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A Blind Tech Consultant Finds His Calling
Vargas soon became a regular at the annual Assistive Technology Conference organized by California State University, Northridge (CSUN). The CSUN gathering, which features gear and software to help blind, deaf, and others with disabilities, has been referred to as the "CES of assistive technology." In 2009, after the conference’s location moved south to San Diego, a mini version of the gathering called Best In Tech began in the San Fernando Valley. At the last one where Vargas spoke, close to 500 people attended. -- PC Magazine
Around Town & Online: February Events Calendar
Aspen Music Festival veterans Ron Borczon, a music professor at Cal State Northridge, and Bill
Arey are back together after more than three decades apart. Their set list will no doubt include
tracks from their 1988 album “Transcriptions for Two Guitars,” which featured works by Bach,
Debussy, De Falla and Scarlatti.
Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, Simi Valley -- Beyond the Acorn
CSUN Announces Black History Month Programming
California State University, Northridge announced their Black History Month programming Monday, including speakers and group discussions. -- Northridge-Chatsworth Patch
EDsmart Releases 2022’s Best West Coast Colleges Ranking
California Colleges
CSU – Dominguez Hills
Skyline College – San Bruno
Santa Ana College
CSU – Stanislaus
San Diego Mesa College
CSU – San Bernardino
Fullerton State University
CSU – Northridge -- Digital Journalism;
‘Watershed’: Dalits hail US university’s caste discrimination ban
In early 2020, Prem Pariyar was almost at a breaking point over targeted harassment, discrimination and exclusion by the dominant caste group’s students at his alma mater, the California State University (CSU) in East Bay, the United States. -- The Indian Nation
Zsófia Lakatos was elected to the advisory board of an international professional organization
Zsófia Lakatos, the former president of the Hungarian Public Relations Association, has been working as a public relations specialist for more than 20 years. After completing public relations studies at the College of Foreign Trade and California State University Northridge, he worked for the Capital Communications Financial Communications Agency from 2000 to 2008, and in 2008 as the public relations manager for the Department of Environment and Water’s climate campaign. In the meantime, he obtained an MBA in Management from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. From 2008 to 2015, he was the CEO of Hill + Knowlton’s PR agency, and in 2015, he founded his own agency, Emerald PR. In 2001 he was the founder of the Professional College of PR Agencies, and from 2005 he was a member of the board of the Hungarian Public Relations Association (MPRSZ) for 15 years. Last year he was elected a Perpetual Member of the Hungarian Public Relations Association, and now he is a member of the WCFA Global Advisory Board. -- Digital Hungary (in Hungarian)
‘Watershed’: Dalits hail US university’s caste discrimination ban
Neha, a 37-year-old Dalit from India who goes by her first name, graduated from CSU Northridge in 2014, where she said she was regularly subjected to caste discrimination and insults. -- Aljazeera
CSUN wins 2 national opera awards for online productions
It wasn’t an easy road, but students and their professors at Cal State Northridge were able to pull off two virtual opera productions that took home top awards in the 2021 National Opera Association’s Opera Production Competition. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Los Angeles to receive $53 million as part of California’s new youth jobs program
A 2018 study conducted by researchers at California State University, Northridge looked at a similar youth work program ran by the county and city. Comparing participants and nonparticipants, the study showed participants walked away with a clearer sense of their self-management and communication skills, more knowledge of the labor market and increased enrollment in school. -- Los Angeles Times
Colleges and universities across the US are moving to ban caste discrimination
Neha Singh, who asked that her real name not be published to protect her caste identity, said she wished that campus leaders had an understanding of caste oppression during her time at Cal State Northridge in the late 2000s so that she would have had somewhere to turn to for guidance. -- CNN International