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CSUSB students Jerry Cervantes-Fernandez and Alexis Luevanos, Experiential Computing and Engaged Learning (ExCELS) Scholarship Program scholars, were awarded the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) Conference Scholarship Award to attend the 38th annual HACU conference in Denver.
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Kinesiology professor Guillermo Escalante says CSUSB's diversity drew him to the university.
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Brian Levin (criminal justice) was appointed to California’s Commission on the State of Hate, Guillermo Escalante (kinesiology), was named to fellowship in the HACU Leadership Academy, and Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) discussed the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2022 State of Entrepreneurship Minority Report.
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Escalante is the first CSUSB faculty member named a HACU Leadership Academy Fellow. The cohort will hold its first in-person meeting at the HACU annual conference in October.
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The Cal State San Bernardino Career Center hosted an intensive two-day preconference to prepare about 40 students planning to attend the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities 31st annual national conference.
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Cal State San Bernardino was well represented at the annual conference of the Hispanic Association for Colleges and Universities in San Diego when President Tomás D. Morales attended with about 40 CSUSB students.
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Five Cal State San Bernardino students served paid internships with various federal agencies as part of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) National Internship Program.