Mia Alvarez’s turn on stage during the Stan State music department’s fall performances came on Oct. 25, when Daniel Afonso led the mixed, chamber and jazz choirs in Snider Recital Hall.
That doesn’t mean the junior from Fresno, a choral music education major, wasn’t present for the other department shows.
“You always see music students at these concerts,” Alvarez said. “Every time I come off stage, there’s a music major in the hallway saying, ‘great job.’”
Sometimes, she’s the one offering the congratulations.
For a sixth consecutive year, Stan State’s ongoing commitment to enhancing the lives of its students has been recognized by CollegeNET, which has ranked the University No. 8 in the nation on its Social Mobility Index (SMI).
“It’s not just about recycling,” said Wendy Olmstead, former commercial operations manager at Stanislaus State. “All life is interconnected, which requires us to conduct ourselves through the lens of economic, environmental and social sustainability.”
In a nutshell, that’s Olmstead’s mission as part of her new role as the University’s sustainability coordinator.
“Sustainability is really a concept, so what I’m doing is bringing that concept to life,” she said.
James Octaviano Green likes to use his middle name whenever he can, because it’s the name of his grandfather, and he’s proud of it.
The resident of Hickman, who graduated from Hughson High School, is making his parents proud by pursuing his college education and exceeding their expectations with his eye on graduate school, thanks to the McNair Scholars Program.
All regional and national indicators point to further slowing of economic activity in the coming months. As the longest-lasting period of expansion comes to an end, it is important for the business community to begin positioning itself to consider this change in the dynamics of the Valley economy.
That outlook is according to the biannual San Joaquin Valley Business Forecast produced by Gökçe Soydemir, the Foster Farms endowed professor of business economics at Stanislaus State.
Here are some of the report’s highlights:
Stan State, already a smoke, vape and nicotine-free campus, is participating in this year’s Great American Smokeout on Nov. 21 in a very big way — by celebrating that 84.5 percent of Stan State students report that they have never smoked cigarettes and 89.5 percent say they have never used e-cigarettes or vaping products.