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Thousands of Cal State LA students to graduate during Commencement 2024
More than 5,700 Cal State LA students will graduate during Commencement 2024 on May 20 and May 21. Commencement will feature six separate college-based ceremonies at the West Hall of the Los Angeles Convention Center. More than 42,000 guests are expected to attend the...
Cal State LA unveils nation’s first academic game show curriculum
Cal State LA has recently unveiled the nation’s first-ever academic curriculum focused solely on the study and production of game shows. The game show curriculum, set to be launched in fall 2024, aims to prepare students for careers in the production and development...
Cal State LA’s nursing graduate program ranks among the best in the nation
Cal State LA’s Master of Science in Nursing program continues to be ranked among the best in the nation, according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 edition of Best Graduate Schools. This year’s publication ranked Cal State LA at no. 41, making it one of only...
Cal State LA receives federal grant to upgrade the hydrogen station on campus
Los Angeles, CA -- Cal State LA has received a $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to upgrade the university’s Hydrogen Research and Fueling Facility. The grant is part of the Department of Transportation’s effort to strategically deploy...
Student Success
Jordan O’Kelley
Jordan O’Kelley had made notable strides in the arts by the time he arrived at Cal State LA at the age of 14. He was a published author, had adapted his book for the stage, and was the subject of a documentary produced by his family. But—having long dreamed of...
Janneth Najera
Until she took her first Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies class, Janneth Najera never felt like her college courses and professors spoke her language. She was not referring to either Spanish or English, but rather the unspoken cultural implications already understood...
Marshall Mitchell
At 71 years old, Marshall Mitchell will earn his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an option in management later this month from Cal State LA’s College of Business and Economics. Mitchell, a Vietnam War veteran, paraphrased an old Army recruiting...
Christine Figueroa
Christine Figueroa likens themself and their collegiate career to a Roomba. “You know those little vacuum cleaners that bump into the wall forever? I feel like one of those,” they said. “I’m constantly in a maze, a labyrinth where I’m constantly bumping into walls and...
Faculty Distinction
Cal State LA English professor receives Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award
Andrew Lyndon Knighton, professor of English at Cal State LA, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to teach in the Literature and Theater Department at the American University in Bulgaria. As a Fulbright scholar, Knighton will also aim to establish a...
Cal State LA honors outstanding faculty at University Convocation 2023
Five Cal State LA faculty members were recognized for excellence in teaching and outstanding achievements during University Convocation 2023. Three Outstanding Professor Award recipients and an Outstanding Lecturer Award recipient were honored for significant...
Cal State LA receives HCAI grant to expand its social work graduate program
Cal State LA has been awarded a $3.4 million grant by the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) to expand its social work graduate program and help develop a culturally sensitive and competent behavioral health workforce. “There are tremendous needs...
Cal State LA awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health research grant
Cal State LA was recently awarded a $730,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide students with opportunities to participate in biomedical research. The four-year grant from the NIH Support for Research Excellence (SuRE) program will support...
Academics & Research
Cal State LA receives $5 million NSF grant to create urban sustainability hub
Cal State LA has been awarded a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a hub for urban sustainability that will advance energy and water research, and expand opportunities for students to engage in intensive STEM education and training. The...
Cal State LA Clinical Laboratory Scientist program earns reaccreditation
Cal State LA was recently granted a continuous 10-year reaccreditation for its Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) program from the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS). The Clinical Laboratory Scientist Certificate program aims to...
Cal State LA receives College Futures Foundation grant to increase transfer student success in STEM fields
Cal State LA has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the College Futures Foundation (CFF) to create new baccalaureate pathways aimed at increasing transfer student success in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. The grant will establish the...
Cal State LA receives $1 million grant from Wells Fargo for equity in entrepreneurship program
Cal State LA has received a $1 million grant from Wells Fargo to support the launch of a new student entrepreneurship program that aims to help communities recover following the pandemic. The award was part of $3.6 million in Open for Business Fund grants that Wells...
Community & Public Good
Wrongfully convicted client of Los Angeles Innocence Project at Cal State LA declared factually innocent
Maurice Hastings, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 38 years and was freed through the work of the Los Angeles Innocence Project at Cal State LA, was declared factually innocent on Wednesday. A finding of factual innocence means the court declared Hastings innocent of...
Cal State LA community honors Monterey Park shooting victims at vigil
Small white square notecards hung along strings of yarn in Cal State LA’s University-Student Union Plaza Tuesday evening, carrying handwritten messages of grief, sorrow, hope and love for the victims of the Monterey Park shooting and their loved ones. “You are not...
Wrongfully convicted client of Los Angeles Innocence Project at Cal State LA freed after 38 years
Maurice Hastings, a 69-year-old man who was wrongfully imprisoned for 38 years, was freed last week after new DNA test results presented by the Los Angeles Innocence Project at Cal State LA (LAIP) pointed conclusively to another suspect. “I prayed for many years that...
Cal State LA students sworn in as part of first cohort of statewide #CaliforniansForAll College Corps service program
Cal State LA students pledged to serve their communities during a virtual swearing-in ceremony this month for the first cohort of fellows in the #CaliforniansForAll College Corps, a new statewide paid service program. College Corps is a statewide paid service program...
Athletics
Cal State LA assistant men’s basketball coach Michael Cooper elected to basketball hall of fame
Cal State LA assistant men’s basketball coach Michael Cooper, a five-time National Basketball Association champion during a legendary career with the Los Angeles Lakers, has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Cooper is part of a...
Golden Eagles Capture NCAA National Championship
MOON TOWNSHIP, PA -- Cal State LA's women's volleyball team reigns supreme after capturing the first NCAA Division II championship in program history with another tremendous performance Saturday at the UPMC Events Center on the campus of Robert Morris University. The...
West Region champs advance to national semifinal
MOON TOWNSHIP, PA -- Cal State LA's women's volleyball team, coming off an exhilarating five-set win over No. 3 Wayne State in an NCAA Championship Quarterfinal match on Thursday, will return to the court Friday in the first of two semifinals at the UPMC Events...
Cal State LA golfer Pratima Sherpa organizes historic all-women golf tournament in Nepal
Cal State LA women’s golfer Pratima Sherpa is changing the game in her home country of Nepal. Sherpa organized Nepal’s first all-women’s golf tournament this summer, held at the Royal Nepal Golf Club in the capital city of Kathmandu. The Women’s Open Golf Tournament...