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HomeSports Pfeifer signs to play baseball with Cal-State Northridge

Comfort High’s Rane Pfeifer signed a national letter of intent to play baseball at Cal-State Northridge. Pfeifer will become the fourth Comfort athlete in recent years to play at the NCAA Division I level. He joins Chance Rieken (football), Victor Falcon (football) and Emily Martinez (volleyball) as Comfort athletes who have recently signed with Division I schools. -- The Boerne Star - TX

Wall Street Journal Names La Sierra Most Diverse In Region, Nation

The recent WSJ/THE publication shows La Sierra in the No. 1 spot regionally for 'Top Schools for Environment,' an additional recognition to its No. 1 national score in the same category in the WSJ/THE 'U.S. College Rankings' published Sept. 28. In the western region, La Sierra heads a top-10 ranking of 12 other schools, some in tied positions, also lauded for the diversity of their student body and faculty. California State University, Northridge and San Francisco State University tied for second place in the region after La Sierra, and also came in third place nationally along with Johnson & Wales University in North Miami. On the national level, the CUNY City College of New York scored second place for diversity. -- Pulbicnow

Which schools offer highly rated MPA programs?

The graduate programs.com site has issued its ranking of top public administration (MPA) graduate programs. The programs, ranked one to five, are: 1. California State University-Northridge 2. University of Kansas 3. Drake University 4. Rutgers University-Newark 5. University of Georgia -- American City & County

Review: A diplomatic China Philharmonic plays Disney Hall

The orchestra, which opened the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge with a blockbuster program five years ago on its last tour, has gotten better and more important. It is building its own concert hall in Beijing. The renderings of the translucent structure — set to open in two years and designed by the Chinese studio MAD, the same firm George Lucas called on for his proposed museum in California — are gorgeous. The acoustics will be by Yasuhisa Toyota, Disney Hall’s acoustician. -- Los Angeles Times

Former Cal State University Chancellor Charles Reed dies

In 1998, Reed’s first year at CSU, the system had nearly 350,000 students. By his final year, 2012, the CSU system had more than 418,000 students enrolled. During the intervening years, the United States’ first Central American Studies program opened in 2000 at Cal State Northridge; seven Cal State campus inaugurate doctoral programs in education in 2007 and in 2008, the system created its Council on Ocean Affairs, Science and Technology, according to CSU. -- East Bay Times

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