Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services

🥦🍓Join us in South Village on October 25 for the WellBeingU Eating for Wellness event! 🥬🍇🥭

Expect meal planning information, culturally responsive eating, giveaways, and more! 🥑🍍🍒

We’re excited to connect with you all! 😊 We, the Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services would like to invite you our first Fall Social Event! ☺️

Come meet representatives from our student clubs and organizations, representatives from advising and career services and learn about College resources! 🦅
We hope to see you there!

The Rongxiang Xu College of Health and Human Services
Advising Center and The Center for Personal & Professional Advancement (CPPA)

It is with a very heavy heart that I write this It is with a very heavy heart that I write this message to our health and human services community. This past Saturday, August 19, 2023, we lost one of our most honored and loved colleagues. Dr. Ray de Leon, director of the School of Kinesiology, had a heart attack and could not be resuscitated. 😔

In these moments, words sound hollow. Saying he was an outstanding leader, an exceptional educator, committed to our students, and a dedicated family man would normally end the sentence and a tribute. However, more needs to be written because he was an incredibly rare and exceptional person. He was and will remain one of the kindest, most humble, and most thoughtful individuals I have ever met. Working with Ray over the years taught me that you can achieve a great deal by just remaining calm. He never once criticized or had a negative word to say about anyone. He looked for the best in everyone and sought the creative blend when conflict occurred. We spent many hours talking about his love of the School of Kinesiology, faculty, students, and life. Beyond work, we saw life through the same lens, shared stories about our families, laughed, and always found time to discuss never-ending home projects.

Ray was the quintessential scholar and was awarded the University Outstanding Professor Award in 2018.

Let’s keep Ray and his family in our prayers. 🙏🏽😔

You did it!! Congratulations 🍾🎉 Class of 2023!! 👏🏽🎓🌟 What a week filled with celebratory fun 🤩!! The Xu College of Health and Human Services wish you all nothing but the best as you ascend to new heights! Continue to soar in all of your endeavors, and know you’ll forever be a Golden Eagle 🦅!! Be sure to tag us in your grad photos for a chance to be featured on our page!! 🤩🎓🦅

What a delicious and delightful way to celebrate Black History Month on campus today! 🍗 🍟 Which food truck was your favorite? 🥘

Happy Black History Month! 🖤❤️💛💚

📣 Maurice Hastings, a 69-year-old man is now a free man after being wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit. 🙌🏽 After serving 38 years of his life in prison, Hastings's case was dismissed and he was released from prison on October 20th. Special thanks to the Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) here at Cal State LA for working diligently on collecting the DNA results, which pointed to another suspect. Congratulations to Dr. Katherine Roberts, the Director of the California Forensic Science Institute, who worked very hard with the post-conviction counsel to secure a court order for the DNA testing of the newly rediscovered evidence at an independent laboratory. 👏🏽🧬🔬

“I have been incarcerated for over fifteen years for a murder that I did not commit,” Hastings wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office in 2000.

Read more: https://news.calstatela.edu/2022/10/28/wrongfully-convicted-client-los-angeles-innocence-project-cal-state-la-freed-after-38-years/

Hey 👋🏽 HHS Golden Eagles 🦅 we want to hear from you!! Do you have a success story, a story about your journey here at Cal State LA being apart of the Health & Human Services, or a received an award 🥇?? Feel free to email us, link in our bio for a chance to be featured on our social media channels, website, and in our college newsletter!! You can also inquire via Direct Message, please allow 24 to 72 hours for a response. We look forward to hearing from you!! 🌟

👏🏽 Congratulations!! 🌟

Cal State LA social work major receives CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement

Miquelle McCarthy is one of 23 students statewide to receive the 2022 CSU Trustees’ Award.

Congratulations to our California Forensic Science Institute (CFSI) and School of Criminal Justice & Criminalistics on their new partnership, the Los Angeles Innocence Project (LAIP) 🥼 🧪 🧫!! LAIP’s mission is to exonerate the wrongly convicted and the wrongfully incarcerated. Through our new partnership, CFSI students and scientists will collaborate with LAIP attorneys to test the viability, reliability, and accuracy of evidence used to convict LAIP clients. Thank you to wrongfully convicted exoneree Andrew Wilson $1 million gift 🎁 which will support the project in its first two years! 👏🏽

📣 Congratulations to our very own Ron Vogel, Dean of our college and Dr. Katherine Roberts, Professor and Executive Director of the CA Forensic Science Institute for their extraordinary dedication and contributions to the CSU and our community. Thank you for taking the time to visit the crime lab and learn about the hard work put into sustaining the lab! Congratulations!!! Acknowledged by !! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

🌟🎓 Huge congratulations to some of our Doctorate graduates from the Doctor of Audiology degree program!! 🌟🎓

“One more because I’m so proud of all of us. These are some the realest, humble, brilliant and kind humans I know.
Got Hearing, Vestibular, Speech and Language needs? We got you!
2 SLPs and 2 AuDs walk into a room……(help me fill in the blank… It seems like the beginning of a good joke 🤷🏻‍♀️).”

🎓🌟 Congratulations You did it!! 🦅🌟

“Here I am, 420+ hours of Internship, 19 courses, 57+ Units, Part Time Job, Sleepless nights later and I can proudly say I earned my Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Social Work (BASW), and I couldn't be more happier to be a first Generation Graduate in my family. Thank you you to my family and friends for encouraging and being there for me at times when I felt like Quitting. 🙏🏽 CLASS OF 2022 🎓🥂
What a journey it has been to get here and it doesn't stop here! Master's Degree in Social Work, here I come! 💪 🔥.”

SI SE PUEDE!!! 🍾 🇲🇽🇺🇸
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