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Regal’s soccer wins NCAA National Championship

After a historic regular season, the Regals defeated No. 2-ranked Washington University 1-0 to take home the first national title in program history.

December 2, 2023

Regals Soccer Advances to First-Ever National Championship

The Regals is the first Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) team to play for a National Championship.

December 1, 2023

Works of protest, resistance done by diverse set of artists

The exhibit presents works of protest and resistance by 22 artists from different backgrounds who use the tools and techniques of printmaking in novel ways.

October 2, 2023

Cal Lutheran welcomes 3,500 diverse students

Of the 770 first-time undergraduate students, 62% are students of color.

September 5, 2023

Gagliardo wins President’s Award for Teaching Excellence

The award recognizes professors who are held in high esteem by their peers, students and the rest of the university community.

August 15, 2023

Faculty members retire with emeritus status

The Board of Regents awarded emeritus status to five Cal Lutheran faculty members who retired in May 2023 and have a combined total of more than 115 years of service.

August 9, 2023

Paul Hsu, Dan Hamilton, David Hayes-Bautista and Matthew Fienup.

Center for Economic Research and Forecasting wins Latino Leadership Award

Cal Lutheran’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) economists are among the recipients of the 2023 Pacific Coast Business Times’ Latino Leadership Award.

July 28, 2023

The Apocalypse Is Here in Kingsmen Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

The 26th season concludes with a novel twist on the play, which takes place in an abandoned shopping mall after an apocalyptic event.

July 17, 2023

Cal Lutheran Hires General Counsel

Marvin Richards will serve as Cal Lutheran’s chief legal officer, Rick Ysasi has been appointed CFO and Colleen Windham-Hughes is the new associate vice president for Mission and Identity.

July 13, 2023

Longtime Cal Lutheran Baseball Coach Retires

Marty Slimak, or “coach Slim” as he’s known on the diamond, has retired from California Lutheran University and the Kingsmen Baseball program after more than three decades.

July 7, 2023

A Novel Setting for “Gentlemen of Verona”

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival returns to California Lutheran University for its 26th season on June 30 through Aug. 6 with “The Two Gentlemen of Verona.”

July 3, 2023

Annual Cares Day raises more than $2 million

Nearly 1,800 donors made 2,352 gifts in the most successful annual fundraising campaign ever.

June 7, 2023

Cal Lutheran opens access to Gallegly Archive

356 storage boxes, in view behind glass walls, are filled with the archived papers of Ventura County’s longest-serving congressman, Elton W. Gallegly.

May 18, 2023

Balancing the narrative in Ventura

Being an effective public servant and improving the human condition has always been an objective for Lorrie Brown ’07, MPPA ’09, whether that means working in government or helping people discover their purpose.

April 21, 2023

Cal Lutheran hosts its first-ever Women in Film Summit

An impressive lineup of women will be on campus for discussions of inequality in the movie and TV industry over two days.

March 3, 2023

MBA final course brings out student ingenuity

Every year, local businesses become clients of Cal Lutheran graduate students in MBA 595: Consulting to Business.

October 28, 2022

Latinos fuel L.A. metro economy, study finds

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — September 6, 2022) Latinos in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan region are making significant and rapidly growing contributions to the economy, according to a first-of-its-kind report by...

September 6, 2022

High school students participate in a summer residential program through Cal Lutheran's TRIO Traditional Upward Bound program.

Cal Lutheran Upward Bound gets $3.6M

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — June 17, 2022) The U.S. Department of Education awarded California Lutheran University more than $3.6 million to continue and expand its TRIO Traditional Upward Bound services for high school...

June 17, 2022

Benjamin White portrays Orlando and Chloe Baldwin is Rosalind in "As You Like It." Photo: Brian Stethem

Festival marks 25th anniversary of debut

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — June 16, 2022) Twenty-five years after the first Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival was held, and following a two-year pandemic-caused hiatus, the event kicks off its joyous return to California...

June 16, 2022

Festivalgoers can wander through an authentic Viking village and a Sami siidastallan, or community gathering. Photo: Tracie Karasik

Scandinavian Festival back after 3 years

(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — May 23, 2022) The largest Nordic festival in Southern California will return to California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks on June 4 and 5 after a two-year absence caused by the...

May 23, 2022

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