Fifteen members of the first graduating class of 59 students attended a series of events on campus Sunday and Monday including CSUSB’s Convocation to celebrate the start of the 2017-18 academic year.
The start of the 2017-18 academic year also means the return of the intermittent feature, Faculty in the News, a compilation of news coverage that included Cal State San Bernardino faculty.
Students officially return to campus Thursday, Sept. 21, for the first day of classes of the 2017-18 academic year. The CSUSB Office of Institutional Research estimates that the fall quarter will see a total enrollment of 20,458.
A formal ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 22, at the Cross Cultural Center ( SU-102) of the university’s Santos Manuel Student Union.
Music’s Stacey Fraser’s performance is reviewed and history’s David Yaghoubian is interviewed for a program on “The demise of the dollar.”
Residents rate San Bernardino County as a very good place to live, according to the annual public opinion survey by the CSUSB Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis.
The center, named for Bishop Gerald R. Barnes, the current head of the Diocese of San Bernardino, is located near campus at 2564 Kendall Drive. It will serve students from the Catholic Newman Club at CSUSB as well as other schools and colleges.
Rishabh Kumar (economics) discusses the wealth inequality in India, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) comments in an article about the “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley Sept. 24-27.
The movie, which is also open to the public, will be shown Oct. 26 at the SMSU Theater, with the interview with Gore following at 3:45 p.m.
Cal State San Bernardino’s Veterans Success Center and CSUSB Air Force ROTC Detachment 002 will celebrate the U.S. Air Force’s 70th birthday on Friday, Sept. 29, at 1:30 p.m.
Tomás D. Morales, president of CSUSB, was among eight education leaders who were recipients of the 2017 Legacy of Exemplary Service Awards given recently by the Librería Del Pueblo.
CSUSB will host a grand opening ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 27, for the newly created Faculty Center for Excellence. The ceremony will take place at 9 a.m. in the John M. Pfau Library, PL-4005.