This week, California State University, Dominguez Hills continued strategic planning activities that will help to shape a vision and framework that will support the university’s commitment to become a “model urban university.” A committee comprising faculty and staff members, called “synthesizers,” met from March 23 to 25, to process the information collected from campus Town Halls that were held in late February and early March. Led by organizational strategist and consultant Carolyn J. C. Thompson, the group spent two and a half days poring over and analyzing the many ideas and aspirations that were shared by the campus community.

A beginning computer course for seniors titled, “How Do You Turn This Computer On?” is currently being offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) in the College of Extended and International Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The course, which is taught by Carol Johnson, a longtime OLLI student and assisted by volunteers from the university's staff, focuses on computer basics such as word processing, e-mail communications, and navigating the Internet.

Hansonia Caldwell isn’t a detective by trade but the emerita professor of music’s knowledge of scared music of the African Diaspora provided the clues needed to solve a mystery on an episode of PBS’s “History Detectives.” "Slave Songs of the United States" is a book in the collection of the Mayme Clayton Library and Museum in Culver City, Calif. Clayton’s son, Avery, wanted to know if the compilation, which was originally published in 1867, was indeed the first record of Negro spirituals and presented the question to PBS’s “History Detectives.” Wes Cowan, appraiser and auctioneer, interviewed Caldwell onscreen last summer in the CSU Dominguez Hills University Archives and Special Collections to enlist her aid in solving the mystery.