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Craig Stone

CLA Dean Dr. Deborah Thien interviews Professor Emeritus Craig Stone

In October 2023, Dr. Deborah Thien, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), interviewed Professor Emeritus and American Indian Studies program director Craig Stone.
Heidi Lucero at Puvungna

AIS faculty and new tribal leader Heidi Lucero in a renewed fight to gain federal recognition for The Juaneño Band of Mission Indians
Cindi Alvitre and Carly Lake

AIS faculty and author Cindi Alvitre receives the 2021 award from the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California in the category of Excellence in Picture Book of Cultural Significance
An attendee of the CSULB Pow Wow 2023

The New CSU Ethnic Studies Requirement, General Education, Category F

The California State University System is now requiring that students take an Ethnic Studies course as part of their General Education requirements to graduate from the CSU.
Pow Wow dancer in front of Walter Pyramid

The Increasing Value of an American Indian Studies Minor or Certificate

The Minor and Certificate offered at CSULB in the American Indian Studies Program have become especially valuable to faculty seeking to be hired to teach these new required ethnic studies courses.
First grade students hold up their hands in a class at Mark Twain Elementary

New Demand for Ethnic Studies Educators

With the increased demand for Ethnic Studies Professors at the university level to meet this new requirement in the CSU, we are also seeing an increased demand for qualified Ethnic Studies teachers in Community Colleges in California who recently passed an Ethnic Studies requirement as a graduation requirement.