The following students in the College of Arts and Sciences earned a grade point average of 3.75 or higher during the fall 2009 semester. Stephanie Aguilar Shaadee Ahmadnia Faisal Alfaddaghi Deborah Allison Brian Alva Alexandra Angel Jose Arias, Jr. Alex Ayala Marla Bahloul Benjamin Balderrama, Jr. Erika Barajas Ashley Bell Amanda Brenner Erin Brockman Janine [...]

Campus and community news for March 5.

The Budget Advisory Task Force is considering a proposal to increase the annual salary of classified employees and administrative/professional employees by $3,000 and $2,400 per year, respectively.

Low pay, lack of opportunity and discrimination are just a few of the issues classified staff at the University of La Verne find troubling, according to a recent climate survey.

Associate Professor of Political Science Jason Neidleman has recently started a new faculty reading group to try and create more academic dialogue among professors. I caught up with him to discuss the group’s purpose as well as his take on the health care debate and what’s playing on his iPod.

With the economy unstable as it is, Americans are being extra-cautious with every dollar. And yet for many college students, their dollars, whether earned or borrowed, are headed towards one place: graduate school.

Al Clark, associate vice president of Academic Affairs, handled a string of technical difficulties to successfully deliver his lecture, “German Nationalism and the Rise of ‘The Ring’,” on Feb. 18.

On Jan. 4, the University of La Verne Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename Founders Auditorium to the Ann and Steve Morgan Auditorium.

William Rankin, the president and co-founder of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance spoke at the Campus Center about “Reaching Rural African Villages with HIV Prevention and Care” in front of a crowd of about 80 faculty and students.

The University of La Verne continued its expansion of wireless Internet access earlier in the month with the addition of the Arts and Communica­tions Building.