Campus Feature
Sac State Receives Employer Award
Sacramento, Nov. 9 - Sacramento State has been named Employer of the Year by the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS) Sacramento Chapter. According to the organization, Sacramento State was nominated because of its programs to help change the travel behavior of students, faculty and staff by building more on-campus housing in transit-oriented developments, developing bicycle programs and working with Sacramento Regional Transit District to provide student passes.
Campus Headlines
Long Beach, Nov. 4 - The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $2.6 million to California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) to support the Center for Commercial Deployment of Transportation Technologies (CCDoTT) in its ongoing fiscal year program, CSULB President F. King Alexander announced earlier this month.
CSU Dominguez Hills Receives U.S. Department of Ed Grant to Create Latino Student Success Program
Carson, Nov. 13 - California State University, Dominguez Hills has been awarded a five-year grant totally $2.77 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Title V Developing Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Program. The grant will be used to establish a new success program for Latino students, "Encuentro Hacia El Exito" (Encounter to Excellence).
Cal Poly, Department of Defense to Collaborate on Development of Sophisticated Distribution Systems
San Luis Obispo, Nov. 16 - Cal Poly President Warren J. Baker and Gen. Duncan McNabb, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, are among the dignitaries who will attend a Dec. 1 ceremony at Scott Air Force Base near St. Louis to mark the opening of a new collaborative research center sponsored by the university under a research agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense.