The week commemorates the continuing success of GEAR UP, a college access program providing students and families the support and resources they need for college success.
“The New Normal” will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at Cal State San Bernardino’s John M. Pfau Library, room PL-5005.
“Latinas on the Diamond” will take place from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 27, at CSUSB’s John M. Pfau Library, room PL-5005.
Sherwin Bitsui, a Diné (Navajo) from the Navajo Reservation in White Cone, Ariz, will present his poetry at Cal State San Bernardino on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 6 p.m. in the John M. Pfau Library.
The free event on Feb. 20 will feature panel presentations and a costume contest as part of the activities for the day.
CSUSB’s John M. Pfau Library will host a talk, “We Carry the Border on our Bodies: Bridging and Maneuvering Immigration Status Barriers in U.S. and Canadian Postsecondary Education,” by Paloma E. Villegas, assistant professor of sociology.
“Asylums and the Insane in Early Twentieth-Century China,” is the title of the talk to be given by Emily Baum, associate professor of modern Chinese history at UC Irvine, at the John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005.
The symposium, hosted by CSUSB and its University Diversity Committee in partnership with the Westside Action Group, will be held in the university’s Santos Manuel Student Union and feature keynote speaker Gail C. Christopher.
“Big Data and Big Promises,” by Sastry G. Pantula, dean of the College of Natural Sciences, is scheduled noon in the John M. Pfau Library multimedia center, PL 5005.