Hundreds of women sat, stood or kneeled Monday evening in an overflowing conference room filled with uproarious laughter. California State University, Long Beach President Jane Close Conoley was one of six women on stage at the front of the room in the Omni Los Angeles Hotel where she and her[Read More…]
Tag: Jane Close Conoley
CSULB hosts a Young Women’s Empowerment conference
University President Jane Close-Conoley asked how many in an audience of about 150 female high school students want to go to college, and every student in the room raised her hand. “That decision opens doors,” Conoley told the audience. 60 percent of women in the United States earn college degrees[Read More…]
CSULB hosts Charlie Hebdo panel
Two gunmen burst into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. They targeted journalists and cartoonists who had published material that the assailants felt offended the Muslim prophet Mohammed. “France, its values, its citizens were attacked,” Axel Cruau, the consul general of France in Los Angeles, said, addressing a[Read More…]