A.D. Carson, it seems, was born to rhyme.

When he was a fourth-grader in Illinois, his class received an assignment to write a paragraph about a picture hanging on the classroom wall. Before putting pencil to paper, Carson asked his teacher if it was okay if his paragraph rhymed.

In its 16th year of service to the community, Stan State’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program continues to help the area’s low-income and senior citizens feel confident about filing their income taxes.

The free program is a partnership between faculty, staff and students from Stan State’s College of Business Administration and Office of Service Learning, the Turlock Salvation Army and the Internal Revenue Service. It’s designed to assist low- to moderate-income families, disabled and elderly people who earned less than $54,000 in 2018.

U.S. News & World Report, which has included Stanislaus State on its annual honor rolls for more than two decades, has ranked the University’s online MBA program at No. 119 in the nation, an improvement of 45 spots from last year’s list.

Stan State is one of only three California public universities to make the list of 285 online programs, as selected by the publication. CSU San Bernardino came in at No. 101 and CSU Dominguez Hills was ranked No. 162.

Stan State’s success in attracting and graduating students who begin their higher education journeys at other colleges has been recognized by MONEY magazine, which placed the University No. 26 on its list of “Best Colleges for Transfer Students.” 

The publication had great praise in general for the way California public universities attract and serve transfer students, with 18 of the list’s top 27 spots occupied by members of the California State University or University of California systems.