Programs & Services

Creative design and brand strategy

• Intersect LA, an interdisciplinary creative brand strategy team

History and culture of Los Angeles

• Tom & Ethel Bradley Center, an archive of over one million images from Los Angeles-based photographers

Chinese culture

• The China Institute, a center that promotes educational and cultural exchanges between China and the United States

Summer theatre program for teens

• Teenage Drama Workshop, summer productions where teenagers can learn and perform

Music therapy

• Music Therapy Wellness Clinic, a clinic that provides music activities for children and adults with disabilities and special challenges

Business development & entrepreneurship

• Wells Fargo Center for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, a center that connects CSUN students to small businesses to face real-world challenges
• I-Corps Program, an incubator that helps people develop their new idea or technology

Business and insurance

• Risk and Insurance, a center that connects the CSUN community to the risk and insurance field

Financial literacy

• Consumer Resource Center, a community resource that helps people resolve consumer issues such as financial planning and avoiding identity theft

Income tax services for low-income residents

• Bookstein Institute’s VITA Tax Clinic, a clinic that provides cost-free income tax assistance service to low-income residents

Climate, sustainability and urban farming

• Institute for Sustainability, an institute that promotes advancing environmental and food justice

Geospatial analysis and mapping (Geographic information systems)

• Center for Geospatial Science & Technology (CGST), a research center that provides geospatial data for businesses and other groups

Programs for health and wellness 

• Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing, an institute that fosters healthful living through community and campus partnerships

Boating and water safety education, outdoor adventures 

• Aquatic Center at Castaic Lake, serves nearly 11,000 people a year courses, community service programs and activities such as water skiing, sailing and fishing

Gender and women support programs

• Women's Research and Resource Center, a center that seeks to enhance campus and community understanding of gender and women’s issues and concerns at CSUN

Nutrition counseling and workshops

• Marilyn Magaram Center, a center that enhances and promotes health and wellbeing through research, education and services in food science, nutrition and dietetics.

Parks and recreation / Ropes course

• Recreation & Tourism Management, a center that promotes health and overall well-being through a variety of recreation and leisure experiences

Adaptive sports program for veterans

• Valley GO!, a program that provides handcycling training and clinics to veterans and other community members.

Physical Fitness

• 3WINS, an exercise program designed for various fitness levels, free of age and gender
• Commit to Be Fit, a free online- and in-person-based group fitness program

Ethics and equity training

• Health Equity and Research Education Center (HERE), a center that promotes scholarly collaboration to empower communities toward reducing health disparities

Digital methods and technologies

• Center for Digital Humanities, a center that researches digital methods and digital technologies, disseminates media and studies the impact of digital technology

Engineering & Computer Science

• Center for Engineering and Computer Science Research and Education, a center that promotes activities relating the engineering and computer science community to the faculty and students of the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Autonomous systems

• Autonomy Research Center for STEAHM (ARCS), a center that researches increasingly autonomous systems using unmanned robots and other adaptable devices

Program evaluation services

• Center for Assessment, Research & Evaluation (CARE), a center that evaluates projects, programs and service opportunities for faculty, students, staff and the surrounding community

Public policy and youth advocacy

• Center for Southern California Studies, a center that facilitates research, education and service on public policy issues facing Southern California
• ReLAY Institute, is a collaboration of public, private and philanthropic agencies from across L.A. County to support opportunity youth

Science and Mathematics

• WM Keck Computational Materials Theory Center, a center that fosters multidisciplinary and innovative research in computational materials science
• Interdisciplinary Research Institute for Sciences (IRIS), an institute that conducts interdisciplinary research projects at CSUN and similar centers at other universities and with industries

Culture and community

• Center for Asian Finance and Business Research, a center that pursues scholarly research and publications related to Asia's finance and business through collaboration with faculty and researchers from the region
• Center for the Study of the Peoples of the Americas, a center that promotes interest in and knowledge of peoples descendent of Latin American communities, whether of Latino/a, Asian, European, African or indigenous origins, within the US and south of the border
• Central American Research and Policy Institute, an institute that supports the socioeconomic, cultural and civic development of the transnational Central American community
• DuBois-Hamer Institute for Academic Achievement, an institute that strives to increase the recruitment and retention of students from economically disadvantaged communities to the CSUN campus
• Institute for Social & Behavioral Sciences, an institute that coordinates and facilitates interdisciplinary research activities related to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Assistive technology and training 

• Center on Disabilities, provides training and supports research to improve the world for people with disabilities

Autism assessment and intervention

• Autism Clinic, providing a variety of services from behavioral services, social skills and parent education

Communication disorders diagnosis and therapeutic services

• Language, Speech & Hearing Center, offering evaluation and/or therapy services to children and adults with communication disorders

Crisis intervention and support for domestic violence and sexual assault

• StrengthUnited, provides services for abuse survivors

Individual and family counseling

• Mitchell Family Counseling Clinic, offers counseling services to members of our local community on a sliding-scale fee basis

Therapeutic exercise

• Center of Achievement through Adapted Physical Activity, provides fitness activities for moderately to severely disabled people on land and in treatment-specific pools
• Physical Therapy Center for Advanced Clinical Practice, a center that offers physical therapy, rehabilitation services, and bone density assessment

Education, advocacy and support for families with special needs children

• Family Focus Resource Center, provides resources to support children with (or at-risk for) special needs, their families and the professionals who serve them

Faculty professional development

• Center for Partnerships for Educational Reform, a center that creates partnerships with other institutions of higher education, school districts, offices of education and other organizational units
• Center for Research and Innovation in Elementary Education, a center that supports support faculty engagement, research an community service programs
• Institute for the Advancement of Educational Studies and Programs, an institute that coordinates and facilitates interdisciplinary research activities related to education
• Center for Teaching and Learning, a center that conducts research to explore innovative programs that impact the preparation of teachers and school-related professionals
• Teaching, Learning & Counseling Consortium, providing a variety of services for individuals and families including educational therapy, parent-to-parent mentoring and resource referrals.

Summer enrichment

• ​​​​​​​Secondary Education Center for Research, Professional Development and Educational Outreach, enrichment and academic classes for middle school and high school students

K-12 Science programs

• Center for Cancer and Developmental Biology, promotes teaching and research in areas concerned with cancer and developmental biology through courses and workshops

Literacy assessment and instruction

• LA Times Literacy Center, tutors assist young people grades K -12 improve their literacy skills

Preschool education at the CSUN Lab School

• Child & Family Studies Center, an education setting for young children from the community and their families