Kinesiology professor Guillermo Escalante says CSUSB's diversity drew him to the university.
The Holmes Scholars Program supports racially and ethnically diverse students pursuing graduate degrees in education to be future faculty in institutions of higher education.
Sharon Velarde Pierce, CSUSB public administration professor, says that diversity in the classroom expands a student's education.
Kevin Grisham, interim associate vice president of Faculty Affairs & Development, highlights how CSUSB empowers students to explore diversity.
Brian Levin (criminal justice) was appointed to California’s Commission on the State of Hate, Guillermo Escalante (kinesiology), was named to fellowship in the HACU Leadership Academy, and Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) discussed the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship’s 2022 State of Entrepreneurship Minority Report.
Escalante is the first CSUSB faculty member named a HACU Leadership Academy Fellow. The cohort will hold its first in-person meeting at the HACU annual conference in October.
Dorothy Chen-Maynard, professor of health science and human ecology, says it’s important to have diverse faculty so students can see that they can be successful, too.
Paulchris Okpala, health science and human ecology professor, chose to teach at CSUSB because of the rich diversity that is celebrated on campus.
Ebony O. McGee, Vanderbilt University associate professor of diversity and STEM education, on May 6 will talk about what it means to be racially marginalized and minoritized in the context of learning and achieving in STEM higher education and in STEM professions.