EMBRACE Promotes Cultural Sensitivity, Workforce Diversity in Nursing
Cal State Fullerton’s School of Nursing program, EMBRACE, promotes attributes like cultural sensitivity and workplace diversity.

Cal State Fullerton’s School of Nursing program, EMBRACE, promotes attributes like cultural sensitivity and workplace diversity.

“(MEN)toring for Change: Breaking Gender Stereotypes in Violence Prevention” is the theme of the Oct. 25 Cal State Fullerton Violence Prevention Conference in Titan Student Union Portola Pavilion. The event is free and open to the public.

“A successful exhibition is one that empowers the viewer at many entry points,” says Jennifer Frias, the 2014 MFA art-art design alumna who returned to campus this fall to serve as art gallery director. She speaks as she sits just inside the Begovich Gallery, looking over the artwork currently on display in “A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place.”
During his 36 years of service, the professor emeritus of Afro-ethnic studies helped establish the university’s African American Resource Center. Funeral services will be held Oct. 18 at Loma Vista Mortuary in Fullerton.

Members of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Postsecondary Value Commission visited CSUF last week to better understand the value of al college eduacation.

Twenty males of color are part of the cohort program Men of Color in Education to increase the diversity of the teaching force. The program is supported by the College of Education and a CSUF GI2025 Innovation Grant to decrease time to degree, increase graduation rates and decrease the achievement gap.

The North Orange County Chamber recently held its State of North Orange County program at Cal State Fullerton and featured city leaders, elected officials, chamber members and CSUF’s own President Fram Virjee.

Music historian John Koegel will be addressing an audience at the Library of Congress next month as part of the American Musicological Society, while Romarilyn Ralston, program director of Project Rebound has recently returned from addressing an audience at Yale University.

Cal State Fullerton education graduate students are promoting college to Latino youth in Maywood and other southeast Los Angeles cities. Their goal for the Maywood Education Fair is to educate young students and their parents that college is possible. This year, students are celebrating the 10th annual Maywood Education Fair on Saturday, Oct. 12, at St. Rose of Lima School in Maywood.

The key to healthy masculinity is to understand the role of adaptability and responsiveness, explained Matt Englar-Carlson during the Oct. 8 Outstanding Professor lecture, “What Does It Mean to Be a Healthy Man? Exploring Ideas of Positive Masculinities.”