Tag: CSU Channel Islands

CSUCI is part of Excelencia in Education’s new research on Hispanic-Serving Institutions over the past 25 Years

by Community Contributor • March 2, 2021 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) is one of the Hispanic-Serving Institutions across the nation that invested in “25 Years of Hispanic-Serving Institutions,” a research project conducted by Washington D.C.-based Excelencia in Education.

Excelencia—an institution dedicated to the advancement of Latinx students in higher education across the nation—is co-hosting a virtual event, “California Briefing on 25 Years of HSIs in Accelerating Latinx Student Success,” on Tuesday, March 2, at 10:30 a.m. In addition to CSU Channel Islands, partnering institutions include CSU Northridge, CSU Monterey Bay, CSU San Bernardino, Fresno State, the California State University system, California Community Colleges, and the University of California Merced.

The public is invited to register for the free presentation at: https://www.csun.edu/node/11001/california-briefing-25-years-hsis.

Spring II 2021 Virtual Classes begin March 22 at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at CSU Channel Islands

by Community Contributor • February 4, 2021 • Comments Off

Spring II 2021 Virtual Classes begin March 22 at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at CSU Channel Islands. Registration begins March 1.

OLLI at CSUCI brings the excitement and stimulation of college learning to area adults (50 or better!) who wish to extend their learning experiences in a university atmosphere.

OLLI members take university-level courses without the distraction of grading, preparing for a career, or meeting degree requirements. OLLI is learning for the joy of learning!

CSUCI Business faculty research suggests engineers negotiate differently

by Community Contributor • February 1, 2021 • Comments Off

When you drive over a bridge, use a computer, watch TV or turn on your garbage disposal, thank an engineer.

Engineer jokes abound, but engineers are critical to 21st century society. They “invent, design, build, analyze and test the machinery and systems that make society operate,” wrote CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Assistant Professor of Management Dylan Cooper, Ph.D. in a research project called “An exploration of whether engineers differ from non-engineers in their approach to negotiation.”

Through June 20 — CSUCI Chorus celebrates Black composers with “Into the Light” spring concert

by Community Contributor • January 1, 2021 • Comments Off

Some say it was an inscription on the wall of a cellar in Cologne, Germany, where a number of Jews hid themselves for the entire duration of World War II.

Other accounts say it was scratched on a wall next to the body of a prisoner who had escaped the Warsaw ghetto. Its origins are unclear, but the message was powerful enough to inspire the song, “I Believe.”

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining;
I believe in love even when feeling it not;
I believe in God even when he is silent.

A choral arrangement of “I Believe” by composer Mark Miller will be among the selections in the CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) virtual Spring 2021 Choral Program celebrating Black composers like Miller, entitled “Into the Light.”

U.S. Department of Education awards $600K to CSUCI for degree completion program

by Community Contributor • November 3, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI)’s Channel Your Success initiative received a $600,000 boost this fall from the U.S. Department of Education.

Channel Your Success is a multi-faceted program designed to remove barriers preventing Latinx students from graduating on time. Director of Student Academic Success & Equity Initiatives Michelle Hasendonckx, Ed.D., said this particular grant is a 2020 Title V grant for a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), but the campaign is to benefit all CSUCI students.

CSUCI Fall 2021 application period opens October 1 with changed requirements

by Community Contributor • September 28, 2020 • Comments Off

Freshmen and upper division transfer students are invited to apply for CSU Channel Islands’ (CSUCI) fall 2021 semester beginning Oct. 1 through Dec. 4.

The California State University (CSU) system has temporarily lifted requirements that first-time freshmen submit their SAT and ACT scores for admission for fall 2021. The temporary change will also apply to winter 2022 and spring 2022 admission cycles.

CSUCI Chicana/o Studies faculty member wins award for virtual lesson plans that include spinning vinyl and Penny Dreadfuls

by Community Contributor • September 25, 2020 • Comments Off

The year is 1938. The Third Reich is rising along with radio evangelism and The City of Angels is constructing the freeways that will transform it into a metropolis. When a grisly murder shocks the city, the first Chicana/o in the Los Angeles Police Department, Tiago Vega, and his partner, Lewis Michener, investigate while being pulled into the deep traditions of Mexican American folklore.

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies Nicholas Centino, Ph.D. was recently honored for his use of the compelling, atmospheric “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” series on Showtime and several other creative teaching twists—innovation that continued when CSUCI’s classes went virtual with the COVID pandemic.

Professor of Art History and her artist husband chronicle the homeless in Los Angeles with “Sidewalk Inn”

by Community Contributor • September 23, 2020 • Comments Off

They lay by wheelchairs on the sidewalk, on benches, along storefronts and in the park where CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Professor of Art History Irina D. Costache, Ph.D., likes to play tennis with her husband, Cristian Costache.

The Costaches would leave their Los Angeles home to head for the tennis courts and pass one homeless person after another on their way.

National college reports give CSUCI high marks for social mobility, affordability and overall quality

by Community Contributor • September 21, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) is listed among the top 20 “Best Bang for Your Buck” Colleges in the West in Washington Monthly’s annual college guide.

CSUCI was ranked the 19th “Best Bang for Your Buck” college in 2020, up from last year’s ranking of No. 22. CSUCI has been rising steadily for years, up from its No. 26 ranking in 2018 and 2017.

CSUCI announces second confirmed COVID-19 case

by Community Contributor • September 8, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) announced Sept. 8 that a student has a positive case of coronavirus (COVID-19). The individual was on the campus Sept. 3, 2020, is not a residential student, and is now in self-isolation at their off-campus residence. Any campus buildings visited by the individual have been closed until thoroughly cleaned and disinfected.

CSUCI goes virtual with a multi-faceted STEM education project funded by U.S. Department of Education grant

by Community Contributor • September 2, 2020 • Comments Off

When the U.S. Department of Education first awarded CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) a five-year $6 million grant to launch Project PROMESAS (Pathways with Regional Outreach and Mathematics Excellence for Student Achievement in STEM) in the 2016/17 academic year, no one could foresee what would happen in 2020/21— the last year of the grant.

CSUCI Performing Arts faculty members recognized for creative virtual dance instruction

by Community Contributor • August 28, 2020 • Comments Off

A worldwide virtual dance project is among the imaginative concepts that Associate Professor of Performing Arts/Dance Heather Castillo and Performing Arts/Dance Lecturer MiRi Park designed after CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) switched to online learning.

The project, called CORontine Corps, along with an online dance instruction guide they created earned Castillo and Park a 2020 Faculty Innovation and Leadership Award (FILA) honoring CSU faculty and/or staff members who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership that advances student success.

CSUCI summer research program includes Santa Rosa Island, 19th century Mexico, and the coronavirus

by Community Contributor • August 17, 2020 • Comments Off

Curiosity and imagination transcended the COVID-19 pandemic throughout CSU Channel Islands’ (CSUCI) 2020 Summer Student Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) program, which ran from June 8 to July 31.

CSUCI Associate Professor of Mathematics Selenne Bañuelos wins national award for extraordinary teaching practices

by Community Contributor • August 7, 2020 • Comments Off

California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI) Associate Professor of Mathematics Selenne Bañuelos, Ph.D., remembers walking into her college math classes as an undergraduate and seeing no other women of color as tenure track faculty nor Latinx women born in the U.S.

“The STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) world can be very lonely for women, especially for a woman of color,” Bañuelos said. “You can feel like you don’t fit in. At that moment, I had not met a female in academia — especially a woman with children.”

But a love for the complexity and possibilities of mathematics compelled her to keep going, and in late July, the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) awarded Bañuelos one of the top awards in the nation for a university math professor.

Campus and community welcome to audition for CSUCI’s first Virtual Choir

by Community Contributor • August 6, 2020 • Comments Off

Few can forget the Italians perched on windowsills serenading one another while quarantined with the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is with that same spirit of resilience that the CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Chorus is inviting the campus and the community to audition for its first ever virtual chorus.

“Our voices must sing and the song must endure and no pandemic can stop that,” said Dean Butler, CSUCI alumnus, choir member and Channel Islands Choral Association (CICA) president. “Music throughout history has been the universal expression of healing, love, hope and peace.”

National Science Foundation grant will enable CSUCI anthropologist to research more than 10,000 years of human history on the Channel Islands

by Community Contributor • July 22, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Professor of Anthropology Jennifer Perry, Ph.D., has been awarded $57,806 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to expand her research into those who lived on California’s Channel Islands for the last 10,000+ years.

“We’re looking at human-environment interactions through time, trying to understand how people lived on the Channel Islands,” Perry explained. “What we are looking at are archaeological sites along the channel that have evidence of human occupation over the past 10,000 years or more. From plants and animals and artifacts, we can look at change through time, such as changes in climate, and how people responded to that change.”

CSUCI graduate heads to Ireland as a Fulbright Scholar

by Community Contributor • July 20, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Applied Physics and Mathematics double major Carmen Stepek will be pursing her doctorate in neuro-physics on the Emerald Isle as a Fulbright scholar.

The Class of 2020 graduate will attend the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

CSUCI awarded Bee Campus USA designation for the second time in a row

by Community Contributor • July 13, 2020 • Comments Off

While most of the campus operates in cyberspace, the roughly 24 colonies at CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI)’s bee yard are thriving, thanks in part to two 2019 graduates who suit up and show up to care for the bees.

CSUCI’s pollinator-friendly campus, bee education, outreach and student involvement along with a number of other factors have earned CSUCI a Bee Campus USA designation for a second year in a row. CSUCI is one of 103 Bee Campus USAs across the nation.

MVS School of Business & Economics honors outstanding students, alumni and staff

by Amigos805.com • June 16, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — Nine CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) upper division undergraduates completed the spring semester with an MVS Medal of Excellence from the Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics. The link is now available for those who wish to see…

CSUCI History students record personal stories during a pandemic in “plague journals”

by Community Contributor • June 10, 2020 • Comments Off

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both” —C. Wright Mills, American Sociologist CAMARILLO — “During that first two weeks I walked around in circles uncertain of what to do…

CSUCI student’s letter to Lin-Manuel Miranda will be shared on Apple TV’s “Dear…” series

by Community Contributor • June 4, 2020 • Comments Off

A letter she wrote to “Hamilton” and “In The Heights” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda landed CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Performing Arts major Melina Ortega a place in Apple TV’s “Dear…,” which premieres Friday, June 5.

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler created the 10-part docu-series to tell the stories of some of America’s pop culture icons through the eyes of those inspired by them.

CSUCI Nursing program’s virtual labs awarded $10,000 Minigrant

by Community Contributor • May 26, 2020 • Comments Off

When CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) went virtual in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nursing program had one of the biggest challenges on campus. The faculty needed to create virtual clinical labs for its students.

“Nursing programs require a certain number of hours of clinical experience in order to meet state requirements,” said Associate Professor of Nursing Jaime Hannans, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.E. “We have clinical courses in which students engage in patient-to-student experiences at a hospital, or other healthcare facility. We had to rethink how to deliver hand-on educational experiences virtually.”

California State Student Association honors CSUCI faculty for helping to save $3.8 million in textbook costs for students

by Community Contributor • May 21, 2020 • Comments Off

The Cal State Student Association (CSSA) has awarded CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Associate Professor of Communication Jacob Jenkins, Ph.D., the 2020 California State University Faculty Innovation & Leadership Award.

CSUCI prepares for pandemic’s disproportionate impact on Latinx community

by Community Contributor • May 15, 2020 • Comments Off

Lessons from the Great Recession suggest that as we emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, the rules of the marketplace will have changed, and the impact will fall disproportionately on the Latinx community.

Circumstances many Latinx students faced when the pandemic hit may discourage them from staying in school when in fact, getting that college degree has never been more important.

Philanthropists with deep roots in Ventura County to be recognized with honorary doctorates by CSUCI

by Community Contributor • May 12, 2020 • Comments Off

Philanthropy is a multi-generational tradition for Esther Wachtell of Ojai and Irene Pinkard, Ed.D., of Oxnard.

In recognition of their commitment to enhancing the culture, environment and educational opportunities in the Ventura/Santa Barbara County region, CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) will recognize Pinkard and Wachtell with honorary doctorates during CSUCI’s virtual commencement celebration to be held on Saturday, May 23 at 11 a.m.

CSUCI Chemistry and Nursing students get more opportunity for hands-on experience with two separate grants

by Community Contributor • May 4, 2020 • Comments Off

Selected Nursing students and two outstanding CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Chemistry students will benefit from grants awarded to Associate Professor of Chemistry Ahmed Awad, Ph.D. and Assistant Professor of Nursing Charlene Niemi, R.N., Ph.D.

CSUCI to honor Class of 2020 with virtual celebration

by Community Contributor • May 1, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) will salute the Class of 2020 with a livestream celebration beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 23.

The celebration is being held on the same day the students were to graduate and President Erika D. Beck, Ph.D. stressed that this will not replace the in-person graduation, which had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 crisis.

CSUCI study seeks surfer input on beach closures

by Community Contributor • May 1, 2020 • Comments Off

State and local efforts to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic have left many American coast dwellers without beach access and surfers landlocked.

CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Resource Management Dan Reineman, Ph.D., is investigating the social ramifications of beach and ocean access restrictions across the state of California and the nation by launching a nationwide survey aimed at the surfing community.

Reineman is asking surfers across the nation to participate in a survey: www.coastography.org/SADsurvey and share it with their surfing friends.

CSU Channel Islands OLLI Classes Go Virtual

by Community Contributor • April 17, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — When the COVID-19 pandemic forced CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) to implement distance learning, staff running the University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) had to rethink how to offer programming through the rest of the spring semester. Aimed at adults 50…

CSUCI named Tree Campus for 8th year in a row

by Community Contributor • April 8, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — The Arbor Day Foundation has given CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) 2019 Tree Campus USA recognition for the 8th year in a row. The designation as a Tree Campus is in honor of the University’s commitment to managing and maintaining…

Working remotely CSUCI pulls together to print 3-D protective face shields

by Community Contributor • April 3, 2020 • Comments Off

CSU Channel Islands may be operating in a virtual environment right now, but CSUCI faculty, staff and students from several different academic programs have mobilized and fired up 3-D printers to print badly-needed protective face shields.

So far, 51 printers are humming away in University members’ garages, kitchens, bedrooms and dens across the region in an effort to help medical personnel protect themselves as they treat patients diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus.

CSUCI Nursing students assist VCPH during COVID-19 crisis

by Community Contributor • April 2, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) Nursing senior Lilian Kozma remembers walking into the call center at Ventura County Public Health (VCPH) on March 16, as more and more citizens were beginning to react to the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

CSU Channel Islands — Observing Cesar Chavez Day virtually

by Community Contributor • March 30, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands’ (CSUCI) Center for Community Engagement (CCE) has a tradition of sending volunteers to do meaningful community service on Cesar Chavez Day, which this year falls on March 31. In this period of social distancing, Director of…

CSUCI will postpone 2020 Commencement

by Community Contributor • March 18, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — With the health and well-being of students and employees as the University’s highest priority, CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) will postpone the May 23rd Commencement ceremony to another date later in the calendar year. “I am sorely disappointed that we…

CSUCI takes further steps toward social distancing on campus

by Community Contributor • March 18, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) is accelerating efforts to keep students, staff, and faculty safe from coronavirus (COVID-19) by taking further steps to create social distance. Although there have been zero presumptive or confirmed cases of COVID-19 within the CSUCI…

CSUCI cancels classes March 16-19 and accelerates virtual instruction

by Community Contributor • March 16, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) has announced that classes are canceled March 16-19. The decision was made out of an abundance of caution and in response to local K-12 school closures and the Governor’s announcement asking seniors to self-quarantine at…

CSUCI to transition to virtual instruction

by Community Contributor • March 13, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) has announced that it will begin to transition to virtual instruction following its spring break. The campus continues to remain safe and there are zero presumptive and no confirmed cases of COVID-19 on or related…

STEM grant will benefit CSUCI Santa Rosa Island Research Station

by Community Contributor • March 12, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — “I saw the Milky Way! I’ve never seen that before in my life.” These are the kind of reactions Santa Rosa Island Research Station Director Russell Bradley gets from CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) students after they visit the island…

Diplomacy earns CSUCI students awards at a Model United Nations competition

by Community Contributor • March 3, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) students have once again distinguished themselves with their diplomacy at the regional Model United Nations (MUN) conference. The 16 CSUCI students who traveled to Portland last month to compete in the Northwest Model United Nations…

CSUCI alumna and former mentor’s sand crab research raise more red flags on microplastics

by Community Contributor • February 20, 2020 • Comments Off

CAMARILLO — Research conducted by CSU Channel Islands (CSUCI) 2016 graduate Dorothy Horn and her mentor, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science & Resource Management (ESRM) Clare Steele, Ph.D. showed microplastics in sand crabs on the California coast. The next phase of…

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