. In partnership with UC Riverside, Riverside City College, College of the Desert and other community organizations, the conference will bring together educators, practitioners, system-impacted scholars, policymakers and community leaders to examine the connection between higher education and reentry in the San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
Eric Avila, UCLA professor of history and Chicano/a Studies, examines the intersections of racial identity, urban space, and cultural representation in 20th-century America. Conversations on Race and Policing is free and open to the public and will take place at noon on Wednesday, March 19, via Zoom.
Cal State San Bernardino hosted a discussion highlighting the legacy of Claudia H. Hampton, the first Black woman trustee in the CSU system, featuring author Donna Nicol and a conversation on educational advocacy.