Timeliness played a large issue in the campus alerts sent out on Tuesday regarding a suspected gunman on campus. Just recently, in July, a gunman went into a camp in Norway and shot and killed scores of people within only an hour’s time. It took longer than this brief period to inform CSUN students of the incident involving a suspected gunman on campus. If the situation were to be a serious threat and the suspected gunman were planning on shooting… Read more

Social media played a key role in keeping the CSUN campus informed Tuesday as officials searched for a suspected gunman. English major Eduard Cabanban was in the Oviatt Library when the police were first contacted and the building was evacuated. Cabanban said he was writing an essay on the third floor when he heard a fire alarm and joined other students who headed outside. “There were police at the exits watching us leave,” Cabanban said. “People were confused and just… Read more

For the next five years, a $2 million grant will be portioned out to CSUN’s Asian Bilingual Teacher Education Program Consortium from the U.S. Department of Education. This is the second multi-million dollar grant obtained by Dr. Clara Park, secondary education professor and developer of the consortium. Park won a $3 million grant in 2010 for Hispanic bilingual credential students. The $2 million award will be used to support students of Asian background seeking an MA in multicultural and multilingual… Read more

CSUN is labeled as a “four-year-university,” yet the majority of their students take longer than the advertised time to graduate. According to College Navigator, CSUN’s four-year graduation rate is roughly 14 percent. The average six-year graduation rate is between 41 and 48 percent and the average 8-year graduation rate is 49 percent. Though it is fortunate that the number of graduating students seems to be growing, with about 48 percent overall, it is unfortunate that it falls under a longer… Read more

Are Laptops becoming a dying breed? With Apple starting a revolution in 2010, introducing the iPad, computer companies have begun joining the shift in technology, each coming up with their own version of a computer tablet. Although similar touchpad tablets had been around almost a decade before the iPad with Microsoft, Apple was the first to make such a large impact on consumers. Acting as a convenience students in education, the tablet seems to be the next form of laptops… Read more