Articles tagged with 'cehhs' | CSUSM

When Kianni Albrecht first walked through the doors of the Aspire Center in San Diego last fall, she felt like she was stepping back in time.A Master of Social Work student at Cal State San Marcos, Albrecht was beginning a year-long internship with t...

More than 4,200 students are expected to graduate from Cal State San Marcos this academic year, including six standouts from the Class of 2023 who are receiving special recognition for their achievements.Honorees were nominated by faculty or staff an...

The School of Education at Cal State San Marcos was one of the primary organizers of a recent event for future teachers that attracted hundreds of participants.The inaugural Future Teacher Summit was held on Friday, April 21 at Mesa College and was a...

Carly Schuerger has been an ardent fan of horse racing for almost a decade and chose Cal State San Marcos in part because of its proximity to horse training centers.Now, the CSUSM student has gotten a leg up on the career she intends to pursue in the...

Five Cal State San Marcos students have received scholarships from a local women’s organization.At its annual scholarships awards lunch on Jan. 11, North County Women in Networking (NCWIN) gave $3,000 scholarships to five female students: Selena Agui...

It was during her first year as an undergraduate student at Cal State San Marcos when Ayesha James heard a story from a professor about a recent incident in which an elementary school-aged child was not allowed to bring their loaned Alternative and A...

As a young girl, Marilyn (Finley) Huerta remembers seeing combat boots lined up by the front door in her house. She came to realize that, when the boots were missing, it meant her father was deployed. “If you ever look at someone’s shoes or you ever ...

Two Cal State San Marcos education professors have received a five-year, $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education that will allow them to continue and expand their work improving the instruction of English learners in the region.The gra...

The College of Education, Health and Human Services at Cal State San Marcos will hold two forums next month on the futures of health, wellness and education. Organized by Dr. Jennifer Ostergren, dean of the college, the CEHHS Collective Impact Future...

Everyone knows about the life-or-death danger that military members are exposed to when they enlist. Perhaps less appreciated is the everyday wear and tear that their bodies absorb because of the physical rigors of the job. Bob Smetanka is all too fa...

Two of the biggest achievements in Jacob Thum’s life to this point can be traced back to the motorcycle accident he survived when he was 17.Thum’s injuries left him in a wheelchair, wondering if he would ever walk again.A year after the accident, aft...

Mark Baldwin had an indelible impact at Cal State San Marcos, one that is still felt more than a decade after he retired from the university.“He worked really hard to create space for all voices and making people feel like they were a part of the pro...

One of the missions of Cal State San Marcos’ College of Education, Health and Human Services is to prepare students for highly skilled and ethical health care careers through collaborative engagement with community and regional partners.Melissa Herna...

More than 4,400 students are expected to graduate from Cal State San Marcos this academic year, including six standouts from the Class of 2022 who are receiving special recognition for their achievements.Honorees were nominated by faculty or staff an...

What will the classroom of the future look like? It’s a question that schools across the country are asking as education returns to some degree of normalcy from the pandemic. And it’s a question that Cal State San Marcos hopes to be on the leading ed...

Russell Low was in the hospital late last summer, recovering from a mysterious infection that nearly killed him, when he began to think of himself as a ripple. Ripples and their far-reaching effects have been the overarching theme of much of Low’s ad...

Cal State San Marcos has received a grant of $1.3 million from a state agency to train students in research that will help them reduce tobacco-related disease in their communities.The four-year grant funded by the California Tobacco Related Disease R...

As the first person in her family to graduate from college, Jennifer Ostergren could have been forgiven for thinking she had made it.Far more than a mere bachelor’s degree, Ostergren had earned a master’s and even a doctorate as well. She was a longt...

When he transferred to Cal State San Marcos from Grossmont College in August, John W. Edwards III had no idea what service learning was.Even when he was exposed to the concept early in his EDUC 364 course, he understood it mainly as a 20-hour require...

A team of Cal State San Marcos faculty and staff have collaborated on an article that recently was published in the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education.  The article, titled “Examining Field Experiences of Teacher Candidates During COVID-19: Systemi...

Cal State San Marcos has received a gift of $200,000 from a Southern California foundation to further develop the existing nursing simulation and skills labs located in San Marcos and Temecula. The donation is the first one that CSUSM has received fr...

When Roxanne Dominguez set her sights on becoming a speech-language pathologist in a medical facility, she knew the setting would be competitive. Turns out, it was so competitive that she needed to move nine hours away from everyone and everything sh...

The fall Student Poster Showcase, which promotes student research and creative activity accomplishments, will be held from noon-1 p.m. on Nov. 9 in Forum Plaza.The event is free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance.T...

Ashley Gallardo never could have imagined a career in speech-language pathology when she moved to Southern California from Guam to pursue higher education.Gallardo attended Long Beach City College before transferring to Cal State Fullerton to study c...

The end of the semester last spring was always going to be a challenge for Ruby Reyes. The Cal State San Marcos student had to juggle final exams and projects in her human development classes with her job working in the DREAMer Resource Office and se...

Two Cal State San Marcos professors have teamed up to receive a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore what factors affect the development of entrepreneurs in minority communities.The grant of $215,740 is notable in part because of its...

Cal State San Marcos is the co-recipient of a grant from the National Science Foundation through which it will work with an industry partner to improve outcomes for children with speech impairments.Through the one-year, $250,293 grant from Small Busi...

By any measure, homelessness has become an epidemic in San Diego. According to a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development compiled in 2020 and released this March, the city and surrounding area (which includes North County) rank...

Christina Drumm is no stranger to umpiring major softball events. In her 27 years as an umpire, she has officiated everything from the NCAA Women’s College World Series to prestigious international tournaments, including the World Cup of Softball.But...

Cal State San Marcos social work professor Madeline Lee, ACE Scholars Services counselors Laurie Orr and Leigh Quijada, and ACE founding director Jim Mickelson recently had a paper published in the National Association of Social Workers Press journal...