Cal State Fullertonâs Associated Students elections took place this week with candidates campaigning virtually as the president and vice president team Josh Mitchell and Kira Dawson won unopposed.
On a campus with around 40,000 students, the voter turnout for this year was only 610, which means that only 1.5% of the student population voted.
Mitchell and Dawson received 423 of the 610 votes and 178 voters abstained.
Students were able to vote for ASI president and vice president, representatives for each of the eight colleges on the board of directors, and the new Titan Student Center Advisory Council.
The College of Business and Economics received the most votes for their board of directors candidates, with 311 votes, while no other college received over 80 votes for their candidates.
On Thursday, WPSU hosted a community discussion about the role of Black churches in central Pennsylvania and throughout the civil rights movement. Will Price, a 2017 Penn State graduate from
“When I have a lot of money, I’ll be happy.”
“If I could get a promotion, I would be happy.”
Wrong, says Jessica Kamrath, assistant professor of human communication studies at Cal State Fullerton. Achieving happiness involves a lot more than reaching a certain milestone or goal.
“Happiness is not a destination or something tangible that you can grab a hold of and then you are happy,” she explained. “However, it is something within our control. Research has found that happiness is 50% heritable, 10% circumstantial and 40% intentional.”
The concept of happiness and what it takes to obtain it has been studied for years in psychology, but Kamrath sees a place for it in communications as well. Happiness is rooted not only in human behaviors, but in interactions, intentions and communicative acts.
Marilyn Clark is UK s first supplier diversity manager.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 19, 2021) The University of Kentucky has tapped a highly regarded expert in the local community to be its first supplier diversity manager as part of a long-term effort to bolster and strengthen ties to minority-owned businesses and vendors.
As part of the University of Kentucky’s plan to progress the institution toward diversity, equity and inclusion, the university has created 17 projects in phase one of its campus wide Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) plan.
Included in this plan is Project 14, which seeks to expand UK’s supplier diversity procurement efforts. Led by Barry Swanson, UK’s chief procurement officer, a national search for a supplier diversity manager was conducted to ensure a dedicated focus for the effort.
“Is there any relationship between Athens City Schools being closed on Friday, Feb. 12 (no reason given) and also being closed on Monday, Feb. 15 for ‘Teacher Inservice Day 2/15/21’