Americans Relocating During Pandemic
LMU Professor Fernando Guerra, director of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles, was interviewed for this radio report on what drives residents to leave for other places or stay in their home…
Jewish Studies Program Makes Plans to Combat Antisemitism
The Jewish Studies program offered its first course in 2008 and since then its courses continually fill to capacity with a growing number of students selecting to pursue it as an academic minor. Through the Jewish…
Retiring Scholar and Activist Antonia Darder Looks Back on Her Career
After a 36-year career as an education scholar and leading voice in the struggle for social justice in and out of the classroom, Antonia Darder, the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral…
Social Problems and Social Control in Criminal Justice – A Book by Stacy Burns
“As social scientists, we think it is possible to develop a more equitable, more effective, and more efficient criminal justice system,” says BCLA Sociology professor Stacy Burns. With that goal in mind, she partnered…
Staff Senate Thanksgiving Food Drive | Nov. 8-19
Staff Senate invites you to participate in our Thanksgiving Food Drive, taking place Nov. 8-19. Donations will support the LMU Food Pantry, run by our colleagues in the Center for Service and Action. Learn more…
Tutoring Program for Black Scholars Stems Learning Losses, Fosters Relationships
The pandemic-necessitated transition to distance learning in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), beginning in the spring of 2020 and continuing through the 2020-21 academic year, caused a substantial disruption in K-12 education….
Working to Decolonize Curriculum with Student and Alumni Input
In recent years, the United States has been experiencing a renewed wave of civic unrest and social movement in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and violence against people of color. In…
