
While discussing first-generation student characteristics and experiences, instructors will learn what strategies can create a more transparent, inclusive and equitable classroom experience for all students. The session is set for noon, Tuesday, April 20.

The Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s 4th annual CSUSB Innovation Challenge will feature teams from the various CSUSB colleges who will present their big business plans in pursuit of the $20,000 in prize money.

A look back: Eugene Wong, CSUSB professor of psychology, says his passion for teaching and helping young people in the community comes from working with students and helping them succeed in the classroom.

The next vaccination clinic is Saturday, April 17, from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. This clinic will administer the Pfizer first dose vaccine, and the second dose vaccine to those who received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine at CSUSB on March 27.

Anthony Silard (public administration) wrote about “The Problem with ‘Respecting Diversity,' and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed for an article about a fatal officer-involved shooting in Minnesota.

More than 140 CSUSB students will present their research at the 10th annual Meeting of the Minds Student Research Symposium held virtually from 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of profiles of faculty and their research by Montgomery Van Wart, a professor of public administration and a CSUSB Faculty Research Fellow in Faculty Affairs and Development. In this article, he features Department of Accounting & Finance Scholar professor Ghulam Sarwar, who has consistently shown he has what it takes to make him a high-quality senior scholar.

More than 70 books and book chapters were featured at CSUSB’s biennial Faculty and Staff Book Launch held virtually April 12. The event showcased books or book chapters published by faculty or staff in 2019 and 2020.

CSUSB will offer three summer sessions, with the first 5-week and 10-week sessions beginning on June 2 and the second 5-week session beginning on July 8.

“I feel super lucky to be part of this community and have this job that I absolutely love,” said Katherine Gray upon being surprised with the award during a Zoom call.

Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed about a federal indictment handed down in the case of a federal officer who was killed by an extremist, and on this past weekend’s “white lives matter” protest in Huntington Beach.

“A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South,” presented by award-winning author Ben Montgomery, will be the focus of the next Conversations on Race and Policing, 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 14, on Zoom.