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AMG CEO Paul K. Mengert and Leadership Consultant Dr. Lori Baker-Schena to Lead Workshop on Mindful Management at CAI's 50th Anniversary Conference in Dallas on May 19
Dr. Baker-Schena, a leadership consultant and professional speaker, brings to her clients 35 years as a healthcare public relations and marketing consultant and 25 years as a tenured university professor at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), teaching public relations and journalism. Dr. Baker-Schena holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism, an MBA from CSUN, and a doctorate in Organizational Leadership from the University of La Verne. Over the past seven years, she has presented to CAI chapters nationwide on topics such as managing conflict, dealing with difficult people, achieving work-life balance, helping Boards function effectively, retaining employees, and delivering excellent customer service. -- BizWire Express
Carthage Philharmonic performing May 19
In addition to his role as conductor, Kawakami is an assistant professor of music and director of orchestral activities, as well as an active clinician, guest conductor and adjudicator. Before coming to Carthage, he was conductor of the California State University, Northridge Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, as well as being employed as a conductor of various musicals, film soundtracks and varied guest conducting positions around Southern California. -- Kenosha News
How to Teach About Systemic Inequality and Racism
In a controversial essay in the UCLA Law Review, Theresa Montaño, a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge, and Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen, a lecturer at UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz, argued that “Yes, Critical Race Theory Should Be Taught in Your School.” -- Inside Higher Ed
Despite decades of calls to action, California community college students face roadblocks to transfer
“We still have campuses like San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Northridge and other impacted campuses where it is still very difficult to transfer to the CSU,” Oakley said. At UC, it’s “sad to see that the UC faculty still haven’t embraced the transfer pathways that have been in place.” -- EdSource
Graduation 2023 schedule: Dates, times for Los Angeles high schools, universities
May 19 through 22, CSUN on the lawn in front of the university’s library, 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge -- Los Angeles Daily News
Government Guarantees Keep Banks Open and Give Customers Peace of Mind
Silva and a team of researchers, including Manuela Dantas, an assistant professor at California State University-Northridge, and Ken Merkley, a professor at Indiana University, analyzed several reported numbers, including loan loss provisions and pre-provision earnings. Because government guarantees cannot be randomized as they often are in biotech trials, the researchers analyzed two situations where government guarantees changed due to “external” factors not related to the individual banking sectors of their study. Specifically, the authors analyzed the increase in implicit government guarantees caused by the creation of the Eurozone and the removal of explicit government guarantees granted to the Landesbanken, a group of large state-owned banks in Germany. -- Mirage News
Inaugural FUSD Film Festival showcases emerging K-12 storytellers
Leal is a four-year member of Miller’s TV Production pathway. He made his first stop-motion film while attending Wayne Ruble Middle School and has studied under both former Miller TV Production teacher Leo Rivas and current teacher Cruz Jimenez. Leal plans to attend Cal State Northridge and study film, with an eye toward mastering behind-the-scenes skills in set design and prop design. -- Fontana Herald News
Watch: Diving deep into Compass, with Compass
The study, published last week, came from the Los Angeles Business Council Institute (LABCI), an arm of the well-known pro-business policy group whose leadership team includes executives from Rexford Industrial and Trammell Crow Company. The research was conducted by Edward Kung, an economics professor at California State University Northridge, and Stuart Gabriel, director of UCLA’s Ziman Center for Real Estate. -- The Real Deal
LeafWorks Inc., a botanical genomics company, part of $2.7M California state grant researching legacy cannabis and culture
SEBASTOPOL, Calif., May 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- LeafWorks Inc. joins the first state-funded multidisciplinary coalition across the California cannabis industry to research the genetics of legacy cannabis and provide a comprehensive picture of the impacts of legacy cultivation, policy and criminalization on the cannabis community. In the study titled ‒Legacy Cannabis Genetics: People and Their Plants, a Community-Driven Study– awarded $2.7M by the California Department of Cannabis Control (DCC), the coalition will identify, document, and help preserve the history, value, and diversity of California's legacy cannabis genetics and the communities that steward them. The research awardees include Principal Investigator Dr. Dominic Corva, Sociology professor and Cannabis Studies Program Director at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt; Co-Principal Investigator Genine Coleman, Executive Director of California nonprofit public policy and research institute Origins Council; Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Eleanor Kuntz, Co-founder of Canndor, the world's first cannabis herbarium, and Co-founder and CEO of LeafWorks, a genomics and plant science company, Co-Principal Investigator DR. Rachel F. Giraudo, Associate Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge; Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Todd Holmes, historian with the Oral History Center at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Research partners include the Canndor Herbarium and the statewide equity advocacy organization Cannabis Equity Policy Council. With California as the hub for the largest, most diverse collection of legacy cannabis in the country, this state grant will be a substantial contributor to characterization and preservation of this important legacy community and germplasm for the industry. Of the 16 California DCC awardees (16% fund rate), this innovative study was the largest award winner, representing over 12% of the entire grant budget. -- Canadian Insider
Library of Congress Festival of Film and Sound Announces Full Lineup of Rare Cinema and Special Guests
María Elena de las Carreras, a Fulbright scholar and film critic from Argentina. She has a Ph.D. in film and television studies from UCLA. She is the editor with Jan-Christopher Horak of “Hollywood Goes Latin” (2019). She is a lecturer in film history and esthetics at California State University, Northridge. Since 2014 she has conducted research and interviews for the Visual History Program of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is a regular collaborator of the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles. -- Library of Congress