Equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter shared her triumphant story Wednesday and reminded the CSUN community that equality in the workplace remains a dream of the distant future. “It is important in our country that we are paid equitably and fairly,” she said. “It is a family affair to be paid properly. It’s the difference between paying tuition, your mortgage or putting food on your table.” Although Ledbetter’s battle led to President Barack Obama signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act… Read more

  With such a diverse student population, CSUN has an even more diverse set of political clubs. From the dark horse Libertarians and the Greens to the well-known Democrats and Conservatives, there’s a club to represent the political interests of any student. CSUN Libertarian Club When Michelangelo Landgrave, 21, first started attending Cal State Northridge in 2009, the only active political club he could find on campus was the Young Democrats, a student club dedicated to liberal political philosophy. “There… Read more

  Cadence Valentine is no wallflower. When it comes to transgender issues, she is a proactive advocate. By prioritizing, organizing and having the courage to persistently challenge the status quo, she brings about awareness and positive change. Valentine, a psychology major, and queer studies minor, is a full-time CSUN student, peer mentor at the Pride Center, Gamma Rho Lambda sibling and an activist. She also happens to identify as a transgender woman. She came out as transgender in spring 2011,… Read more

  Associate Vice President of Faculty Affairs, Dr. Penelope Jennings, announced March 1 that she will retire in August after 12 years in the position. Jennings will not be leaving the campus community and will stay to teach in the department of business law, where she began her career at CSUN in 1979. “They call it ‘retreating,’” Jennings said. “As tenured professors, we are given the right to go back to our teaching positions if we enter academic administration.” Jennings’… Read more

  President Dianne F. Harrison encouraged faculty members at this year’s faculty retreat to consider the idea of integrating Apple’s iPad and various educational apps, such as iBooks Author, into their classrooms. Two ideas being implemented are The iPad Initiative, an idea presented by Apple to integrate their tablets into a classroom environment, and the Course Redesign institute, a two-week summer program to train CSUN faculty members to restructure their face-to-face classes into an online or hybrid environment. Both ideas… Read more