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University of La Verne gets $1 million boost for artificial intelligence program
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | January 19, 2022
With the help of a $1 million gift from the Fletcher Jones Foundation, the University of La Verne hopes to open new doors to the field of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Last week, the university announced the gift would be used to create an endowed professorship in artificial intelligence, a field of study expected to produce sought-after jobs in the public health sector, infrastructure and banking. Read More »
Help Offered To Feed College Students - NBC4 Help for the Hungry Campaign
NBC4 | December 15, 2021
Help Offered to Feed College Students: NBC4’s Help For The Hungry is happening now to help SoCal food banks feed thousands of people this holiday. Kathy Vara reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Read More »
CLASP honors former program director
Claremont Courier | November 16, 2021
Creasey’s leadership and commitment played a key-roll in developing and implementing the group’s digital needs for at-home teaching and learning during the pandemic. This enabled them to create new ways to tutor students of all ages for online homework help and more. Read More »
The ‘absolutely essential’ role of Black counselors on campus
EdSource | November 08, 2021
“There’s a subconscious mindset that Black students, students in poverty, cannot learn,” said Lisa Andrews, a director at the California College Guidance Initiative and a counseling professor at the University of La Verne, near Pomona. “To change that, school counseling needs to be transformational and revolutionary.” Read More »
Citrus History
Ag Information Network | November 01, 2021
Citrus has had a long journey to become one of California's largest and profitable crops. Benjamin Jenkins, PhD, University Archivist and Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, University of La Verne has written a book, "California's Citrus Heritage". He explains how the citrus trees came to the United States and eventually California. Read More »
Theater experience helps this Upland resident with law career
The Press-Enterprise | October 07, 2021
For the past three years, Kaufman has been studying at the University of La Verne College of Law, from which he recently graduated as valedictorian. “It was a long three years but my wife, Jamie, and Louis have been so amazing and patient,” he said. “I wouldn’t have been able to do it without them. “I am now working with the largest litigation firm in California.” Read More »
Orange County oil spill sparks race to save wildlife
Los Angeles Times | October 05, 2021
Maurice Lawson, who studied kinesiology at the University of La Verne, said he, too, would feel compelled to assist. But he would do so by tapping the experts. “There are resources and people who know the right stuff who we call,” the Brea resident said. “Mishaps happen and it affects everyone, not just human beings. We need to protect ecosystems and protect marine life." Read More »
University of La Verne leases land in Ontario for new health, business schools
San Gabriel Valley Tribune | October 04, 2021
The University of La Verne is a step closer to further expanding into downtown Ontario under a planned land swap. For $1 a year, the university will lease a city-owned, 13,000-square-foot parcel at 214 E. Holt Blvd., under terms approved by the City Council in September. Meanwhile, the city anticipates obtaining land owned by the university to help expand City Hall. Read More »
The Will to Test in a Test-Optional Era
The Chronicle of Higher Education | September 20, 2021
“Many of our students are the first in their family to go to college, and they don’t grow up thinking about how test scores determine their fate,” says Mary Aguayo vice president for strategic enrollment management at the University of La Verne, a Hispanic-serving institution in California that admits about 70 percent of its applicants. Read More »
Inland Empire universities invest in entrepreneurship programs
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | September 03, 2021
In March, the University of La Verne announced the Randall Lewis Center for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Social Impact in Ontario. The center will provide entrepreneurial training for small groups of students and academic and hands-on approaches to job creation and long-term career support, according to the university. The center will make a special effort to work with underserved communities in the Inland Empire. Read More »