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Engage with new and old colleagues and participate in new events, meetings, and workshops offered throughout campus this month. We hope you'll take advantage of the information highlighted below.
Please take this opportunity to nominate a staff 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:
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).
Thursday, March 30, 2023 is the deadline to submit a nomination for the 2023 Recognition of Excellence Awards.
This session is offered by CSU Northridge as part of a CSU System-Wide Professional & Personal Development Cross Campus Collaboration program.
Colleagues attending this session may hail from the Chancellor’s Office, Channel Islands, Chico, East Bay, Fresno, Humboldt, Long Beach, Monterey Bay, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, and Stanislaus.
Our presenter has an extensive knowledge of the CSU admission policies and procedures and aims to share their knowledge with staff and faculty interested in helping their child get to college. There is a lot of information out there - we'll provide critical and timely information, dispel myths, and ensure you are equipped to help your child research, apply and successfully transition into the college of their choice.
Learning outcomes of this presentation include:
Gigi McGuire, Assistant Director, CSUN Student Outreach & Recruitment
CSUN Faculty & Staff – To register for this Workshop/Session:
If you require an accommodation to attend this program, please contact Human Resources at 818.677.5168 at least seven business days in advance of the program.
Withdraw from Session: If you need to cancel your registration, select the “Self” icon in CSU Learn. Select “Learning,” then “Registrations.” Select the box next to the session you need to cancel, and select “Cancel Registration.” In the next window, select “Confirm Cancellation.”
Return to CSUN's Professional & Personal Development Training Calendar at: http://www.csun.edu/development/training.
Join us on March 29, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. for our Faculty Coffee Hour and learn more about ChatGPT and other AI technologies.
Learn more and register here.
In celebration of Earth Month, the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing invites you to join them for four earth month themed mindfulness and wellbeing events:
Monday, April 3rd | Monday, April 10th |
| 12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m. | 12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m. |
| Virtual Earth Month Meditation | Virtual Colors and Connection Art-Activity with Jen Kuo |
| Explore colors and the sense of connection to the Earth. Suggested materials: sheets of paper, and any coloring utensils (crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc.) | |
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Monday, April 17th | Wednesday, April 19th |
| 12:00 p.m.-12:45 p.m. | 12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m. |
| In-Person Earth Month Meditation | Virtual Colors and Connection Art-Activity with Jen Kuo |
| Meditation Blankets and Cushions will be provided. RSVP here: https://csunsbs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B9fgi02mbvF5Xw | Explore colors and the sense of connection to the Earth. Suggested materials: sheets of paper, and any coloring utensils (crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc.) |
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Zoom Link for all virtual events:
Zoom ID: 853 2550 6801
Password: wellbeing
Stop by and enjoy the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing's Free Little Library Pop-Up Event.
Thursday, April 6, 2023 - 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Knowing how to assist your family, friends, students or colleagues may be difficult without the necessary tools. Join us for this training as we provide you with insightful suicide data and trends, useful resource information, tips for recognizing signs of suicidal thoughts in others and ways to help prevent suicide. Register for this training to receive the Zoom meeting information and online training materials information. Please email us if you have any questions regarding this training or contact our main office at (818) 677-2366, option 1.
All CSUN Faculty are invited to participate in Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED) Training, April 11 - 14, 2023
SEED provides an opportunity to promote honest, open conversation with the goal to cultivate a safe an inclusive environment for staff, faculty and students.
Seed Training uses storytelling to reflect upon our own past, our current roles and how we can imagine the experience of people unlike ourselves through learning, narratives, and media.
You can view a pdf version of the following flyer, here.
The National Student Employment Association has declared the second complete week in April each year be set aside to recognize the value of student employees, student employment professionals, and student supervisors.
The purpose of this week is threefold:
Each year colleges and universities across the country recognize the importance of student work experience during national student employment week. Student employment offers students career-enhancing opportunities, the ability to develop skill relevant in any career, and better preparation for the job market upon graduation. Each year CSUN celebrates NSEW during the second full week of April. This week enables us to recognize and thank CSUN students for the contributions they make as employees to the University and the Northridge community. Whether your student employees are working in-person or remotely, we encourage you to use your creativity to celebrate your student employees in new and exciting ways. If you need some ideas to get started, please refer to this Student Employee Appreciation Infographic. We have also created editable “Appreciation Certificates” that you can present to your student employees.
Remember this is a week-long celebration, try and do something different every day of the week.
The Center for Teaching and Learning in the Michael D. Eisner College of Education is proud to announce its three-part Inclusive Leaders Workshop.
This professional development series is geared toward supporting educational leaders of all kinds in becoming more inclusive of learners with disabilities. The Center’s Executive Director and Eisner Endowed Chair, Dr. Wendy Murawski, will be facilitating the three—two-hour—workshops. Dr. Murawski is a nationally recognized expert in inclusive practices and, with the use of mixed reality simulation (think: Avatars!), she will present participants with situations in which they must respond to irate teachers, confused students, legal advocates, and passionate parents in real time. Each session will start with Dr. Murawski offering additional guidance on the laws, policies, and best practices surrounding inclusion, followed by intense and supportive practice in communicating and navigating difficult situations. Participants will all receive a copy of Special Education Law and Policy: From foundation to application (Plural Publishing, 2022) and engage with the award-winning SIMPACT Immersive Learning program.
The series will take place virtually on April 14, April 21, April 28 from 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. (PST) 7:00 .;m.-9:00 p.m. (EST).
Upon completion and attendance of all three sessions, participants will receive a certificate of participation for professional development hours.
Cost: $210 (includes book)
Registration information will be available soon on our website www.csun.edu/ctl and social media pages on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @CTLatCSUN. You can obtain an accessible version of the following flyer here.
The Center for Teaching and Learning in the Michael D. Eisner College of Education at Cal State Northridge is actively seeking submissions for the next issue of T-CARE. Share your practical strategies, your helpful resources, and your educational insights in this open topic call for submissions!
Please email all submissions to ctl@csun.edu. You can find the guidelines for being a T-CARE author and check out T-CARE articles from the past at www.csun.edu/ctl/publications/.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
This session is offered by CSU Northridge, participating in a CSU System-Wide Professional & Personal Development Cross Campus Collaboration program.
Colleagues attending this session may hail from the Chancellor’s Office, Channel Islands, Chico, East Bay, Fresno, Humboldt, Long Beach, Monterey Bay, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, and Stanislaus.
There are risks in all aspects of the campus environment. Internal controls are the business practices, policies or procedures that help to minimize risk. This session will provide you with a foundation of risk and internal controls by understanding how they impact our daily lives as well as our work on campus. By attending this session, you will: be able to more readily identify department business risks; learn the importance of internal controls in all of our jobs at CSUN; be better prepared for potential audits; and learn the "red flags" of fraud.
Howard Lutwak, Director of Internal Audit, CSU Northridge
CSUN Faculty & Staff – To register for this Workshop/Session:
If you require an accommodation to attend this program, please contact Human Resources at 818.677.5168 at least seven business days in advance of the program.
Withdraw from Session: If you need to cancel your registration, select the “Self” icon in CSU Learn. Select “Learning,” then “Registrations.” Select the box next to the session you need to cancel, and select “Cancel Registration.” In the next window, select “Confirm Cancellation.”
Return to CSUN's Professional & Personal Development Training Calendar at: http://www.csun.edu/development/training.
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CSUN's David Nazarian College of Business & Economics invites you to attend the 8th Annual Jeff Marine Bull Ring New Venture Competition Final Event on Thursday, April 20, at 3:00 p.m. Please join us in supporting our students as they pitch their businesses to a panel of distinguished judges, ultimately competing for $25,000 in cash prizes! The event is free to attend and open to the community.
To reserves your spot or for more information, including the full competition schedule, visit here.
The Bull Ring has been made possible thanks to the generous support of our founding and continuing donor, Jeff Marine and his family. Please see below for full competition schedule, additional details, and eligibility.
CSUNposium is a student conference featuring oral and poster presentations. The event aims to showcase excellence in scholarly research and creative activity conducted by CSUN students across all academic disciplines.
The 2023 CSUNposium will be a hybrid conference on Friday, April 21st. All oral sessions will be hosted in session-specific Zoom rooms (starting at 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.), and all poster sessions will be in-person (starting at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.) at the University Student Union.
Three hundred sixty-seven student researchers will participate in the event, representing nearly every college on the campus!
We are still looking for faculty judges in the following colleges: Health and Human Development, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Science and Mathematics and Engineering and Computer Science. If you are interested in being a faculty judge, please complete the Judges Interest form.
We encourage faculty, staff and students to attend the in-person event at the University Student Union, Northridge Center and email our office if they would like to view the Oral sessions on Zoom. For more information about this event, please visit our website.
Join us for our in-person luncheon where we’ll gain insight, develop connections, and get inspired by our panel of women leaders who have been catalysts for change. The panelists will share their experiences as professionals, to discuss how their purpose, passion, and perseverance have supported them on their pathway to success! Registration for this event is $49 and will include lunch, guided networking, and a powerful panel of women leaders.
The CSUN Explorers Program and the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences invite you to a screening of the film Hearts of Glass which tells the story of Vertical Harvest (VH), a multi-story, state of the art hydroponic greenhouse that grows crops while providing meaningful, competitively paid jobs for people with disabilities. The film weaves the story of VH’s launch with the personal journeys of employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The free screening will be followed by a panel discussion including the filmmaker, Jennifer Tennican , VH employees and local participants. You can access a pdf of the following flyer here. 
Join us for a candid yet inspirational conversation with four CSUN alumni women entrepreneurs who will share the details of their entrepreneurial journey. We will hear about their passions, frustrations, and successes that will motivate and inspire the next generation of CSUN entrepreneurs to follow their entrepreneurial dreams. The audience, particularly students, will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn from these amazing women. This session is offered via Zoom and is open to both the CSUN and local community. Please join us for this highly engaging and thought-provoking session that is guaranteed to be a rich and inspiring conversation.
For more information and to register for this free event, visit here.
CSUN staff, faculty, and students are invited to attend the 4th Annual Student Success Celebration, in which we will review our student success effort and outcomes for this year, as well as honor winners of the Riccomini Scholarship and announce this year’s Student Success Champions! This event will be in person for the first time.
View a pdf of the flyer here.
This event features keynote speaker Guadalupe Cardonas, Academic Technology Equity fellow and Doctoral Student, a faculty panel on AI in Higher Ed, and announcement of the winners of App Jam 2023.
For more information and to register, visit: CSUN Digital Equity Day 2023 | California State University, Northridge
All CSUN Faculty are invited to participate in Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)Training, May 9 - 12, 2023
SEED provides an opportunity to promote honest, open conversation with the goal to cultivate a safe an inclusive environment for staff, faculty and students.
Seed Training uses storytelling to reflect upon our own past, our current roles and how we can imagine the experience of people unlike ourselves through learning, narratives, and media.
You can view a pdf version of the following flyer, here.
Each year, the Alumni Association awards 15 scholarships at $2,000 each in the following three categories: First-Generation, Legacy, and Graduate student.
The deadline to apply is May 31.
For more information, click here.
None of us are strangers to work stress and the burnout that can come with it. When this happens, you're likely to feel less productive, less creative, and more disengaged.
While we might not be able to completely eliminate stress in our lives, we can start setting boundaries and develop healthy coping mechanisms that’ll positively impact us in the long run.
Try the following recommendations from Calm to continue on your burnout and stress prevention journey:
Check out the Calm app for more options that suit your daily needs. Haven't activated your free Calm Premium subscription yet? Visit the Calm for CSUN Employees page to learn how.
Join one of the Calm App Webinars to learn how to get the most out of your Calm experience and bolster your overall well-being.
We’re excited to share that when you open a checking account or credit card with Premier America, the Official Credit Union of CSUN, you’ll get a CSUN branded card! Why not take advantage of great banking with a trusted financial partner and show your Matador pride with a CSUN branded debit or credit card?
Stop by the Premier America campus branch located inside the Campus Store Complex or visit PremierAmerica.com/CSUN to get started.
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Ask A Matador will connect you with the best CSUN alumni experts who can help you with advice and introductions. How it works:
Visit, Ask a Matador today, https://csun.protopia.co/
Bring your own picnic and enjoy the evening with friends, family, and fellow Matadors.
BYO Picnic 5 p.m.
Concert 7:30 p.m.
Get your tickets today: https://www.csun.edu/alumni/events/hollywood-bowl-fireworks-spectacular-beach-boys
The April 2023 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine is now available online and for download at insightintodiversity.com. This issue features the following:
The War on DEI
Preventing Workforce Departures
Future Faculty of Color
Advancing Women in Business
