Calm & HR Present: What’s Your Daily Self-Care Routine?
A daily self-care routine can help you manage your stress and anxiety levels, improve your mood and energy, and reduce the likelihood of illnesses. For some, self-care can be taking a bubble bath and going for a massage. For others, instilling micro moments of self-care throughout the day such as short guided meditations or long walks after work are just as impactful.
Get more ideas on how you can establish a realistic self-care routine with these Calm resources:
- Let’s Unplug
- In this 5-minute meditation session with Chibs Okereke, you’ll learn how to unplug briefly and reset in the middle of your workday.
- Radical Self Care
- In this meditation series with Lama Rod Owens, you’ll learn various self-care tools to help you create a nourishing practice of reflection and rest.
- Nurture Yourself
- In this 7-minute Daily Move session with Mel Mah, you’ll practice some breathwork, move through some gentle stretches, and wrap up with a nurturing meditation.
Check out the Calm app for other diverse resources that’ll support your mental health journey. Haven't redeemed your free Calm Premium subscription yet?
To Get Started
- Visit the following link: Calm for CSUN Employees
- Sign up with your personal email address (or log in to an existing account)
- Validate your work email address or Employee ID
Join a Calm App Webinar to learn how to personalize your app experience or deep dive into monthly themed topics to enhance your mental health toolkit.
* Reminder - RSVP by June 10 | CSUN 2024 Faculty & Staff Summer Celebration - June 18
You and your family are cordially invited
to join CSUN President Erika D. Beck for
the Faculty and Staff Summer Celebration
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
4 - 6 p.m.
Student Recreation Center
Join Dr. Beck for buffet dinner and many fun activities for all ages - Giant Jenga, Giant Connect Four, basketball, Corn Hole, dancing and loads of fun!
It's time to celebrate you and all that you do to create a brighter and more equitable future for our students.
This year’s summer celebration will feature a food drive to support the CSUN Food Pantry. Please bring canned goods and other non-perishable items for donation to enter a special prize giveaway. For more information regarding donations, please visit the CSUN Food Pantry website.
This event is made possible by the generous support of The University Corporation, the University Student Union and the CSUN Foundation.
For more information, please email eventrsvp@csun.edu or call (818) 677-1300.
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* Nominate a Colleague for a 2024 Recognition of Excellence Award | Deadline June 21
Please take this opportunity to nominate a colleague so that we may collectively recognize their contributions in helping make CSUN an excellent institution. All staff and faculty are eligible to make a nomination. This year's awards include:
- CSUN Presidential Award
- CSUN Award of Merit
- Jolene Koester Team Award
- CSUN Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion Award
- CSUN Student Assistant of the Year Award
- CSUN Community Engaged Staff Award
- CSUN Sustainability Award, and the
- CSUN Leadership Award
Visit the Staff Service & Recognition of Excellence Awards page to access the award descriptions, criteria, and eligibility information as well as the nomination form(s).
Nomination forms will be available on the Awards page as of Wednesday, June 5, 2024.
Friday, June 21, 2024 is the deadline to submit a nomination for the 2024 Recognition of Excellence Awards.
Participate in Zest Fest - the 15th Annual Campus Orange Pick | June 1
Join the Institute for Sustainability and colleagues Saturday, June 1st for Zest Fest, the 15th annual campus orange pick in partnership with Food Forward!
Celebrate a community tradition of fighting food insecurity in partnership with Food Forward! Harvest fruit for communities experiencing food insecurity, learn tips on how to care for your fruit trees, and come together for a festive celebration with games, refreshments, and activities for all ages. Bring your water bottle, picnic blanket, and a reusable bag to take oranges home!
To reserve a picking tool and help us collect fallen oranges register:
- Here for the first harvesting shift (9:15 am - 10:15 am)
- Here for the second shift (11:15 am - 12:15 pm).
RSVP here if you are not interested in picking fruit but still want to attend. This event is open to the whole CSUN community and the wider public!
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AS Summer Movie Fest is Back | June 6, 13, 20 & 27
Associated Students' Summer Movie Fest is Back!
- Each Thursday night in June – Movies start at dusk on the Library Lawn!
- Open to all CSUN Faculty, Staff, Students, and the local community!
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Calling all CSUN Alumni in the Entertainment Industry! | June 23
Alumni Relations is in the early stages of chartering a new Entertainment Alumni Chapter to provide networking opportunities for the CSUN community in the field of entertainment.
Join us on June 23 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. for a mixer at the San Fernando Brewing Company and connect our new alumni chapter!
To learn more about the new CSUN Entertainment Alumni Chapter, visit: https://www.csun.edu/alumni/events/entertainment-alumni-mixer
Save the Date: President's Welcome Address | August 29
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SAVE THE DATE
President’s Welcome Address
Thursday, August 29, 2024
The Younes and Soraya Nazarian
Center for the Performing Arts
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Alfredo B. Fernandez Formally Sworn in as CSUN's 9th Police Chief
On April 22, 2024, Chief Alfredo B. Fernandez was formally sworn in as 9th Police Chief of the Department of Police Services. Having served as the interim Chief since August, 2021, Fernandez is the first Hispanic Police Chief for the department. Additionally, the ceremony recognized the promotion of K9 Corporal Virgil Messmore to the rank of Sergeant, and the formal swearing-in for recent academy graduate Officer Daisy Hernandez.
Most recently during his tenure as Chief of Police, he has worked tirelessly to fully align the principles of the campus road map that support disrupting systemic inequities and enhancing community connections and facilitation of holistic student success. He believes in responsible police reform that creates bonds with all members of the campus community. Under his leadership the Department has established:
- A fully integrated DEI component into their work. This includes:
- The hiring of a non-sworn, director level position whose primary function is to provide outreach to those communities that have fear and distrust of the police. The DPS Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion takes a bold and a one-of-a-kind approach in applying an equity lens to the work of law enforcement. There is no other program like it anywhere else in the CSU, if not the State of California.
- Implementation of a transparency dashboard on the DPS webpage that provides data on police interactions with the community, complaints, use of force and demographic data.
- A partnership with Counselling Services to co-respond to students in crisis with a mental health professional. The new Crisis Response Team responds with empathy and care to those who may be suffering a traumatic experience that requires intervention.
Chief Fernandez’ major accomplishments since joining the department in 1998 include:
- The development of the CSUN’s first police canine unit.
- The implementation of an annual Multi-Agency Active Shooter Drill, which brings police agencies from throughout the region and local Fire to the campus to practice cooperative responses to such emergencies.
- As a Captain and later as the Deputy Chief, he ran every operational division in the Department including Patrol, Investigations and Parking & Transportation.
In his thirty-seven years in law enforcement, Chief Fernandez has held all police ranks and was previously a Patrol Sergeant with the CSU, Channel Islands campus.
Check Out the Newly Redesigned CSUN Mobile App for Faculty/Staff
The CSUN app has been revamped with students, faculty and staff in mind. It includes a new look and feel, more content, and easier navigation! To submit feedback, complete this Qualtrics survey.
Featured functionality available under the Faculty/Staff persona includes:
- HR News
- MataCard
- Also Main Menu functionality for:
- Employee Self Service
- Enter absences, enroll or access Benefits, Cal Employee Connect, and more!
- Around Campus
- Easily locate Gender Inclusive Restrooms, Lactation Spaces, and more!
To use these features, navigate to the Faculty/Staff persona by clicking on the person icon in the far right corner of the app screen. Select the "My Persona" link and select "Faculty/Staff".
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For more information about the updated CSUN Mobile App, visit here.
Explore the Marilyn Magaram Center's Whole Body Whole Health Online Cancer Toolkit
The Whole Body Whole Health program through the Marilyn Magaram Center is aimed at helping any individual that has been diagnosed with cancer or affected by cancer, including support persons to individuals living with cancer, by providing the FREE Whole Body Whole Health Online Cancer Toolkit. Resources include recipes, nutrition and gardening educational handouts, wellness workshop recording, Cancer Answer Podcast (available on Spotify and Apple Music), and are available in English and Spanish.
You can view a pdf version of the following image here. For more information, select the image below or visit here.
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Ready to Take Control of Your Diabetes Journey? Join the Marilyn Magaram Center's Thrive With Diabetes Program
Ready to take control of your diabetes journey? Join our FREE Thrive with Diabetes program! A dynamic and effective diabetes management program that includes nutrition workshops, exercise classes and live food demonstrations. Reach out now to discover the empowering possibilities that come with our program. Your path to better diabetes management starts here!
You can view a pdf version of the following Thrive with Diabetes flyer, here.
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Read the Center for Teaching and Learning's Newest Edition of T-CARE (Teachers Connecting to Advance Retention and Empowerment) on AI
The CSUN Center for Teaching and Learning is proud to publish the newest edition of T-CARE (Teachers Connecting to Advance Retention and Empowerment). T-CARE is a peer-reviewed national newsletter designed to offer practical tips for pre- and in-service educators. This particular issue focused on AI. The CTL encourages other CSUN faculty to submit their practitioner-focused articles for consideration.
We hope you will enjoy this issue and share it with as many educators and educator networks as possible. T-CARE is free and we are grateful to the Eisner Foundation and the Schools First Federal Credit Union for making that possible.
Check out other T-CARE articles from the past at https://www.csun.edu/center-teaching-learning/publications. Interested in writing for T-CARE? The guidelines for being a T-CARE author are on our website as well!
Be sure to get on the CTL’s mailing list for this and other publications and events by mailing ctl@csun.edu and simply saying “I’d like to be on the mailing list.”
To access the full 14-page issue of T-CARE, visit: here!
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Read CTL's Cutting Edge on CSUN's Transdisciplinary Bridge Project
The Center for Teaching and Learning is proud to present a new CTL on the Cutting Edge news brief, which focuses on the Transdisciplinary Bridge Project. You can read this article and find past issues on our website https://www.csun.edu/center-teaching-learning/publications or grab a printed copy at the CTL!
The U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs recently awarded a $1.25 million grant to CSUN for a groundbreaking collaboration among three Master’s programs: the MA in Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) in the Department of Special Education of the Michael D. Eisner College of Education, the MS in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in the Department of Psychology in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the MS in Speech-Language Pathology (SLP) in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences in the College of Health and Human Development.
The Transdisciplinary Bridge Project represents a new program in which three disciplines (ECSE, ABA, & SLP) focus on collaboration and teaming in ECSE and Early Intervention (EI) settings. It addresses the critical shortage of highly effective, culturally responsive professionals in ECSE/EI to meet the needs of young children with disabilities and their families from diverse backgrounds.
Read more about the Transdisciplinary Bridge Project and the full issue of The Cutting Edge here. ![application/pdf PDF icon](/modules/file/icons/application-pdf.png)
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Welcome to the Alumni Association, Class of 2024!
Now that you’ve graduated, make sure you update your preferred contact information so we can stay connected! Did you know that you can join up to three (3) alumni chapters for free? Chapters are a great way to expand your network, find mentors, build connections and attend events.
Link: https://www.csun.edu/alumni/alumni-record-update
Stay In The Know: Read the Latest Issue of CSU Leader
You can access the online version of the May 22, 2024 CSU Leader here.
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Read the Latest Issue of Insight Into Diversity | June 2024
The May 2024 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, is now available online and for download at insightintodiversity.com.