‘Generosity Breeds Joy’: No Place Like Home Challenge Reunited More Than 10,000 Pets With Their Families
Animal shelters and other organizations completed 10,366 reunions of pets with their families through the No Place Like Home Challenge. ...
CSU Channel Islands to Create CAopenEd
The Michelson 20MM Foundation has awarded a Spark Grant to California State University Channel Islands to advance work that breaks down OER learning...
Open Educational Resources Level the Playing Field for California’s Community College Students
The 20MM Foundation has worked to promote solutions to the affordability issue for California’s Community College Students, specifically around...
Compton College Sets Out to Be a Fully OER Campus by 2035
Compton College president and CEO, Dr. Keith Curry, sets an ambitious goal of utilizing open educational resources (OER) in 85-100% of all courses...
Alya Michelson’s Commitment to the Giants Club
Alya Michelson on the importance of the Giants Club Space for Giants advocacy for animal welfare and conservation. Editorial by: Emma Ledger,...
Prioritizing College Affordability with Michelson 20MM
“Our grant supported a study of West Hills College’s focus on its textbook affordability initiative and the role its governing board played in...
Young and Diverse Teams of Researchers Produce More Impactful Science
Thinking about ideas in different ways from diverse perspectives brings innovation and new insights into scientific questions. By...
Creating Pathways to Zero-Textbook Cost Degrees for Bay Area Students
The Michelson 20MM Foundation has awarded a Michelson Spark Grant to the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education in support of...
Career Skills Program Underway with Eight Immigrant Women Enrolled as Upwardly Global’s First All-Female Cohort
The eight women enrolled have backgrounds in IT, marketing, and architecture and hail from Iran, Turkey, Macedonia, India, Kazakhstan, and Brazil....
Climate Change is a Direct Threat to Human Health and Immunology
Climate change contributes to diseases and other health problems in vulnerable populations around the world, according to scientists and experts in...
To Support Future Medical Advances, Revamp the Rules for Funding Research
We must use this unprecedented moment to completely reimagine how the funding ecosystem invests in and prioritizes young and diverse researchers....
New California Budget Allocates $115 Million to Help Students Cover Exorbitant Textbook Costs
By Justin Chapman In a historic win for community college students across California, on July 27 Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 132, the 2021-2022...