New CSUDH Blackboard logo. Screenshot from https://toro.csudh.edu/. By Melanie Gerner, Staff Reporter You may have noticed that new Learning Management System (LMS) smell on your first day attending classes online at California State University, Dominguez Hills. And you would be right. The visual aspects of the Blackboard Ultra (BbU) LMS, including the “Institution Page” and […]
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ICE Reverses Controversial International Students Policy for Fall Semester
Photo by Bill Oxford on Unsplash By Jasmine Nguyen, Editor-in-Chief Last week, the world of higher education was thrown into chaos as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) announced new guidelines that would have prohibited international students from taking all their classes online or risk being deported from the country. This announcement was met with a whirlwind […]
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The New (Un) Normal to Continue: Classes to be Primarily Online in Fall 2020
California State University Chancellor Timothy White announced today that in-person classes, with possible exceptions, at all 23 CSU campuses across the state will be canceled and most instruction will be delivered solely online. White informed the CSU Board of Trustees of the decision at today’s board meeting, which was live-streamed. He said it came after […]
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Students Petition for All A’s Amid Outbreak
By Dayzsha Lino, Co-News Editor As professors and students continue to adjust to the new non-normal of alternative instruction, one graduating senior is trying to build support for something that might feel the most abnormal for some of us students: getting straight A’s across the board this semester Emmanuel Okosisi, a chemistry major, started a […]