FALL 2015 | Volume 5, ISSUE 4
in this issue
Visiting the Anaheim Angle’s Stadium, p3 Guest Speaker Raffy J. Ohannesian, p6 Economics
- New and Revised Program, p6
The Importance of a Professional Certification Featured Article, p8
News from the Library, p10 Introducing New Professors, p12
- Professor Terry Chrandall - Professor Frank Moss
Toastmasters Club, p13
Importance of a Professional Certification The
Featured Article, p8
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New Students CHINA Deng, Yu Wang, Yifei Yao, Chi Zha, Xiangyi INDIA
Adimolam Vidyanath, Akshay Deep
Akula, Yashwanth Rao Ajemra, Rajender Allam, Prudhvinath Attelli, Vivek Kumar Ayodya, Amulya Badarala, Sai Kumar Bandi, Shiva Kumar Reddy Banoth, Premlal Caveri, Sai Vara Prasad Yadav Chand, Sagar
Cheruviralikarottu Ulahannan, Aneesha
Chintapalli, Devisree Daruru, Dilip Kumar Dehadray, Akshay Dhiman, Meenakshi Donthireddy, Bindhu Dumpala, Sridhar Gaddam, Sai Ajay Phanindra Gangi, Kiran Gautam, Awiral Gavinolla, Balakrishna Reddy Golla, Naga Abhilash Jakkampudi, Karthik Jupally, Abhilash Kadali, Srinivas Kiran Kallu, Jayasimha Kathapalli, Adarsh Kumar Kavuri, Deeraj Kunadi, Shashank Reddy Koritikanti, Ramesh Madala Naga Sri Harsha Marakala, Sagar Reddy Mattathil, Jobson Mekala, Sampoornanand Mohammed, Rameez
Moola, Sai Nitish Muskula, Naveen Reddy Nallabotha, Goverdhan Nomula, Paranjyothi Patancheru, Rakesh Prakash, Jaya Prathipati, Gopala Rao Pulipaka, Vishnu Priyadarshini Rambadu, Venkatesha Ravichandran, Surya Ravilla, Krishna Sai Savagave, Shwetashree Gangadha
Shabad, Venkatesh Shaik, Sandhani Sharma, Rippon Singh, Rajneesh Sunkari, Shyam Sunder Vanaparthy, Srikanth Vellelath, Abhilash Yama, Venkata Rakesh Yasa, Navya Yellagandula, Rahul Yerragunta, Shanker JAPAN Inaba, Hitomi Fukaya, Ayumi Misawa, Kouiti JORDAN Almawajdeh, Mahmoud Alsadi, Dirar Alazwar Suleiman Al-Qawasmeh, Murad Ayoub, Rakan Shatnawe, Amin Qfaisheh, Moh’d Muntaser KOREA Hon, Jin Hee Hong, Seungwan Ji, Sunkeun Jo, Seong-In Kim, Eunyoung
Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Hyunsoo Kim, Min Jae Lee, Dongbin Lee, Sanghun Lee, Yang Mo Oh, Je Han KYRGYZSTAN Sarytaiov, Munarbek MEXICO Field, Claudia MONGOLIA Tserendalai, Selenge NIGERIA Ajetunmobi, Olayinka Ajoku, Obiageri Akinleye, Nurudeen Aluko, Afeez Raji-Tola, Damilare Yusuff, Rasheed SAUDI ARABIA Albalwi, Rama Alshehri, Ghadeer Muammar, Almuthanna SRI LANKA
Samarasinghe Thanthreece, Thilini Chethana
TURKEY Ates, Selcuk Karacaoglan, Ismail VIETNAM Doan, Trang Minh Diem Pham, Hang Thanh Pham, Tri
03 SM255 Event and Facility Management
FIELD
TRIP
Visiting the Anaheim Angel’s stadium was an exciting yet informing alternative to class for Professor Cope’s students. The SM255 Event and Facility Management class took a field trip to the 4th oldest stadium in America on September 1st, 2015. We were first greeted by the two gigantic Angel baseball hats by the front entrance and were quickly introduced to many of the historic features such as the iconic Mickey Mouse statue dressed in Angels’ gear. Fast-forward to the main hall of the stadium where they have the years of winning seasons and the favorite, the 2002 World Championship shrine. There is a plethora of memorabilia in a glass case that cannot be missed. One of the favorites is the white cowboy hat that belonged to the late Gene Autry, first owner of the Angels. Next on the tour was seeing the visiting team’s locker room/clubhouse which was located right across the hall from the Angels clubhouse. The visitors’ clubhouse was a “luxurious” high school locker room equipped with TVs and a few lounge chairs.
by Monica Showrank
The press conference room was empty but as soon as you walked in you were able to imagine flashing lights from the cameras and multiple reporters running around carrying clipboards and yelling out questions; while the guest of honor sits at the front with a glaring light on him, as he signs his contract. What you see in the movies is eerily similar to what really happens. If you were interested in purchasing one of the 10 dugout suites, all you need is 275,000 dollars and to wait on a 5 year waiting list. This sounds quite absurd, but when you are able to walk out of the fully equipped suite and up about 5 stairs to sit next to the players’ dugout and eye level to the field, it makes sense why it’s so expensive. The view of the game from that stand point would probably change your life and how you watch baseball games forever. After seeing what it’s like to live like a millionaire, our tour guide took us to walk on the field, but was sure to make it a point that we could not walk on the grass. The Angels take pride in their natural turf that is cut to one and a half inch height and cut in certain ways to make distinct patterns. This stadium is a favorite of the MLB teams because of its natural grass and very few rain outs. Overall, the students of our Event and Facility Management class were able to briefly experience the backstage operations of the beloved Angels Stadium. They were able to see the big picture of what it’s like to design, coordinate, and operate a baseball game and the logistics that go into it.
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Guest Speaker
Raffy J. Ohannesian
By Monica Showrank
Mr. Raffy J. Ohannesian is a man of many trades. He originally practiced law after completing his Bachelors Degree in Legal Studies from Berkeley, but soon found his passion in Finance and pursued his Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University. Currently working for Group Phoenix advisors, Mr. Ohannesian excels in financial advising for small and large companies. Having served as CFO for many companies, Ohannesian has a vast knowledge of not only portfolio management and financial management, but what it takes to succeed in the business world. CALUMS was proud to introduce this very accomplished man, and a longtime friend of Dean Velovici, as our Summer Quarter guest speaker.
Mr. Ohannesian spoke to our students with passion and humor. He told real life experiences of what it was like to work under multiple CFOs and what they really wanted from him. He mentioned how some CFOs did not know how to price products or pay employees and the risks of those things. He soon realized how important the roles of CFOs were. A CFO must understand pricing, costing, and other elements to make a business grow. Quoting Mr. Ohannesian, “An Idea is not a business, it’s knowing what to do”.
05 He also discussed how having an MBA creates a new avenue of thought for students and touches every piece of life. Mr. Ohannesian calls the MBA degree the “Swiss army knife of degree” meaning that it fits and is useful in almost all types of businesses. Economics was also a subject that was briefly discussed. He described economics as the science of living life and it’s needed to understand the basics to help digest things that happen within society. We must have the ability to find the economics driver to understand the problem before we can solve it.
Networking was something Mr. Ohannesian expressed throughout his presentation. He stressed that everyone should always be networking inside and outside of the work place. You never know who you could meet and how they could impact your career and future. This will also help you when committing to a certain job, in such ways that the more people you know, the more information you gain. This will help you find your passion and match it to a job, which shows the need to know people, places, and things. Developing within yourself is an important task to match what you love to do and who will pay you to do it.
Lastly, Mr. Ohannesian encourages students to live life like a monster truck.
“Go and don’t stop. Run or get run over!”
New and Revised Program Available Fall 2015
Economics
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Why Choose a Masters of Science in Economics? By Professor Sasha Safarzadeh
Economic principles affect every decision maker in a corporation or even with large-scale governments and economies. Economists study, research, predict, and evaluate business and revenue trends in every industry. Economics students develop the ability to problem solve and pinpoint meaningful details. In simplest terms, economics is a social science that studies how individuals, governments, firms and nations make choices on allocating scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited wants. Managers with a strong grasp of economics may be better positioned to motivate their workers by clarifying how they can benefit if the organization thrives, and, in turn, how the work they do can contribute to the organization's success. If this sounds like you, being an economist could be the career you're looking for.
Campus Security
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A Friendly Reminder
Here are a few campus safety policies to keep in mind. CALUMS has a zero tolerance policy on: academic dishonesty and sexual harassment If there is quarreling that is disruptive to the campus environment, the incident will be reported to the Dean and will remain on the campus security report permanently. There is no overnight parking in the school parking lot. Our school library is for CALUMS students only. Please remember to have your student ID card with you at all times when you are on campus.
Campus Security Manager: Howard Park
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The Importance of a Professional Certification Imagine that you are a manager with a job opening... Dozens or perhaps hundreds of qualified applicants apply for your open position. Each applicant possesses the required education and work experience. How do you narrow down the applicant pool? How do you determine from a person’s resume that he or she goes “above and beyond,” possesses determination, and accomplishes objectives? One way is to look for individuals who have followed through to become certified.
A helpful addition to any degree program is a professional certification. These designations in a chosen field can improve one’s ability to gain employment or to promote within a company. Multiple organizations have published research that supports the fact that certification increases employability and salary. The Network Journal (2015) quotes findings by International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research, analysis, and advisory firm. Their survey found that certified people are more employable since 63% of hiring managers believe that they are more productive and have more credibility as compared to their non-certified counterparts. The survey also found that 43% of Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) immediately received pay raises after they received their certifications.
Certification sets a job applicant apart by proving to potential employers that he or she has attained knowledge of important concepts and principles in a particular field. Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certified Management Accountant (CMA) Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)
09 The requirements for professional certifications vary, including passing a course or set of courses, earning a degree, passing an exam, and/or completing work experience. As an example, the Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) requires a secondary degree plus work experience OR 23 hours of project management education. CALUMS offers two graduate-level class options that fulfill the CAPM exam prerequisite. More information can be obtained from your enrollment advisor. Professor Laurin, instructor of Project Planning and Management Seminar (BA 573), encourages her students to pursue the CAPM. This certification provides distinction and credibility for anyone who might work with, or on, a project team. Project teams are formed in a wide variety of industries, including information technology, health care, hospitality, banking, and manufacturing, just to name a few. During class, job requirements for current positions in project management are reviewed. By the number of job openings available, it is evident that the CAPM can open doors.
During summer quarter, CALUMS provided specialized CAPM training to students on Saturdays. Groups were formed to enhance learning. These students will take the exam within the next couple months. The training program was successful, and CALUMS will offer it once again to interested students during fall quarter. Information about the CAPM certification can be obtained at www.pmi.org. Professor Laurin is also available to answer questions each Tuesday and Wednesday, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m., in office 201-A. Dozens of professional certifications are available, many internationally recognized. Students wishing to enhance their credentials are encouraged to ask a professor for guidance. In today’s competitive job market, adding a certification to your resume can enhance current and future opportunities, setting you apart from the competition.
California University of Management and Sciences has been working diligently to transition and transform its library catalog, computer software and collections into a library that is patron-driven, focused on its users and provides up-to-date technology for its students, faculty and staff. The library recently transitioned from Book Manager, an OPAC library catalog system, into an electronic resource management system (ERMS) that provides information on the materials, patron behavior and the book checkout process, with transactions. “It is a good system with all its functions” replied Anusha Mara, one of the summer library assistants helping students during the evening shifts. CALUMS library has been working with their SQL programmer who developed the platform, to bring the catalog up-to-date and available for the student body to easily access the information on the schools website. “It is a custom solution using MySQL” replied the programmer Lionnel Yamentou, also a CS568 Advanced SQL instructor at CALUMS who shares his time with South Baylo University, when explaining the catalog process and its many features. The catalog provides a platform for students to search for their materials, find out ahead of time if their book is available, determine their fines, and query search results to the benefit of their research purposes.
By Karine Parry, Librarian
News from the Library
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CALUMS library completed inventory over the summer break. The process identified 3,535 active books as of September 18, 2015, and 10,125 recognized ebooks. USC Marshall Master of Management in Library and Information Science alumni and librarian Karine Parry, with the help and approval of Academic Dean Silviu Velovici, prepared for this process by collecting student responses from a survey, following a brief 10 minute information literacy instructional session she gave at the beginning of some of the evening classes. This instruction was conducted on campus at CALUMS during the summer quarter, 2015. These courses included: CS568, IB551, BA541, CS201, BA532, BA501A and HM571. “This instructional training was meant to provide an extension for the students library orientation they all receive at the beginning of their programs, to show them how to use the new library catalog, refresh their memories and let them know that they can retrieve resources from platforms like INFOTRAC, EBSCO and Google Scholar�, replied librarian Karine Parry.
11 Basically, it was an instructional design to let the students know that they have resources available to them. These lessons were opportunities to emphasize the importance and distinction between scholarly and peer reviewed content, in comparison to popular and easily accessible Google Searches, as well as to collect student preference results. Regarding ebooks, results showed that overall students are open to the idea of using ebooks as an electronic option for their course book materials.
92% said they would use them now that it is clear how to access them, 86% said ebooks may be more helpful than print titles, and 92% said they like ebooks. Regarding the instruction, 53% replied that they did not know what information literacy was prior, 90% found the 10 minute instruction helpful and 51% found the citations and reference portion the most valuable.
Students want to use resources that are available to them. As an objective for the Fall Quarter, 2015, the library is moving towards accepting and incorporating more ebooks of the titles their professor’s courses request into the catalog, through their working relationship with Gale/Cengage that currently provides their INFOTRAC peer reviewed and scholarly journals, as well as potentially other providers, including EBSCO. This way, students have both a library reserve copy option of their courses text, as well as an e-book version for their convenience. This process is in development. Overall, the CALUMS library is excited about its recent developments!
Introducing... Professor Terry Crandall After graduating San Diego State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Terry joined Deloitte, as a Consultant working on mortgage backed securities. He later became Pricing & Placement Manager at Everyloan.com. Realizing that he needed a new direction and new ideas to accomplish his ultimate goals, he decided to attend Claremont Graduate University to pursue a Master’s Degree in Economics.
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In addition to his studies, he was a research assistant at the Lowe Institute for Political Economy as well as an Economist Assistant for the USDA in Washington, D.C. at the Foreign Agricultural Service. During the completion of his Master’s Degree, Terry was elected President of the Graduate Student Council and was the Student Commencement Speaker. After graduation, Terry went to work for a presidential campaign, provided private consulting services, and taught undergraduate economics. Ultimately he returned to Claremont Graduate University to pursue a Doctorate in Economics, all the while continuing his private passion for mentorship, entrepreneurship and politics, by serving on the Boards of two non-profits, by providing commercial guidance to his clients through his work at TMG Advisors, as an Adjunct Economics Professor at The University of La Verne and California University of Management and Sciences, and as the head of Political Nerve a subsidiary of the startup Big Nerve. He does all this as a proud husband and father of twins.
Frank Moss was an independent consultant for most of his IT career. His speciality was designing and developing Relational Database Software Systems. In 2007, Frank began his teaching career at Glendale Community College where he has been teaching the Oracle SQL class Saturday mornings every Fall semester. Frank has also taught Relational Database development at CalPoly, Pomona and DeVry University. He is currently teaching at UC, Riverside and pursuing his doctor in Information Systems at Claremont Graduate University.
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All Nations Toastmasters Club
Do you want to be able to speak professionally and confidently during your next job interview? Do you want to get rid of your feelings of nervousness and fear the next time you give a presentation in front of a large audience? If you answered yes to either of those questions, then the All Nations Toastmasters Club here on the campus of CALUMS is the right place for you.
The All Nations Toastmasters Club is part of an international organization that specializes in developing communication and leadership skills for its members. As a member, you will be able to practice speaking in front of an audience so that the next time you have a big interview, a big presentation, or a big romantic date, you'll be able to speak with the type of confidence you never knew you had. Becoming a member of the club will also provide you with the opportunity to network with other students, corporate professionals, business owners, and other professionals who are part of the club as well. Many students and business professionals who have joined the All Nations Toastmasters Club have already seen their communication skills increase dramatically. The club meets every Saturday from 11:00AM to 12:45PM in room 303 or 304. Come visit us (no appointments necessary) and see for yourself why 313,000 members in 126 countries worldwide call Toastmasters home.
Being an international student, like all of us at CALUMS, is a great example for the above. Students who are from the same countries, form groups and they tend to communicate mostly within these groups. This is great, but in the same time it narrows our circle of friends in the otherwise diverse group of people in CALUMS. When I first came here, I was one of few Bulgarians studying at CALUMS. Now, a few quarters later, I am the only one. But that is just fine. Since the beginning I met a lot of people from different countries. I took my time getting to know them. I found some great people, and now, every time I talk with them, I listen carefully. This is because I know there is a lot to learn from them. But this became true because they were also willing to bond, to share, and to be friends with someone coming from far away, just like them. It is a little bit harder, though, to reach the students in a group. Based on the above, I have a suggestion to make for all of us CALUMS’ students. No matter if you are the only one from your country, or there are a lot of students from your country; let’s all play a game. Let’s try to listen to the “far end” where everybody else is. We may find a great friend from the other end of the world sitting right next to us.
We just need to listen to what they have to say. This might be what we need to hear.
THE LISTENING GAME
It is in our nature to always look around for people who are like us – people with the same views, with similar background. The “search” is not different when we are abroad. But there is one more thing we are looking for in the people around us – it is very important to find people from your own country. Once this is done, we are no longer a lonely fish in a big sea. But in the same time, there is one disadvantage of surrounding yourself with people “from home”, we miss the chance to really get to know some very interesting people from all around the world.
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By Milena Ivanova
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QUARTERLY
AWARDS
CEREMONY SUMMER 2015
Scholarship Award Ates, Meltem Khan, Sha He Zama Jun, Jongho Odenuga, Akintunde Okeke, Tochukwu Yang, Chi-Chi
Project advisors award Ezeizu, John Won, Jin
ACADEMIC DEAN’S LIST Ahmad Amin, Abd Alftah Al Drini, Ayman Al-hamad, Amer Alkhawaja, Ahmad Amgalan, Ganbayar Asik, Toros Boyd, Christina Chen, Yanhua Cope, Tyler De Jesus, Larry Elsayed, Hani Esteban, Randy Faderan, Frances Lara
Ghaboun, Ahmed Hasan, Abdallah Ivanova, Milena Jadhav, Aniket Rajendra Kang, Seung Hyun Khamayseh, Momen Kim, Hee Jung Kweon, Min Hoon Lim, Kyungmi Macapinlac, Renelyn Majdouba, Samer Mammadov, Emil Mangalampalli, Vinesh Musale, Priyanka
Na, Sangin Ogale, Anushree Ohen, Grace Olayinka, Gbolahan Park, Hyeong Jin Park, Jong Min Penubolu, Dwarakeswar Rai, Kalpa Sanchez Puche, Alejandro Sathoop, Napatsanun Sebunya, Mary Shim, Bumseok Shin, Kimin Shin, Soa
Sikarmi, Krisha Sivanupandian, Ignash Sornthanarat, Thitikan Sridhara , Bharathi Stoilov, Martin Tok, Selda Verulkar, Kalyani Wahdan, Eyad Won, Jin Xie, Suiying Yang, Chi-chi Yoo, Ginam Youssef, Mark
Fall 2015 DATES TO REMEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
05 Monday
Enlgish Proficiency Test (ESL Students Only- 9:30am Room 305) Fall Quarter Starts 12 Monday ELD Class Start 14 Wednesday Last Day to Add & Drop 16 Friday New Student Orientation (4:00pm Student Hall) CPT Guidelines & Requirements Training (5:30pm Student Hall)
02 Monday 07 Saturday Mid Term Exam Period Final Project Due (MS611) 06 Friday Scholarship Applications Due 13 Friday 1st Comprehensive Exam for Graduates (MS621) 16 Monday Registration for Winter Quarter Starts 20 Friday 2nd Comprehensive Exam for Graduates (MS621) 26 Thursday27 Friday Thanksgiving Holiday (University Closed)
DECEMBER
JANUARY
30 Monday05 Saturday 04 Friday
31 Thursday01 Friday New Year’s Holiday (University Closed) 04 Monday Winter Quarter Starts
07 Monday12 Saturday 11 Firday 14 Monday24 Thursday25 Friday
Student Faculty Evaluation Week 3rd Comprehensive Exam for Graduates (MS621) Quarterly Awards Ceremony (5:00pm STudent Hall) Final Exam Period Registration for Winter Quarter Ends Quarter Break Starts Christmas Holiday (Univeristy Closed)
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