Rodney H. Butler, professor of music at California State University, Dominguez Hills, died at his home on Nov. 27. Butler was currently serving as chair of the university’s Academic Senate, chair of the Division of Performing, Visual and Digital Arts and chair of the Department of Music within the College of Arts and Humanities.

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded California State University, Dominguez Hills a $1.1 million grant to continue the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program
at the university for another four years beginning this academic year. Additionally, 19 new students have been accepted into the research-intensive program. They, along with seven continuing McNair Scholars, comprise the first cohort of the new funding cycle.