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CSUSB professor comments on University of Louisville student movement to save DEI on college campuses
Capital B News
April 8, 2025

Marc Robinson (history) was quoted in an article about an effort by students at the University of Louisville who have mobilized to counter the Trump administration’s assault on inclusion. He said the attacks from Trump threaten to reverse decades of progress in promoting equity for Black Americans and other groups, “regressing to an educational system that is less accessible and less fair. This would ultimately damage educational institutions, our national workforce, our democracy, and much more.”

Split Screen: The politics of Sarah Palin photos
The Contrarian
April 24, 2025

Research by Meredith Conroy (political science) was included in an article on how gender bias played into the news media’s coverage former Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin, who was a candidate in 2008 for vice president. For example, “Conroy conducted a systematic analysis of interview questions posed to all four candidates on the major tickets in 2008 and found that Palin was asked about balancing family and political responsibilities in 74% of her interviews, while none of the male candidates (Obama, McCain, or Biden) were asked similar questions in any of their interviews.”

In the CSU, the threat to higher education is coming from inside the house: Op-ed
IE Community News
April 17, 2025

Thomas Corrigan, professor of communication and media, wrote an opinion column on the issues students, faculty and staff called attention to during an April 17 rally at Cal State San Bernardino.

Cal State San Bernardino students tell Trump administration ‘Hands Off!’
The Sun/The Press-Enterprise/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/Redlands Daily Facts
April 18, 2025

Tiffany Jones (history) and Guy Hepp (anthropology) were interviewed, and Thomas Corrigan (communication and media) was pictured, in an article about the “Hands Off!” protest on campus on April 17. CSUSB is one of 45 universities under investigation by the Trump administration for potentially violating part of the Civil Rights Act in admissions for its doctoral program. Thursday afternoon, nearly 40 CSUSB community members adorned in red and carrying signs reading “Hands off our students” gathered to protest and march around the campus.

Anti-Muslim hate crimes surge in US cities as overall incidents decline
The Muslim News
April 25, 2025

The news site highlighted a report, authored by Brian Levin, professor emeritus at California State University, San Bernardino and founder of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, that found anti-Muslim hate crimes in major U.S. cities surged by 18% in 2024, while antisemitic incidents increased by 12%, marking the fourth consecutive year of rising religiously motivated hate crimes in the country. The report examined the impact of geopolitical tensions, particularly the Israel-Gaza war, which began in late 2023, on the escalation of hate crimes against religious minorities.

Examining the rise in marriage dissolution in Turkey: Demographic shifts and gender dynamics
Social Politics

Yasemin Dildar (economics) wrote an article that “examines recent trends in the rise of marriage dissolution in Turkey, where the crude divorce rate has increased from 0.27 in 1970 to 2.15 in 2022. This surge can be attributed to significant demographic shifts, including an increase in the marriage age, declining fertility rates, higher levels of education, and evolving gender norms.”

High-impact participation? Social activities, activity frequency, and older adult cognition
Journal of Aging and Health

Eric Vogelsang (sociology) published research that focused on older social activities, their frequency and how they may reduce cognitive decline among older adults. From the abstract: “There is growing recognition that social participation may help attenuate cognitive decline in older ages. Unfortunately, previous research often relies on participation index measures, which may obfuscate associations among cognition, specific activities, and the frequency of partaking in those activities.”

Supreme Court decisions and fatal officer-involved shootings
Policing: A Journal of Police and Practice

Zachary Powell and Sishi Wu (criminal justice) published a study that “broadens deadly force research by examining whether key Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rulings (Garner, Graham, and Scott) impacted deadly force patterns over the last 40 years.”

One patient, one destiny: A cluster analysis of PPMI data (P2-5.004)
Neurology

Jacob Jones (psychology) collaborated in a study in which researchers tested “whether Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with similar and distinctive baseline characteristics maintain or separate clinical outcomes independent of comorbidity, genetics, and demographics.”

Exploring the complexity of children's math and vocabulary learning
Behavioral Sciences

Child development faculty Keting Chen, Kevin Rosales and Lisa Looney published a study that “examines the role of parents’ education, children’s attentional control, and learning approaches as predictors of kindergarteners’ mathematics and vocabulary performance.

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