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Analysis: Degree Completion Gaps for Hispanic Students are Widening

Despite having the largest Hispanic population in the nation, California does not have any schools in the top 5 schools enrolling Hispanic students, though two – Cal State Northridge and Fullerton – are among those graduating the most with bachelor’s degrees. -- Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CSUN Reactivates Feminist Studies, Social Action Institute

California State University, Northridge officials have renamed, reinvented and reimagined the university’s Institute of Feminist Studies and Social Action , providing the campus with a think tank to inspire participation in guiding social change. -- SCV News

Los Angeles' dubious history from 1781-1982

The team also included David Almada, a Los Angeles Unified School District administrator serving at a time when few Latinos served in such positions; and historian Leonard Pitt, an emeritus professor of history at California State University, Northridge and author of Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Pitt died in July 2015 at 85. -- Compton Herald

EVEN MARINE PROTECTED AREAS ARE IN HOT WATER

Smith and coauthors from all over the world were part of an NCEAS working group formed to synthesize decades of long-term ecological monitoring data from California’s diverse ocean habitats. The group, co-led by Jenn Caselle, a researcher with UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute, and Kerry Nickols, a professor from Cal State University Northridge who now works with the nonprofit Ocean Visions, aimed to provide actionable scientific results to California’s policy makers and natural resource managers, as part of a statewide Decadal Evaluation of the MPA network. -- Futurity

Business Events Calendar

Community of Business Conversation Series: Winning the Workplace Tug-of-War Sponsor: San Fernando Valley Business Journal 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. California State University – Northridge Orchard Conference Center 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge $75 (323) 556-8353 or -- San Fernando Valley Business Journal

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