That one salient moment for me happened during the midst of the social unrest after the murder of George Floyd. My family is from Hong Kong. We immigrated to the United States when I was 3 years old. My parents uprooted their lives to give my sisters and me a chance at an education that […]
Members of Cal State Fullerton’s Academic Senate recently elected their new slate of leaders for the 2022-23 academic year.
I identify as a first-generation college student, cisgender male, Indigenous/Native Pacific Islander, and diasporic Chamoru, ancestrally rooted to the Island of Guam/Guahan; born in (Westside) Long Beach, California, and raised in Southern California in a working-class family. Both of my parents are Chamorro from Guam. Traveling to and from Guam most of my life and living […]
The great James Baldwin once stated: “The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us.” With that being said, I am indeed a poet. However, I do not claim to know the truth more than any, especially considering the years of truth we lost as […]
Following a national search, Jason Smith has been appointed as the next dean of Cal State Fullerton’s College of Health and Human Development.
I am a self-confirmed foodie. This identity demands that I bake similes by visiting the bustling kitchen that is my mind. Today, I serve the following: I am complete like a trifle (a layered British cake) because I am the exact and correct aggregation of my different identities. Some are seen and some, not so […]
It’s been nearly four decades since Cal State Fullerton fielded a water polo team. A revival of the sport was seen by many as a pipe dream. But dreams sometimes do come true. The school is adding men’s and women’s water polo teams next year, Director of Athletics Jim Donovan has announced. Fullerton had a […]
Foundational values are instilled in the formative years of one’s growth. For me, this began at home, growing up in a family where my parents insisted upon equal and fair treatment of everyone. Growing up in a secular India, I celebrated every religious occasion with friends from different religions. But, we also suffered from the […]
In 1992, while I was a Cal State Fullerton student studying abroad in Germany, Black motorist Rodney King was beaten by police officers. Those officers were subsequently acquitted, and civil unrest broke out in Los Angeles. In our shared kitchen, my European floormates asked me to explain why. It was the first time I recall […]
Matt Hoffmann, CSUF assistant professor of kinesiology, discusses key findings from his latest study of team sports and mental health.
