To the Graduating Class of 2013, First of all: gratitude.  Thank you for selecting me for the award of Cultural Diversity Professor of the Year.  Your class has a special place in my heart, as we both came into Cal Lutheran together: you were my first students in Religion 100, [...]

To the California Lutheran Class of 2013 Five years ago I had the opportunity of addressing incoming freshmen eager to start their CLU journey. I asked them to visualize the faculty sitting at tables where professors were inviting students to sit and have conversations about expanding their knowledge of self, [...]

CLU students in the advanced public relations class have overcome several obstacles during their class project of raffling off Justin Bieber tickets to raise money for Ventura County Special Olympics. Met with success as well as hardship, the class project gave students a taste of the real public relations world. [...]

CLU junior Maria Stoll started her own clothing drive for students and families of Rio Real Elementary in Oxnard, Calif. Stoll is a member of Club Teach on campus. The program enables students who are in the process of becoming teachers to help the community and engage with children grades [...]

Jarvis Streeter, professor of religion, received an Honorary Alumnus Award from CLU’s Alumni Association during Honors Convocation on April 30 in Samuelson Chapel. After receiving the award with gratitude, Streeter gave the keynote address to students, parents and faculty in attendance, for which he received a standing ovation. “It’s not [...]

Tang Soo Do and Feminism Is… clubs joined forces last Thursday, May 2, to equip students with the knowledge to protect themselves in case of an attack. This special hour-long self-defense class was part of CLU’s Take Back the Night event last Wednesday and intended to teach students how to [...]

On April 30, CLU students worked together to make stay-in-touch packets for the nonprofit organization Get On The Bus. The program buses children and their caregivers to visit their mothers and fathers in prison for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. California Lutheran University’s Community Service Center organized the event to [...]

On May 1, professor Barbara Collins passed away from an incurable bacterial lung disease at 84 years old. Collins taught at CLU for 50 years.  Her biology students viewed her as a very passionate professor who cared highly for science and nature. “She was a very informative professor. She had [...]

Not many things are as representative of the summer months as beach trips, barbecues, long days and warm nights. Unless you’re at CLU, in which case, the biggest summer highlight is the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival. The professional Shakespeare company will be staging “Hamlet” and “The Tempest” this summer, two of [...]

Whenever you’re about to go on a trip, planning what to pack can be one of the most important details. This is especially true when you’re going to study abroad. Depending on which culture you’ll be immersed in, packing can get pretty specific. “I didn’t do any research about the [...]