This year’s CUMU Conference promises to be an exciting and rewarding experience for all of us who find our professional calling in the nation’s metropolitan and urban educational institutions. As President of California State University, Dominguez Hills, I am delighted to have the opportunity to host this conference and hope that you will be able to attend. This year’s theme, “Urban and Metropolitan University in Tomorrow’s Economy,” is one we will be forced to address in our institutions. What better preparation could we have than sharing with each other the things we’ve learned over the past few years of economic challenge.

Of course hosting a meeting in the bustling greater Los Angeles area means that this conference will also afford you the opportunity to take advantage of our proximity to the entertainment capital of the world and visit such places as Universal City, the Getty Museum, or the Home Depot Center sports complex on our campus, the training site for many of our country’s Olympic athletes. Although we believe you will enjoy visiting Southern California for its own sake in October, when many parts of the country will already be beginning to feel winter’s nip in the air, we also think this conference has an exciting agenda, stimulating speakers, and many opportunities to take advantage of each other’s expertise and “best practices” on a variety of topics.

When you have reviewed the preliminary program brochure posted on the website, I am confident that you will want to come to the CUMU Conference and Cal State University, Dominguez Hills in October. If you have questions, please contact the Office of Ceremonies and Events at (310) 243-2666 or email csudhevents@csudh.edu.

I look forward to seeing you in October!

Sincerely,

James E. Lyons, Sr.
President