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Hispanic heritage celebrated
CSUF graduate program named national winner. AMY WELLS Daily Titan
The Cal State Fullerton Enhancing Postbaccalaureate Opportunities at CSUF for Hispanic Students (EPOCHS) won the graduate level 2016 Examples of Excelencia Award for promoting Latino student success in higher education. This was EPOCHS second nomination and first win for the award. The program provides a range of services that promote the success of Hispanic and disadvantaged graduate students. Katherine Powers, director of graduate studies and program director of EPOCHS, accepted the award on behalf of the program at the Celebración de Excelencia ceremony in Washington D.C., accompanied by a faculty coordinator and graduate student from CSUF. “I’m totally humbled and honored by it, and all of us are. Its fantastic.” Powers said. With this recognition, she hopes programs similar to EPOCHS will be started at other college campuses. EPOCHS wants to continue to bring attention to the challenges students face in graduate school and how effective these services are to the students, said Powers. The $5,000 prize from the Examples of Excelencia award will be used to send two graduate students to the Hispanic Association of College and Universities (HACU) annual conference held in San Antonio, Texas. When EPOCHS began in 2010, only 15 percent of the total graduate student population was Hispanic. Since then, there has been a significant increase in Hispanic students. In the fall semester of 2010, CSUF had only 691 Hispanic graduate students. However, the number has rose to 22.7 percent with 1,243 students. “Each year the enrollment has increased, and each year the percentage has improved,” Powers said. “EPOCHS started in 2010 and immediately the enrollment went up 18.7 percent in 2011.” EPOCHS received a $2.5 million grant from the United States Department of Education under the Title V Part B program Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans. SEE EPOCHS
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Ballet Folklorico de CSUF, a student dance club, performed a traditional Mexican dance embracing the culture of the largest student population on campus. The reception also featured President Mildred Garcia and Denice Frohman as speakers.
CSUF President Mildred Garcia held an annual reception to recognize the largest student demographic on campus. Speakers and performances celebrated the Latinx community. JILLIAN SALAS Daily Titan
Fullerton’s Arboretum filled it’s botanical garden with people of different ethnic backgrounds for Cal State Fulleron’s President Mildred Garcia’s reception that kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month.
The two-hour evening event hosted keynote speaker Denice Frohman, a poet, lyricist, educator and winner of the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam. SEE HERITAGE
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Advocating artistic exchange Watercolor professor receives award at China symposium. PRISCILLA BUI Daily Titan As a watercolor artist, Lawrence Yun has always made a myriad of beautiful colors his aesthetic. Yun was ultimately awarded the color gold when his painting, “Greenhouse Laboratory (Cattleya Orchid),” won best work of the exhibition at the 2016 Perception and Vision Exhibition and Symposium in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province in Southwest China. The symposium itself was a collaborative event involving the Chinese-American Art Faculty Association (CAAFA) in the U.S., the Center for Chinese Art at William Paterson University, the China International Culture Association and Guizhou Minzu University. Yun’s passion for art has been 35 years in the making, as his love for the medium began when he was 10 years old. Before becoming an art
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Lawrence Yun, an art professor at CSUF, centers his watercolor pieces around nature but often incorporates man-made elements in order to demonstrate that sometimes nature is artificially manufactured.
professor at Cal State Fullerton, he attended Fu-Hsin and Trade and Arts School in Taipei, Taiwan with an emphasis in packaging
design. Yun also received both a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and a Master of Fine Arts in drawing and painting from
Long Beach State. His parents were very supportive of his artistic interests. Yun said that they were open-minded
and never tried to persuade him to pursue a different career path. SEE COLOR 4
Venezuelan student makes way to CSUF
Parking permits do not guarantee parking
Titans look to extend conference streak
Scarlett Lobo has traveled from Venezuela to Norway to the United States in pursuit of a college education.
Student complaints are unheard by CSUF as people continue to struggle to find a spot and get to class on time.
Women’s soccer battles UC Davis and rival Long Beach State as they attempt to stay undefeated in Big West play.
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