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New ‘iHub’ tech and entrepreneurship center opens in Palm Desert
The Desert Sun
Nov. 17, 2021
The Palm Desert iHub, a collaboration of the City of Palm Desert, the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership and Cal State San Bernardino, celebrated a grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday at 37-023 Cook St. across from the CSUSB Palm Desert campus.
The iHub will host university programs in cybersecurity, hospitality management and entrepreneurship.
“The addition of these three state-of-the-art programs will greatly enhance our Palm Desert campus and give our students much-needed experience and opportunities that will help them after graduation as they start their careers,” said CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales.
CSUSB Cybersecurity Center Executive Director Tony Coulson added, “Our expansion to the Palm Desert campus is another part of our efforts to tap hidden talents and help solve the national cybersecurity workforce crisis. This program will help improve the pipeline of critically needed cyber skills coming from the Coachella Valley.”
Information and decision sciences assistant professor Denise Kinsey will teach cybersecurity full-time in Palm Desert.
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New iHub in Palm Desert seeks to give students tools to thrive in careers, says CSUSB president
KESQ
Nov. 17, 2021
City and university dignitaries, along with students and residents celebrated the grand opening of the iHub in Palm Desert – a collaboration of the city of Palm Desert, the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership and CSUSB. The long-awaited digital hub, which will feature university programs in in cybersecurity, hospitality management and entrepreneurship as part of expanded educational offerings in the community.
Mike Stull, the director of the School of Entrepreneurship and director for the Center of Entrepreneurship at CSUSB, said both facilities are “all about facilitating, inspiring, and helping prepare that next generation of entrepreneurs that are going to change the way we live and work in the Coachella Valley, and the iHub has that similar mission.”
Stull added, “through the Center for Entrepreneurship, we offer co-curricular programs that expose students through experiential learning -- what it's like to create a business, what it’s like to pitch to investors.”
The new iHub's grand opening brought out current students who shared their positive experience with the programs offered by CSUSB.
CSUSB President Tomás D. Morales said, "The addition of these three state-of-the-art programs will greatly enhance our Palm Desert Campus and give our students much needed experience and opportunities that will help them after graduation as they start their careers."
“Our expansion to the Palm Desert Campus is another part of our efforts to tap hidden talents and help solve the national cybersecurity workforce crisis. This program will help improve the pipeline of critically needed cyber skills coming from the Coachella Valley,” said Tony Coulson, a professor of information and decision sciences and executive director of CSUSB’s Cybersecurity Center. “CSUSB is helping provide national leadership in these initiatives.”
The Cybersecurity Center will be mentoring students, specifically veterans and adults who need “retooling” to meet the needs of cybersecurity and government service, Coulson said.
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