Stanislaus State, through the work of its Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, has been named a finalist for the 2016 NCAA Division II Award of Excellence, an honor that recognizes the positive impact student-athletes can have on their communities.

Stanislaus State student-athletes continue to excel in both the classroom and their respective sports. In addition to the University placing all fall semester team sports in postseason play for the first time as a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association, 29 Warriors were named to all-academic teams.

The 10th annual Warriors Together Toy Drive capped another successful season with the collection of 700 items to be distributed during the holiday season to kids in Turlock.

This was the third year the University’s Program for Academic & Career Excellence (PACE), through a Service Learning program, has overseen the campus toy collection, which feeds into the Turlock Together project.

May your holidays be filled with warmth and happiness to last through the coming new year.

 
​Winter Break; Campus Reopens Monday, January 4

California’s El Niño winters never have been a sure thing. Some seasons of oceanic warming produce record rainfall and flooding, while others barely threaten average seasonal precipitation.

But at California State University, Stanislaus, annual preparations are being completed as if a deluge was guaranteed.

Former California State University, Stanislaus Foundation Board member Carl Boyett, whose business acumen and philanthropic spirit enhanced an entire region, died Sunday morning.

Boyett, 70, owned Modesto-based Boyett Petroleum, which owns and operates more than 40 stations in Northern California and includes a fuel distribution network that services more than 500 stations in the Western states. His passion for building the company, started by the Boyett family in 1940, was equaled by his love for his community.

Eugene Simmons was one of roughly 30 veterans who rode motorcycles onto the Quad at the California State University, Stanislaus campus for Wednesday’s seventh annual Thank A Veteran Ceremony.

The act itself didn’t seem so impressive until you realized that Simmons, 88 and a Navy and Air Force veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, rode in from his home in Milpitas for the event — roughly 95 miles one way.

Gina Cook, assistant professor of child development at California State University, Stanislaus, has been named a recipient of a 2015 Simms/Mann Faculty Fellowship.

The fellowship, conducted by the Los Angeles-based Simms/Mann Institute, is a public/private partnership offering professional development to CSU and California Community College instructors in the fields of early childhood education, psychology and nursing.