Cal Lutheran in the Media

Good Works: CLU gets $3M in career grants; WEV marks Women’s Small Business Month

Oct. 31, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

California Lutheran University was awarded just under $3 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Education to help students with career pathways and professional development.

Donation will fund scholarships for CLU students with financial need

Oct. 28, 2022

Thousand Oaks Acorn

Cal Lutheran University recently received $2.5 million to provide scholarships to students from low- and middle-income families. The donation from the Camarillo based TOLD Foundation is the largest that CLU has received for scholarships, outside of an estate gift.

New campus pastor to be installed at CLU

Oct. 28, 2022

Thousand Oaks Acorn

Cal Lutheran University has named the Rev. Scott Hamilton Adams as its new pastor, a campus leader who provides spiritual support, care and counseling to students, faculty, staff and administrators.

The man who went from farm worker to NASA astronaut spoke in Ventura County this week

Oct. 21, 2022

KCLU

It was a dream he declared to his parents when he was just 10-years-old. "Dad. I want to be an astronaut." It couldn’t have been further from the life Jose Hernandez was living with his family, as farmworkers who traveled to California nine months of the year to work.

Latinos working frontline jobs powered U.S. economy during peak of pandemic, report says

Oct. 5, 2022

Cronkite News

LOS ANGELES – Latinos played a crucial role in keeping the U.S. economy humming during the peak of the pandemic, a new report says.

Dubroff: Dorfman, CLU look to the future with new round of startup grants

Sep. 21, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

What started out as a donation from a Thousand Oaks resident to build a new home for the California Lutheran University School of Management morphed into something very different when the pandemic hit.

Our View: CLU researchers tell an important story of the Latino economy

Sep. 16, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

When California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Forecasting and Research rolled out its first Latino GDP report a number of years ago, we were impressed with this partnership between CLU and UCLA.

UCSB, Cal Poly, CLU all crack top 10 on U.S. News lists

Sep. 13, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo ranked second among Western regional universities, which includes universities that do not offer doctoral programs, and California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks was sixth on the same list.

Gilbert family’s gift will fund 100 CLU scholarships

Sep. 8, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

A $2.5 million gift from the TOLD Foundation will provide California Lutheran University with roughly 100 scholarships to low-income and moderate-income students over the next eight years.

CLU receives $1.3M grant to support diverse students seeking doctorates

Aug. 27, 2022

Simi Valley Acorn

The nationwide program provides guidance and resources to high-achieving undergraduates who are low-income, first-generation college students or from groups traditionally underrepresented in graduate education.

Federal grant will help support CLU students to the tune of $1.3 million

Aug. 27, 2022

Moorpark Acorn

The U.S. Department of Education has approved a fiveyear grant worth over $1.3 million for Cal Lutheran to continue the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

Guest column: A fragmented world is not sustainable

Aug. 7, 2022

Ventura County Star

The International Monetary Fund revised its recent economic outlook, lowering its baseline forecast for economic growth in 2022 by 0.4 percentage points to 3.2%, a drop from 6.1% last year.

Eliminating the pay gap brings true appreciation of DEIJ

Apr. 15, 2023

Ventura County Star

Celebrating diversity, equity, inclusion and justice is admirable, but it does not improve people’s lives if effective measures and clear policies do not back it.

How Ghana’s All-Black Water Polo team aims to boost Africa’s presence at Olympics

Apr. 26, 2023

GhanaWeb

Prince Asante Sefa-Boakye has frequently found himself to be the only African American player, and one of very few players of colour, in a water polo pool.

Valley economy shrank 5% in pandemic, grew 9% in 2021

Feb. 28, 2022

San Fernando Valley Business Journal

The San Fernando Valley’s economy shrank 5 percent in the pandemic year 2020, but it bounced back in a big way in 2021, growing 9 percent, according to a report unveiled Monday at the Valley Economic Forecast breakfast.

Vaiman: Talent management in times of change

Feb. 28, 2022

CSQ Magazine

Top strategies for keeping talent during culture shifts and crises.

After year and a half delay due to pandemic, Cal Lutheran president has inaugural ceremony

Feb. 28, 2022

KCLU

The pandemic delayed it for a year and a half, but a South Coast university’s president finally had her official inauguration.

Running toward sustainability: A conversation with Vic Thasiah, executive director of Runners for Public Lands

Jan. 1, 2022

Ventana Monthly

Vic Thasiah loves to run. And he loves the natural world. The California Lutheran University professor (who earned his Ph.D. at Oxford) recently merged his two passions into a single philanthropic pursuit: Runners for Public Lands.

Il Ghana e il nuovo amore per la pallanuoto

Jan. 19, 2022

Waterpolo Development World

Mentre in Europa la pallanuoto deve fare i conti con i problemi legati alla pandemia di Covid-19, una bella notizia arriva dall’Africa, dove la waterpolo ha tagliato un importante traguardo: sabato a Legon, sobborgo a pochi chilometri da Accra, è iniziato il primo campionato della storia...

CLU names alumna Roepke as athletic director

Jan. 20, 2022

Ventura County Star

Cal Lutheran University named alumna Holly Roepke as its athletic director on Thursday morning.

Witman, Prior and Njunge: Everyone benefits when vaccinations are widespread

Jan. 28, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

Just over two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and well into the biggest surge, we find humanity both amazingly fortunate and still at significant risk.

How one university is seeking to acknowledge the history of the land on which it’s built

Jan. 28, 2022

KCLU

Much of the land on the Central and South Coasts originally belonged to the Chumash tribe.

Jafra exec outlines blueprint for diversity, success

Jan. 31, 2022

Pacific Coast Business Times

Judith Sánchez López, the senior vice president and general manager at Thousand Oaks-based Jafra Cosmetics, has visited almost all of the Earth’s continents.

Cal Lutheran welcomes new pastor

Nov. 5, 2022

Camarillo Acorn

Cal Lutheran University has named the Rev. Scott Hamilton Adams as its new pastor, a campus leader who provides spiritual support, care and counseling to students, faculty, staff and administrators.