Through surveys, open-ended responses and interviews, Amy van Schagen, associate professor in the CSUSB child development department, and her team of student research assistants gathered information about perceived experiences with racism within early childhood education.
Michael Stull (entrepreneurship) shared how a grant from the Bank of America will help the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship assist area minority-owned businesses, and David Yaghoubian (history) was interviewed about the latest on Iran’s nuclear program.
The grant is expected to enable the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship to help approximately 250 business owners — a majority of which are owned by Black, indigenous and people of color — create or sustain about 650 jobs and create an economic impact of nearly $4 million.
The funding will go toward supporting ongoing work in providing technical assistance to BIPOC-led small businesses that have been disproportionately affected by the unprecedented health, social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.