Rick Gonzalez, former deputy chief of Chapman University Public Safety, was promoted to chief March 1 following the retirement of his predecessor. The shift in leadership corresponds with the merge of the department and other risk and safety offices to create Enterprise Risk and Safety.

Long-time Chief of Public Safety Randy Burba is now retired after a 36-year-long career in public safety, 17 years of which were spent at Chapman.

Struppa reflected on his experience leading the university out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Students, faculty and staff coming onto campus for in-person fall classes are required to show proof of vaccination or fill out a personal declination form.

The Panther sat down with Peter Levi, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, to discuss the legal basis of hate crimes.

Screenwriting professor Anne Beatts, an original writer on “Saturday Night Live,” passed away prior to the production of two upcoming projects.

Ralphs Grocery Pharmacy is administering a maximum of 1,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine April 16 at the Harold Hutton Sports Center.

Orange County’s move to the orange tier allowed Chapman University to transition in-person classes to 50% capacity.

Following the March 14 reclassification, venues like restaurants, schools and amusement parks are permitted to reopen.

With an emphasis on his alleged poor handling of the pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom is the target in a recall campaign.

Pete Simi, a Chapman sociology professor, has spent the last 25 years doing fieldwork with many Orange County extremist groups.

Black and Indigenous individuals as well as people of color are dying from COVID-19 at nearly three times the rate of white people. 

Chapman is actively recruiting candidates to fill the newly created position of vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion.

Vehicle break-ins at Chapman Grand reiterate a trend of increasing burglaries revealed in Public Safety’s 2020 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report.

A viral photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders in recycled mittens took social media by a storm, as creators superimposed the image in different locations.

As originally founded, the goal of Black History Month was not to restrict the integration of Black history into one fraction of the year.

Orange County officials have begun the process of constructing vaccination sites – one of which could potentially be Chapman.

With national declines in graduate enrollment rates, the quantity of admission applications for the coming year defied expectation.

First-year Physician Assistant Studies students at Chapman were commemorated at a virtual white coat ceremony and will be entering clinical rotations.

Women continue to protest Poland’s tightening of abortion legislation, parallel to threats of overturning Roe v. Wade in the U.S.