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10th District Women’s Steering Committee Plans 44th Scholarship Luncheon

The students receiving awards are Naima Davis of Dorsey High School, who will attend CSU-Northridge; Taylor Haywood of Los Angeles Center for Enrichment Studies, who was accepted at Southern University; Kylie Ross of Dorsey High School, also entering Southern University; Jayden Sanders of St. Monica Catholic School, committed to Jackson State University; and Francois Jeannot of Los Angeles High School, who is destined for CSU-Northridge. -- Los Angeles Sentinel

The hidden history of screen readers

The CSUN Assistive Technology Conference is the largest conference of its kind hosted by the Center for Disabilities at California State University, Northridge. He met people from all over the world. They realized that they had reached escape speed. It wasn't their pet project anymore. The two men founded a nonprofit to take the project long-term. -- True Viral News

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 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. -- The Verge

CSUN Lands $2 Million in Community Grants for STEM Initiatives

CSU Northridge’s Global Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) Equity Innovation Hub announced $1.8 million in grants that will be available for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) initiatives at 21 other CSU campuses. -- San Fernando Valley Business Journal

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

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

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