Cal State LA alum J.T. Chestnut completes world marathon majors and five years of sobriety, marking a journey of resilience and purpose
Long-distance running is a constant in J.T. Chestnut’s life. Through joyful times and difficult ones and everything in between, Chestnut...
Cal State LA named Pathway Champion for advancing equitable transfer pathways for Latinx and Black community college students
Cal State LA has been named a Pathway Champion for its work in strengthening the transfer process between community colleges and the...
Cal State LA’s University Library expands Sounds of the Underground with music, community archiving, and cultural memory
For its third year, Cal State LA’s Sounds of the Underground is attempting to emerge from, well, the underground. The University...
Edward James Olmos returns to Cal State LA for Prism Award, celebration of culture, activism, and storytelling
Edward James Olmos has plenty left to say. To impart all his wisdom as an artist and an activist, the beloved 78-year-old Cal State LA...
Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative graduates first women’s cohort, opening new paths at California Institution for Women
Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative (PGI) was well grounded by the time the university introduced the program to the California...
EagleCon 2025 celebrates sci-fi visionaries Alex Rivera and Herman Zimmerman, honors diversity and imagination in media
In his film Sleep Dealer, Alex Rivera imagined a dystopian future in which robots have assumed the jobs in such American industries as...
Cal State LA’s Arwa Hammad leads with purpose as student body president and future policymaker
Arwa Hammad received a resounding endorsement following her speech at “Cal State LA Day at City Hall.” “I’m telling you, she’s going to be...
Cal State LA nursing student Briana Zavala, once nine years behind in school, earns CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement
Briana Zavala began her formal education in the ninth grade. Despite being nine years behind her classmates academically, Zavala achieved...
Cal State LA Day at City Hall highlights university’s impact, historic presidency, and commitment to social mobility
A reunion broke out as City Hall hosted “Cal State LA Day at City Hall” on Friday, August 22. Capri Maddox, executive director of the City...
“We Are LA” Campus Day celebration brings big energy to Cal State LA with music, cars, and campus spirit
The celebration goes on. Cal State LA welcomed students, faculty, and staff to the 2025-26 academic year with the “We Are LA: Campus Day...
Cal State LA and Move LA unite labor and environmental leaders for green energy roundtable
Cal State LA hosted labor leaders and environmentalists on Tuesday, Aug. 12, for a roundtable discussion on the possible economic and...
Cal State LA launches STEM Expo to spotlight community college interns and engineering careers
Cal State LA showcased the work of its community college summer interns as it hosted the inaugural “Building Bridges to STEM Careers Expo”...
Cal State LA’s LEEAF program honored by County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors
The County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors has awarded Cal State LA students with scrolls in recognition of their advocacy work with...
Cal State LA’s Verizon STEM program continues to inspire underserved middle school students
Cal State LA celebrated the accomplishments of 200 middle school students with a graduation ceremony for the Verizon Innovative Learning...
Cal State LA’s journalism department vying for 10 Los Angeles Press Club awards
Cal State LA’s journalism students and staff are finalists for 10 awards in the Los Angeles Press Club’s 67th Southern California...
Cal State LA aerial competitions take flight, provide seniors valuable—and fun—practical experience
Mike Thorburn was excited about the idea of traveling to Texas with some of his Cal State LA students to compete in a 3D-Printed Aircraft...
Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative celebrates new Chino campus dedicated to serving incarcerated students
Cal State LA has a new campus. Located in Chino about 30 miles east of the main campus, it consists of a single one-story structure...
Cal State LA presents journalist Christine Devine with inaugural Presidential Award at 2025 Commencement
Christine Devine pulled double duty at the ninth and final ceremony of the Cal State LA Commencement at the historic Shrine Auditorium on...
Cal State LA bestows comic Jo Koy with honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts
Jo Koy, of course, brought the funny. The stand-up comedian drew laughs as he delivered the keynote speech at the Cal State LA...
Comedic star Ken Jeong receives honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts from Cal State LA
Ken Jeong has excelled at many things—as a medical doctor, actor, producer, writer, AAPI community advocate and, as substantiated only by...
Cal State LA confers honorary Doctor of Humane Letters on philanthropist, biotech innovator Kevin Xu
Kevin Xu drew inspiration from his family’s past as he urged for a future of collaboration and cooperation from Cal State’s LA Class of...
Cal State LA Commencement celebrates thousands of graduates at Shrine Auditorium
It is time to walk the stage, move the tassel to the left, and celebrate! Thousands of Cal State LA students, with family and friends...
‘Outsider’ Yahir Flores compiles long list of accomplishments over two terms as ASI president
During the 2023 spring semester, Yahir Flores met with then-Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) President Jaime Arellano to discuss issues...
Joseph Kunkle
An intermediary school teacher told Joseph Kunkle and his parents that he would not be able to pass the California high school exit...
Arpit Vaishya
Arpit Vaishya needed new challenges. For two and a half years after obtaining his bachelor’s degree in information technology from the...
Jarenni Ambriz
Jarenni Ambriz is graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Asian and Asian American Studies (AAAS) from Cal State LA. In the fall, she will...
Rebekah Reyes
When Rebekah Reyes was in the process of sobering up, her thoughts kept returning to her young nephews. At that time, Reyes had been...
Incoming Executive Director Mike Bonin shares his vision for the Pat Brown Institute
Mike Bonin, the incoming executive director for the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs (PBI), is ready to get to work. Still a few...
Cal State LA scholars set to compete at CSU Student Research Competition in Humboldt
Ten students will represent Cal State LA at the 39th Annual CSU Student Research Competition at Cal Poly Humboldt on April 25 and 26. The...
Prison Graduation Initiative Convening to provide networking opportunities for paroled students
On a visit last summer to the Central California Women’s Facility prison in Chowchilla, Bidhan Roy met an incarcerated woman who refused a...
Cal State LA holds grand opening for state-of-the-art pickleball courts
The sweet-sounding pops of plastic meeting graphite permeated the spring air at Cal State LA, which could only mean one thing: Pickleball...
Cal State LA hosts Future Forums discussion about rebuilding Los Angeles following January’s wildfires
Cal State LA hosted the latest Future Forums, entitled “Recovery, Rebuilding, Resilience and the Future of Infrastructure,” on Tuesday,...
Pérez-Silverman Symposium focuses on Cal State LA’s biodiversity, conservation efforts with campus bird tour, tree planting
Pay attention to birds. Their mere presence speaks volumes as to how healthy our surroundings are, according to Eric Wood. “Birds tell us...
Golden Eagles baseball team returns to Reeder Field with new faces leading the charge
Some introductions might be necessary when the Cal State LA baseball team returns to Reeder Field this weekend. The Golden Eagles, who...
Cal State LA graduate student Maria Velasco keeps indigenous Mexican language Zapotec alive
Strangers come up to Maria Velasco and tell her how proud they are of her and her work in promoting their indigenous Zapotec language. Her...
Sal Castro Academy encourages collaboration in training educators to be student-centered advocates
Sal Castro’s work centered around building community through engagement. The Cal State LA program named after the late educator, social...
Joseph Wambaugh, acclaimed crime author and Cal State LA alumnus, dies at 88
Best-selling author and Cal State LA alumnus Joseph Wambaugh has died. He was 88. Wambaugh served on the Los Angeles Police Department...
Cal State LA unveils plaque honoring Rongxiang Xu for his humanitarian efforts
Cal State LA has unveiled a plaque honoring the late Rongxiang Xu and his major contributions as a surgeon, expert in regenerative...
Super Sunday: Cal State LA president visits church to encourage young parishioners to pursue college degrees
On Super Sunday, Berenecea Johnson Eanes preached about education. Cal State LA’s president was a guest speaker at the West Angeles Church...
Cal State LA ranks No. 1 in upward mobility in California Mobility Index rankings
Cal State LA has again been recognized as the top university for upward mobility. The university was named No. 1 in the state in the...
President Eanes, Cal State LA celebrate MLK’s legacy during Kingdom Day Parade
Cal State LA President Berenecea Johnson Eanes participated in her first Kingdom Day Parade in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....
Carnegie Foundation designates Cal State LA as a research institution with high spending and doctorate production
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has designated Cal State LA as a Research 2 (R2) institution in its 2025 Research...
Cal State LA’s VITA program provides free tax preparation for students, community members through April 12
A record number of student volunteers have signed up for Cal State LA’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program for the 2024 tax...
Cal State LA collecting essential supplies for those impacted by wildfires
Cal State LA is requesting donations of essential supplies to support campus community members who were impacted by the recent Los Angeles...
Cal State LA convenes healing session following Los Angeles wildfires
On the first day of the spring semester, the Cal State LA community gathered to comfort and support one another following the wildfires...
For Cal State LA’s women’s basketball team, the season of giving never ends
The Cal State LA women’s basketball team takes ownership of its community through volunteer service throughout the school year.
Graduation of Cal State LA’s Prison Graduation Initiative’s third cohort provides incarcerated students bachelor’s degrees in communication, ‘purpose in life’
On his birthday, Freddie Hernandez experienced a “rebirth.” His second life began when Cal State LA conferred bachelor’s degrees to...
Cal State LA program provides tax-preparation skills to students, millions of dollars to community
About 80 Cal State LA students were responsible for infusing millions of dollars into the local economy earlier this year. The students,...
Cal State LA senior and Gucci scholarship recipient Amanda Flowers honors her family through her artwork
Amanda Flowers is a caretaker of her family’s history. All her life, the Cal State LA senior has heard stories about her mother’s family...
Cal State LA celebrates military members with pre-Veterans Day ceremony
Clifford Moseley was listing off fellow military veterans who had left a lasting impression on him over the course of his life. Toward the...