In January, Arby Jean Wolkov ’09 was honored in Sacramento as a 2025 California Teacher of the Year. She’s the first ASL teacher to earn this state accolade.

It isn’t enough to want their students to succeed, higher education leaders have a responsibility to identify and uproot the vestiges of historic racism that permeate academic spaces and can stand in the way of their students’ success, according to a team of researchers at California State University, Northridge.