
The donations included $1,500 in food and hygiene items for Obershaw Den and over $2,000 in toys, socks and blankets to low-income families and the homeless.

In a radio segment about several HBCUs receiving bomb threats, Brian Levin, criminal justice professor and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said threats to marginalized populations must be taken especially seriously, and in another segment about political violence, Levin said most of the violence in California comes from a small group of far-right extremists.

Brian Levin (criminal justice) said the threat of domestic extremism remains, Anthony Silard (public administration) wrote about the role of a common theme in developing new friendships, and Peter Sturgeon and Mike Singer (Palm Desert Campus) were featured in the ‘Men in Philanthropy’ issue of Desert Charities News.

Cal State San Bernardino and its Palm Desert Campus will be closed for winter break beginning Thursday, Dec. 23, and will reopen for business Monday, Jan. 3.

History in the Making: A Journal of History has been awarded third prize in the 2021 Gerald D. Nash History Graduate Journal competition, given by the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society.

CSUSB’s Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration has been listed at No. 3 for the Best MBA for Human Resources and ranked in the Top 50 Online MBA Programs for 2022.

Martha Garcia, the new superintendent/president of College of the Desert, was formerly introduced to the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus Advancement Board, members of the CSUSB administration and various community partners.

Zachary Powell (criminal justice) discussed the impact federal consent decrees have on local law enforcement reform for an article about U.S. Department of Justice investigations of the police departments in Louisville, Ky., and Phoenix, Ariz.

Rigaud Joseph (social work) was one of the experts the personal finance website WalletHub featured in a question-and-answer section for its recent look at the “Neediest Cities,” and Anthony Silard (public administration) wrote the latest column for his series on convenience and its effect on relationships.

Intelligent.com ranked CSUSB in 21 categories in its list of best degree programs for 2022. Its research identifies programs in the nation based on flexibility, faculty, course strength, cost, and reputation.

Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed for two separate articles. One focused on a lawsuit against two extremist groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, said to have helped organize the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, and the other on a ranking Wyoming GOP official said to be a member of one of the Oath Keepers.

Liliana Conlisk Gallegos, associate professor of communication studies, had her art piece, “Ni una más: para todas todo, nada para nosotras” (Not one more: for all of us everything, nothing for us), featured in the PAMLA “Among the Unrest” digital and new media art show.