Latest Achievements

Dr. Barbara Clucas and Ryan Matilton (Wildlife masters graduate) have received a grant through the Research and Creative Projects for Equity and Justice (RCPEJ) program. The project will investigate bat diversity and activity along the Klamath River following recent dam removals, contributing to understanding how these changes affect biodiversity. The research will provide important post-dam removal ecological data while also engaging local high school students participating through Humboldt Indian Education Programs. Students will gain hands-on experience in wildlife research. The project advances both ecological knowledge and educational opportunities connected to the Klamath River.

Logan Holey was selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GFRP) to study effective scaling of plant traits from field, UAV to satellite to inform rangeland management for his PhD at Kansas State University.

Dr. Alana Chin received a grant from the National Geographic Society to study whether restoring redwood forests can increase their carbon storage. Coast redwoods are among the most powerful carbon-storing trees on Earth, thanks to their dense, carbon-rich heartwood - the inner core of the tree. This naturally protective wood prolongs tree longevity and keeps carbon locked away long after the tree falls. The project will examine whether restoration thinning can encourage greater heartwood formation and long-term carbon storage, helping inform forest management strategies that strengthen climate resilience.

With this award, Dr. Chin has been named a National Geographic Explorer.

Loren Cannon (Philosophy, Applied Humanities) was invited to present his work at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting, April 10, 2026.  The title of his presentation was “When circumstances warrant consideration of other factors,” and the session was committed to the topic of Transgender Eligibility in Sport. 

Dr. Cannon’s essay focused on a legal and moral analysis of the 1977 Case, Richards v. US Tennis Association, in which the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that the US Tennis Association was wrong in attempting to require gender testing of Renee Richards, a trans woman competitor.  The court reasoned that its charge was to determine whether Dr. Richards was attempting to commit fraud.  Finding no fraudulent activity, they ruled in her favor. Cannon responds carefully to objections to the conclusion of the court and the current state of trans athletic exclusion. 

27 Cal Poly Humboldt Communication majors who are currently incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison presented at the National Conference on Higher Education on Friday April 10.  Students in the program shared how resilience, student leadership, and collective voice shape a BA program inside California’s highest-security prison. Through live video conference to the largest prison education conference in the United States students discussed with conference attendees their leadership strategies, recruiting, curriculum input, and the creation of clubs and academic work centered on their vision.  The room in Cleveland was packed including Cal Poly Humboldt staff and students who are alumni of the program.  The recording of the presentation is available in the link above.  

On April 14th the Sexual Assault Prevention Committee hosted the third annual Anti-Violence Summit at College of the Redwoods.  In partnership with the President's office at College of the Redwoods, the Social Work department CR and the Department of Communication at Cal Poly Humboldt, students from both schools collaborated to prevent and respond to sexualized violence.  Communication Department Sexual Assault Intern Lauren Nicolosi, CRGS major Dean Washington and Communication major Shiloh Litke facilitated breakout sessions.  Project Rebound director and College of the Redwood instructor Mark Taylor hosted the session with guests of Chelsey Castiglione (Prevention Coordinator) and Dr. Maxwell Schnurer chair of the Communication department and the Sexual Assault Prevention Committee. 

Forestry graduate students, Courtney Copper, Sebastian Evans, and Kaitlyn Briggs, as well as Forestry faculty Lucy Kerhoulas gave oral presentations about their research at the Northwest Scientific Association annual meeting in Olympia, WA in March.

Forestry graduate student Millen McCord presented a poster (Physiological responses of Oregon white oak to thinning in the East Cascades; Millen McCord & Lucy Kerhoulas) at the Northwest Scientific Association annual meeting and won first place for graduate student posters.

Gabriel Roletti (ESM BS 2020, Forestry MS 2022) published his Master's thesis in Forest Ecology and Management with his co-advisors Rosemary Sherriff (GESA) and Lucy Kerhoulas (Forestry), along with other Humboldt alums Jill Beckmann and Wallis Robinson.

Dr. Paul Michael L. Atienza was elected to the executive board of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) as the Northern California/Nevada region representative. Founded in 1979, AAAS is the primary research and teaching hub for Asian American Studies, an interdisciplinary field born out of the 1960s movements for racial justice, third world liberation, and student activism. Dr. Atienza will serve a three-year term starting April 2026.

Dr. AmyK Conley received grant funding for a teacher preparation program that trains undergraduate students as certified high-impact literacy tutors. The project will strengthen reading support for struggling K–12 students in Northern Humboldt while building a pipeline of educators grounded in the science of reading. Through coursework and clinical practice, undergraduates will gain training in developmental literacy and provide targeted literacy interventions in local schools and rural Northern California districts.

This grant comes as a sub-award from Northern Humboldt Unified High School District, with primary funding from the US Department of Education.

Dr. Gabi Kirk will be presenting a virtual talk at the international workshop "Evanescent and Emerging Spaces: Land/World Struggles of Palestinians and Guarani" at Cardiff University (Wales) on April 22. This event will confront important and disturbing parallels between the genocides of Palestinians and the Guarani in South America, and the challenges of resisting neocolonial land theft and world grabbing. Dr. Kirk's talk at 8:45 AM PDT on April 22, titled, "Cultivating Sustainable Sovereignty: Palestinian Agrarian Lives in Transnational Focus," will share insights about Palestinian food sovereignty from her current book project. 

The workshop is free and open to the public virtually, all sessions are in BST (8 hours ahead). For a full schedule and to reserve a free ticket/watch sessions, see the conference site .

Enoch Hale, Ph.D. will be a conference panelist at the AAC&U 2025-2026 Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. Dr. Hale is currently serving as an AI Faculty Fellow with the AAC&U, and this event marks the culmination of work on the topic by colleges and universities throughout the world. Dr. Hale is the Director of the Center for Teaching & Learning at Cal Poly Humboldt. 

Faculty Loren Cannon, Philosophy

Loren Cannon (Philosophy, Applied Humanities) was invited to present his work at the Center On Ethics of San Jose State University on March 27th, 2026.  The title of his presentation was “The Ethical and Legal Stakes of Politicizing Trans Identity.”  Dr. Cannon addressed this topic by pulling from material of his recent book as well as his continued legal, moral, and social analysis of this important topic. The ninety-minute session included a presentation of his most recent analysis as well as an informal question and answer period that included meaningful engagement by both students and faculty of SJSU’s philosophy program.

Dr. Paul Michael L. Atienza joined the closing summit of the NSF-funded Knowledge of AIDS (KOA) Research Community Network (RCN). KOA-RCN seeks to form a scholarly community for social scientific, humanistic, and socio-technical researchers, artists, and community advocates of HIV/AIDS broadly situated within the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The final meeting in late March focused on forms of civic engagement that emerged and continues to actively respond for HIV/AIDS advocacy and resources. KOA-RCN seeks to develop multiple outputs in the coming years that include a robust online community and support for ongoing research collaborations.

The framing article for a special issue in the Professional Geographer has been published. The article, In Their Own Voices: The Stories and Status of Women in Geography in the United States (Oberhauser, Dixon, Li, Mossa, Rock, and Sultana), summarizes the articles that share the results of a 4-year project.  The special issue, Moving the Needle on Gender Equity: An Analysis of the Status of Women and Marginalized Groups in Geography, covers a range of methods used to assess current and historical conditions for women and marginalized groups within academic geography, celebrating progress and identifying continuing barriers to equitable representation in the discipline, and offers recommendations for continued growth.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2026.2633341 

Dr. Armeda C. Reitzel, Professor Emeritus, Communication, has been selected to join the Peace Corps as a Virtual Service Pilot Participant. Beginning in May 2026, Dr. Reitzel will work with staff in Ukraine to co-teach a "Summer English and Culture Club for Ukrainian Teens." This assignment builds on Dr. Reitzel's expertise in teaching English as a second language and intercultural communication. 

This book examines France's non-official foreign policy in Africa (1960-2024) via political essays, novels, and films from 10 Francophone African countries to better understand not only the ramifications of French neocolonialism, but also the legitimacy of the contemporary social movements calling for decolonial policies across the Francophone African world. 

 Published with the Press at Cal Poly. 

Dr. Amy Sprowles has received the prestigious CSU BIOTECH Andreoli Faculty Service Award, which honors a CSU faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to biotechnology programs across the California State University system. Dr. Sprowles was recognized for her exceptional leadership and impact on students through her role as Director of the CIRM Bridges Program, which provides Humboldt students with research experiences in regenerative medicine, and for her leadership in the design of Humboldt's PBLC first-year experience. She is continuing to grow biomedical research and education on our campus as the director of the new Humboldt-CIRM Shared Resources Laboratory.

Students Natalie Swearingen and Kaci Dodd, alumnus Isamar Lopez-Argueta, and Assistant Professor Allison Bronson presented their research on the ear anatomy of cartilaginous fishes at the Northeast Pacific Shark Symposium in Newport, Oregon.

Drs. Darren Ward and Nick Som received a grant for research on salmon populations and habitat in the Redwood Creek estuary. The project will build on ongoing monitoring efforts to better understand salmon population abundance and life history. New work will include fish tagging and tracking, water quality assessment, food web studies, and expanded habitat monitoring. Findings will generate information to guide habitat restoration efforts in Redwood Creek and help inform future estuary restoration projects.

Project partners include the California Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Redwood National Park, the Yurok Tribe, California Trout, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Funding is provided through a subaward from UC San Diego, with primary support from NOAA.

Dr. Peter Goetz's article titled "Algebras Associated to Inverse Systems of Projective Schemes" has been accepted for publication and will appear in the journal Algebras and Representation Theory. The work, joint with Dr. Andrew Conner at Saint Mary's College, introduces a functorial and geometric construction which takes a connected graded algebra A as input, and gives as output an algebra B(A), which generalizes the twisted homogeneous coordinate ring of a 3-dimensional Artin-Schelter regular algebra. The algebra B(A) is defined in terms of the inverse system of truncated point schemes and spaces of global sections of certain sheaves on products of projective spaces. A key result of the paper determines when a canonically defined algebra morphism A ---> B(A) is injective or surjective in terms of local cohomology modules. 

Dr. Tawanda Gara’s open-access reprint book based on the Special Issue “Remote Sensing of Vegetation Function and Traits,” which he guest edited, was published in Remote Sensing. The book is a collection of research papers from diverse scholars across the globe that focus on studying plants and ecosystems using remote sensing and data-driven methods. This achievement reflects a collaborative effort to advance ecological monitoring and environmental science using geospatial technology.

Professor Pascal Biwole, of the School of Engineering, and his team have published several papers, including: 

"Thermal mass vs. insulation trade-off in bio-based buildings: Climate-dependent energy performance of hemp, straw, and wood-based constructions", by Amer Bakkour, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, Pascal Biwole, and Sofiane Amziane, Energy and Buildings, Volume 358, 2026,

"Retrofitting Towards Net-Zero Energy Building Under Climate Change: An Approach Integrating Machine Learning and Multi-Objective Optimization", Ibrahim Mahdi, Pascal Biwole, Fatima Harkouss, Farouk Fardoun, and Salah Eddine Ouldboukhitine. Buildings 16, no. 3: 537, 2026. 

"Experimental evaluation of literature-established delignification techniques on poplar wood", by Yi Hien Chin, Christophe Vial, Yoshiki Horikawa, Joseph Gril, Rostand Moutou Pitti, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, Nicolas Labonne, and Pascal Biwole, Wood Science and Technology, Vol 60, 22, 2026.

"Gradient-Delignified Wood as a Sustainable Anisotropic Insulation Material"  by Chin, Yi Hien, Salah-Eddine Ouldboukhitine, Christophe Vial, Joseph Gril, Rostand Moutou Pitti, Nicolas Labonne, and Pascal Biwole, Energies 18, no. 20: 5519., 2025

"PEMFC cathode humidification: Can direct water injection compete with membrane humidifiers? A direct comparison study" by Flavien Marteau, Pedro Affonso Nóbrega, Cédric Sernissi, Pascal Biwole, Iona De Bievre, Christophe Vacquier, Christian Beauger, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Volume 172, 2025.

Steve Ladwig has received a travel grant to participate in a national conference hosted by the Alliance for Higher Education in Prison in April 2026. During the convening, he will connect with national partners and present emerging findings from Cal Poly Humboldt’s prison education work. The trip will also include formerly incarcerated students who began their studies at Pelican Bay State Prison, while current Pelican Bay BA students will present via Zoom. The conference advances shared efforts to improve access, quality, and outcomes in higher education in prison.

Funding is provided by the Sunshine Lady Foundation.

On February 28, the Humboldt County Office of Education and the Cal Poly Humboldt History department ran the annual county-level History Day competition on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus. Well over 300 local school children, from 4th grade through high school seniors, present their History Day projects in numerous locations across the campus. The awards ceremony was held in Forbes Gym, where many of the projects were on exhibit for all to inspect. Cal Poly Humboldt has been hosting this event since the 1990s and is the only university that hosts a county-level event in the United States.  

Minding the Gender Gap: Working Toward Parity for Women in U.S. Academic Geography (Mossa, J., B. Dixon, S. Sultana, A. Rock, and B. Kar, 2026) has just been released in electronic format. The latest release from the Status of Women in Geography Project, this piece examines 50 years of gender composition of Geography departments in higher ed, finding that while parity has been reached at lower ranks, female full professors still lag behind, even when compared with other social sciences. A map by Dr. Rock related to this project is currently hanging in Founders Hall outside the Geography Department. (Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2026.2621345)

Benny Anjewierden and Dr. Amber Gaffney in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Alberta have a forthcoming book chapter, "Uncertainty and social identity", in K. Vail, D. Van Tongeren, B. Schlegel, J. Greenberg, L. King, & R. Ryan (Eds.), Handbook of the Science of Existential Psychology.

In the fall 2025 semester, Dr. Walmsley was invited by the editor of Operants magazine to write a gerontology piece. The article is entitled "Using Behavior Analysis To Help Evaluate Social Outcomes in a Nutrition Program for Older Adults". It details some community-based ABA research conducted by Dr. Walmsley and his research lab in collaboration with a local agency providing services to older adults.

Povheng Yam (ADPI-MENA Center Coordinator), Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza (Assistant Professor, CRGS), Michelle Miyamoto (Associate Director, ODEI), and Ravin Craig (Dean of Students) represented Cal Poly Humboldt at the inaugural California AANHPI Student Achievement Program (CSU ASAP) Summit on February 23 at Sacramento State University. They created a poster presentation with Humboldt specific achievements and student resources developed through funds allocated from the California Education Budget. The legislation provides for $8 ​million in ongoing funding towards expanding student access, equity, and affordability, and to create pathways to high-demand career opportunities for under-served students. The California Community Colleges also received allocations.​

ADPI-MENA student staff Shaun Masuda, Rosalyn Luong, Senty Wu, and Nicolo Ponnekanti represented Cal Poly Humboldt during the inaugural California Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Student Achievement Program Summit on February 23 at Sacramento State University. The California State University Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program (CSU ASAP) was authorized by the California Education Code Section 89297.1​ in 2022. The legislation provides for $8 ​million in ongoing funding for culturally responsive services to enhance student educational experiences and promote higher education success for low-income, underserved and first-generation AANHPI students and other underrepresented students. 

Devon Walker, Jonathan Juarez, Chase Loughmiller, Anthony Wolfe, Dennis Allen and Jacob Lewis competed in the 2026 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.  Working in teams of three, they have just four days to analyze and solve an open-ended, real-world problem and produce a detailed solution paper.  This year, both teams addressed a problem related to modeling battery drain in smartphones by using continuous time models.

Loren Cannon (Philosophy, Applied Humanities) was requested to present his work at the American Philosophical Association's Central Meeting, in Chicago, February 18-21. He presented his most recent essay, "Court of Supreme Contradictions: A Changing Legal Landscape for LGBTQ+ Americans," in the session on LGBTQ+ Philosophy of Law. His latest work explores the relationship between the pro-LGBTQ+ rights rulings in 2015 (Obergefell) and 2020 (Bostock) and how the arguments of several Supreme Court ruling since 2020 together present a much less optimistic picture, especially with regards to broad based social acceptance including the contexts of health care, education, and commerce. This changing legal climate has ramifications for LGBTQ+ persons and our intent to live flourishing lives as well as the stability of the Obergefell and Bostock rulings themselves. 

James Floss, Lecturer Emeritus of the Communication Department, recently gave a workshop, “More Than Words” in Tlacochahuaya, Mexico to future teachers focusing on vocality and physicality to enliven read-alouds. The conference, hosted by Escuela Normal Bilingüe e Intercultural de Oaxaca was for indigenous teachers from throughout Oaxaca promoting instruction in their native languages. He was assisted by his wife, Annie Bolick-Floss, former director of Service Learning and Academic Internships.

James Floss, Lecturer Emeritus of the Communication Department, recently gave a workshop, “More Than Words,” in Tlacochahuaya, Mexico to future teachers focusing on vocality and physicality to enliven read-alouds. The conference, hosted by Escuela Normal Bilingüe e Intercultural de Oaxaca was for indigenous teachers from throughout Oaxaca promoting instruction in their native languages. He was assisted by his wife, Annie Bolick-Floss, former director of Service Learning and Academic Internships.

Dr. Jim Graham received continued funding from California Trout (CalTrout) that will pay for a graduate student to perform GIS habitat modeling in the Eel River Watershed, and develop a subsequent Riparian Climate Refugia (RCR) data set. The data will provide information on where riparian corridors (vegetation growing near natural bodies of water) contain remaining climate refugia on the CA North Coast. Climate refugia are landscape features that provide environmental protection and can allow species to persist through climate change effects. The data will be particularly useful to land managers, who can use it to make more informed restoration and conservation decisions.

On February 17, 2026, Enoch Hale, Ph.D., facilitated a national webinar for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) titled “Scaling Faculty Development for AI: Aligning Pedagogy, Technology, and Learning Outcomes.” The session focused on scalable strategies to support faculty in integrating AI into their teaching while maintaining strong alignment with pedagogy and student learning outcomes. Dr. Hale emphasized ethical, outcomes-driven implementation and shared practical professional development models institutions can adopt. More than 170 higher education professionals from across the country attended, highlighting significant national interest in effective AI integration.

Gabriel Abundis, Sage Brislen, Trinity Edwards, Bailey Glashan, Logan Holey, Lee Minicuci (graduate student) are all independent student researchers in the Rangeland Resource Science Program that were able to share their research from Cal Poly Humboldt through poster presentations at the Annual Society for Range Management in Monterey, California.

Sean Dillon, Marina Dunlop, Tristan Fritsch, J. J. Madrigal Garcia, Bree Gentil-Guijosa, Logan Holey, Noah-Charlie Regan, Jennifer Salguero, Derek Tremaine, Nicholas Verhey, and Kai Zerbo competed at the Annual Society for Range Management in Monterey, California with their coach, Todd Golder. This year they ranked nationally in the rangeland plant identification competition, with Cal Poly Humboldt ranked 2nd place nationally in the U.S and 5th place globally with other universities from Canada and Mexico.

Humnath Panta, faculty at the School of Business, co-authored the article “ESG Ratings in Motion: The Global Market Response to Upgrades and Downgrades,” published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment (Taylor & Francis, January 7, 2026). The study analyzes 2,841 MSCI-rated global stocks (2017–2021) using a calendar-time portfolio approach and finds that ESG rating upgrades (downgrades) generate statistically and economically significant abnormal returns of about +1% (–1%) per month. The effects are robust across models, holding periods, sectors, and regions, with stronger impacts for large and growth firms and in low power-distance countries, and increased synchronization post-COVID-19. The findings advance understanding of ESG information efficiency and its implications for global asset pricing and investment strategy.

Professor Emeritus Robert W. Zoellner and his two former students, Lowen M. Hobbs and Hanna D. (Phillips) Hobbs (both now in the U. S. Coast Guard), have published their second peer-reviewed article together, entitled “The limits of low-spin zinc oxidation states from density functional theory computations:  Fluoro-zinc complexes, [ZnFn]x, where n = 1 through 6 and x = 2+ through 3-, including complexes Ccontaining the η1-F2-, 1-η1-F3-, and 1,3-η2-F3-ligands”: L. M. Hobbs, H. D. Hobbs, R. W. Zoellner, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 2026, 1258, 115701 (12 pp.).

Cal Poly Humboldt’s Debate Club marked a major milestone with its first full squad trip since before the pandemic, competing at Las Positas College against teams from 33 institutions. Five debate pairs participated, most at their first collegiate tournament. Sylvia Seay and Oz Kimbell advanced to quarterfinals, the program’s first elimination round appearance in six years, earning top‑eight finishes and speaker awards. Arcata High student Gamma Caruso also excelled, placing 2nd in Novice Debate. The successful weekend was supported by staff, student organizers, and Debate Coach Dr. Aaron Donaldson, signaling renewed momentum for Humboldt’s speech and debate program. 

Go Jacks!

Former Geography faculty (1998-2001) and Potawatomi Nation tribal member Margaret Wickens Pearce was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship for her “Foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories.” The Fellowship is an $800,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who demonstrate exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. This follows multiple NSF grants and a 2023 Guggenheim award. While at Humboldt, Margaret and Mary Beth Cunha established the Kosmos Lab from which students then and now have won an avalanche of state and national awards for their innovative cartography. 

Dan Mar received a $65,000 grant from the Resources Legacy Fund to support initiatives within the Cannabis Studies Program, including the 2026 Cannabis and Environmental Stewardship Symposium on  April 17, 2026, and student-led podcast production through the Cannabis Studies Lab. Funding will provide paid opportunities for undergraduate students in event planning, research, and media creation, and allow the purchase of podcast equipment. Through the podcast, students will explore cultural, economic, and environmental dimensions of cannabis. The all-day symposium will feature moderated panel discussions on sustainable cultivation, environmental restoration, and cannabis research. Together, these initiatives will expand hands-on learning opportunities and strengthen the Cannabis Studies Program.

Dr. Eileen Cashman received a grant to lead a sea level rise planning and economic study for the Murray Field Airport in Eureka. The airport provides critical services to Humboldt County, including air freight, postal delivery, air ambulance, and Coast Guard operations, but faces growing vulnerability to sea level rise, making this study essential to inform long-term planning decisions for its future. The study will assess sea level rise impacts and develop conceptual designs for possible adaptation options. Evaluation will include flood prevention strategies, economic impacts, and alignment with community goals. 

Funding is provided by the California State Coastal Conservancy.

Cal Poly Humboldt students from the Environmental Science & Management (ESM) major Mary Mangubat, Erik Meusborn, and Andrew Todd are co-authors on a recent publication in the Journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The publication is titled Fisheries of the middle: building collaborations between seafood and agriculture to revitalize and enhance mid-scale food production. The research began as an undergraduate research project in the ESM Planning & Policy capstone class where students were exploring common challenges among the seafood and agriculture systems in our local region -- working for community clients Ashley Vellis (Ashely's Seafood) and Megan Kenney (North Coast Growers' Association). It then evolved to include the ideas and voices of many other scholars and practitioners working in seafood and ag systems. The piece argues for the development and sustenance of "middle scale" seafood systems in addition to those focused on smaller-scale or direct-marketing strategies.

Dr. Sherrene Bogle received a travel award to attend the NSF ACCESS Regional AI Workshop on January 22, 2026 at University of Southern California. She presented a poster on "ACOSUS - An AI-driven Counseling System for Transfer Students". The NSF funded ACOSUS, on which Dr. Bogle is a co PI, is designed to complement existing advising by providing personalized readiness assessments, success predictions, and actionable recommendations for computing transfer students.

Dr. Frye has published the Citizenship+ Communication Action Guide with the upcoming nationally convened Civic Learning Week, March 19-23, 2026. The Citizenship+ Communication Action Guide is an open source educational resource developed by Dr. Joshua Frye and Dr. Steve Goldzwig (Marquette University) to accompany their 2024 book, Rhetoric and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era.  The OER includes several applied learning activities to advance ethical and effective citizenship+ communication. It also includes a series of topically organized quotations to help inspire democratic attitudes and practices.

Jeff Crane, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences recently published the opinion article "Come to the Dark Side: The Dangers of Pathologizing Administration in Higher Ed" with co-author Lee Bebout (Arizona State University) for Inside Higher Ed. 
 

Sara Hart and the Center for Community Based Learning received renewed funding from the Governor’s California Volunteers Office to continue and expand Cal Poly Humboldt’s College Corps program, a service fellowship providing students $10,000 toward their education for 450 hours of service in the community. Fellows partner with local organizations to meet local needs while developing future-ready skills of service leadership. New pilot programming includes Youth Mental Health Corps training opportunities, as well as increased collaboration with existing academic internships. 

Learn more at the link: https://www.humboldt.edu/ccbl/college-corps