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Why the San Manuel tribe is going back to its original name
The Sun/Southern California News Group
April 28, 2025
James Fenelon, a professor of sociology and director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies at Cal State San Bernardino, on Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation land, was interviewed for an article about the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, whose federally recognized reservation overlooks Highland and San Bernardino, and its formal name to the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation.
Behind the Scenes: An Interview with Stacey Fraser
Composers Edition
Following Stacey Fraser’s release of Jack Van Zandt’s “A Chaos of Light and Motion,” the online publication spoke with the California-based soprano and professor of music at CSUSB about the LA New Music community, working with Van Zandt, and their chance meeting via Peter Maxwell Davies.
SB Symphony Youth Orchestra to perform Spring Concert
San Bernardino American
April 29, 2025
Adam Arroyo, a classically trained violinist and composer currently studying at Cal State San Bernardino, is the San Bernardino Symphony Youth Orchestra’s newly named composer-in-residence. The orchestra, which will perform its spring concert on May 18, is conducted and directed by Lucy Lewis, associate professor of music at CSUSB.
The article was also picked up by the Westside Story community newspaper.
Economics IE: April 28
KVCR
April 28, 2025
Daniel MacDonald is a professor of economics at Cal State San Bernardino. He also writes a free Substack newsletter called Inland Empire Economic Intelligence. A few weeks ago, he published a response to a report authored by Chris Thornberg with Beacon Economics about the FAST Act and restaurant jobs and wages.
As academics argue over minimum wage impact, business owners say the cost is wearing them down
Santa Monica Daily Press
May 2, 2025
A report by Daniel MacDonald, an economics professor at California State University San Bernardino, was quoted in an article examining the effect minimum wage increases has on businesses.
California State University San Bernardino flows field school program on our mountain
Mountain News
April 30, 2025
Last Wednesday, April 23, through Saturday, April 26, California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB), Dr. Jennifer Alford the director of the CSUSB Institute for Watershed Resiliency (IWR) program put on a Field-based Learning, Outreach & Workforce Scholarship (FLOWS). FLOWS is a two-part program with the first field-based workshop taking place on Jan. 29 through Feb. 1 in the Santa Monica Mountains and the second was up here in Lake Arrowhead.
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Florida bill sent to Gov. DeSantis. What it would mean
Ocala (Fla.) StarBanner/USA Today Network
April 30, 2025
Brian Levin, professor emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino and a research analyst from the Crime and Justice Research Alliance was quoted in an article about a proposed Florida law that would declare Jan. 27 Holocaust Remembrance Day in the state.
Assessing Dynamic Capabilities in Adult Day Services: A Pilot Study for Measurement Development
Journal of Applied Gerontology
Yawen Li (social work) and Kenneth Shultz (psychology), with their collaborators, published a study that “lays the groundwork for a pioneering application of the dynamic capabilities framework — a management theory — to the adult day services sector. By introducing this concept into a growing area of long-term care, the authors aim to enhance organizational structure and operations to ultimately improve services for older adults.”
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