Students demanded a question and answer session with CSU Chancellor Charles Reed in an event held at CSUN. Reed obliged. “CSU: in the next 50 years” addressed education issues at the conference held at the Valley Performance Arts Center. CSUN hosted a day of discussions regarding education policies of the CSU system. Among faculty, staff and other educators from various CSU campuses, Senator Alex Padilla (D-San Fernando Valley) and CSUN President Jolene Koester gave speeches at the event. One of… Read more

Faculty at CSUs across California are taking another step in ensuring the success of their teachers in K-12 schools to make it the best environment for both student and teachers. The CSU Center for Teacher Quality based at CSU Sacramento, works to collect data and experiences of teachers out in the field to help current students in the teaching programs at other CSUs. Dr. David Wright, director of the center said this program was created to see if curricula at… Read more

CSUN students with disabilities are encouraged to seek assistance and support from the Center on Disabilities and professors for aid necessary to ensure academic success. Across the nation, the average percentile of any university’s student body who have registered disabilities is about 4.7 percent, said Jodi Johnson of the Center on Disabilities. For CSUN, this means an estimated 1,645 students out of 35,000 have disabilities. “The biggest challenge to helping these students is their reluctance to identify as a disabled… Read more

Although the 2010 U.S. Census reported the national percentage of students obtaining college degrees has steadily increased along with the ever-present racial gap, the CSUN campus is an exception to the statistic. Bettina Huber, the director of Institutional Research at CSUN wrote a report on the “Undergraduate Persistence at Cal State Northridge During the Last Decade” which outlines the strides CSUN students have made towards getting their degrees. “First time freshmen graduating from CSUN during the 2000s have considerably improved… Read more

The California State University (CSU) and business owners statewide have undertaken the task of reforming the California K-12 public school system by gathering data and practices from high-performing schools that reside in impoverished neighborhoods to help other schools in the state and educate new student teachers on the best procedures for the classroom. “The Chancellor and the business leaders decided that they would join efforts to begin procedures of identifying the highest performing, highest poverty schools and school districts throughout… Read more

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

One week after Neal Winn, 30, graduated from Connecticut College in 2002, he was employed with the Hartford Insurance Group.  It took Winn a year before he realized insurance was not his business and set out to find a more interesting field to lend his skills. Within a few months, Winn was working at the Gersh Talent Agency in New York City. When that was no longer fulfilling, he left to produce freelance projects and entered the real estate market… Read more

CSUN’s College of Education will implement a program that will help high-need students attain higher education to become teachers. Along with five other CSU campuses, CSUN will share a $3 million grant that will help students get their degrees. CSUN will get approximately $300,000, which will be shared with the community college and the after-school program. “The grant is an attempt to grow our own teaching force in the San Fernando Valley,” said Michael Spagna, dean of the Michael D…. Read more

Do you want to be part of a university program where you are given or loaned an iPad to utilize for your education for free? If you attend schools such as Duke University, Oklahoma State, or the University of Maryland, you can—well, some at least some of you—according to foxnews.com. The Apple store, which already offers thousands of applications to help students, allows students to take notes, keep track of assignments, or study for exams, according to www.apple.com. The store… Read more