Last spring, students voted to keep the Recreation Fee at $35 instead of increasing it for a new Wellness and Recreation Center. Since last spring, staff at the Rec Center have reconsidered their plan based on student feedback, resulting in another referendum, or campus-wide process of adjusting...
On June 18, 2024, CSUSM began advertising for a new Library Dean. The Kellogg Library has been without a dean since last spring semester so the university recommended August 5, 2024, as the cutoff date for applications. This would allow time for the candidates to be fully considered for the role.
The...
On Friday, April 19, CSUSM Campus Recreation announced that the measure to increase students’ Recreation Fee did not pass. If passed, the increased fee would have supported CSUSM’s proposed Wellness and Recreation Facility.
The special referendum election ran from April 9 through April 11. Nearly...
The finalists have been announced for the CSUSM Symposium on Student Research, Creative Activities, & Innovation. They are now moving on to represent CSUSM at the 38th annual CSU Student Research Competition. The competition intends “to promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate scholarly...
San Diego County has a whopping $8.2 billion budget, handled by the County Board of Supervisors.
Have you ever wondered what the San Diego County Board of Supervisors does? If so, the local San Diego affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is hosting an event that explains how the County...
ASI election season is ramping up for the 2024/25 school year. Now is an exciting time on campus with a variety of opportunities to meet the candidates and learn about their hopes for the CSUSM community. Recently, ASI announced the candidates for the upcoming election, with two candidates for president.
The...
At noon on February 29, the library unveiled The Makery, CSUSM’s brand-new makerspace on the library’s second floor. The library wants The Makery to be a place where “members of the CSUSM community can gather, create, invent, tinker, explore, discover and learn new skills using a variety of tools...
The long-anticipated results of the CSU student assistants’ union election are here. On Friday, February 23, the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) announced that student assistants were granted their right to unionize.
7,050 out of 7,252 votes cast were in favor of unionizing,...
ASI announced on Tuesday the headliners for CSUSM’s art and music festival, Festival 78. The event will take place April 13 from 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Mangrum Track and Field.
The two headliners are The Driver Era and Snakehips. (In addition to the music, there will be a mural and some art...
In October of 2023, the CSU Employees Union (SEIU Local 2579) received approval from the Public Employment Relations Board for a union election that allows CSU student assistants to vote for union representation. The union will represent over 20,000 student assistants across all 23 CSU campuses, which...
The Kellogg Library’s fall context exhibit “Graphis Designers for Peace,” is located on the third floor and features 30 art pieces out of 400 in the collection. Each piece was created by artists all over the world and was selected through an art competition hosted by Graphis and Studio Hinrichs....
Campus Common Read is back! The 2023-2024 theme, reprised from last year, is banned books. Book bans have been an increasingly dire issue for libraries and schools. This year’s selection of five books continues to focus on underrepresented voices and their stories.
“The Handmaid’s Tale”...
