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Statewide Bill AB 2507 to Tackle Student Debt Crisis by Piloting an Interest-Free, Fee-Free Student Loan Program with Jewish Free Loan Association Close to Becoming Law
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move to address the escalating student debt crisis, California has introduced AB 2507, an innovative solution designed to alleviate the financial burdens of higher education. If successful, this landmark legislation will establish an interest-free, no fee student loan program for California, in collaboration with the Jewish Free Loan Association (JFLA), to provide relief to thousands of students. The program will be piloted in Southern California at UCLA, CSU Northridge, and Glendale Community College. AB 2507 was authored by Assemblymember Laura Friedman and sponsored by JFLA and the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California (JPAC). -- Middlesboro News
Infinity Festival Returns To Hollywood With Sony Pictures Imageworks Execs Set As Event Co-Chairs
Also in the works for this year’s edition are a “Student Lab” programming track, in collaboration with USC, UCLA, Emerson College, The Los Angeles Film School, Otis College, Gnomon, Chapman University, LMU, University of Texas, CSUN, UCI and other institutions to be announced. The fest will also be home to the SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit and Leadership Awards, hosted by Women in Technology: Hollywood Foundation. The Start-Up Exhibition Pavilion will highlights emerging companies, and gaming and immersive exhibitions will feature breakthroughs in technology and interactive entertainment with a focus on AI. -- Yahoo! News
Piar misses the cut at U.S. Women's Amateur
Piar is a 2022 graduate of Marquette HS. She is currently a member of the golf team at Cal State-Northridge in California. -- Advantage News
CSUN Prof Leads Study on How Climate Change Affects Joshua Trees
A team of researchers led by California State University, Northridge evolutionary biologist Jeremy Yoder partnered with hundreds of volunteer naturalists to reconstruct how 120 years of climate change has affected Joshua trees. -- SCV News
Cal State cuts costs
That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money. -- LAist
Fighting for Safe Jobs, Part Five: After the Explosion
In part four, Factor pursued her master’s in the Environmental and Occupational Health program at Cal State Northridge, and soon she found herself working for Cal/OSHA. There she discovered a community of like-minded colleagues and learned the ropes of how to investigate safety violations in different industries. -- Alta Online
California State University Faces a $1 Billion Budget Gap as Campuses Cut Costs
That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money. -- KQED
Cal State board anticipates a ‘painful year’ as campuses cut costs
That’s the goal at Cal State Northridge, where administrators said that measures like cutting nonessential staff travel or delaying plans to replace older technology and equipment were among the ways they hope to save money. -- Capital Public Radio
CSUN Expands Skill Offerings
While there are plenty of stories about people and companies leaving California for states like Texas and its lower cost of living, in 2018 Chandra Subramaniam did the opposite, leaving the University of Texas at Arlington to become the dean of the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at California State University, Northridge. -- San Fernando Valley Business Journal
Dentist Massis Armen Bahador Had a Passion for Art
MISSION HILLS, Calif. — The Ararat-Eskijian Museum and the Armenian Studies Program at California State University, Northridge organized a lecture and exhibition on the life and work of Massis Armen Bahador at Deukmejian Community Center on Sunday, July 21, in Mission Hills, California. Professor Levon Chookaszian talked about Bahador at the Sheen Memorial Chapel adjacent to the museum and the community center. Bahador’s relatives, who drove from all over Southern California, attended the art exhibition’s opening reception on Saturday, July 20. -- Armenian Mirror Spectator