June 13th, 2013
The ATLAS (Advising Teaching Liberal Arts Students) Network is a collaboration of advisors, professional staff, and faculty committed to the satisfaction and success of Liberal Arts majors at Cal State Long Beach. As the advising hub for the College of Liberal Arts, ATLAS partners with students and their major departments to best assist and support our undergraduates... [Read more]
June 5th, 2013
Dr. Sarah Arroyo and Dr. Carol Zitzer-Comfort of the Department of English presented at the College of Liberal Arts Digital Storytelling Workshop on Friday, April 12, 2013, with English graduate students Kiki Shaver and Cortney Kimoto. They explored ways to foster students’ collaboration, composition, and communication skills through digital narratives.
Dr. Carol Zitzer-Comfort discussed how she... [Read more]
June 5th, 2013
The College of Liberal Arts congratulates Dr. San Steven Bolkan for receiving recognition by the Eastern, National, and International Communication associations.
In April, the Eastern Communication Association identified Bolkan as having written one of the top three papers submitted in the Instructional Development Division of its regional conference held in Pittsburgh, Pa. The paper’s topic was student-teacher complaints.... [Read more]
April 24th, 2013
The 2012-2013 Visiting Writers Series featured short story writer Mike Buckley, poet John Brantingham, and poet and publisher Paul Tayyar on Thursday, April 11th, 2013, at California State University, Long Beach’s Soroptomist House.
Michael Buckley read the beginning of a science fiction dystopian novel that takes place in Long Beach at The Pike before it was, what he described... [Read more]
April 16th, 2013
Teresa Zimmerman-Liu received her M.A. in Asian Studies in spring 2012 from California State University, Long Beach, and is a recipient of the CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program for the 2013-2014 academic year. Beginning fall 2013, Teresa will pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology at University of California, San Diego, where she will work with distinguished... [Read more]
April 16th, 2013
Margaret Kuo, an associate professor of Chinese history, was awarded a two-year fellowship at the University of San Francisco’s Center for the Pacific Rim, funded by an $86,250 grant from the EDS-Stewart Chair for 2011-13. The topic of her research is “Law and Morality: John C.H. Wu and the Making of Modern China.”
The EDS-Stewart Chair Fellowship... [Read more]
March 21st, 2013
The 2012-2013 Visiting Writers Series featured Christina Adams, author of A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention, and Recovery (Penguin, 2005), on Thursday, March 7th, 2013, at California State University, Long Beach’s Soroptomist House. Adams began her talk by discussing her career progression and recent career that involves working on a new book about... [Read more]
March 18th, 2013
Sophia Pandya (R/ST) sees hope for Middle Eastern change thanks to the evolving spirituality of the women of Yemen.
In her article “Religious Change Among Yemeni Women: The New Popularity of ‘Amr Khaled,” published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Pandya points to a Yemeni gender and generation gap keyed on Khaled, a pioneer in... [Read more]
March 11th, 2013
Nancy Strow Sheley recently published her essay “Curricular Commonalities in Conflicted Countries: U.S., Rwanda, and Cyprus” in Issues on Education and Research: Volume 3 (Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2013).
Based on Fulbright-supported studies in Cyprus (2008) and Rwanda (2004), Sheley’s essay examines the commonalities of cultural conflicts that are rooted in faulty educational processes which often include a dependence... [Read more]
March 11th, 2013
The Long Beach Intercollegiate Model United Nations (LBIMUN) Conference was held Saturday, March 2nd, in the College of Business Administration and welcomed more than 150 MUN student delegates from six area colleges and universities. Organized and run by political science majors Joe Sklar and Diana Phan, the LBIMUN demonstrated the CSULB MUN Program’s excellence in hosting a conference featuring... [Read more]
