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US (CA): MedMen continues to recruit top executive talent
Mr. Parker is a seasoned financial executive with extensive, high-level experience in strategic overhaul, financial planning and forecasting. He has held senior level positions in the investment and banking sectors, and is a lecturer of Quantitative Finance at California State University, Northridge. Mr. Parker is responsible for planning and overseeing the growth strategy of MedMen's overall enterprise and its assets. -- Hortidaily
Good News: Northwind Quilters awards scholarships
The seniors include Megan Phillips from Fairfield High School, who will be attending the Chicago Institute of Art to study Art History and Museum Art; and Alexander Viray, of St. Patrick/Vincent Catholic High School in Vallejo, who has been accepted to California State University of Northridge and has enrolled in the videography and filmmaking program. -- Daily Republic
Moments in Time Art Reception Aug. 4 at Porterville Gallery
“The Underground Railroad influence was inspired by my son Sean’s graduation from Northridge State University. He asked me to paint some paintings that had women of the underground compared to women of the Bible. These were displayed in a show he put together titled, Mother Weep No More. -- Valley Voice
Potato Cartel Forced Americans to Pay Higher Prices for Their Fries
U.S. potato-grower cooperatives in the early 2000s deployed drones and scanned satellite images as they colluded to reduce the amount of potatoes grown across the country in an effort to increase their profits, according to a report by California State University, Northridge business law professor Melanie Stallings Williams. -- AudioBoom
Getting resourceful: how administrators can generate alternative sources of revenue
In seeking opportunities to increase revenue, colleges and universities often look at how they can fill a need within local industries. California State University, Northridge, for example, has long received requests from the entertainment industry to use campus facilities for filming. But in 2003, university officials decided they could increase even more revenue through these TV, film and commercial shoots, explains Rick Evans, executive director of The University Corporation, a nonprofit that handles commercial endeavors to benefit the university. -- Education News
Have you bought fries in the past decade? You paid way too much, report says
When you hear the word “collusion,” the next word that comes to mind likely isn’t “potato.”
But the potato-grower industry has apparently been colluding for years to reduce the amount of potatoes grown across the country in an effort to increase their profits, according to a report by California State University. -- Wichita Eagle - KS
Cal State to help students graduate by overcoming hurdles of remedial classes
Katherine Stevenson, a math professor at Cal State Northridge who co-chaired an influential task force on proposed changes to how CSU teaches mathematics, said in an interview she’s concerned about Executive Order 1110’s timeline for creating the new credit-bearing courses for students in need of remediation. She spent several years helping to develop a “stretch course” — one of the curricular models the new policies tout — at CSU Northridge. Colleges new to the concept, in which one-semester college math courses are stretched out over two semesters and packed with remedial components, may have a hard time coming up with the new model in a year, she said. -- EdSource
"Potato Cartel" Forced Unsuspecting Americans To Pay Higher Prices For Fries
According to a study done by California State University—Northridge business law professor Melanie Williams, potato farmers across the United States from 2004-2012 formed a collective, limiting their yearly potato crop output, which indirectly raised the price of potato related food consumed by the general public. -- FoodBeast
Life in limbo: Dream Act of 2017 renews hope in young immigrants
Luis Valdez, a 20-year-old student at Cal State Northridge, fears he will someday be forced to leave his home and family if DACA is phased out and the new Dream Act fails in Congress. -- Angelus News
Switching Careers Doesn’t Have to Be Hard
Meanwhile, employers hire based on credentials that job applicants can’t change–a college degree or previous job title–rather than assessing the skills an applicant has developed, said Mr. Auguste, who was an economic adviser in the Obama administration. He said the approach should instead be, “If you learned it at Harvard or Cal State Northridge or on the job as a secretary or in the Navy or as a volunteer, awesome.” -- TFI Daily News