The U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Colleges rankings listed Cal State San Bernardino at No. 16 nationally for social mobility and No. 45 (the highest ranked California public institution) in its Best Value-National Universities category.
Mindfulness at the Museum is a four-part wellness series running Oct. 1–Nov. 19. The lunch-hour sessions blend mindfulness, movement and creativity to support mental health, self-awareness and personal growth for students, faculty, staff and the community. These events are free and open to the public.
The Data Analytics Working Group at Cal State San Bernardino, founded by Essia Hamouda, professor of cybersecurity and decision sciences, has hosted more than 30 interactive workshops and engaged numerous students, faculty and community members in topics ranging from AI to data visualization.
The San Manuel Pow Wow, billed as the largest in Southern California, took place at Cal State San Bernardino on Sept. 19-21, and featured traditional bird singers and dancers, drum singing groups and vending from artisans representing Indian tribal nations from across North America and Canada.
Diane Vines and Samantha Duffle (nursing, Palm Desert Campus) were interviewed about a grant from the Houston Family Foundation to expand the Nursing Street Medicine Program, and news media spoke with Brian Levin (criminal justice, emeritus) about the increase in political violence in the U.S.
University President Tomás D. Morales was awarded the 29th California State Senate District Man of the Year award from state Sen. Eloise Gómez-Reyes.
Veteran administrator Matthew Smith, a graduate of CSUSB, has been named Cal State San Bernardino’s new dean of students and associate vice president for Student Affairs.
The event will honor the hard work, dedication and professional accomplishments of CSUSB’s Black faculty and staff. Honorees will be recognized on Sept. 25 from 3-5 p.m. at the Obershaw Dining Room in the Alumni Center.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, CSUSB faculty members and sociologists Jurgita Abromaviciute and Ethel Mickey, along with UC Irvine sociologist Emily Carian, found that working mothers disproportionately shouldered new household and childcare duties, often sidelining their careers, while fathers perceived the division of labor as “fair” and in some cases expanded their career goals.
Acclaimed soprano and CSUSB Opera Theatre director Stacey Fraser is celebrating a standout year, earning Favorite Opera Singer in the San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards and releasing two critically praised albums, “My Dancing Sweetheart” and “A Chaos of Light and Motion,” among other achievements.
The Department of Theatre Arts will present four productions in its 2025-26 season, beginning with the absurdist drama, “Rhinoceros,” in November and concluding with the dark comedy musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” in spring. The season will also mark the highly anticipated opening of CSUSB’s new Performing Arts Center, where the spring musical is tentatively scheduled to debut.
Thomas Corrigan, professor of communication and media, spoke at a recent fundraiser for KVCR on the importance of local news media. Research, he said, has shown “that where local news disappears, corruption and polarization rise, voter participation falls, people feel less connected, and communities find themselves unprepared for crises.”