Calling all music majors and student musicians: the Recording Academy and CSUN music department are giving you an opportunity to explore the job market Wednesday at their Santa Monica headquarters. The Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy presents the yearly event through its GRAMMY University Network, to provide music majors and aspiring student musicians an opportunity to network and gain insight into the music industry. “It’s definitely not an easy field to get into, you have to be really… Read more

Thousands of Facebook users are risking their identities by falling for marketing ploys offering free stuff like, free crochet packs. Scheming companies create these campaigns to promote themselves in exchange for access to one’s Facebook profile. Just ask the 772,308 monthly active users who have gotten suckered into it. These Facebook Contests for Fan Pages let companies and agencies create and launch competitions where one can easily enter by submitting photo, video, design, logo, and essay contests in exchange for… Read more

CSUN students were given an opportunity to experience the lives of families in poverty across the United States during a three hour event Wednesday night.Sponsored by volunteer organization Unified We Serve and held under this year’s theme of the empowerment movement, the event turned the USU’s Northridge Center room into a small city.“A lot of people don’t know how privileged we are,” said Maurie Hamilton, member of Unified We Serve who served in Oakland soup kitchens growing up. Students were… Read more

Meet the Firms will bring together students, about 50 public and private accounting and IS firms, Thursday at the Odyssey Restaurant in Granada Hills at 9 p.m. Meet the Firms is the accounting and information systems department premiere recruiting event, held twice a year during the fall and spring semesters, according to the event website. Providing the 12,000 students enrolled in the department to gain insight and network with real professionals in the accounting and IS fields. Students are encouraged… Read more

The search for CSUN’s next president is running behind schedule thanks to a restructuring of the selection process by CSU officials, who will vote on the proposed changes Sept. 20 and 21. Recent controversy over president salary raises and simultaneous tuition hikes prompted the board of trustees to renovate compensation and selection policies. California State Student Association (CSSA) asked student government on the 23 CSU campuses to draft their approval or rejection of the proposed changes. A.S. President Amanda Flavin… Read more

Minorities, particularly African-Americans and Latinos, earn less income even with college degrees as opposed to their white or Asian colleagues, according to a recent study by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. “I’m not surprised because we’ve known this for a long time, in part because of stereotyping,” said Dr. Karin Stanford, department chair for Pan African studies. White professionals earn about 20 times that of African Americans, and 18 times that of Latinos, according to 2010 U.S…. Read more