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'Do Not Step Away'
“My hope is that whatever Congress or the administration does in terms of peeling back federal regulations, that the universities in this country do not step away from this issue,” said Diane Harrison, president of California State University, Northridge. “There are rumors that they’re going to lessen what we have to do. So we are potentially going to need to be far more assertive and far more vocal.” -- Inside Higher Ed
Back-to-Back CSUN Events to Explore Potential of Exceptional Learners
California State University, Northridge will host back-to-back events next month that will explore the potential of exceptional learners. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
These women got engaged at the Women’s March, and we’re crying happy tears
According to our friends at Cosmopolitan, Lissa Stapleton, an assistant professor at Cal State Northridge, and Marcela Ramirez, a PhD student at Univerity of California Riverside each played a role in the march, with Stapleton being a chant leader, and Ramirez delivering the keynote address. -- Yahoo! Lifestyle Singapore
Werner Herzog films at the Aero among movie screenings in the Los Angeles area
Cinematheque at Cal State Northridge: John Cassavetes Retrospective: “Too Late Blues” (1961), 7 p.m. Feb. 2. Free. Alan Armer Theater in Manzanita Hall, Auditorium Room 100. 18111 Nordhoff St. www.csun.edu -- Los Angeles Daily News
Reunited with grandma, thanks to Obama. Now she may never see her again
Alvaro Castillo Garcia, a 23-year-old master's student in creative writing at California State University, Northridge, recalled how, before DACA, he had to constantly hide his illegal status amid fears of deportation. -- KUOW
As Victories Mount, Ethnic Studies Advocates Flex Their Muscles
Recently, the right-wing organization Turning Points U.S.A. created an online “Professor Watch List” and asked students to report faculty who “advance a radical agenda.” Faculty who have been reported include ethnic studies professors, like CSU Northridge’s Rodolfo Acuna, an NEA Higher Ed member, who suggested in class that Chicano people in the U.S. have been oppressed. (NEA Higher Ed leaders have asked professors to report themselves, to render the list “null and void.”) -- NEA Today
Werner Herzog films at the Aero among movie screenings in the Los Angeles area
Cinematheque at Cal State Northridge: John Cassavetes Retrospective: “Too Late Blues” (1961), 7 p.m. Feb. 2. Free. Alan Armer Theater in Manzanita Hall, Auditorium Room 100. 18111 Nordhoff St. www.csun.edu -- Long Beach Press-Telegram
RC art students send a message with safety pin
After completing classes at Reedley College, Pineda plans to transfer to California State University in Northridge. He said the school has a bachelor’s degree program in animation. -- Reedley Exponent
City of L.A. to Honor Johnny Mathis at African American Month Kick-off
Other AAHM activities include “A Roundtable Discussion: The Crisis in Black Education” on February 2, at 6 p.m., in the Board of Public Works Hearing Room in City Hall followed by a reception. The panelists will be Dr. Walter Allen, UCLA; Dr. John Davis, CSUDH; Dr. David Horne, CSUN; Dr. Maulana Karenga, CSULB; Dr. Francile Wilson, USC and Moderator and Dr. George McKenna, LAUSD Board Member. -- Los Angeles Sentinel
Aditi Brennan Kapil's IMOGEN SAYS NOTHING to Premiere at Yale Rep This Winter
LAURIE WOOLERY (DIRECTOR) is a director, playwright, educator, facilitator, community organizer, and producer who has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Public Theater, Goodman Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Inge Center for the Arts, Plaza de la Raza/RedCAT, Fountain Theater, Greenway Center for the Arts, Ricardo Montalban Theatre, Deaf-West Theatre, Highways Performance Space, Sundance Playwrights Lab as well as the Sundance Children's Theater. Her solo play Salvadorian Moon/African Sky was commissioned by Cornerstone Theater Company and performed in their citywide Festival of Faith. Currently, Laurie is the Director of Public Works at The Public Theater. Ms. Woolery is the former Associate Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company, artist-in-residence at Hollygrove Children's Home in Los Angeles, and former Theatre Conservatory Director at South Coast Repertory. Laurie has taught at Princeton, NYU, USC, Cal Arts, Citrus College, California State University at Northridge and Los Angeles, and serves on the Board of the Latino Producers Action Network, Network of Ensemble Theaters and the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. Ms. Woolery is the recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Female Directors of Color. -- Broadway World