When Genein Letford wanted to teach her third graders about architecture, she did not just flip open a textbook and copy information on a chalkboard. Instead, she rounded the children up and took them on a field trip to her alma mater, University of California, Los Angeles. It is this alternative approach that contributed to her recent Great American Teacher Award, presented by the Ron Clark Academy in Georgia. “My style of teaching is crazy, in a good way though,”… Read more

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When Conor Lansdale took office as A.S. president this fall, his agenda was not strictly to get the newly appointed senators settled. Instead, after rumblings of a revered faculty member’s retirement, Lansdale spent his time working to create a new scholarship to honor the time Susan Curzon, dean of the Oviatt Library, spent nurturing CSUN students. “Administrators start talking about retirement and I caught wind that the phenomenal Dr. Curzon was set to do just that,” Lansdale said. “I started… Read more

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During the long road of academia, students prepare to go into the working world, armed with a diploma. One CSUN fraternity, however, focuses first on what it means to be a professional before culminating from college. Yan Wen, president of Delta Sigma Pi, said starting a career and making it in the business world first begins with the right attitude. “Members of Delta Sigma Pi share the mindset that your future depends on how motivated you are and by how… Read more

There are seven key factors to catching an employer’s attention when applying for a job. Dr. G. Jay Christensen, CSUN management professor emeritus, said the difference between applying for a job and obtaining an interview rests on an individual’s resume. “The job market is tough, and employers are being inundated with resumes,” Christensen said. “The problem with this is in the timing.  Most resumes are only given about a minute of time each. You have to make that minute count.”… Read more

CSUN’s Teenage Drama Workshop has won an award for cultivating  theatre programs at local high schools for budding theatre majors. The California Educational Theatre Association (CETA) awarded CSUN’s Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) with the Professional Artist Award at their annual conference in Long Beach, earlier this month. Doug Kaback, executive director of the TADW, said the Professional Artist Award was presented as a result of CSUN’s assistance to the theatre community. “This year the drama workshop at CSUN was singled… Read more

After almost two years of planning, CSUN’s information technology department has launched the Academic Technology Blog, a site for faculty, students, staff and university alumni. Harry Hellenbrand, provost and vice president of academic affairs, said the blog was inspired by the university’s quest to figure out how to best use technology on campus. “Our goals were to try and figure out how to use technology well, and in a way that students and faculty wanted,” Hellenbrand said. “Technology changes rapidly… Read more