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CSU trustees endorse strategy to boost four-year graduation rates
Trustees also endorsed graduation rate improvements for individual campuses:
• At Cal State Dominguez Hills, where 6 percent of 2011 freshmen graduated in four years, trustees set the 2025 target at 31 percent.
• Cal State Fullerton’s target is to improve four-year graduation rates from 22 percent to 44 percent.
• Cal State Long Beach’s commitment to improve from 16 percent to 39 percent.
•Cal State Los Angeles’ goal is to improve from 6 percent to 30 percent.
•Cal State Northridge’s goal is to improve from 13 to 30 percent.
•Cal Poly Pomona’s goal is to improve from 18 percent to 38 percent.
• Cal State San Bernardino’s objective is to from 12 percent to 30 percent. -- Orange County Register
From 1970s-Era Academic ‘High Theory’ to Transgender Bathrooms on Campus
How short are the memories of the politically righteous! In the 1970s, Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg pooh-poohed as sheer demagoguery the idea that the Equal Rights Amendment would require co-ed bathrooms, her implicit assumption being that such an arrangement would of course be preposterous. In 1991, the Michigan Women’s Festival expelled a transsexual woman on the ground that she was in biological fact a male. The First International Conference on Crossdressing, Sex, and Gender at California State University, Northridge, in 1995 maintained separate bathroom facilities for males and females, causing a protest by trans activists. Gay-rights activist and historian Martin Duberman stormed out of a gender-theory presentation. Now those early advocates for gay and women’s rights would be lumped into the same category as segregationists. -- National Review
CSUN’s Jazz Studies Program Continues to Capture the Spotlight at Home and Abroad
Music from the horn section of California State University, Northridge’s award-winning Jazz “A” Band filled the rehearsal hall in CSUN’s Cypress Hall before giving way to guitarist Miles McIntosh, then piano player Adam Hersh and bass player Daniel Massey. -- AmericanTowns.com
CAL STATE NORTHRIDGE STOPS OMAHA
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. – The Omaha women’s soccer team dropped a 2-0 decision to Cal State Northridge on Sunday afternoon at Matador Soccer Field in Northridge, Calif. The Mavericks fell to 2-7-2 on the season, while the Matadors moved to 5-2-4 overall. -- KTIC - NE
Readers: Say “YES!” to the Dress in Luann Comic Strip
Growing up in Los Angeles, Evans attended California State University-Northridge. After graduating, he worked as a high school art teacher in El Centro, California. He married his wife, Betty, and they taught in Australia, then spent some time traveling through Asia and the Middle East before finally settling back in the United States and starting a family. Since 2012, Greg’s daughter, Karen, has collaborated with him on the writing of the strip. Evans currently resides in San Diego. -- Universal Uclick
Learn, Then Earn: 9 Colleges With The Best Return on Investment
Cal State Northridge is one of dozens of schools in the California university system but is the one that will deliver the most for your money. The cost to attend is $47,000, and five-year cumulative earnings are $565,000 for an ROI of 1,099%. -- The Cheat Sheet
‘Drowned or burned’: CSUN students express little enthusiasm for Trump, Clinton
NORTHRIDGE >> When Vince Saintvil emigrated from Haiti to the U.S. nearly a decade ago, his father, who’d come before him, gave his son some hard-won advice: study, work hard and never take anything from government. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Datebook: Toba Khedoori's enigmatic drawings, games about capitalism, art about the California coast
“Karla Klarin: Subdividing the LAndscape,” at CSUN Art Galleries. The San Fernando Valley-raised artist examines some of our city’s more quotidian landscapes in a series of painted works that take sprawl and the suburban as points of inspiration. But don’t expect the cookie cutter: Klarin’s works have a way of capturing grit. Through Oct. 8. A reception will be held Saturday at 4 p.m.; an artist talk will take place Monday at 10 a.m. Cal State Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, csun.edu. -- Los Angeles Times
Sustainability center to provide exciting work environment for staff, students
Community representatives, students, faculty, staff and university officials were on hand recently for the official ground-breaking of the California State University-Northridge Associated Students Sustainability Center. -- Proud Green Building
Providence Tarzana hospital administrator wins prestigious Fernando Award
“I believe that all of us here in this room tonight have skills and characteristics and talents that we can give back to the community,” said financial advisor Dennis De Young, nominated by Cal State Northridge and local 4-H programs, in a video. “I believe that it’s imperative, it’s important, that we give back to the community in any way we can. -- Los Angeles Daily News