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Senior Standouts - Santa Susana

Eric was a member of Cal State Northridge’s Youth Philharmonic, a top-level orchestra comprised of about 100 students. -- Simi Valley Acorn

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Lost Its Leader. Can It Stay on Top?

A bass player at a rehearsal, the 20-year-old Isaac Green, was a recent alumnus of the program. Like 90 percent of YOLA’s first set of graduates, he has gone on to college: He is now majoring in music at California State University, Northridge. Playing Tchaikovsky alongside the Philharmonic, he said, was “the musical highlight of my life.” -- New York Times

School Segregation Still a Major American Problem

“This is a reality that is not simply fixed by a single law. What we should be looking at and deconstructing are the ways in which segregation of schools de facto have continued to grow over the decades since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954,” said Allen E. Lipscomb of the College of Social & Behavioral Science at California State University, Northridge. -- The Washington Informer

Mark Rocha selected as CCSF chancellor

Rocha, who has taught at several community colleges and at Cal State Northridge, where he earned tenure, served as president and superintendent of Pasadena City College, where he won the State Chancellor’s Award for Student Success in 2012. -- San Francisco Gate

Mark Rocha selected as CCSF chancellor

Rocha told City College trustees that he increased enrollment and balanced the budget at both colleges he led — Pasadena and West Los Angeles — and that he first earned his crisis-management chops in 1994, when the Northridge earthquake destroyed the California State University campus, where he had become associate dean. “I was part of a great team effort that reopened the college in 27 days in tents and trailers” he said in his statement. --San Francisco Chronicle

Danbury Community Health Center graduates first full residency class

Ahoubim was born in Iran and moved to California when he was 17 years old. He graduated from California State University-Northridge with a microbiology degree. He received his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. He will be going to Loma Linda University Medical Center in California for a nephrology/critical Care fellowship. --Danbury News Times

Southern California Campus Tour Spotlights ANCA Programs

Yerimyan traveled to California for presentations hosted by Armenian Students Associations at University of California Irvine (UCI), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), University of California San Diego (UCSD), and Azusa Pacific University (APU). She also tabled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Cal State Northridge (CSUN), where interested students stopped by the ANCA booth for a cup of coffee and career advice. -- Asbarez Armenian News

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