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U.S. Bank joins CSUSB’s Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship
IE Business Daily
Jan. 6, 2025
U.S. Bank has joined Cal State San Bernardino’s Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship as an affiliate. The one-year partnership will help educate small business owners and entrepreneurs in the Inland Empire in business planning and financial management, according to a statement. U.S. Bank will work out of the Entrepreneurial Resource Center’s offices in San Bernardino and Temecula.
“We are excited to expand our relationship with U.S. Bank,” said Mike Stull, director of the entrepreneurship center at Cal State San Bernardino, in the statement. “Many entrepreneurs lack the financial education needed to take their business to the next level. U.S. Bank will be able to provide the necessary training and resources to help these companies thrive.”
Trump response to recent attacks offers ominous outlook for terror in next term
The Guardian
Jan. 3, 2025
Brian Levin, a professor emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino and founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, said president-elect Donald Trump’s comments following previous violent events had consistently fueled an upsurge in hate crimes.
“Statements by presidents and other political leaders have a violent impact downstream,” Levin said. “Those toxins surface elsewhere. When the president or other high, really high political figures use stereotypes and conspiracy theories or incomplete information, it ends up reverberating into aggression on the streets.”
The current danger, Levin argues, is that Trump’s rhetoric will lead to vigilante-type actions among his most zealous supporters who feel empowered to act on their own – sometimes against individuals not necessarily in the incoming president’s line of fire.
“We’re concerned that this will in some way be taken as a message to folks who think they’ve been deputized to go after people who they think are undocumented,” Levin said.
Retired CSUSB professor interviewed about attacks on New Orleans and Las Vegas
The Christian Science Monitor
Jan. 3, 2025
Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was one of the experts interviewed about the New Year’s Day attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
“We’re seeing incrementally and materially a diversification of the terror threat relating to not just ideology but also tactics, instrumentality, and how these attacks are organized,” says Levin. “In these attacks it appears we have ideology, psychological or situational distress, and then revenge or personal vengeance – it’s a diverse threat matrix.
“We’re in such a fertile environment because aggression is now considered currency with regard to politics, and it’s mirrored in violent conflicts that we see around the world,” says Levin.
Retired CSUSB professor comments on the radicalization of former U.S. military personnel
KNX Radio Los Angeles
Jan. 3, 2025
Brian Levin, founding director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, was interviewed about how some former U.S. military personnel are vulnerable to being radicalized by extremist ideologies.
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