Stories

Book in Common achieves unprecedented local visibility
For the first time in history, on March 13, 2019, Chico State’s Book in Common lecture will be available via streaming video to all of the County Libraries in Chico State’s 12-county service area. All They Will Call You, by Tim Z. Hernandez, is the harrowing account of “the worst airplane disaster in California’s history,” which claimed the lives of thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight Mexican citizens—farmworkers who were being deported by the U.S. government.
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Investing in North State Education
The purpose of the Residency in Secondary Education (RiSE) program at California State University, Chico is to provide a new generation of teachers for middle and high schools in the region and state. Program directors hope to recruit and retain teachers and to develop and sustain partnerships with rural districts. The residency program includes early coursework that addresses the needs and strengths of rural communities and requires candidates to conduct an in-depth study of their placement community. In particular, the community study assignment aims to have preservice teachers examine their understandings about rural places, to create a connection to the place where students live, and to promote place-based pedagogy.
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