![From left: Paulette Brown-Hinds, Nefertiti Long and Kathy Johnson.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_IECF_Brown-Hinds_Long_Johnson_18Feb2021.jpg.webp?itok=A-iK4DI6)
CSUSB alumna Paulette Brown-Hinds ’90, has been named the first African American to chair the Inland Empire Community Foundation’s Board of Directors. Also appointed to the board were CSUSB Foundation board member Nefertiti Long and CSUSB adjunct professor Kathy Johnson.
![Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_English_Transmotion_repost_update_25Nov2020.jpg.webp?itok=zriGEuEg)
The latest edition of Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies, a Cal State San Bernardino-sponsored journal, is now available online.
![Carolyn Horsman (left) and Ernest Siva, elder of Morongo Band of Mission Indians, at the annual Native Voices Poetry Festival at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center in Banning in February.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_NativeVoices_24Nove2020.jpg.webp?itok=YuF2XxQP)
A look back to an event earlier in 2020 in which CSUSB’s public history program and English department joined community groups to present the annual showcase and celebration of Native American poetry, music and art at the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center in Banning.
![National Society of Collegiate Scholars](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NSCS_Recognition_CSUSB-Homepage-Slide.jpg.webp?itok=RDNIOXCy)
CSUSB earned Star Status for the 2019-20 academic year by NSCS, a nonprofit honors organization that recognizes and elevates high-achieving undergraduates who excel academically during their first and second year of college.
![Black Trans Lives Matter sign at the May Day 2017 in New York City. The eighth program in the university’s Conversations on Race and Policing series will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday on Zoom. Photo by Alec Perkins via Wikimedia Commons.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_Library_Hist_RaceAndPolicing_No8_20July2020.jpg.webp?itok=hRyk-Dng)
The panelists in the next conversation in the series, to be livestreamed on Zoom, will discuss issues related to policing, racial violence and the LGBTQIA community.
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Lorraine Hedtke (psychology), Meredith Conroy (political science), Julie Paegle (English), Francisca Beer (finance), Jason Ng (kinesiology) and Brian Levin (criminal justice) were included in recent news coverage.
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The Cal State San Bernardino College of Arts and Letters CAL Talk series returned with "Structural Racism, Civil Disobedience, and the Road to Racial Justice in the Age of COVID-19." Video of the presentation is available on the college's YouTube page.
![Faculty panelists during a virtual forum will share their personal and professional experiences with racism and civil disobedience while discussing what they can do to help students navigate this critical moment for racial equality and social justice in America.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_RacismGraphic_June2020.jpg.webp?itok=KXLy3UeH)
"Structural Racism, Civil Disobedience, and the Road to Racial Justice in the Age of COVID-19," will take place virtually at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16.
![Parastou Feizzaringhalam](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_CAL_English_Feizzaringhalam_Golden-Apple_05June2020.jpg.webp?itok=AlFtQ4dI)
Parastou Feizzaringhalam, a professor of English at Cal State San Bernardino, prepared for an afternoon virtual meeting with College of Arts and Letters Dean Rueyling Chuang, and entered the Zoom meeting space fully expecting to discuss online teaching ideas. Instead, she was honored with the university's highest honor for teaching excellence.