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The blind programmers who created screen readers
A year later, Mozilla approached the duo and funded Curran to attend the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, the largest conference of its kind hosted by the Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge. There, Curran met like-minded enthusiasts from across the world. That was when they realized NVDA had reached escape velocity. It was no longer their pet project. Shortly thereafter, Curran and Teh founded NV Access, a nonprofit with a governance structure to take the project long-term. -- Cyber Feed
BTS Global Interdisciplinary Conference highlights need for ‘new humanity’ after pandemic
The first conference was held at Kingston University in London, England, in January 2020, and California State University Northridge hosted the second edition online due to the pandemic. -- The Korea Herald
Cal State’s Black students are falling behind other groups and poor graduation data obscures the crisis
At least one Cal State legislative report painted an incomplete picture of its efforts to close equity gaps. Last year, the system wrote to lawmakers that Cal State Northridge narrowed its achievement gap by 4 percentage points between underrepresented and non-underrepresented minority groups between 2019 and 2020. That’s true, but only because the non-minority group graduation rate dropped by three points. -- CBS 8 San Diego
Why You Need To Be More Careful About Turning Your Family Into Content
The separation between our private and public lives was soon to become even more blurred with the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic back in March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), resulting in lockdowns of varying severity across most of the world. Apart from the practical aspects of needing to spend more time online and in the virtual world, sharing otherwise private moments from our lives also became a way of ensuring human connection. With students cut off not just from attending class, but also from extracurricular activities, attending classes online became the norm. “The biggest problem that I see for any type of fraud or risk facing children, especially during the pandemic or as a result of the pandemic, was the need for parents and children to rely on digital devices for remote learning,” said Kristen Walker, a digital privacy expert and professor of marketing at California State University, Northridge. -- Vice
California’s local governments face violent disruption. Officials say they need protection
Tom Hogen-Esch, political science professor at California State University, Northridge, predicts that events of the last several years will steer Californians away from running for local office. -- Modesto Bee
CSU trustees plan to eliminate faculty retreat rights for fired administrators
How administrative retirement is used varies across campuses, according to EdSource. Some campuses have formal policieswhile others like CSU Northridge and Chico State do not have a written policy. -- California News Times
How does Caribbean fire coral thrive as others vanish?
Thirty years ago, Peter Edmunds began doing annual surveys of underwater life off St. John, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The marine biologist from California State University, Northridge, marked out a 20-meter transect along an underwater reef. Each summer he has photographed what grew there, including an expanded transect of 40 meters. -- Science
America has an innovation problem. The H-1B visa backlog is making it worse.
Historically, immigrants have played a vital role in American innovation. As Jeremy Neufeld, an immigration policy fellow with the Institute for Progress, a new innovation-focused think tank, remarked to me, “It’s always been the case that immigrants have been a secret ingredient in US dynamism.” Robert Krol, a professor of economics with California State University Northridge, describes it this way: “The bottom line is that when you look at the impact of immigrants — whether you think about starting businesses or innovating patents — they have a large, significant impact.” -- VOX
Cal State’s Black students are falling behind other groups — and poor graduation data obscures the crisis
At least one Cal State legislative report painted an incomplete picture of its efforts to close equity gaps. Last year, the system wrote to lawmakers that Cal State Northridge narrowed its achievement gap by 4 percentage points between underrepresented and non-underrepresented minority groups between 2019 and 2020. That’s true, but only because the non-minority group graduation rate dropped by three points. -- Capital Public Radio
How to talk about climate change: Highlight harms — not benefits — to alter behaviour
In a recent paper I co-authored with Jack Lin, a student at the California State University Northridge, we found that stressing the “seriousness” or “importance” of climate change could lead to counterintuitive results. -- EconoTimes