NFL Hall of Famers Darrell Green, Aeneas Williams and Anthony Muñoz teamed up with the Centene Corporation, the official youth wellness partner of the Pro Football Hall of Fame to host Strong Youth, Strong Communities (SYSC) youth summits in Sacramento and California.
Junior outside hitter Aeryn Owens is an elite competitor not only at Cal State Northridge but also in the Big West Conference. As a sophomore, Owens has earned All-Big West First Team honors. Currently, Owens averages 5.06 points, 4.56 kills, and 2.44 digs per set. With 401 kills this season, she is the leader of kills on the team and the Big West as of October 29. Her kills per set average rank her third in the Big West. In digs, Owens comes in second for the Matadors with 215. She scored a season-high of 33.5 points and five blocks
From foster youth to a college educated man, Demontea Thompson is doing it all and giving back to his community. Thompson, raised by his great uncle and great aunt in Compton, California was exposed to a gang infested environment. Despite the circumstances, he along with his twin brother, Demontray Thompson, were able to maneuver through these obstacles and seek success.
Cal State Northridge students examine and present the activism, triumphs and challenges of black men.
Farrell J. Webb, currently associate dean in the College of Health and Human Services at Cal State L.A., has been appointed dean of the College of Health and Human Development at California State University, Northridge.
Award-winning comic artists and sisters, Shawnee and Shawnell Gibbs joined a panel discussion on diversity in animation at Cal State University Northridge last Wednesday, March 30.
Cal State Northridge officials called this week for improved transportation options for the university’s students, ahead of a San Fernando Valley transportation summit. University administrators, who were joined by students and Sen. Bob Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, pointed to a lack of light rail, subway and rapid bus lines near the CSUN campus. “We have story after story after story of students spending hours on public transportation to get here,” CSUN President Dianne F. Harrison said. Public transportation would serve as “an essential link in their (the students’) aspirations for a better life,” she said. CSUN Associated Students President Jorge Reyes
The Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at CSUN will build on the efforts of the university’s Institute for Arts & Media to preserve the visual history of Southern California, with an emphasis on ethnic minority communities.