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Academic Affairs

Update

December 10, 2025

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Faculty Awards – Call for Nominations 

 

Faculty are invited to recognize and celebrate outstanding achievements by submitting nominations for the following five Faculty Awards:

  • Presidential Outstanding Professor Award
  • Lyle E. Gibson Dominguez Hills Distinguished Teacher Award
  • Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award
  • Excellence in Service Award
  • Catherine H. Jacobs Outstanding Faculty-Lecturer Award

To nominate a faculty member or to self-nominate, complete the online nomination form. If you have any questions regarding nomination or the selection process, please contact the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development.

Nominations due:  Friday, December 19, 2025.

Nomination Form
 

Sustainability and Environmental Justice for All Faculty Learning Community 

 

The spring 2026 Sustainability and Environmental Justice for All Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is now accepting applications!  

Applications due: Friday, December 12, 2025.

Apply
 

21st Annual Student Research Conference, March 3-5, 2026

 

The CSUDH Student Research Conference provides a professional conference experience to graduate and undergraduate scholars. Students can share their research or creative projects and receive valuable feedback from a supportive community of fellow CSUDH researchers. Please share with your students!

Abstracts due: Friday, December 12, 2025.

Submit Abstract
 

The Colleges

 

Arts and Humanities

  • On October 30, the Academic Technology Committee, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Technology Ethics co-hosted a panel, "Is Artificial Intelligence Dangerous?"
  • On November 7, Dr. Brian Gregor, Professor of Philosophy, presented a paper, “AI as Revelation? A Technological Crisis for the Religious Imagination” in New York City at the annual conference of the Society for Ricoeur Studies.
  • On December 12 and 13, the CSUDH Dance Program will participate in the Glendale Community College (GCC) Dance Concert at the GCC Auditorium. 

Business Administration and Public Policy

  • On November 14, in partnership with the SoCal chapter of the American Society for Public Administration, the School of Public Service and Justice hosted a networking event for students and the community. The theme was “Re-imagining Government: The Effective Use of AI in the Public Sector.” 

Education

  • On October 29, COE honored scholars, campus leadership, and community partners at the 2025 Toros Teach Los Angeles (TTLA) Scholarship Reception.
  • On November 6, COE hosted a film screening of the documentary "A School Grows in Watts." 
  • On November 7, COE hosted the Fall 2025 Asian Language Bilingual Teacher Education Program (BTEP) Professional Development (PD5) Seminar. More than 100 Asian language bilingual teacher candidates from across Southern California CSUs were in attendance.

Natural and Behavioral Sciences

  • Dr. Ashkan Jalooli, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and student co-authors, Huzaif Khan, Rahul Kavati, and Sriven Srilakshmi Pulkaram, authored the paper, “End-to-End Privacy-Aware Federated Learning for Wearable Health Devices via Encrypted Aggregation in Programmable Networks,” which has been accepted for publication in Sensors. 
  • Dr. Sahar Hooshmand, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, in collaboration with co-authors Varadraj Gurupur, Sahar Hooshmand, Deepa Fernandes Prabhu, Elizabeth Trader, and Sanket Salvi, authored a paper, “Incompleteness of Electronic Health Records: An Impending Process Problem within Healthcare,” which has been accepted for publication in Healthcare.
  • Dr. Horace Crogman, Associate Professor of Physics, recently published the following three papers: 
    • With student co-author, Rashad Hall: Hall, R., Crogman, H. T., Maleki, M., & Jackson, M. D. (2025), "Modeling Cognition Through Adaptive Neural Synchronization: A Multimodal Framework Using EEG, fMRI, and Reinforcement Learning." Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 19.
    • Crogman, H. T., Dang, T., & Erenso, D. (2025), "Topologically Protected Quantum Teleportation via Majorana Zero Modes: A Perspective on Scalability and Decoherence Immunity." Quantum Reports, 7 (3), 42.
    • Endris M. Endris, Deresse A. Adem, Horace T. Crogman, and Daniel B. Erenso (2025), "Laser Trapping Technique for Measuring Ionization Energy and Identifying Hemoglobin Through Charge Quantification in Blood Samples." Biophysica, 5 (4), 56.
 

Beyond the Colleges

 

University Library: Gerth Archives and Special Collections

The Florante Peter Ibanez Collection (1938-2020) is the Gerth Archives largest collection relating to Filipino Americans in Carson. The collection, one part of the Filipino American Digital Archives (FADA), contains documents related to Filipino American events, organizations, history, and culture, as well as material related to other Asian American and Pacific Islander events and organizations.

 

Upcoming Events

 

MON-THURS

Dec. 8 -Dec. 17

Library Extended Hours - Final Exams

 

🕛 Schedule

 

NOW-THRU

Dec. 11

PTE Student Course Evaluation Period

 
 

TUE

Dec. 10

Book Launch "Justice Across Generations: Equal, Opportunity and the Social Contract"  - Presented by the Department of Political Science

 

🕛 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.

📍 LSU Ballroom A

THU

Dec. 11

Last Day of Scheduled Classes

 
 

FRI

Dec. 12

Student Research Conference 2026 Abstracts Due

 

Submit SRC Abstract

 

FRI

Dec. 12

Sustainability & Environmental Justice for All, Faculty Learning Community Applications Due

 

Apply for FLC

 

FRI-THU

Dec. 12 - Dec. 18

Final Examinations

 

🕛 Schedule

THU-THU

Dec. 25 - Jan. 1

Winter Break - Campus Closed

 
 

Accreditation Corner

 

On November 18, the campus kicked off the WSCUC Reaffirmation of Accreditation self-study process with over 80 faculty, staff, and students participating. President Parham welcomed participants in a recorded message. Steering Committee Co-chairs, Drs. Michele Dunbar and Marisol Cardenas and Dean Kim Costino outlined the the next steps of the self-study process and timeline, the role of gathering data, narratives, and evidence, and the university's mission, vision, values, and strategic plan, emphasizing their commitment to culturally sustaining practices and equity. 

If you are interested in being involved, reach out to Dr. Michele Dunbar, WSCUC Accreditation Liaison Officer.

 
 
 
 
 

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