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Early Voting Begins in Council District 6 Special Runoff Election
The 35-year-old Padilla was born in Van Nuys and raised in Sun Valley, graduating from Roscoe Elementary School, Byrd Middle School and Polytechnic High School. She received a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree from Cal State Northridge. -- MyNewsLA
Progress on ‘Metaversities’? Universities Taking It Slow
Over the past year, several universities set out to launch their own metaversities to provide students and professors with “digital twin” campuses, where students can attend courses using Meta Quest 2 virtual reality headsets provided through a partnership with VictoryXR and Meta announced last summer. The partnership initially involved Morehouse College in Georgia, the University of Kansas School of Nursing, New Mexico State University, South Dakota State University, Florida A&M University, West Virginia University, Southwestern Oregon Community College, California State University, Alabama A&M University and University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), where students are now using the technology to attend a handful of courses from anywhere. The initiative also announced a new cohort of metaversity projects in March, bringing in schools such as Loyola Marymount University in California, Cal State Northridge in California, Indiana Wesleyan University in Indiana, Metropolitan State University of Denver in Colorado, Florida A&M University in Florida, Lorain County Community College in Ohio, Jackson State University in Mississippi, North Carolina A&T State University in North Carolina and Northern Virginia Community College, among others. -- Government Technology
Foundation Interview: Anne Beatts
Beatts worked on a number of different television titles in the decades following SNL, producing the first season of The Cosby Show spinoff A Different World between 1987 and 1988. Later in life, she served as an adjunct professor at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. She also taught writing for film and television at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge. -- Emmys Magazine
CSUN Announces Men’s Basketball Recruiting Class
California State University, Northridge head men’s basketball coach Andy Newman has announced the additions of seven student-athletes to the Matadors’ team for 2023-24. -- SCV News
A big idea from a small Kansas university makes college a better value | Opinion
When I started college in California, I was what they called “concurrently enrolled.” I attended Glendale Community College on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to take general education courses, and Tuesdays and Thursdays at Cal State Northridge, to take classes in my major. -- Yahoo! News
City of Chino Hills Selects Nicholas Liguori as New Community Development Director
Mr. Liguori earned a master’s degree in public administration from California State University, Northridge and a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning from the California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. He is also a Certified Planner through the American Institute of Certified Planners. Mr. Liguori and his family are no strangers to the Chino Valley as longtime residents of Chino. He enjoys spending time with his family in the outdoors, gardening, camping and backpacking, as well as hiking on the City’s extensive trail system. -- Chino Hills
CSUN Car Show to Celebrate the ‘Low and Slow’
Things will be going “low and slow” on Saturday, June 24, at California State University, Northridge as CSUN hosts the first of what university officials hope will be an annual lowrider car show at the university. -- San Fernando Valley Sun
Independent reform group recommends expanding L.A. City Council to 25 members
Along with Segura and Hancock, the team was led by Raphael Sonenshein (former director of the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State L.A.), Sara Sadhwani (a Pomona College politics professor who also served on the California Citizens Redistricting Commission), Boris Ricks (director of the Center for Southern California Studies at Cal State Northridge) and Fernando Guerra (director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University). -- Los Angeles Times
Student Chronicles
Heitner attends the University of Southern California, while Flanigan and Malin Melo go to California State University, Northridge. -- Argonaut News
CSUN Announces 2023 Men’s Soccer Schedule
CSUN men’s soccer head coach Terry Davila has announced the 2023 Matadors’ schedule. -- SCV News