California State University, Dominguez Hills was honored at the Millenium Momentum Foundation’s 3rd Annual Opening Doors Scholarship Awards with the Ambassador of Education Award, on December 12, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. President James E. Lyons, Sr. received the award on behalf of the University.

The California State University Board of Trustees Chair Roberta Achtenberg named the members of the Trustees’ Selection Committee to conduct the search for a new president of the CSU Dominguez Hills campus to succeed retiring President James E. Lyons Sr. Lyons, who has served as president of Dominguez Hills since 1999, recently announced his plans to retire from the university at the end of the academic year.

Two collaborations between local schools and CSU Dominguez Hills College of Education (COE) faculty build bridges for young students, giving elementary schoolchildren their first glimpse of a college campus, and teaching adolescent students how to cope with the pressures of the inner city.