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Parastou Feizzaringhalam, CSUSB English professor, has been appointed associate dean for the university’s College of Arts and Letters. She will officially begin her appointment starting July 1.
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CSUSB’S College of Arts & Letters has named four of its students as its 2020-21 Outstanding Graduate Students and Undergraduate Students.
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CSUSB will hold a forum at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, geared toward university faculty’s teaching efforts that includes focusing on what works in the classroom. CSUSB Pedagogy Forum: A Public Reflection on Teaching will take place on Zoom.
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Open to all, the informative Zoom session set for 11 a.m. on Friday, March 5, will include two prolific CSUSB authors, and acquisitions editors from two of the most esteemed academic publishers, Routledge and Sage.
![From left: Paulette Brown-Hinds, Nefertiti Long and Kathy Johnson.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_IECF_Brown-Hinds_Long_Johnson_18Feb2021.jpg.webp?itok=A-iK4DI6)
CSUSB alumna Paulette Brown-Hinds ’90, has been named the first African American to chair the Inland Empire Community Foundation’s Board of Directors. Also appointed to the board were CSUSB Foundation board member Nefertiti Long and CSUSB adjunct professor Kathy Johnson.
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The latest edition of Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies, a Cal State San Bernardino-sponsored journal, is now available online.
![Carolyn Horsman (left) and Ernest Siva, elder of Morongo Band of Mission Indians, at the annual Native Voices Poetry Festival at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center in Banning in February.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_NativeVoices_24Nove2020.jpg.webp?itok=YuF2XxQP)
A look back to an event earlier in 2020 in which CSUSB’s public history program and English department joined community groups to present the annual showcase and celebration of Native American poetry, music and art at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center in Banning.
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CSUSB earned Star Status for the 2019-20 academic year by NSCS, a nonprofit honors organization that recognizes and elevates high-achieving undergraduates who excel academically during their first and second year of college.
![Black Trans Lives Matter sign at the May Day 2017 in New York City. The eighth program in the university’s Conversations on Race and Policing series will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday on Zoom. Photo by Alec Perkins via Wikimedia Commons.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Library_Hist_RaceAndPolicing_No8_20July2020.jpg.webp?itok=hRyk-Dng)
The panelists in the next conversation in the series, to be livestreamed on Zoom, will discuss issues related to policing, racial violence and the LGBTQIA community.