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Cal Lutheran Begins 2025-26 Academic Year with Improved Student Experience

The 2025-2026 school year begins at California Lutheran University on Aug. 25 with over 1,000 incoming undergraduate and graduate students.

August 20, 2025

California Lutheran University Students Excel with Summer Research Fellowships

When the spring semester ended in May, over 50 students at California Lutheran University stayed to conduct in-depth research with faculty mentors.

August 18, 2025

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary’s New Rector is California Lutheran University Spiritual Leader

The Rev. Colleen Windham-Hughes, PhD, has been appointed the rector of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary,

August 12, 2025

‘Ask Gumby’ Earns Future Campus Award for Innovative Student Guidance

California Lutheran University has been recognized with the Tambellini Future Campus Award for its groundbreaking AI initiative, “Ask Gumby.”

August 8, 2025

California Latino GDP Surges Past $1 Trillion

If California Latinos were an independent state, their GDP would be the nation’s sixth-largest state GDP, according to the 2025 California Latino GDP Report by researchers at California Lutheran University and UCLA.

July 23, 2025

28th Annual Shakespeare Festival Explores Comedic, Dramatic Sides of Romance

This summer is filled with romance — both comedic and dramatic — as the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company performs two of William Shakespeare’s beloved plays: “Twelfth Night” and “Cymbeline.”

June 20, 2025

Esteemed Barry Goldwater Scholarship Awarded to California Lutheran University Student

Elisha Tong is furthering her research amid the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance, thanks to a scholarship from The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.

June 3, 2025

California Lutheran University Names New President

During his interim tenure, John A. Nunes actively engaged with students, faculty, alumni and community partners, championing efforts to renew the university's strategic vision while honoring its roots in the Lutheran...

May 19, 2025

California Lutheran University Professor Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics

California Lutheran University School of Management professor Vlad Vaiman, Ph.D., has been awarded one of the most prestigious appointments offered to U.S. scholars.

May 14, 2025

Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’ Comes to California Lutheran University

A posh dinner party with lovably goofy, bourgeois guests quickly spirals into a scandalous evening of confusion, mistaken identities and lies in this student production.

April 9, 2025

News Highlights – Spring/Summer 2025

CERF releases ground-breaking U.S. Latina GDP Report The Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) has discovered that U.S. Latina GDP has doubled since 2010 to reach $1.3 trillion in 2021. Furthermore...

April 8, 2025

Sports Highlights – Spring/Summer 2025

Kingsmen, Regals go dancing For the first time in Cal Lutheran history, both the men’s and women’s basketball teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament. The Kingsmen advanced to postseason play as an at-large...

April 7, 2025

Cal Lutheran Economists Again Honored with Prestigious National Forecast Award

Matthew Fienup, Ph.D., and Dan Hamilton, Ph.D., received the 2024 Crystal Ball Award for the Fannie Mae Home Price Expectations Survey.

March 27, 2025

Topping Their Charts

Alumni share favorite songs from the soundtracks of their Cal Lutheran memories.

March 18, 2025

Senior Art Exhibit Explores Bridges of Time

The In-Between: Senior Art Exhibit 2025 will run March 20 through May 16.

March 10, 2025

Not Accessible: Affording a Dignified Life on the Central Coast

The Feb. 28 conference will spotlight how lack of affordability impacts families, the community, region and state.

February 6, 2025

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Author to Speak at California Lutheran University

Author Robin Wall Kimmerer will explore the dominant themes of her seminal book in a Zoom webinar at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 12.

January 31, 2025

Sports Highlights – Fall/Winter 2024

On July 22, 2024, members of Cal Lutheran’s national champion women’s soccer and men’s volleyball teams witnessed history.

December 16, 2024

News Highlights – Fall/Winter 2024

The Cal Lutheran choir took its first trip to Europe since the COVID-19 pandemic with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform in May in Vienna and Salzburg, Austria, and Prague, Czech Republic.

December 16, 2024

Through Thick and Thin

From first-day jitters to forming lifelong friendships, alumni share memories of their days in the Cal Lutheran residence halls

December 16, 2024

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Cal Lutheran Begins 2025-26 Academic Year with Improved Student Experience

California Lutheran University Students Excel with Summer Research Fellowships

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary’s New Rector is California Lutheran University Spiritual Leader

‘Ask Gumby’ Earns Future Campus Award for Innovative Student Guidance

California Latino GDP Surges Past $1 Trillion

28th Annual Shakespeare Festival Explores Comedic, Dramatic Sides of Romance

Esteemed Barry Goldwater Scholarship Awarded to California Lutheran University Student

California Lutheran University Names New President

California Lutheran University Professor Awarded Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics

Neil Simon’s ‘Rumors’ Comes to California Lutheran University

News Highlights – Spring/Summer 2025

Sports Highlights – Spring/Summer 2025

Cal Lutheran Economists Again Honored with Prestigious National Forecast Award

Topping Their Charts

Senior Art Exhibit Explores Bridges of Time

Not Accessible: Affording a Dignified Life on the Central Coast

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ Author to Speak at California Lutheran University

Sports Highlights – Fall/Winter 2024

News Highlights – Fall/Winter 2024

Through Thick and Thin

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