Cal State Dominguez Hills

Cal State Dominguez Hills is the underdog university in Carson best known for not being best known. Joy Masha is the school's earnest student body president, intent on instilling campus pride. To that end, the student leader typed up her first "President's Corner" column for the campus newspaper and submitted it a few days ago, looking forward to delivering many future essays to the campus community. The problem: No one had told Masha that the CSUDH Bulletin had been thrown on the state of California's ever-growing budget scrap heap.

A California State University faculty union embroiled in a salary dispute said Monday its members will strike at two campuses next week. The governing board of the California Faculty Assn. authorized a one-day strike Nov. 17 at Cal State East Bay and Cal State Dominguez Hills after 93% of members voted to approve the walkouts, officials said. It would be the first strike since the union won the right to collective bargaining in 1983. The association represents 23,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches at 23 Cal State campuses.

High school and community college students and their parents can attend workshops Saturday to learn more about academic programs offered at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Faculty, staff and students from several programs will answer questions. Workshops on how to fill out a Cal State University system application and how to apply for financial aid also will be available. Students interested in attending Cal State Dominguez Hills will be able to submit their applications.

One day we may remember this as the season when the "Occupy Generation" came of age. Encampments inspired by Occupy Wall Street have sprouted across the country: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Texas — and, of course, the one killing the lawn outside Los Angeles City Hall. But this upwelling of righteous anger against corporate power isn't going to be enough to bring down the Bastille of plutocracy. Not yet. That's the conclusion I reached after visiting Cal State Dominguez Hills this week.

For the second consecutive year, Cal State Dominguez Hills reported the highest default rate among California's public universities under the most popular federally guaranteed student-loan program, according to the U.S. Department of Education. The university posted a default rate of 19.7% for 1988, meaning that nearly one in five students who was to have started repaying a loan in fiscal 1988 failed to make payments that year or the next.

Josh Oppenheimer, a 6-foot guard, has left Northern Arizona University and enrolled at Cal State Dominguez Hills, Toro officials have confirmed. Oppenheimer prepped at Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and started his collegiate career at Rhode Island. He transferred to Northern Arizona and averaged 13 points last season. Oppenheimer started three games for Northern Arizona this season, then quit the team. He will become eligible to play for Dominguez Hills in December.

A program at Cal State Dominguez Hills that devises artificial limbs and mechanical body supports has been awarded a three-year, $588,000 federal grant, university officials announced this week. It is the third time the the school has received the grant in 10 years, said Ira Schoenwald, director of Dominguez Hills' orthotics and prosthetics program.

It took five games but Chapman beat Cal State Dominguez Hills in nonconference women's volleyball Wednesday night at Chapman. Winning the first two games, 15-9, 15-11, Chapman dropped the third and fourth games, 12-15, 9-15. But strong play by Erin Dedic, who had 18 kills, contributed to the 15-11 decision in the fifth game. Chapman, ranked second in Division III West Region, improved to 8-3. Cal State Dominguez, a Division II school, is 7-9.

After nine years at the helm of Cal State Dominguez Hills, President Robert Detweiler announced Friday that he plans to resign effective June 30. Detweiler, 59, began his career with the Cal State system as a history teacher 30 years ago. He plans to return to the classroom as a trustee professor at one of the system's schools. A national search for his replacement is scheduled to begin shortly.

The biggest lesson for Daphne Bradford's students came, oddly enough, after they had taken and passed her computer class. Now, they get to see what it's like to teach students of their own. The digital media instructor at Crenshaw High School recruited nine of her students to venture once a week to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Cal State Dominguez Hills and teach all that they have learned about Mac computers to a class of...

Rochelle Corros is passionate when she speaks about her college major: Recreation and leisure studies is not just fun and games, she says with conviction. Graduates run city and state parks, recreation departments, hospital clinics, theaters and cruise lines. They help keep kids off the streets. So the Cal State Dominguez Hills senior was floored by an August letter from administrators telling her that admissions to the program would be suspended and courses slashed as the campus grappled with steep budget reductions.

With its roster depleted by injuries and eligibility issues, the USC men's basketball team was hoping merely to survive its first exhibition without suffering further calamities Sunday against Division II Cal State Dominguez Hills. Mission accomplished, thanks to a second-half rally led by senior guard Dwight Lewis and an unlikely cast of supporters who helped produce a 64-47 victory before a sparse but enthusiastic Galen Center crowd. Lewis, held to two-for-10 shooting in the first half, scored 10 of his game-high 17 points in the second half.

Cal State Dominguez Hills is the underdog university in Carson best known for not being best known. Joy Masha is the school's earnest student body president, intent on instilling campus pride. To that end, the student leader typed up her first "President's Corner" column for the campus newspaper and submitted it a few days ago, looking forward to delivering many future essays to the campus community. The problem: No one had told Masha that the CSUDH Bulletin had been thrown on the state of California's ever-growing budget scrap heap.

At Cal State Dominguez Hills, Dr. J is not a skywalking, highlight-producing former NBA legend. He is a grounded, silver-haired workaday coach who says proudly that he probably will die on the job. "I'm the poor man's Joe Paterno," says John L. Johnson, whose doctorate in education and administration from UCLA spawned his Dr. J nickname. "I started coaching when Joe Paterno was still a skinny-legged quarterback at Brown." That was in 1949.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a private-public partnership to bring solar power to 15 California State University campuses and the system's Long Beach headquarters. "California is going green and we are doing it first and we are doing it fast," Schwarzenegger said this week at a news conference at Cal State Dominguez Hills, according to a statement released by his office. "This partnership is a good deal for the state, the planet and our economy -- all at no cost to taxpayers."

Re "Building a name for Dominguez Hills campus," June 17 The Times does well to discuss the positive effects that President Mildred Garcia is having on Cal State Dominguez Hills, but I would like to add a couple of points. First, although Dominguez Hills admits many freshmen who need remedial work in English and mathematics, it should be commended for it. Many of these students emerge well-educated and ready to contribute to the workforce. Dominguez Hills has a high community college transfer rate and a healthy number of master's and credentialed students.

Nerves are raw at area campuses after potential threats of violence emerged at two Southland schools, coming at the end of a month that has seen a spate of deadly shootings across the nation. Many parents of students at one Anaheim high school planned to keep their children home today and police plan a major campus presence after a cryptic message was published in the school newspaper.