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Los Angeles's Last Orange Trees

The campus of California State University at Northridge is located only a few miles from Woodland Hills. It's a fairly new college. It opened in 1956 with 2,500 students. Three years later, there were 6,000 students. By 1968, there were more than 15,000. Today, CSUN, as it's known, has an enrollment of 40,000. As the school, it campus gobbled up more and more land, including what had been orange groves. -- Second Acts

Who is Kamala Harris? What to know about the US vice president from California

He graduated from the California State University, Northridge, in 1987 and obtained a law degree from the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law. Emhoff opened his law firm in 2000, which he sold in 2006. He worked in Washington, D.C., and California as a partner for DLA Piper in 2017 but stepped down when Harris became vice president. -- Desert Sun

Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff: A timeline of their relationship

According to his official website, Emhoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Matawan, New Jersey. His family — parents Mike and Barbara, along with siblings Jamie and Andy — moved to the Los Angeles area when Emhoff was a teen. He earned his undergraduate degree from California State University, Northridge and went on to earn a J.D. from University of Southern California Gould School of Law. -- Today

Regional Cal Black Chamber SFV kicks off Summer with Small Business Summit & Awards | PHOTOS

*The Regional Cal Black Chamber of the San Fernando Valley (RCBCC) kicked off the summer of 2024 with a power-packed business summit at the Orchard Conference Center on the beautiful campus of Cal State Northridge. After a warm welcome by RCBCC President M.C. Townsend, opening remarks were given by Dr. Chandra Subramaniam, dean of David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at Cal State Northridge. -- EURweb

CSUN Women’s Volleyball Schedule 2024: Dates, Opponents, and Matches Revealed

CSUN women's volleyball head coach Aquiles Montoya has announced the Matadors' 2024 schedule, starting with an exhibition match against Cal State LA on Aug. 24 and the regular season opener against Seattle University on Aug. 30. The team will play 30 matches, with 11 non-conference games before the Big West season kicks off on Sept. 27. -- BVM Sports

10 ways California leads the nation

Higher education institutions California is home to 3 of the top universities in the world – Stanford, University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, Los Angeles. When it comes to enhancing students’ social mobility, California is home to 12 of the top 20 universities – including the top 2 and 4 of the top 5: California State University Los Angeles (1), University of California Merced (2), Fresno Pacific University (4), and California State University – Northridge (5). -- Governor of California

IALA’s fourth annual mentorship program supports new emerging Armenian writers

Markar Melkonian is a nonfiction writer and a retired lecturer in philosophy at California State University Northridge. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1997. His books include The Philosophy and Common Sense Reader (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), which is the first and only reader on the topic, and the well-reviewed book, Richard Rorty’s Politics: Liberalism at the End of the American Century (Humanities Press, 1999). He has written on a variety of topics, including the philosophy of death, philosophy of science and NGOs in the former Soviet Union. -- The Armenian Weekly

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