11 Cal State Fullerton Programs Awarded Funding From Scott-Jewett Gift
Cal State Fullerton received a $40 million gift from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett to support student success and innovation through the lens of social justice.
Cal State Fullerton received a $40 million gift from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett to support student success and innovation through the lens of social justice.
Cal State Fullerton’s video series “The Talk: A Journey Toward Anti-Racism” won several awards in the annual Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Circle of Excellence awards, including a grand gold, the highest recognition in the global higher education communications program. “The Talk” won grand gold in the marketing category for best micro-websites, silver for communications […]
Cal State Fullerton, in partnership with the Orange County Community Foundation (OCCF), created the CSUF Black Student Scholarship Fund supporting self-identified Black or African American students at the university. In its inaugural year, the CSUF Black Student Scholarship Fund awarded a total of $24,000 to 16 CSUF students, which includes three incoming freshmen and 13 […]
Cal State Fullerton recently commemorated Juneteenth, a federal holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States.
Cal State Fullerton will commemorate Juneteenth with the raising of a Pan Afrikan flag Friday, June 17.
I did not grow up in an overtly racist household. My parents did not use hateful or racist speech. They did not engage in practices or organizations that were exclusionary or segregated. So, I spent much of my life viewing myself as “not racist.” But as I genuinely and consciously began my journey toward being […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]