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This issue celebrates the creativity of CSULB faculty, students and alumni across a variety of fields.

Features include:

• The Fashion Design and Fashion Merchandising programs, whose alumni are finding success in the industry; and the annual Campus Couture fashion show, where students exhibit their latest creations.

CSULB Ranks 10th Nationally in Awarding Bachelor's Degrees
to Minority Students According to Diverse Issues in Higher Ed

The Diverse “Top 100” is the only national analysis to use the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education.  Using these statistics, rankings were created in the total number of baccalaureate degrees awarded at every university and college in the nation by ethnicity as well as specific figures in major fields of study and disciplines.

By discipline, CSULB was ranked first in family and consumer sciences and English language.  It was also in the top 10 in visual and performing arts, liberal arts, health professions, parks and recreation studies, business administration and health and medical administrative services. For master's degrees it was 11th overall, and public administration, law enforcement, physical sciences communication disorders and foreign languages were in the top 10.

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Awards and Grants
Congratulations Dr. Maria Claver for receiving the Betty and James E. Birren Emerging Leadership Award from the California Council on Gerontology and Geriatrics.

• Family and Consumer Sciences' Maria Claver, who feels CSULB is the perfect place for her to be.

Faculty Recieve Grants for Ethics Training
Two faculty members in FCS have received 2010-11 Ethics Across the Curriculum grants. The $2,000 stipends were awarded by the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership to faculty members who integrate a three-hour ethics module into their courses. Congratulations to the following awardees:

• Mariné Aghekyan (Family and Consumer Sciences) for Use of Child Labor in Fashion Merchandising and Design;

• Mary Gustin (Family and Consumer Sciences) for Ethical Responsibility in Food Production and Commercial Food Service;
  

Enjoy our Family and Consumer Sciences Newsletter.