Keynote speaker John Kim of the Los Angeles-based Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California urged listeners to take charge, be problem solvers and to speak up in the face of injustice.
Jess Block Nerren (communication studies) was interviewed about The Cognitive Collective on campus, Mahmood Nikbakhtzadeh (health science and human ecology) will be a guest speaker at a meeting of the ACS San Gorgonio chapter, and Mark Agars (psychology) coauthored a study about supporting workers with chronic illnesses.
CSUSB’s commitment to giving back to the community is showcased during the month of April as the Office of Community Engagement celebrates National Volunteer Month.
The opening ceremony, which took place on April 9, featured a self-guided tour of the Ancient Egyptian Exhibit at RAFFMA and a presentation about prominent Arab Americans and their contributions.
First-generation college graduate and MBA student, Kim Gonzalez, is breaking down barriers that her parents, who immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico, could have only dreamed of.
The national application process for CSUSB’s forthcoming Master of Science in Physician Assistant program opened April 25 and runs through Dec. 1. Pending successful accreditation, the first cohort is currently set to be welcomed in August 2025 to begin studying in state-of-the-art facilities on the San Bernardino campus.
First-generation college student Jeffery Marino followed a post-CSUSB career path that led him to leadership in California state government. His message: California needs more public servants. And there are ways to combine your passion with your service.
Beth Lew-Williams, professor of history at Princeton University and an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, will present “John Doe Chinaman: Race and Law in the American West,” a talk that is part of CSUSB’s Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month programming.
For the first time, the university was ranked No. 86 among the nation’s Best Education Schools on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools ranking. The MBA program also was recognized internationally by CEO Magazine and nationally by U.S. News.
Anthony Ortega, a Cal State San Bernardino alumnus who is the hospital’s historian and a licensed clinical social worker, shared his presentation as a precursor to a CSUSB museum tour that will take place in late April, just before mental health awareness month in May.
According to Jason Ng, associate professor of kinesiology, diversity enriches the classroom environment and student learning process. "With diversity, when everybody’s so different, I think that it encourages us to challenge ourselves in how we might think and what kind of considerations we might make about others," he says.
Anna Ni, associate dean and professor of public administration at the Jack H. Brown College of Business and Public Administration, has been named an American Council on Education Fellow for 2024-2025.