With the start of school just weeks away, teachers are already planning for the new academic year. Adding to their start-of-school list of concerns has been a summer filled with trauma for their students as the children grapple with the loss of family members to immigration raids and fears that when they get home, someone they love will be gone.

CSUN Track & Field’s Trey Knight earned silver in the hammer throw at the 2025 Toyota USA Track & Field Outdoor Championships, July 31 in Eugene, Ore. Knight qualified for the world championships next month in Tokyo.

Social media around the world is filled with images of immigration and border enforcement officers violently rounding up people in Los Angeles and other major cities across the United States.

Over four days in June, 50 incoming first-time freshmen gathered on campus for the second year of the Black Matador Excellence Experience.

A matching gift of up to $500,000 from California State University, Northridge alumnus Harvey Bookstein and his wife Harriet is enabling the university to expand its lactation program so it can train students to become nationally certified lactation counselors.