Nursing student Serena Palaroan
Nursing student chosen as CSU Trustee Scholar
Third year Nursing student, Serena Palaroan, is one of 23 students selected as a 2023-2024 CSU Trusteesā Scholar. The CSU Trusteesā Award for Outstanding Achievement, which is the highest student distinction within the university, grants students scholarships based on academic achievements, financial need, and excellence in community service. One student from each CSU campus is chosen. Each scholarship awards a different amount; Palaroanās will be $7,000 as a Trustee Emerita Debra S. Farar Scholar. To read more visit:
Faculty will use national fellowship to research needs of aging population
Ventura Countyās senior population (age 65+) is expected to increase 14% this year to 224,812, outpacing the overall growth of the county population, which is projected to increase just 2% to 884,148 in 2023. ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ Assistant Professor of Health Science Ron Berkowsky is researching ways to address the increased need for caregiving this will require, as well as the unique needs of the countyās older Americans, including the aging LGBTQ+ population. To read more visit:
Archives from former Ventura County Supervisor Carmen Ramirez donatedĀ
Part of the legacy of former Ventura County Supervisor Carmen Ramirez can be found in the thank you notes from the school classrooms she visited. The childrenās letters are included among the 15 boxes of documents, planners, diaries, proclamations, and even favorite cartoons collected by Ramirez during 45 years of service to the region before her life was cut short in a pedestrian accident on Aug. 12, 2022. Ramirezās husband, friends and family organized the archives and donated them to ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ this past summer. Ramirezās husband, Roy Prince, believes ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ is the ideal place for the archives as she worked from the very beginning to advocate for establishing a CSU campus in Ventura County. To read more visit:
Grant to fund pre-K teacher preparation program
±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ has received $250,000 to develop an affordable program through which students can complete a bachelorās degree and preparation requirements for Californiaās new early-childhood teaching credential in four years. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing awarded the grant as part of an effort to support fast-tracked teacher-preparation programs in fields where there are workforce shortages. ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļās program will help fill the critical need for transitional kindergarten, or prekindergarten, teachers, particularly those with bilingual education credentials. To read more visit:
±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļās Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and
Chemistry/Biochemistry programs are all in involved in the research project.Ā
NASA awards grant for student-led research project
Faculty and students from four ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ academic programs are working together on a research project that has been awarded $80,000 by NASA. Faculty and 10 students from ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļās Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and Chemistry/Biochemistry programs, are involved in the research project, which is aimed at developing a way to predict how quickly various metal structures corrode in different environments. To read more visit:
Administrator learns about agricultural careers as US Fellow
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the world of agriculture in general needs workers, and not always in the realms of crops or livestock. Workers are needed in scores of other areas outside of the farm, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture itself.
āYou donāt have to be a scientist or a farmer,ā said ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ Assistant Vice President for Student Academic Success & Equity Initiatives, Michelle Hasendonckx. āThe USDA needs people with experience in human resources, communication specialists, accountants, project managers ā people from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds make up this huge department. And these are career opportunities nationwide.ā
Hasendonckx learned about the current needs of the agriculture industry when she was selected as one of 30 staff and faculty members from Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) around the nation to be a part of the 2023 class of E. Kika De La Garza fellows. To read more visit: .
±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ named a Tree Campus USA and earns Gold rating for sustainable practices
Commitment to the roughly 1,600 trees on the ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ campus has earned the University a Tree Campus USA designation for the 11th year in a row. In addition, ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļās rigorous sustainability practices have earned the University Gold status under STARS (Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System), a program run by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). To read more visit:
Artwork created by ā15 Art alumna Jessica Chiang and a graphic designer in ±¬ĮĻ³Ō¹Ļ's Communication & Public Relations office, was reproduced on a banner to welcome the campus community, future students and visitors. The banner is 55ā wide and 7ā high and was installed at San Luis Ave near Sage Hall where buses drop off and pick up students and visitors to the campus.Ā