At Stan State, all students are not only welcome, they are celebrated and supported. This includes undocumented students.

Oct. 14-18, Undocumented Student Services hosted Undocu Week of Action, which included a lineup of events and activities geared toward helping undocumented students feel supported and connecting them with campus resources.

Undocu Week of Action started with the You’ve Got a Friend in Me event, where students, faculty and staff wrote postcards to undocumented students and their families.

From as early as she can remember, Sokcon Swing has wanted to be a teacher, but the road that led to her goal wasn’t always smooth.

“I’ve gone through so many trials and tribulations,” she said. “Unlike most of my childhood friends, my parents didn’t grow up here. I didn’t have the same resources they had,” she added.

Swing moved the U.S. from Cambodia with her family in 1982 as they fled genocide, and as a first-generation college student her parents couldn’t help her apply to colleges, nor did they have the resources to help her financially.

For the first time in its 39-year history, the Bay Area Discrete Math Conference will be hosted at Stanislaus State. Those involved in the conference, set for Saturday, Oct. 19, simply call it BAD Math Day.

“The acronym is kind of weird, right?” joked Jessica Se Silva, an assistant professor of mathematics at Stan State. “It grabs people’s attention though.”

What is BAD Math Day? She said don’t be fooled by the acronym.

“We use it in a different way than you would normally think,” she said.

Paying for college can be an overwhelming financial strain for students and their families. Scholarships, grants and loans can ease the burden, but understanding the options and financial terminology can be challenging.

For help, students and families can look to the Stanislaus State Financial Aid and Scholarship Office. There, they’ll find the Financial Wellness Program and plenty of direction on how to access financial aid, choose loans and avoid costly financial missteps.

A $5,000 grant from California Humanities is bringing eight speakers to Stanislaus State’s annual GIS Day event to make bilingual presentations on their work and how it intertwines geography and the humanities in the pursuit of social justice.

Dr. Jeffrey Frost always has taught his students about a skull found in North America that included the upper portion of a wolf’s jaw stuck inside the mouth of the skull.

These days, his Stanislaus State archaeology class is getting a different perspective. They get to hold a replica of that wolf’s jaw, thanks to the three-dimensional printer the anthropology department is using.

Stan State has secured a grant of $1,093,064 over four years from the U.S. Department of Education to expand access to the University’s Child Development Center (CDC).