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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...

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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...

Creating Opportunities

Chris Catilian ’90 blends his love of the outdoors with his knowledge of business and law. As creator and executive director of the Leadership in Outdoor Recreation Industry program at Denver University, he equips...

President John Nunes

Uplifting Our Community, Peace by Piece

The lengthening of daylight is a delightful sign of spring. This season of Lent is, for Lutherans and a billion other Christians, a time of reflection and preparation. This year, it extends from Ash Wednesday, March 5...

Where Training Meets Helping

With a reduction in the stigma surrounding treatment and advancements to improve access, especially the rise of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeking therapy has become increasingly commonplace.

Support Behind the Scenes

Meet some of the Cal Lutheran staff helping students navigate their college years and beyond.

Finding Their Pathways

Thanks to an innovative partnership between the school district and California Lutheran University’s teacher credentialing program, Landeros, at 42, expects to soon become a full-time, fully credentialed teacher with...

Swan Song

After an impressive 33-year tenure as a music professor at California Lutheran University, Wyant Morton is set to retire this May, leaving behind a legacy that has deeply influenced the university's musical landscape.

Topping Their Charts

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

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Serving You, Cal Lutheran’s Neighbor

As I reflect on my early months as interim president, I am struck by the deep sense of community that defines California Lutheran University. Conversations with alumni, students, faculty and staff have demonstrated that...

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.

Through Thick and Thin

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

Cal Lutheran volleyball champions

Showing Their Values

The 17 strong needed to narrow 16 values down to a final four. Basketball isn’t the only college sport with a sweet-16 bracket. They voted on the four they valued most: adaptability, sacrifice, passion and hard work.

Historic photo of Cal Lutheran alumni basketball coaches

Coming Full Circle

Thirty years removed from sharing a room inside Mt. Clef Hall, the three friends can still conjure up the name of an obscure Texas Rangers third baseman who, for most casual baseball fans, has been lost to the sands of...

Capitol Learning

Democracy is messy … in a good way. Matthew Bauer ’24 said that’s one lesson he learned during his internship through the Lutheran College Washington Semester program in Washington, D.C.

Turning Passion into Purpose

Music has been a colossal part of Jasmine Keys' life. Now, as a high school teacher, she seeks to inspire students to love the art form as much as she does.

In Memoriam

Remembering Lucy Ballard and Allen Otto Leland.

Alumni Awards

Outstanding Alumni Award The Outstanding Alumni Award is given to a Cal Lutheran graduate with a distinguished record of career achievements or humanitarian endeavors dedicated to social reform. Sue Dwyer-Voss ’86...

Friends Skip Around with a Nutty Companion

A jar of Skippy Peanut Butter has been passed around a group of friends and traveling with them since their 1993 graduation from Cal Lutheran. In 1989, Kevin Charlston ’93, Rod Borgie ’93, Michael Clarke ’93, Eric...