Meredith Conroy (political science), Brian Levin (criminal justice), David Yaghoubian (history) and Ahlam Muhtaseb (communication studies) were included in news coverage on various topics.
An article co-written by Meredith Conroy (political science) was cited in a news report about making Utah elections ‘friendlier to women,’ and Alemayehu G. Mariam (political science, emeritus) wrote about the transformation of Ethiopia.
Meredith Conroy (political science) co-wrote an article on why New Mexico elects more women of color to office than the rest of the country, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) discussed the relationship between hate crimes and an election year cycle.
Meredith Conroy (political science) co-wrote two articles on women in politics for the website FiveThirtyEight, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) was one of the experts discusing the rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes for City & State New York.
The push for legislative support is a result of Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2017-18 budget proposal released in January that allocated less than half of the additional $324.9 million in state funding the CSU system.
The free talk, presented by the University Diversity Committee and the John M. Pfau Library, will take place at noon Thursday in the Physical Sciences building, room PS-10.
Brian Levin, CSUSB professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, testified on Aug. 30 before a California state Legislature joint committee that later approved a statewide hate crime
State assemblymen Chad Mayes and Eduardo Garcia, who stewarded the request for direct funding to the campus last spring, formally presented the state’s $3 million commitment to the campus during a ceremony on Tuesday, Dec. 19.
The First Peoples’ Center at CSUSB’s Santos Manuel Student Union celebrated its second grand opening Feb. 2 and formally received a proclamation from state Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes recognizing it and its work.