This award from the National Procurement Institute is earned by organizations that demonstrate excellence by achieving or surpassing benchmark scores designed to measure innovation, professionalism, productivity, e-procurement and leadership attributes.
Cal State San Bernardino has once again been named a Military Friendly® School and a Military Spouse Friendly® School for 2023-24 under the large public university category.
Mike Stull (entrepreneurship) encouraged the business community to submit nominations for the 2023 Spirit of the Entrepreneur Awards, Enrique Murillo Jr. (education) wrote on the passing of activist Roberto Cintli Rodriguez, and Barbara Sirotnik (information and decision sciences) discussed the health of the region’s economy.
Written by Veterans is an initiative of CSUSB’s Veterans Success Center. Launched originally in 2014, it has evolved into a hybrid writing group for veterans to grow their writing skills and eventually publish their work through Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing.
Meredith Conroy (political science) cowrote an article on how Republican male candidates have been trying to portray their masculinity, Ethel Mickey (sociology) was coauthor of a study that examined “Narratives of Unanticipated Consequences in Gendered and Racialized Departmental Service, Promotion, and Voting” among faculty, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was interviewed about the arrest of a suspected white supremacist whose home was found with multiple weapons.
The university was selected by AASCU’s awards committee for its CSUSB President’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Board initiative and “its outstanding results and potential to influence and serve as a model for other institutions.”
Sonia Otte, MSPA founding program director, was featured in the podcast, "Pulse of the PA," and Mike Stull, entrepreneurship, discussed the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s State of Entrepreneurship Minority Report.
The National Science Foundation awarded the grant to the university’s School of Computer Science and Engineering, which will use it to provide scholarships, mentorships and experiential learning opportunities for low-income and underrepresented students, and to meet a growing need for talented computer professionals in the region.
Edna Martinez has been named the associate vice president and administrator in charge of the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus.
“The SSD team is amazing to work with and I look forward to all of the great work we will do as we frame our work through a social justice lens,” said Lori Palmerton, the new CSUSB director of Services to Students with Disabilities.
Christina Hassija (psychology) has been appointed dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Kenneth S. Shultz (psychology) was quoted in an article about making the transition from a workaholic lifestyle, and Zachary Powell (criminal justice) was interviewed about police departments using military hardware.
As part of the study abroad program in South Africa, CSUSB students, university President Tomás D. Morales and faculty director Tiffany F. Jones visited the Othandweni Family Care Centre in Soweto, delivering $2,000 worth of diapers, formula, toiletries, school supplies, rice and maize meal with funds donated by community members, President Morales, university staff, faculty and students.