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Creative Incubator Offering $5,000 Grants to Fresno Area Storytellers

  Budding filmmakers, here's your big chance: The Community Media Access Collaborative is now accepting applications for the sixth annual The Big Tell film competition. CMAC will award 10 grants of $5,000 to professional, amateur, and student filmmakers to tell the stories of the Central Valley in five-minute short documentaries,...

Fresno State President Honored by Cal State Student Association

  Fresno State News Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval received a vote of confidence from the student organization that represents the nearly half a million students in the California State University system, the nation’s largest public higher education system. The Cal State Student Association selected Jiménez-Sandoval as the 2021-22 recipient...

Fresno State’s Mai Der Vang Honored as Finalist for Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

  Fresno State News Author and Fresno State professor Mai Der Vang was honored Monday as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, for her groundbreaking book of documentary poetry, “Yellow Rain.” The book integrates archival research and declassified government documents to examine the biological warfare that threads through...

Fresno State Library Name Task Force Confirms Madden Was Antisemitic, Racist, Pro-Nazi

  A task force that reviewed the voluminous personal papers of longtime Fresno State librarian Henry Madden, namesake of the university's library, on Monday issued a 71-page preliminary report confirming that Madden expressed antisemitic and pro-Nazi views. The task force was formed in 2021 after the university learned of his...

This Fresno State Team Is Headed to National Championship Match

  Fresno State has had a couple of NCAA Division 1 national championships (the 1998 softball and 2008 baseball teams brought home the top prizes). University teams have also won NCAA "college" or Division II titles in track and field (1964) and men's tennis (1968). Now Fresno State Rugby Team...

With Fewer Enology Majors, Fresno State Looks at Adding Wine Marketing Program

  Fresno State's Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology has been tracking a big drop in the number of students applying and majoring in wine production over the past seven years. And, to make up for the loss of enology students and bolster overall enrollments, college officials are taking...

Castro Resigns as CSU Chancellor After Sex Harassment Cover up Allegations

  California State University Chancellor Joseph I. Castro announced Thursday evening that he has resigned his position effective immediately, according to a news release from the CSU system. “I have been honored to serve the California State University for more than eight years, including as its eighth chancellor, and the...

Fresno State Will Start Spring Semester with Virtual Classes Again

  Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval announced Wednesday that spring semester classes will be online only, at least for the month of January, because of surging COVID-19 cases. Jiménez-Sandoval's announcement was posted on the university's website. Classes are scheduled to start on Jan. 20 and will be provided virtually until...

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