Street Smarts: CSUCI to rename building for former president Rush
CSU Channel Islands will rename one of its most prominent buildings after Richard Rush, who was president of the campus for its first 15 years. Rush was president of the campus from June 2001, a year before it welcomed its first students, until he retired in 2016. Now the campus’ University Hall will become Richard Read More →
Our View: Momentum builds to keep Diablo Canyon open
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CSUCI gets $10.5M from heirs of developer Bud Smith
A foundation created by the late Ventura County developer Martin V. “Bud” Smith and his wife has donated $10.5 million to CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo for its school of business and economics, a gift the university called “transformative.” The Martin V. and Martha K. Smith Foundation was established by Bud Smith, a philanthropist, entrepreneur Read More →
CSUCI wins $5M federal grant
CSU Channel Islands has received a nearly $5 million federal grant to help a new initiative aimed at boosting diversity and enhancing success for students seeking to pursue a degree in science, technology, engineering or math. The competitive $4,999,990 grant was open to the nation’s colleges and universities designated as Hispanic-Serving Institutions from the United Read More →
Our View: Universities keep our region on top in innovation
If you want to know why the innovation culture is so important to the regional economy, look no further than the 2021 ranking of our top universities. In the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings, released Sept. 12, UC Santa Barbara cracked the top five among national public universities. Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Read More →
Opinion: Oxnard was central to Chicano movement
By Frank P. Barajas This column is an excerpt from the book “Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945-1975,” by Frank P. Barajas. From the United Farm Workers Boycott Office in Delano, California, Jessica Govea, 24, examined a clipping of a full-page advertisement in the Ventura Read More →
From PPE shortages to vaccines, nursing programs adapted to the pandemic
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