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CSUN Receives Grant to Boost STEM, Arts Diversity at LA Colleges
As part of its Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) program, the U.S. Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. -- Insight into Diversity
CSUN Receives $3M Grant to Increase Number of Underserved Students
NORTHRIDGE (CNS) - Cal State Northridge was awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of underrepresented students studying science, technology, the arts and other disciplines, the university announced Tuesday. -- KOST
City of Los Angeles Names A Stretch of Adams Boulevard as Reverend Lawson Mile
Lawson helped lead the historic 1960 Nashville sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter, the Freedom Rides in 1961, and throughout the 1960s continued to organize nearly every major student sit-in, march and protest. He taught “Nonviolence and Social Movements” at UCLA for more than 20 years and established a strong relationship with Cal State Northridge through his involvement with the university’s Civil Discourse and Social Change Initiative. -- L.A. Focus News
CSUN Receives $3M Grant to Increase Number of Underserved Students
NORTHRIDGE (CNS) - Cal State Northridge was awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of underrepresented students studying science, technology, the arts and other disciplines, the university announced Tuesday. -- KBIG
$3M CSUN Grant To Increase Number Of Underserved Students
The federal grant aims to help the university to bolster underserved students in STEM studies. -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
NEH Announces $33.8M For Humanities Projects Nationwide
NEH Humanities Initiatives grants will fund educational resources, programs, curricula, and other projects that enhance teaching and learning in the humanities at 28 two- and four-year colleges and universities. These awards will support: the creation of a cross-disciplinary undergraduate minor in book studies—which encompasses fields such as manuscript studies, book history, design, and the fabrication and conservation of books—at Indiana University Bloomington; a new curriculum at Morgan State University on the history of Black education; a community-based pedagogical project at California State University, Northridge, to transcribe and update materials in the university’s archive documenting the experiences of underrepresented people of color from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries; and development of a digital map and course module at Delaware County Community College examining global resistance of Africans and African descendants to segregation and colonialism from 1945 to 1990. -- Los Alamos Daily Post
The Soraya Presents the World Premiere of DIAVOLO: Existencia, 30 Years After the Northridge Earthquake
NORTHRIDGE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 17, 2024, DIAVOLO, Architecture in Motion, and The Soraya will present the world premiere of Existencia, a new work to commemorate the 30 years since the Northridge Earthquake struck California State University Northridge (CSUN), in 1994 — and event which was said to have been the worst natural disaster ever to hit a university campus in the United States. -- KTLA
The Soraya Presents the World Premiere of DIAVOLO: Existencia, 30 Years After the Northridge Earthquake
NORTHRIDGE, Calif., Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- On January 17, 2024, DIAVOLO, Architecture in Motion, and The Soraya will present the world premiere of Existencia, a new work to commemorate the 30 years since the Northridge Earthquake struck California State University Northridge (CSUN), in 1994 — and event which was said to have been the worst natural disaster ever to hit a university campus in the United States. -- Tallassee Tribune
How Cal State Northridge Is Remembering the 1994 Earthquake
With Existencia, a 65-minute opus that explores human resilience in the face of disaster, Diavolo | Architecture in Motion, founded in 1992 by Paris-born, Los Angeles-based choreographer Jacques Heim, promises a thrill ride of epic proportions. Commemorating the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the world premiere lands at The Soraya on Jan. 17 and 19, the former being the day 30 years ago when Angelenos were hurled into a new reality by a 6.7 seismic shock that was felt throughout the city. -- San Francisco Classical Voice
UCLA Digs Deeper Into Music Business With New Bachelor's Degree Program
The new curriculum follows more established tracks at Cal State Northridge and USC — the latter of which offers undergraduate and masters degrees via the Iovine and Young Academy and Thornton School of Music, respectively — drawing the biz-curious to its Westwood campus in a city considered among the biggest music creation hubs in the country. -- Los Angeles Magazine