CSUN’s Pathways to Excellence or “P2E” program is a four-week summer transition program, offered free of charge to new incoming students. Students learn about university life, take tours of the campus, and meet with peer mentors and professors.

Longtime civil rights activist Dorothy Wood Lawson died in early September, just three months following the passing of her husband, CSUN lecturer and fellow civil rights activist, Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. She was 89.