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How far does 10K go? See median federal student loan debt at every California college
College Avg. annual cost Students with loans Median debt Median earnings ▼ Undergrads
CSU Fullerton $8K 26%
26%26%
$14,000 $54,586 36,874
CSU Northridge $9K 27%
27%27%
$14,000 $53,360 34,881 -- Sacrament Bee
Religion events in the San Fernando Valley area, Aug. 27-Sept. 3
Food drive for CSUN Food Pantry: The Community Concerns Committee at First Presbyterian Church of Granada Hills holds a non-perishable food drive to help stock the food pantry at Cal State University, Northridge, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 17 and 8:30-11:30 a.m. Sept. 18. The pantry benefits students who do not have much income for food while school is in session. Current needs: canned soups and other canned goods, pasta and dry boxed goods; also, hygiene items including soap, feminine products and shampoos. No glass containers or past date items. Drive-thru and a church volunteer will unload your donation. 10400 Zelzah Ave., Northridge. 818-360-1831. www.fpcgh.org/outreach. More details on California State University, Northridge Food Pantry here: bit.ly/3ch6IRl and here: bit.ly/3TeJiNe -- Los Angeles Daily News
Who’s Running for Pasadena Unified Board?
Velazquez is a professor in the Chicano/a Studies Department at Cal State University Northridge. She is a scout leader and a room parent in her children’s school in the PUSD. -- Colorado Blvd.
Nonprofit 4C Lab prepares next generation of "artivists" to create social change
Things like family separation, racial injustice, and for CSUN student Julia Curiel, an issue that’s never far from her mind. -- Spectrum News 1
CSUN Aquatic Center at Castaic Welcomes University President
President of California State University, Northridge, Erika D. Beck took a brief break from campus this summer to visit another kind of classroom — this one on the shores of Castaic Lake. -- SCV News
Uber Eats Driver Says He Was Handcuffed by Cops While Delivering to School
A range of experts have said there is no guarantee that officers will follow their training under fire. Meanwhile, the vast majority of U.S. teachers—95.3 percent, according to a poll from California State University, Northridge—do not believe they should be carrying guns in classrooms. -- Newsweek
Fighting over college debt is the wrong fight. We could just make it affordable again
The cost per semester at our alma mater, Cal State University, Northridge, ranged from about $120 to $150 in miscellaneous fees that mostly supported the student government, the student union and the student health center — which truth be told was mostly a VD clinic. -- Wichita Eagle
NASA Helps Minority-Serving Institutions Refine Tech Proposals
The teams – from Fayetteville State University (FSU) in North Carolina, University of Massachusetts Boston, and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) – participated in the 10-week accelerator program in which they were encouraged to think and act like small startup businesses. During the program, the teams received funding, training, and mentorship to develop their concepts and move their ideas further along toward commercialization. The teams are all working on systems that could operate without human oversight for potential use on future science missions in space or on Earth. -- NASA JPL
California Distributes $54 Million in Grants to Bolster the Education-to-Career Pipeline
Los Angeles County: The Los Angeles Region K-16 Collaborative aims to improve enrollment, persistence and degree completion of underrepresented students in fields that lead to increased economic mobility, starting with streamlined pathways to health care, engineering, and computer science careers. Five sub-regional partnerships anchored around five CSU campuses (Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Northridge, and Pomona) and their feeder K-12 and community colleges will work collectively to enhance dual enrollment, transfer pathways, and work-based learning in the region. -- Office of the Governor
Establecen el primer programa universitario de Estudios Centroamericanos en un colegio comunitario de California
En el 2016, Jocelyn Duarte se incorporó a dar clases en ELAC. Por su experiencia, al haber obtenido la licenciatura en Estudios Centroamericanos en la Universidad Estatal de California en Northridge (CSUN), brindó su aporte en la articulación del currículo y el establecimiento del programa. -- Los Angeles Times (in Spanish)