Titan Pride: CSUF 50th Anniversary Commemorative Book by Howard Chang

California State University, Fullerton

TITAN PRIDE

DISCOVER INNOVATE ACHIEVE

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THE STORIES WE REMEMBER are those told by the voices of those who lived them… Through a collection of personal vignettes and vivid images, Cal State Fullerton proudly shares the spirit of our university’s culture, the diversity of our campus community, the strength of its mission and the excitement of opportunities created for so many students and alumni.

TITAN PRIDE

In celebration of our 50th anniversary, we want to share and strengthen Titan Pride among the entire Cal State Fullerton community — our alumni, students, faculty and staff, parents and community members — who support the university and its unique student-centered “heart,” the spirit found here and nowhere else.

We’ll capture the things Cal State Fullerton is best known for, including its stellar baseball teams, outstanding teaching programs and unrivalled performing arts facilities. But you will also learn about less-heralded and equally impressive programs and centers of excellence.

Perhaps what you read here will surprise you. We think you will be impressed. We hope that our story will prompt you to think long about what makes Titan Pride so special — Cal State Fullerton has made a difference in the lives of more than 180,000 Titan graduates and in the future of California and the nation. We look forward to the future and prepare for our role to create endless opportunities for future generations — to discover, innovate and achieve.

Discover Innovate Achieve

The First Intercollegiate Elephant Race in Human History, held May 11, 1962, is credited with first associating the Titan name with the elephant mascot. More than 10,000 spectators trudged through the Orange County State College campus to “Dumbo Downs,” a hastily converted field, to watch. Media coverage was worldwide. “We were nobody before the elephant races,” recalled Jack Hale ’62 (B.A. business administration), who rode OCSC’s elephant and helped organize the competition.

“Nobody thought we could do it. We wanted to put the name on the map. And we did it!”

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Contents Chapter One

The Quality of Education .......................................................

Chapter Two

Outstanding Programs .............................................................

Chapter Three

Outstanding Faculty ...................................................................

Chapter Four

Stellar Student Research ..................................................

Chapter Five

Striving For Excellence .......................................................

Chapter Six

The College Experience ......................................................

Chapter Seven

Pledge to Local Schools .....................................................

Chapter Eight

Community Resources ........................................................

Chapter Nine

Community Connections ...................................................

Chapter Ten

Serving Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Needs ....................................................

Chapter Eleven

Outstanding Alumni ............................................................

Chapter Twelve

The Next 50 Years ............................................................

Dedication and Credits . ................................................

The quotations herein are from students, faculty and staff members, alumni and other members of the Cal State Fullerton community.

As an undergraduate student, Lawrence Wilson Gray (B.S. biological science) works in the lab with Professor Maria Linder. Now pursuing a doctorate in biochemistry at Oregon Health and Science University, Gray reflects upon the impact Professor Linder has had on his life: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is not often that the professor-student relationship spans as many different realms as the dynamic one shared by Dr. Linder and me. She taught, coached and trained me as a student, a mentee and a scientist. â&#x20AC;?

Chapter One

The Quality of Education

“I WISH MORE PEOPLE KNEW ABOUT CAL STATE FULLERTON‘S HIGH QUALITY TEACHING AND THE HIGH CALIBER OF PROFESSORS.”

A Faculty That Makes a Lasting Impact on Students Undergraduates at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities sometimes complain that their teachers actually are graduate students instead of the well-known professors upon whom the universities’ reputations are based. At Cal State Fullerton, though, the faculty emphasizes teaching. Alumni treasure the way their teachers became personally involved in their education.

Journalist Stuart Pfeifer ’87, a Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, began his career as editor of the Daily Titan. “I learned a great deal about investigative reporting from instructor Gary Granville, and our Daily Titan adviser, Jay Berman, really taught us how to become journalists. Jay would pull out the previous day’s edition and tell us everything we had done wrong. As embarrassing as it was, he really prepared us. He demonstrated how important it is to write a story accurately and clearly.” Pediatrician Mychelle Pham ’97, a President’s Scholar, found that the help she received from the Health Professions advisory team played a crucial role in furthering her medical career. The team assists students in choosing a major, research interests, and clinical experiences, and then helps them through the application process for medical

“The best part of going to Cal State Fullerton was the direct teaching contact with the professors . When you go to office hours, the professor actually recognizes your face.”

school. “The best part of going to Cal State Fullerton was the direct teaching contact with the professors,” she recalls. “When you go to office hours, the professor actually recognizes your face.”

Jeff Bacon ’80 designs promotional materials for movies and other entertainment media. He credits Jerry Samuelson, dean of the College of the Arts, for “kind of looking after us. We nicknamed him ‘Uncle Jerry’ because we felt he was like family. In class, we’d look at each other’s work and say, ‘I don’t know if Uncle Jerry is going to like that one.’” JERRY SAMUELSON, DEAN OF THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

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ZZYZX DESERT STUDIES CENTER 01 Lake Tunedae at Zzyzx is home to the endangered Mojave Tui Chub as well as its resident mud hens. It is visited by numerous species of birds during the fall and spring migration periods. 02 Botanist Alan Romspert describes the beauty of the creosote bush to a student in the desert flowers class. 03 Zzyzx

Entrepreneur Albert Wong ’75, who majored in electrical engineering before founding one technology company and playing key roles in others, credits a parttime engineering instructor (a woman — unusual for that time), who “had a profound influence on my education. She added to it a different color and practicality. I found that you need information beyond textbooks, beyond theory.” Wong sums up what many alumni seem to feel about their alma mater: “There is no magic bullet to becoming successful, but education does give you the knowledge, the tools, and the confidence to go forward, and Cal State Fullerton was key to achieving my goals.”

Geology Students Sum Up Their Work at Field Camp

students study flowers such as the cactus opuntia. 04 The Boulevard of Dreams was the end of the road for Zzyzx founder Curtis Howe Springer. 05 The California poppy, the state’s official

Geology students cap off their course work at a geology field camp, where they apply the skills and techniques they’ve learned to a set of projects that involve collecting and interpreting data, making geologic maps and cross sections, and writing comprehensive reports. The camp is based in Dillon, Montana, on the campus of the University of Montana-Western, a world-class location for geologic field studies because of its ideal combination of facilities, accessible field areas, fascinating and varied geology, and climate. As part of the expedition, students also visit several geologically important national parks and tour an active gold mine. In addition to this capstone course, geology students take field trips to mountains, deserts, and other important geological sites — about 75 days in all, estimates department chair Diane Clemens-Knott. Students love the trips, she says. “For many, though not all, it’s the reason they become geologists.”

flower, thrives in Zzyzx’s desert climes. Visitor Information n The California State University, Desert Studies Center is located between Barstow and Las Vegas at Soda Springs in California (60 miles east of Barstow, eight miles southwest of Baker ). To reach the center, take I-15 (the Mojave Freeway) to Zzyzx Road. Drive south on Zzyzx Road four miles to the center. Zzyzx Road is unpaved for most of its length, but is graded and should be driven slowly. n 714.936.0461 / 714.278.2428

Studio Animators Guide Student Work In 1996 Dave Master of Warner Bros. was faced with a shortage of animators to draw for movies and television programs. To solve the problem, he developed a pilot program, called ACME (from the Road Runner cartoon series), which brought professional animators into the classroom for real-life, hands-on instruction. “I visited 94 schools and picked three CSUs,” he recalls. “Fullerton was one that met the criteria: Enthusiasm of the students. Enthusiasm of the teachers — they had to be able to open themselves up to outsiders, which is hard to do. Having the interest of the students is No. 1. The third was an

administration that understood that this program has special needs.” The two-hour weekly sessions draw on professionals from Hollywood’s animation industry, who review and critique student work. But it is only one feature of the animation program, most of which involves instruction in art by Fullerton faculty. “One of our strengths,” says Don Lagerberg, professor of art, is producing “classically trained artists with discipline, who are responsive to team leadership situations.” The program also involves training in the use of state-ofthe-art computer software that produces 3-D animation and skills needed to create video games. Fullerton graduates now work for leading entertainment industry companies, includ-

ing Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Film Roman, and others. “I was having lunch at DreamWorks and saw two Fullerton grads,” Master notes. “Fullerton wasn’t even on the map at Warners when I started there. Now, they’re probably in the top 10.”

ACME CONFERENCE AND COMPUTER ANIMATION 01 Cal State Fullerton students participate in an ACME conference, in which Warner Bros. animator Don Hahn interacts virtually with students in several locations to discuss and critique their work. 02 The motion capture suit allows artists to catch a human being’s movements in order to make an animated character come alive. 03 Computer rendering art by Joong Choi. 04 Professor Dana Lamb teaches students the wide range of technology used in today’s animation studios.

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Anthropology Students Become Exhibit Curators Using what they learned in two upper-division courses, seven anthropology students became curators of an exhibit, “Conquest of the Pacific,” which showcased the exploration and settlement of the Pacific Islands through tools, models and other items. The first course focused on how to curate an exhibit; the second involved implementing what they had learned — selecting the pieces for display, designing the placement of the items, and creating and posting the identifying labels. Among the pieces exhibited were stick charts the Oceanic people used for navigation, along with primitive maps, canoe

models, paddles, and tools for building canoes and trade goods. “We made numerous mistakes along the way,” said student Paul Constantine. “But that’s what this class was all about. We were allowed to make mistakes, put in situations we thought we might not be able to overcome, and forced to work out problems within the group.” “It was very time-consuming, more timeconsuming than we thought it would be,” said Kimberly Casey. “It was a hard process to go through, but it was rewarding to see it all come together.” Another student-curated exhibit focused on the functions of American Indian baskets.

THE TEACHING MUSEUM The Teaching Museum is located on the fourth floor of McCarthy Hall adjacent to the entrance to the Department of Anthropology at Cal State Fullerton. The museum is equipped with standard professional museum exhibit cases with secure plexi-covers designed by Paul Johnson of the Bowers Museum Cultural Arts Program. The walls are movable and anchored on tracks in the ceiling, and the lighting is standard museum track lighting utilizing professional low-heat, non-UV lamps. The room is maintained between 50 and 60 percent humidity and 55 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Ambient outside lighting is controlled by draw shades at all windows. The main door faces the Anthropology reception desk and constitutes a striking welcome to visitors entering through the curved glass doors into the Anthropology Research and Teaching Facility. Visitor Information n California State University, Fullerton n 714.278.3626

Business Students Put Their Expertise to Work for Area Firms The Small Business Institute selected a business plan constructed for an Orange County firm by five Fullerton MBA students as the best case in a national competition that elicited entries from 200 universities. The 500-page plan, for Santa Ana’s A-1 Foam and Fabrics, was created as part of the capstone course required of all Fullerton MBA students. The five-person teams combine expertise in a variety of business areas, such as finance, marketing, operations and human relations. They choose their clients from a list of about 25 compiled by management professor Michael Ames, who directs the College of Business and Economics’ Small Business Institute. He screens the businesses that apply to make sure the assignments are challenging and draw on students’ full range of skills. (Businesses that are not chosen are placed on a waiting list.) “The businesses are a diverse group, low tech to high tech, manufacturing to service companies,” Ames says. “All have sales exceeding $1 million and more than 10 employees. Many are larger than that, but they all are ‘small businesses’ under the definition of the U.S. Small Business Administration (USSBA).” Fullerton teams have won 63 regional and national prizes since the USSBA initiated the program in 1972.

Students spend from 400 to 1,000 hours on the project, even though most are working while going to school. The results benefit businesses, which pay $695 to $1,995, depending on revenue for a consultation that would ordinarily cost $25,000 to $50,000 if done by a professional. One business owner who participated, Kim Jorgenson of Costa Mesa’s Plums Café and Catering, told the Orange County Register, “Their (forecasts) were right on, and they gave me big-picture reinforcement of things I was thinking. They helped me prioritize what to do first and what could be done later.”

MBA capstone course student consulting teams have provided consulting projects for more than 800 businesses, giving MBA students real-life experience with business situations. For 14 out of 15 years, Cal State Fullerton capstone course student teams have won national honors from the U.S. Small Business Administration and/or the Small Business Institute Directors Association, as well as 40 other awards.

Communications Students Learn How to Break into the Business Each spring for more than a quarter of a century, students in the College of Communications have planned and implemented a four-day event that brings to campus a wide range of professionals, who discuss current communications issues with both classes and student groups. Speakers come from the top ranks of the industry, from investigative reporters to specialists in crisis communications and from television production heads to owners of industrial design firms. Throughout the week of the event, experts suggest practical steps that will get students work in these highly competitive fields.

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WANG FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS HONOR FULLERTON PROFESSORS

Seven Fullerton faculty members have received the CSU Wang Faculty Excellence Awards established in 1999 by CSU Trustee Stanley T. Wang. Each year the award honors four faculty members and one administrator throughout the California State University system. Awards have been bestowed on: QUALITY OF INSTRUCTION: RANKINGS

Cal State Fullerton is ranked eighth in the news magazine U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings in the category Top Public Universities — Master’s — Western U.S. The category highlights public institutions that award master’s and bachelor’s degrees but few if any doctorates. The ranking was published in 2006. In its online edition, the magazine included CSUF in the top 100 of the same type of university in these categories: most international students, highest graduation rates, campus diversity, economic diversity, and least debt accrued by students.

Fullerton is ranked eighth in the 2 nation for the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to minority students, according to the journal Diverse Issues in Higher Education (2006). Cal State Fullerton is ranked No. 2 in California and sixth in the nation in Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education’s (2006) listing of the top 100 colleges and universities awarding bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics. Fullerton also is included in the “Top 25 Hispanic Enrollment” for graduate schools listing (2006).

PROFILE 01 Jane Hall (economics), 2001 – At Fullerton since 1981, she is a nationwide expert on the economic impact of air pollution on health and has co-authored the book Air Quality Management in the United States (see the roundtable discussion, pages 74-79). PROFILE 02 Hallie Yopp Slowik (elementary and bilingual education), 2002 – An alumna on the faculty since 1986, her work in children’s literacy development is cited in nearly every state and national reading reform document and in most reading methods textbooks. PROFILE 03 David Pagni (mathematics), 2003 – At Fullerton since 1969, he specializes in training elementary and high school educators to improve the teaching of mathematics (see article, Pledge to Area Schools, pages 44-47). PROFILE 04 Claire Palmerino (director of academic advising services), 2003 – At Fullerton since 1979 and currently associate dean for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, she led the effort to develop a successful streamlined teacher education program and launched a teacher recruiting program.

PROFILE 05 Raphael Sonenshein (political science), 2005 – At Fullerton since 1982, he specializes in urban politics and is the author of Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles and The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and The Battle for Los Angeles (see Outstanding Faculty, pages 20-22). PROFILE 06 Richard Wiseman (human communication studies), 2005 – At Fullerton from 1978 until his death in 2006, Wiseman invited dozens of students to collaborate with him on publications and conference papers. PROFILE 07 Maria Linder (chemistry and biochemistry), 2007 – A 30-year Fullerton faculty member, Linder has garnered millions of dollars in grants for research, particularly from the National Institutes of Health. Her research is in the structure, function and gene regulation of proteins associated with the transport and storage of iron and copper in the body. She and her student research teams also examine the biochemistry of cancer and inflammation in relation to copper and iron metabolism.

Peng Chan, professor of management in the College of Business and Economics, believes that one of the key strengths of the MBA program is the diversity of its faculty in terms of education, training and cultural backgrounds. “This really adds to our program — our ability to prepare our students for the global world. Also key is our focus on teaching. What sets us apart is that we actually do both — teaching and research, in addition to the practical experience we bring to the classroom.”

Chapter Two

Outstanding Programs

“THE FACULTY MEMBERS ARE DEDICATED TO HELPING STUDENTS LEARN.”

Health Professions Program Trains Future Medical Professionals Future optometrist Julia Tran chose to come to Cal State Fullerton after meeting biology professor Joyce Ono at a college fair. “[Professor Ono] told me that the biology department had recently [received a grant from] the National Science Foundation [that would fund] more labs to provide the hands-on experience I need for optometry school. She also mentioned that small class sizes would promote learning and interactions with the professors. Her answer ultimately convinced me to attend this university over UCLA — a decision that many people questioned at the time.

“Fortunately, Dr. Ono sold me a product that was true to its label, because my undergraduate experience has been memorable here at Cal State Fullerton. The faculty members are dedicated to helping students learn and thus try to make their lectures interactive and stimulating. I also appreciate that they make an effort to know the students by name, which promotes a friendly atmosphere for learning.” Tran takes courses in biology, chemistry and physics that require a lot from her. “We have a lot more studying and assignments than most other majors, but we must understand how the body works on a molecular level in order to know how to cure the patients,” she says. “Doing minimum work as science majors is not enough, because the body is

The research of Joyce Ono, professor of biological science, emeritus, has included cloning and the expression of neurotransmitter receptors and localization and regulation of neuropeptide RNA. Her research is supported by National Institutes of Health Academic Research Enhancement Awards, Minority Science Development, National Science Foundation Career and intramural grants. She is equally passionate about her students — and how they can learn about science as a lifelong process of inquiry.

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a complicated system. It makes sense that science is hard and complicated.” Tran tutors students at the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Opportunity Center in courses she’s taken. And she especially likes doing research projects and making presentations about them. “That’s when I feel I’m a scientist,” she says.

College of Business and Economics Provides Real-World Knowledge Javier Serna aims for the top. “My career ambition is to become a CEO of a Fortune 500 company,” he says. “My business program is providing me the knowledge to attain such a title,” mentioning not his only course work but also the workshops, job fairs and guest speakers he has experienced in programs coordinated by the College of Business and Economics. “The faculty here is great,” Serna says. “All my professors know my name and attempt to know everyone on a personal basis. They are flexible about their office hours and always respond to e-mails. Best of all, they push their students to excel and are willing to help in any way possible.” Serna is impressed by the importance the faculty puts on networking. “It’s the way toward success in this global economy,” he believes. One assignment Serna found especially helpful required him to put together a business writing portfolio consisting of various kinds of letters. “At the end of the semester I revised all my work and put it on stationery that I can give to future employers to show them the kind of work I can produce.”

International graduate student Eun Ju Chung describes Cal State Fullerton’s MBA program as being focused on practical skills and knowledge. “I wanted to work for a consulting firm, but I needed a degree in business since my undergraduate degree is in Chinese language. I like the way they teach here. I got so much from the MBA program, and I landed my dream job with Ernst & Young.”

Peter Martinez is only 20 years old, but he’s already spent three years working as an intern at KCET-TV in Los Angeles. Martinez is the recipient of an Emma L. Bowen Foundation internship, which prepares minority youth for careers in the media industry. A junior radio-TV-film major, he also works as an executive producer and production coordinator at Titan Communications, the university’s own television station.

“Dedication isn’t for one semester or one class. It goes beyond that for me.”

Engineering College Offers Intense, Intimate Program “Because the engineering and computer science program is so small, I can network with students who have the same ambition as mine,” says future civil engineer Oscar Ramirez. “Thanks to the program’s Center for Academic Support in Engineering and Computer Science, I can complete my school work at any time. With a night owl pass, I can enter the center 24 hours a day.” He especially likes the program’s group projects because the skills involved, including managing people and meeting deadlines, will be useful in his career. He also appreciates the leadership skills he’s learned as an officer in the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. “The program does take a lot of time, but I don’t mind because after graduating I’ll be doing what I always wanted to do, which is building structures from scratch.”

Building off-road vehicles is another way Cal State Fullerton students learn by doing. For more than a decade, engineering students have participated in the annual Mini Baja car competition sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. The team that designs the one-person vehicle must follow the society’s exacting set of requirements and specifications. Vehicles are judged on the basis of such factors as engineering design, sales presentation, cost, safety, acceleration, land maneuverability, hill climb and endurance. Each year, CSUF’s student team competes against more than 120 colleges and universities. Whether or not the team wins an award, the students always return with the winning feeling that comes from an all-out collaborative effort that produces an inventive, high-quality product.

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01 Students from the award-winning Department of Theatre and Dance perform in various productions throughout the year. 02 The new

Performing Arts Center is equipped with state-of-the-art makeup studios. 03 Musical theatre students, including the CSUF Preeminents – the university’s premier performers — dance and sing at Front & Center, Cal State Fullerton’s annual gala for scholarships.

Musical Theatre Curriculum: A Boot Camp for Future Stars “The first day of classes, one of our teachers told us that this program was ‘the closest [we’d] ever come to a boot camp, without joining the army,’” BFA musical theatre student Catherine Dietrich recalls. “I’m afraid he might be right.” Even listening to her schedule sounds exhausting. “A normal unit load is 20-23 units per semester. We have plenty of written character analyses, script analyses and play critiques, and what we lack in [other] written work, we make up for in practice time. For dance, we are running our routines, practicing turns and technique. For acting, we have the repetition [an acting exercise], the journaling [keeping records of everyday experiences], weekly partner assignments and other scene preparations, not to mention encountering intense emotions that either exhaust you or set you on a volatile emotional edge in life.

“For outside voice [private classes taken outside the university], we are running songs and technique daily. We are listening to dialects and accents, and practicing incorporating them into our own speech until they are natural. Outside of class, we are rehearsing scenes, 10-minute plays and one-acts for student directors, and, if you can get them, parts in the mainstage shows — the ones that subscribers attend in the gorgeous new theatre building. Then, there is work. “Do I mind it? No, honestly I love it. It is an incredible process, and you share so much of yourself with your friends and peers and teachers. So many true connections develop between people. Almost everyone at least knows one another, and you become incredibly close to so many people. “Especially as a musical theatre performer, I came into the program not really knowing what acting was — that it is much more like actually being someone else than pretending to be someone else. It’s somewhat like when children are playing house, and they are the mother, or the pet dog. In that moment,

they are not pretending to be the mother or the dog, they are the mother or the dog. Our teachers usually refer to it as a genuineness, an honesty, or the ability, as [famed acting teacher Sandy] Meisner put it, to ‘live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.’ “My class has thus far focused on living truthfully onstage and taking on the given circumstances of a character — that is, their personality, emotional state and relationships with others in the scene. “The faculty, like those anywhere, is ultimately just a collection of individuals — granted, a very interesting and diverse one in this case. [All the professors have professional experience in the theatrical world outside of the university environment].” After graduation Dietrich expects to perform professionally. “Eventually I also would love to direct and teach, but the performing needs to come first,” she says, “both for the experience and because I will never rest until I do.”

Outstanding Steve Murray and Jane Hall, joined by Hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband, enjoy a study trip to Larry in theprofessors Lab with Professor... the rocky Laguna Beach coastline. Both professors are involved in coastal ecological research.

ChapterThree

Outstanding Faculty

“THE FACULTY IS AMAZING AND ACCOMPLISHED.”

An Author Writes Volumes for Professionals and Lay Readers Jeffrey Kottler, chair of the Counseling Department, has written more than 60 books covering an amazing range of subjects. Some are for therapists: The Imperfect Therapist: Learning from Failure in Therapeutic Practice, The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us About Human Behavior. Some are for educators: What’s Really Said in the Teacher’s Lounge. Some are for the general public: The Language of Tears, The Last Victim: Inside the Mind of Serial Killers.

Kottler has taught for more than 30 years throughout the world. A Fulbright lecturer in Peru and other countries, he has also spent 10 years on an Indian reservation, teaching counseling to minority students. But Fullerton is his home base. “CSUF feels like a small town to me,” he says. “Even amidst an urban setting, everyone is so friendly and helpful. In the Counseling Department we have among the most culturally diverse faculty and students in the world, yet there is an atmosphere of caring and respect for one another’s differences.”

All of his books “originate from some intensely personal issue that confounds or interests me,” Kottler says. “I wrote a book about the phenomenon of crying because I had stopped crying for many years until a near-death experience. I wrote a book about conflict resolution because I was working in another university with a very dysfunctional faculty. I wrote a book about how therapists are changed by their clients because I am so profoundly affected and influenced by my students and clients.” Jeffrey A. Kottler, center, with scholarship recipients, travels to Nepal every winter, carrying donations from his family, friends and CSUF colleagues and students. In 2004, he raised $10,000 to prevent young girls from being sold by their families into sex slavery because they can’t afford to feed them or keep them in school. “We go into remote villages and tell the families, ‘your girls are very valuable and we’re going to support them,’” Kottler says.

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An Astronomer Searches for Life in Other Solar Systems Physicist Patricia Cheng focuses her research on one of the most fascinating subjects a human being can investigate: Is there life in other solar systems? She has narrowed her inquiries to roughly 60 stars that, like our sun, are all on the cool side — about 8,000 degrees Kelvin. They are the most likely supporters of life-sustaining planets. Once she identifies a star, Cheng has to mask its brilliance so she can study its planets as well as the interstellar dust and gases. Cheng gets more than a visual take on her targets, thanks to infrared, ultraviolet and far-ultraviolet technologies. Even X-ray and radio waves help to distinguish inconsequential dust from particles that some day might harbor life. Her research yields few epiphanies, but it’s replete with small successes that add pieces to an almost unfathomably big puzzle. In this system, are there any planets similar to ours? What’s the makeup of the circum-stellar gas? Is it first or second generation? At what temperature is it likely to condense? “Sometimes what you don’t see can be your best clue,” Cheng says. Because Cheng is a teacher as well as a researcher, her students benefit from her expertise. Cheng’s office shows how she connects with her astronomy students as well as those in her basic physics and upper-level classical mechanics classes. A Hula-Hoop helps her explain how objects maintain orbits, while a Frisbee-like toy allows students to visualize proto-stellar disks that are thought to presage planets. Five of Cheng’s students have gone on to earn or pursue graduate degrees in astronomy at San Diego State, and several are now working astronomers. NASA has supported Cheng’s research for 18 years with grants totaling more than $800,000. “Her work has been extraordinarily well funded, which speaks volumes for the interest it generates,” says Roger Nanes, former Physics Department chair.

Professor Raphael Sonenshein, left, is a prolific public speaker and author as well as an expert often quoted in the media about politics in Los Angeles and throughout California.

A Political Scientist Analyzes How Coalitions Affect Regional Government For incisive looks at the factors influencing the politics of that great conglomerate — the city of Los Angeles — the books of political scientist Raphael Sonenshein are essential reading. He is the author of Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles and The City at Stake: Secession, Reform, and the Battle for Los Angeles. He served as executive director of a commission charged with creating the city’s first new charter in 75 years — a charter later approved by an overwhelming majority of voters. “I’ve always been interested in racial politics, even before I moved to LA in 1974,” Sonenshein says. “How do people manage to overcome differences to work together to achieve common goals? But then I became

an intern in [former mayor] Tom Bradley’s office and became really fascinated. I’ve been hooked on coalition politics ever since.”

An Historian Takes a Broad View of College Education

His longstanding interest in history has recently expanded to include geography. He is collaborating with CSUF geographer Mark Drayse on research into immigration and politics. “The central issue of our time, in terms of how we live our daily lives, is probably the role that new generations of immigrants will play in our society and how Americans see immigrants’ role: as contributors to or a drain on society,” he says.

When students ask William Haddad, chair of the History Department, why they should study history, he replies: “I tell them that the purpose of a college education is not to learn a vocation but to teach ‘transferable skills’: the ability to read critically, to write, to be able to think and synthesize. History gives one those skills. It will make you an informed citizen, something critical to a democracy, and allow you to hold any job that requires thinking, reading and writing.”

Sonenshein is committed to teaching as well as research. “We are educating the backbone and leadership of the next California. That’s a huge responsibility, and one that makes us essential to the state. I love teaching students who work as hard as ours do, both in and out of the classroom. They will be very well prepared for leadership roles.”

History Professor William Haddad, department chair, believes that history can be the basis of a solid college education that prepares students for a number of careers. History teaches critical thinking, reading and writing, among other skills, he says.

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Haddad has written three books that deal with countries in the Middle East over the past 150 years. The most recent, Iraq: The Human Cost of History, deals with the impact of sanctions supported by the United States and the United Kingdom between 1991 and 2003.

“The original aim of the sanctions was to force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait,” Haddad explains. “Though this was accomplished quickly through war, the sanctions continued for another 12 years. As a result, several hundred thousand Iraqis died from poor hygiene, lack of medical care and malnutrition. The book asks the question, ‘Did the sanctions achieve their purpose and were they worthwhile?’” He finds teaching at Fullerton especially rewarding. “The best thing about teaching here is knowing that you are making a difference. We have thousands of students who are the first in their family to attend college. We have thousands more who are pursuing the American dream: their parents are immigrants, they do not speak English at home, but they all know that an education is key to advancing in American society.”

An Authority Uses AfricanAmerican Music to Provide Cultural Insights “Music is like food,” says Afro-Ethnic Studies lecturer Stan Breckenridge. “If you understand it, it provides great insight into another culture.” He uses musical forms from gospel to ragtime and from spirituals to hip-hop to help Fullerton students gain

Afro-Ethnic Studies Lecturer Stan Breckenridge — a musicologist, consultant and public speaker — uses music and dance as analytical tools for understanding world cultures.

insight into African-American culture. In fall 2005, he became a Fulbright Scholar in Poland, teaching courses in the history of rock music, African-American music appreciation, and African-Americans in the performing arts. Breckenridge grew up in a household filled with music; he recalls his family walking around singing hymns. But in the late 1960s, his perspective broadened as he joined a prize-winning, Motown-influenced singing group that appeared on television and in concert tours. His exposure to new forms of music prompted him to change his focus of study at Cal State Fullerton from choral conducting to musicology. “Working with students of ethnically and culturally different backgrounds is a reward-

“The best thing about teaching here is knowing that you are making a difference.”

ing experience for me at Cal State Fullerton,“ he comments. “When it comes down to it, education is about understanding and appreciating different people for their contributions to humanity.”

As a senior, electrical engineering student Owen Cupp, right, was honored with the Excellence in Measurement Science Engineering Scholarship Award given by the Measurement Science Conference. Cupp won the award in large part for the research work he has done with Prasada Rao, left, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This award is a confirmation of the internationally competitive program the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Cal State Fullerton offers students,â&#x20AC;? Cupp says.

Chapter Four

Stellar Student Research

“HERE, YOU RECEIVE A STRONG BACKGROUND IN RESEARCH THAT MAKES YOU COMPARABLE TO MASTER’S STUDENTS.”

Minority Students Prepare For Biomedical Careers The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) training program offers extraordinary opportunities for minority students seeking careers in biomedical research. Working with leading faculty scientists, MARC scholars attend weekly seminars where they read scientific papers, learn how to develop research presentations and hear from guest speakers. They also attend and deliver presentations at local and national professional meetings. One MARC scholar is observing the rela-

tionship between caffeine and adenosine on the dopaminergic system in the brain and its related potential benefits to Parkinson’s disease. Another is working with CSUF psychologist Nancy Segal on her studies of twins.

The program provides each student with an annual stipend of about $10,000, as well as funding for travel, supplies and materials. MARC also pays participants’ school fees and provides a preparation course for the Graduate Record Exams.

Originally intended solely for members of minority groups, the program is now open as well to students who are the first in their family to attend a four-year university or who come from a high school that does not send many students to college. Students selected for the program must carry a minimum 3.2 grade point average and be interested in research as a career.

Established in 1995, the program is funded by the National Institutes of Health. About 25 students have completed the two-year program and gone on to graduate and doctoral programs at UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Southern California.

Jacob Gonzalez, a MARC scholar, works in the lab with Christopher R. Meyer, professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Gonzalez says that the MARC program has provided many opportunities for research and gaining the skills and experience to pursue a Ph.D. program. “Being on the discovery side of science and working with research that could provide potential breakthroughs is the most exciting thing about science, and that’s what I’m working with right now,” he explains.

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Senior psychology major Kevin Chavarria and Nancy Segal, professor of psychology, discuss data on research Chavarria is conducting as a MARC scholar. “I know that I definitely want a future in research and will be looking into a doctoral program geared toward that,” says Chavarria, the first MARC scholar chosen outside the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Renowned Twins Expert Works With Psychology Students Psychologist Nancy Segal, Fullerton’s Outstanding Professor in 2005, is a nationally recognized authority on twins. Segal has made more than 200 media appearances over two decades, including programs such as “20/20,” “ABC World News Tonight” and various PBS affiliates. She has published two acclaimed books: Entwined Lives: Twins and What They Tell Us About Human Behavior and Indivisible by Two: Lives of Extraordinary Twins. A Harvard psychology professor has called her “the world’s expert on the psychology of twins.” “Twin research is not solely about twins, it is a model that helps all of us find answers to questions of who we are and how we got there,” points out Segal, herself a twin, who invites two or three undergraduates a year to take part in her research studies.

For instance, MARC scholar Kevin Chavarria studies social interaction among twins and their families. “Working for Dr. Segal has been one of the most fun and interesting experiences of my academic career. She has taught me many things that I could not learn anywhere else,” he says. In general, Segal’s students collect, verify and enter data, interview subjects, and prepare manuscripts and posters. “Much work gets done and in a creative fashion,” she says. Her advice to students and those beginning scientific careers is this: “Find a topic that really, really personally interests you and is theoretically important. Find a topic, a question, an issue. If you are doing something you like to do, commitment comes easily.”

“There are more opportunities for undergraduate research at Fullerton than at many research universities.”

Kinesiology Students’ Research Improves Athletic Performance Kinesiology students work with faculty on research that often involves bettering athletic performance. In Lee Brown’s Human Performance Laboratory, the focus is on how people adapt to performing exercises at very high speeds, as they need to do in sports. One question involves whether warming up with light or heavy bats affects the speed of a baseball after it’s hit. Another is what kind of exercise improves vertical jumps, as in basketball.

Jared Coburn’s lab does basic research on topics such as how people vary the amount of force their muscles produce during different types of muscle contractions, as well as applied research, such as how to improve muscle strength and power. “We’re also looking at various nutritional interventions and their effects on strength and endurance,” he reports. A student of Patti Laguna’s has examined gender issues involved in athletic training medical care. She says her students involved in research especially appreciate “the individual attention given to them and my willingness to guide them every step of the way.”

EXPANSIVE FACILITIES

A 71,000-square-foot expansion to the Kinesiology and Health Science Building provides a new wing that includes the Center for Successful Aging, the Fibromyalgia Research and Education Center, practice gymnasiums, seminar rooms, faculty offices and a 125-seat lecture hall. The facility provides stateof-the-art classrooms and laboratories for more than 1,000 majors preparing for careers in fields related to health and physical activity.

Students preparing for careers in fields related to senior fitness and wellness, physical education, athletic coaching and training, and rehabilitation enjoy expansive facilities such as the Lifespan Wellness Clinic and our Fitness, Movement Analysis, Athletic Training, Exercise Physiology, Sport Psychology and media laboratories.

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Biology Undergraduates Pursue Independent Research Undergraduate biology student Tracy Valentovich studies geographic variations among stands of Joshua trees. Robin Keber investigates how artichoke thistle, an invasive plant species, affects hummingbirds’ success in building nests. Amy Arispe is finding out whether crypto biotic soil crusts are a source of nitrogen for two desert shrubs. These and similar projects are being carried out as part of the Southern California Ecosystems Research Program, training undergraduates for careers in ecology and environmental biology. Funded and recently refunded by the National Science Foundation, the program awards $12,000 scholarships for up to two years. Recipients design and complete independent research projects, closely mentored by faculty members, and then present their results at scientific meetings and in publications. “We believe the program has had a dramatic, positive impact on our students,” says its director, biology Professor Bill Hoese. “Of the seven scholars who have graduated since the program began, five are in graduate school and one manages an ecology lab at UC Irvine. Students have received numerous awards for their work. Many have received scholarships, and three of our current students are enrolled in an exchange program to study coastal ecology in Brazil. These are a few examples of success.”

COMBATING WATER CONTAMINATION When electrical engineering student Owen Cupp chose to attend Cal State Fullerton over other universities, he wanted an opportunity for doing undergraduate research. Now a senior and a member of the prestigious Tau Beta Pi national honor society, Cupp has had those expectations more than fulfilled. He is especially proud of his work with Professor Prasada Rao, assistant professor of civil engineering, on the Water Hazard Mitigation Project. The three-year project, funded by the Environmental Protection Agency at $196,000, was launched to enhance hometown security efforts, a component of Homeland Security. The goal of the research is to be able to detect harmful chemicals in dams, reservoirs and aqueducts and to shut down the vital water systems in the event of accidental or intentional contamination. Cupp worked with Rao to develop algorithms to detect harmful chemicals more quickly and in smaller concentrations. The goal, Rao explained, is that once the algorithms have been further developed and refined, they can be altered appropriately to detect any substance from which the water should be guarded.

Dancers will be showcased in the Performing Arts Center’s McGarvey Family Dance Studio, built to feature new student choreography as well as individual dance recitals. The Performing Arts Major’s College Guide lists Cal State Fullerton among its “Most Highly Recommended Undergraduate Programs” for drama and musical theatre, and among “Noteworthy Programs” for dance.

Chapter Five

Striving For Excellence

“THE GOALS THEY HAVE SET FOR THEMSELVES ARE REALLY HIGH.”

Attracting the Best And the Brightest Each year a group of California high school students being wooed by Ivy League colleges decide to attend Cal State Fullerton instead. These students, among the best and brightest of their graduating class, are attracted to

Fullerton because of its academic reputation and its President’s Scholars program.

ing dinners at the Ronald McDonald House, and counting ballots on election nights.

The program began in 1979 with 10 scholars and now numbers about 100. Funded entirely by donors, it provides full scholarships covering all student fees and $750 stipends for textbooks for four years. President’s Scholars receive automatic admission to the University Honors Program, priority registration and consideration for on-campus housing. Two particularly valued perks are complimentary parking permits and laptop computers.

Adam Bakonis, a scholar majoring in finance, says, “It’s very motivating to be around the other President’s Scholars, to see their accomplishments, to see the work they do, and to see that the goals they have set for themselves are really high. It’s not intimidating. I don’t feel that there is a competitive edge to it at all. Everyone is there to help you out.”

Scholars attend special seminars and meet periodically with CSUF President Milton A. Gordon. In return, scholars must be enrolled full time, maintain a 3.5 grade-point average, and contribute to university and community activities. The scholars are active in community service, including fundraising walk-a-thons, preparing Thanksgiv-

The President’s Scholars program is funded entirely by donors and attracts high school students with superior academic and extracurricular credentials to Cal State Fullerton. “The President’s Scholars program brings a depth and scholarly sophistication to our university that sets Fullerton apart,” says President Milton A. Gordon.

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A First-in-the-Nation Program for Foster Youth At age 18, young people in foster care go out on their own, without further support from the government or their foster families. Forty percent become homeless in their first time out. Only 11 percent go on to college. Fullerton’s Guardian Scholars Program offers some of these youths an opportunity for a college education by providing full five-year scholarships, along with supplementary help including on-campus employment, mentoring and counseling sessions, and assistance finding off-campus jobs in their career field. Students can live on campus year-round rather than risk becoming homeless over vacations. Founded in 1998, the Guardian Scholars Program was the first of its kind in the nation, setting an example for 19 other universities that have implemented or are developing similar programs. Funding comes from private individuals and foundations, working collaboratively with the university, the Orangewood Children’s Foundation, and public agencies. The program has exceeded its goal of enrolling 10 students each fall. Actual annual enrollments have ranged from 10 to 15. Students must take a minimum of 12 units of course work each semester and maintain a grade point average of at least 2.5, among other requirements. Graduates have gone on to graduate study or employment in fields including social work, land management, education, advertising and music. A 2005 graduate, Megan Gornall, sums up her gratitude to the program in these words: “To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.”

Growing Success, a symposium funded by the Stuart Foundation, highlighted the success of the Guardian Scholars Program. The CSUF program is a working partnership between the private sector, foundations, public agencies and educational institutions that awards scholarships and provides personalized support for ambitious, college-bound former foster youth who are making the challenging transition to adulthood. Ten Guardian Scholars recently participated in a digital storytelling workshop, where they produced their life story videos as a way to facilitate personal development and increase awareness.

Freshman Programs Ease Transition to College High school students who expect college to be more of the same are in for a surprise, but Freshman Programs help first-year students make a successful transition, both academically and socially. New freshmen can enter one of five Freshman Programs communities, all of which stress academic success, campus involvement and civic engagement. All five offer University 100 classes, which emphasize time management, leadership, research and stress management. The classes are overseen by a faculty member, student affairs staff member and a peer mentor. “The first year is such a critical year for students,” says Lia Gutierrez-Castillo, the program coordinator. “The quality of the first-year experience can really have an impact on the rest of a student’s college career.” Fullerton First Year Community, which attracts the most members, is a two-semester program addressing traditional issues such as making new friends, establishing contacts with professors and meeting General Education course requirements. Freshman Future Teachers, also a two-semester program, introduces students to faculty in their fields and gets students into elementary

school classrooms through service-learning programs.

“Your first year, which is your foundation in college, is

Compass, a two-semester program for students who haven’t chosen a major, links students with the Career Counseling Office and academic advisers who can help students ascertain how their talents and interests can mesh with career paths. Live ‘n’ Learn, also two semesters, is open to students living in residence halls and focuses on creating a sense of community.

Santa Ana. “It really has a lot to do with who you will

Freshman Success, a six-week program which operates the summer before college, provides remedial and developmental course work for students who didn’t pass the mandatory English and math placement exams. Studies have shown that Freshman Programs participants achieve a higher average GPA (2.87) than other first-time freshmen (2.55). Also, 55 percent of those who complete a full-year program graduate in four years.

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crucial to your experience here at Cal State Fullerton,” says Angela Abraham, a human services major from become, and allows you to see that you are capable of doing this. It allowed me to realize that I am an empowered student.”

“The first year is such a critical year for students. The quality of the first-year experience can really have an impact on the rest of a student’s college career.”

Preparation for Doctoral-Level Research How accurate are global positioning systems? How do religious values influence adolescents’ moral decisions? What factors predict success among college freshmen? What does gender have to do with achievement in mathematics? These are among the topics that McNair Scholars are researching in collaboration with Cal State Fullerton faculty. The McNair Scholars Program, founded in 1986 and named after an astronaut who died in the Challenger spaceship explosion, prepares students to go on to doctoral programs in a variety of fields, especially science and mathematics. The preparation takes the form of summer research projects, augmented by monthly meetings and social and cultural events with others in the program and expense-paid travel to one or more conferences. Twenty Fullerton students a year — most of them juniors — become McNair Scholars. Eligibility requires a grade point average of at least 3.0. Family income must fit defined income levels. The program targets firstgeneration, low-income college students and members of racial or ethnic groups underrepresented in graduate education.

STEM PROGRAMS PROMOTE STUDENT SUCCESS

Cal State Fullerton is creating and enhancing programs and research that promote STEM study, in response to what experts have called the crisis of the eroding American base of science, technology, engineering and math. Partnerships between CSUF and community groups, such as the Fullerton Chamber of Commerce, also are forming in an effort to prepare future scientists. Additionally, the College of Education is establishing strategies for recruiting and preparing new math and science teachers. “It is absolutely imperative for us to increase the number of people in the STEM fields if we’re going to stay competitive in this world,” says President Milton A. Gordon. “We are trying to give students who are going into the STEM fields more support, because math and science are not considered attractive to many students.” Here are just a glimpse of Cal State Fullerton’s efforts to support STEM outreach. The Study 25-35 Campaign targets freshmen and encourages them to spend more time studying science and math. Student reaction to the study campaign has been positive, says Bill Hoese, associate professor of biological science. “Because college is so different from high school, I think many students appreciate guidance on how much to study,” Hoese says.

The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program, established more than a decade ago, exposes undergraduate students to various types of research and the skills necessary to enter and succeed in graduate programs.

The Peer Group Program is for freshmen studying math, science, engineering and computer science. One peer adviser is assigned to each college and serves as a group facilitator for peer group members. The adviser is also responsible for planning weekly group meetings. Each week, the groups discuss different topics, such as time management, study skills, campus resources and career options.

The ECS Scholars Program places first-year students majoring in engineering or computer science in a “learning community.” They take core classes together and attend study group sessions that assist with their learning. Tutors are assigned to work with students and attend classes with them, as well as lead study group sessions.

A number of programs have been created to focus on increasing the retention of students in mathand science-related majors, providing support for academic success and encouraging careers in those areas, thanks to a five-year, $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Pitcher Jason Windsor â&#x20AC;&#x201D; named Most Outstanding Player â&#x20AC;&#x201D; revels in the final moment as the Titans defeat the Longhorns, 3-2, for the 2004 NCAA National Championship.

Chapter Six

The College Experience

“CAL STATE FULLERTON’S CAMPUS IS SO BEAUTIFUL. AND THE PEOPLE ARE SO FRIENDLY.”

Opportunities for Involvement Flourish at Fullerton More than 250 clubs, fraternities and sororities, and multicultural organizations operate on campus. Leadership roles abound throughout these organizations, but their apex is Associated Students CSUF, Inc. (ASI), the student government, whose members administer an annual multi-million dollar budget covering recreational sports, the Titan Student Union, the Children’s Center, and the university conference center. These elected representatives devote hours a week to the task in addition to academic and work

responsibilities, but they, like the leaders of CSUF’s other extracurricular organizations, find the experience a great preparation for their post-graduate lives. Heath Reithman, a three-time AS president in the 1990s, says the position “helped provide me with good leadership skills, improved my speaking ability, and taught me how to manage a budget. I became successful in business much earlier than most people get a chance to.” Former AS President John Beisner, now CSUF’s Director of Risk Management, said the experience “gave me a lot of confidence

01 John Beisner values his experience as a former Associated Students

president. 02 Approximately 1,000 students are affiliated with 26 fraternities and sororities, which devote more than 3,000 hours per year to local charitable causes. 03 The CSUF Children’s Center offers care to

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the children of students, faculty and staff. 04 The Student Recreation Center will serve both individual and group fitness needs.

in casting a vision and accomplishing that vision. I can go into a new situation and have the confidence to know how to create a plan, vision, or strategy, and how to achieve it.”

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS

“Learning more about the university and really feeling like I am an active participant on our campus makes me feel like I am giving something back,” says political science major Drew Wiley. “I love coming to school here. I’ve been involved in so many different things and that’s where I’ve met my closest friends.”

Learning Leadership Skills Each year about 350 students take part in the Student Leadership Institute, a noncredit certificate program that both teaches effective leadership skills and provides ways to practice them. Workshops, offered frequently during the semester, deal with such fascinating topics as ethical decision-making, dealing with difficult people, culture and gender roles, communication styles and leading in the face of controversy. Students put these skills into practice by entering one of six tracks: career leadership, entering the work force; university leadership, personal and organizational traits; EMBRACE; intercultural communication; public service and nonprofit leadership, civic responsibility; peer health education, promoting healthy lifestyles; and studentto-student tutoring. About 3,500 students have benefited from the program, centered in the office of the Dean of Students, since it began. In fact, The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development: A Resource for Parents, Students and Educators lists CSUF’s Student Leadership Institute among the guide’s “Exemplary Programs” in the student leadership category.

1 The College of Business and Economics, in collaboration with three European universities, offers a Business Europe Study Tour. As students travel through five European countries, they gain first-hand insight into the continent’s economy and business and management practices.

2 American students from Cal State Fullerton and the University of Connecticut attend courses and conduct research on coastal marine management with their counterparts at two Brazilian universities. The goal is to “educate students about the global implications of not managing the development and use of our coastal seas and watersheds,” according to Steven Murray, dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, himself a leading authority on marine ecosystems.

3 The Vietnamese-American MBA Chapter of the Alumni Association, operated by recent MBA graduates, provides social and business opportunities for alumni living in Vietnam and abroad. Chapter meetings take place in both the USA and Vietnam.

4 Teachers and managers from China, Vietnam, Japan, and Korea come to the Fullerton campus for specialized training in education and public administration under agreements with Asian universities. Travel plans are not one-directional. In the Experience China program, California educators traveled to China to work with students in an international summer camp and to help Chinese teachers improve their skills in teaching English.

“Cal State Fullerton has so many diverse opportunities for students, faculty and staff.”

TITAN ATHLETICS CAL STATE FULLERTON A Few for the Record Books: Titan Hall of Fame Athletes Titans sports teams have won 12 national championships — testimony to the outstanding teamwork of Cal State Fullerton’s athletes and to the prowess of individual competitors. Some of its best athletes and coaches, who honored the university both on and off the field, have been inaugurated into the Titan Athletics Hall of Fame, established in 2005. They include:

Basketball player Greg Bunch, star of the team that advanced to the finals of the 1978 NCAA Western Regionals — the university’s only appearance — coming up one basket shy of the Final Four. The forward also led the Titans to their only conference championship in 1975-76. Bunch played briefly with the New York Knicks. Inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000, Nancy Dunkle is the fifth-leading scorer in Titan history, gaining 1,559 points during the 197377 seasons. A three-time Kodak All-American, she also served two seasons as Titans’ head coach for women’s basketball.

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Tami Elliott-Harrison was one of the nation’s top gymnasts, winning All-American status 10 times before suffering a serious neck injury that curtailed her 1987 season. Despite her injury, she received the 1987 American Award, an annual honor given to the nation’s top collegiate senior gymnast. In 1989 she was named Miss Virginia and competed in the Miss America pageant. Augie Garrido was the architect of Fullerton’s highly successful baseball program. In 21 seasons (1973-87 and 1991-96), he compiled a record of 931 wins, 391 losses and six ties, including 15 conference championships — 11 consecutively. Garrido took the Titans to the College World Series in Omaha on seven occasions, winning national championships in 1979, 1984 and 1995, and placing second in 1992. He was selected national coach of the year four times.

(702) and innings pitched (894.2). Her 34 complete games in 1986 also are a singleseason record.

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS Titan teams have earned 12 national championships in seven different sports: n Women’s Basketball (1970) — Women’s National Invitational Tournament n Men’s Gymnastics (1971, 1972, 1974) — NCAA College Division (now called Division II) n Men’s Cross Country (1971) — NCAA College Division n Women’s Fencing (1974) — National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association n Women’s Gymnastics (1979) — National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women n Baseball (1979, 1984, 1995, 2004) — NCAA Division I n Softball (1986) — NCAA Division I

Susan LeFebvre-Wyman won the Broderick Award as the nation’s top softball player in 1986 when she led the Titans to their first and only NCAA softball championship. The two-time All-American posted a 31-6 pitching record that season and holds virtually all of the university career pitching records, including wins (10021), appearances (149), starts (116), complete games (98), shutouts (59), strikeouts

Eugenia Miller-Rycraw holds virtually every career record in CSUF women’s basketball history. She led the Titans to their only two NCAA tournament appearances in 1989 and 1991. She scored 2,415 career points and holds the Big West record for single-season scoring. She played professionally in Japan (1991-93) and returned after several years of raising a family to play for the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA in 1998-99. She is currently assistant coach in the Titans’ program. Tim Wallach was the Titans’ first baseball star. He won USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award and the Sporting News College Player of the Year awards in 1979 when the first baseman led the Titans to the school’s first Division I NCAA title. Wallach drove in 102 runs, which still is the CSUF single-season record. He spent 17 seasons with the Expos, Angels and Dodgers, winning three Golden Glove Awards for fielding excellence at third base and making the National League All-Star team five times. Wallach returned to CSUF as an assistant coach in 2000 before joining the Dodgers as hitting coach.

Past CSUF athletic greats: Greg Bunch, star basketball forward; Nancy Dunkle, former CSUF basketball coach and star player; Tami Elliott-Harrison, one of the nation’s top gymnasts; Augie Garrido, baseball coach; Susan LeFebvre-Wyman, top softball pitcher; Eugenia Miller-Rycraw, record-holding basketball player; and Tim Wallach, Fullerton’s first baseball star.

During an impromptu performance just outside his Grand Central Art Center studio, artist-in-residence Franklin Rosero of Ecuador awes children with his dinosaur puppet, a creature than lunges, blinks its eyes and snaps its teeth onto a toy mouse.

Chapter Seven

Pledge to Local Schools

“CAL STATE FULLERTON IS A CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC RESOURCE FOR THE COMMUNITY.”

Education Program Combats Teacher Shortage As the state’s population surges and teachers retire or leave the profession, California’s public schools face a massive shortfall of educators. A priority of the California State University system is to train enough teachers to bridge the gap. Some future teachers benefit from Fullerton’s Streamlined Teacher Education Program (STEP), which combines the requirements for a bachelor’s degree and teacher’s credential in an efficient, well-planned program. By taking 15 units a semester and six each summer, future teachers can complete the program in four years — although most will need fourand-a-half or five years. A single-subject STEP for future high school English teachers is already available. Similar programs in high school math, science and social sciences are being developed. More than 400 students have enrolled in STEP so far. The first cohort received degrees and credentials in 2007. Students in the STEP program also benefit from early field work experience in K-12 classrooms, frequent contact with faculty, comprehensive advising, and social connections with other students planning to become teachers. In addition, a grant from the U.S. Department of Education encourages Hispanic

students to become teachers. Part of it targets students from Santa Ana and Fullerton colleges who want to transfer to CSUF and become teachers.

A Support Program to Keep Teachers in the Classroom Despite the preparation they’ve received, public school teachers can be overwhelmed when they face classes of students on their own, and a large percentage respond by leaving the profession. But a partnership between Cal State Fullerton’s College of Education and Fullerton and La Habra city school districts reduce the isolation that new teachers often feel and offer help where they need it most: in the classroom.

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The partnership focuses on teachers during their first two years. They receive support from more experienced teachers and university professors. Established in 1992 as one of about 20 similar programs, the partnership is called the North Orange County Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program. More than 100 new teachers take part each year. Some of the initial participants have become school principals. “We are one of the few colleges or universities that maintains such a direct and active role in this program,” says Ruth YoppEdwards, the project director and a professor of elementary and bilingual education. She calls it an “example of our close community outreach and our emphasis on involvement in all phases of teacher education.”

Professor David Pagni, the “math wizard,” visits a Santa Ana Unified elementary school and describes how numbers can be magical. Pagni has generated $12 million in grants to help teachers and students excel in learning mathematics.

In a seven-year program funded by a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Pagni supervised the training of more than 1,800 Santa Ana educators in a new way to teach elementary school mathematics. In 2002, Pagni earned a similar-sized grant to enhance teacher training and help students excel in learning mathematics.

Improving Area Students’ Math Performance Cal State Fullerton leads all 23 CSU campuses in terms of its entering freshmen’s proficiency in math. One reason may be the programs that mathematics professor David Pagni has created for area schools and students. Pagni originated an intensive, four-week skills-building course to encourage young women to pursue math and science careers. Each summer, about two dozen high school girls who are succeeding in all course work except math come to campus in early July. They study six hours a day, Monday through Friday. Besides improving their algebra skills, they learn about college life and explore careers. The program, called Project MISS (for Mathematics Intensive Summer Session), began in 1990. Ninety-eight percent of participants have completed high school and entered college, and 20 percent major in science, engineering or mathematics. One-third of the alumni enter Cal State Fullerton.

Pagni, a Fullerton faculty member since 1969, was honored in 2005 with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring — one of 10 faculty members from across the nation to receive the award.

Helping At-Risk Children Set Their Sights on College Talking to fourth- and fifth-graders about the possibilities of financing a college education may sound premature, but Jill English knows that most, if not all, of the at-risk students in the Conectate after-school and

summer program may otherwise never get the message and realize it’s possible. “Half of our kids do not believe that they need a high school diploma to get a good job, let alone a college degree,” says English, director of the Conectate Family Life Center and a lecturer in kinesiology and health science. “We take them to CSUF events, and we’ve had staff from university outreach come and talk to the kids about the importance of finishing high school, as well as college funding.” The Conectate (a Spanish word meaning “connect”) Program operates on a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health. Of 22 similar centers in the nation, Conectate is the only one in California. It focuses on Hispanic youth at a high risk for violence. The center operates four days a week with 40 participants, age 9 to 11. Cal State Fullerton students mentor them. Because the program aims to strengthen families and improve communications between parents and their kids, Conectate offers monthly family nights, field trips to museums, and excursions to beaches. “Some of the parents have made comments about how they communicate better as a family because of the opportunities we provide,” says English. “In just two years we’ve seen immense improvement in our students.”

“You have to do something different in the classroom to get students excited about doing math. Teachers have got to engage the students to do the math.”

Faculty Help Fullerton Teachers Make Math as Easy as 1-2-3 When Fullerton School District was awarded nearly $1 million to improve teacher quality and provide educators with the skills they need to help their students succeed, the district partnered with Cal State Fullerton’s Mathematics Department and its faculty to provide intensive teacher training and ongoing in-class coaching. As part of the grant, made possible by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the CSUF math team visits classrooms on a weekly basis to provide continuing support to teachers.

Better-prepared, student-centered elementary school teachers are more successful at teaching math, according to CSUF’s math team.

CSUF Offers Doctorate in Educational Leadership Cal State Fullerton was among the first campuses in the California State University system to begin offering the independent doctoral program in educational leadership in fall 2007. “As with everything we do as a university, our emphasis is on the quality of the degree program,” says CSUF President Milton A. Gordon. “This provides the citizens of the state of California with an accessible, affordable and high quality Ed.D. degree.” The new independent doctoral program is in direct response to meeting the workforce demands for doctorate-trained administrative leaders at California’s public elementary and secondary schools, and community colleges. Louise Adler, director of the Ed.D program and chair and professor of educational leadership, says that students accepted in the first year of the program can choose to specialize in preK-12 leadership. Cal State Fullerton is planning to offer a second specialization in community college leadership in a subsequent year. The three-year program is geared for educators seeking careers as administrators, such as principals and superintendents. Previously, under California’s Master Plan for Higher Education, only the University of California among the state’s public universities could confer doctorates independently. Beyond bachelor’s and master’s degrees, the CSU was permitted to offer a limited number of doctorates through programs offered jointly with other universities. Previously, Cal State Fullerton was among that limited group, partnering with UC Irvine since 2003 in offering a joint doctorate in educational administration and leadership.

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The message that Marty Bonsangue, professor of mathematics, and fellow CSUF mathematics faculty are giving to Fullerton School District teachers is that they need to focus less on their classroom presentation and more on the students’ mathematic experiences. “You have to do something different in the classroom to get students excited about doing math,” Bonsangue says. “They’ve got to engage the students to do the math.” While traditional math lessons tend to be “teacher-centered,” with students watching the teacher lecturing and doing the math, Bonsangue and his team are helping the Fullerton teachers develop innovative and fun math techniques, as well as best practices, to improve how math is taught. The lessons are more student-centered, where children make conjectures, use tested hypotheses and draw conclusions based on their own interaction with the subject. “We’re trying to help the teachers become better practitioners in both crafting lessons and teaching,” Bonsangue says.

Santa Ana High School Students Learn About Art at Grand Central Art Center

workshops and classes have been offered at Grand Central by staff members, graduate students and professionals in the community as a way to engage youngsters in the arts.

Arts-related outreach in central Santa Ana addressed by various organizations was primarily aimed at young children before officials at Grand Central Art Center noticed that many Santa Ana High School students began coming to the art center.

Doing so, McGee says, “exposes them to the world beyond their immediate environment and, at the same time, mentors them toward the value of learning.”

“We recognized that most of these kids were not being reached by arts-related or other outreach programs,” says Mike McGee, professor of art. But over the last four years, the Mixed Media Painting and Drawing Program and a variety of other arts-related

Programs at Grand Central Arts Center reach out to the greater Santa Ana community, including Santa Ana Unified School District. One program stresses arts-related programs.

The programs have included graphic design, photojournalism, drama, museum studies and design construction, website development and design, puppet performance,

photo manipulation and 3-D design/sculpture, plus field trips to the Bolsa Chica Wetlands and Bowers Museum. The art classes give the students confidence and influence other aspects of their studies and their lives, instructors say. “They find themselves. They go into occupational programs or find after-school jobs,” says Tracy Duran, a recent MFA graduate and one of the class instructors. “We originally approached this strictly as an art class, with journals and sketchbooks,” Duran says. “Many of the students have a strong interest in art, but were struggling academically. My hope is that, by approaching art through literature, it will intrigue the students and give them a new outlook on reading, as well as teach them a new way of processing visual information.” She believes the program has been a success and points to one former student who entered Cal State Fullerton on a scholarship, as well as two others who began their studies — also on scholarships — at Laguna College of Art & Design.

President Milton A. Gordon lauded the opening of the Performing Arts Center as the concrete realization of a dream, and called it “a world-class learning environment… one of the best arts facilities in the nation, a cultural treasure for the community.”

Chapter Eight

Community Resources

“I WISH MORE PEOPLE KNEW HOW MUCH THE UNIVERSITY IS INVOLVED WITH THE COMMUNITY.”

The Fullerton Arboretum: A Refuge as Well as a Resource Located at the northeast corner of campus, the Fullerton Arboretum is a 26-acre refuge from freeways, strip malls and subdivisions. The cultivated central area includes sections devoted to deciduous orchards, a dry palm grove, an herb garden, a rose garden, plants for arid regions, a rare fruit grove and an orchard of trees important to Orange County’s early economy. Surrounding that area are woodlands, deserts and a Mediterranean climate landscape with plants native to each topography. The arboretum offers more than a refreshing place to wander. It’s the site of garden shows, plant clinics, classes in using fresh foods in cooking and many educational opportunities for youngsters. And as is obvious from the many young couples in bridal dresses and tuxedos on weekends, it’s a popular place for weddings and receptions. Worth a trip in itself is the Fullerton Arboretum Visitor Center, anchored by the Orange County Agricultural and Nikkei Heritage Museum, which opened in spring 2006. The energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable project is a model of “green” architecture. The center design garnered a Best Practices Award for Overall Sustainable Design during the 4th Annual UC/CSU Sustainability Conference in 2005. The

Orange County Agriculture and Nikkei Heritage Museum displays exhibits that tell the story of Orange County’s early agrarian days. In addition to native trees, plants, herbs and grasses, the arboretum uses pervious concrete in a pathway and handicapped parking spaces. This sand-less concrete reduces runoff from oil and anti-freeze. It captures rainfall and allows it to percolate into the ground — a way to treat pollution naturally. As a result, ground water can be restored, peak water flow through drainage channels is reduced, and flooding is minimized. The arboretum is open daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day from 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Admission is free except for special events, but donations can be made at the entrance.

Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary: Birds, Butterflies, and a Desert Tortoise More than 40,000 visitors a year — some of whom come from around the world — visit the 12-acre Tucker Wildlife Sanctuary to view the wide variety of birds and animals

that inhabit it. Located in Modjeska Canyon and operated by Cal State Fullerton since 1968, the sanctuary is famous for its hummingbirds and other avian visitors, including woodpeckers, quail, doves and blue jays. Just inside the gate is the residence of Henry, a desert tortoise more than 60 years old. The sanctuary also includes a natural history museum, two ponds that are home to turtles, and a children’s garden. At certain times of year, hordes of butterflies are attracted to the garden’s plants. Other features include hiking trails and a picnic area. Special events include wildflower walks, telescopic viewings of the planet Mars, art classes, workshops and lectures. The sanctuary is adjacent to Cleveland National Forest and can be reached by taking Santiago Canyon Road to Modjeska Canyon Road and proceeding to the sanctuary, located near the fire station.

Cal State Fullerton’s titan arum, Tiffy, is one of the university’s rare “corpse flowers” that draws huge crowds when it blooms. Its putrid odor — it smells like rotting flesh — attracts insects in its native Sumatra. Here, it attracts national media attention — and repels most visitors.

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01 01 The Fullerton Arboretum Visitor Center, anchored by the Nikkei Heritage Museum, is an award-

winning model of “green” architecture. 02 The Fullerton Arboretum’s Heritage House, an 1894 Eastlake Victorian home, is now restored as a museum. Docent-led tours are available weekend afternoons. 03 Wildlife are attracted to the arboretum. 04 Plants native to each topography match the climate landscapes. 05 Henry the desert tortoise welcomes visitors to Tucker Wildlife

Sanctuary. 06 Wildflower walks are one of the sanctuary’s offerings. 07 Near the county’s highest elevation, Tucker’s location deep in Modjeska Canyon adjacent to the Cleveland National Forest

makes it seem remote.

Performing Arts Center – A Stunning, Multifaceted Facility Plays written by authors from Shakespeare to Sam Shepard, concerts by full orchestras or small ensembles, musical theatre, dance programs — all these are available to Southern California residents at the university’s new, beautiful and technologically advanced Performing Arts Center, which opened in January 2006. The center consists of four venues. The largest one is the 800-seat Vaughncille Joseph Meng Concert Hall, which showcases the university’s choral and instrumental ensembles, as well as visiting artists. Marc R. Dickey, chair of the Music Department, calls it “a world-class concert hall. We’re able to ‘tune’ the hall by moving the acoustic canopy up and down, as well as the curtains on the sides. Even the seats have been designed so that, whether there are 200 or 800 people in the audience, it will sound the same. When you hear an oboe solo, you’re going to feel like you can reach out and touch the musician.” The 250-seat James D. Young Theatre, with a thrust stage and floor and balcony seats on three sides, is the home of major dramatic presentations. The Dale and Millie Hallberg Theatre, with its flexible seating for 150, features experimental productions and new plays. The McGarvey Family Dance Studio, seating 50, spotlights new choreography and individual dance recitals. A list of upcoming events at the Performing Arts Center and elsewhere on campus

01 The Performing Arts Center’s piano came directly from Steinway in Germany. 02 The James D. Young Theatre is the home of major dramatic

presentations. 03 The Performing Arts Center is multifaceted, with several different venues for many kinds of performances. 04 The beautiful new

center opened in January 2006.

can be found at www.fullerton.edu/arts/ events/. Audiences may see some stars of tomorrow — actors, musicians, singers, or writers who will join their fellow alumni in the ranks of the country’s best-known performers and entertainers.

Opportunities for Lifelong Learning Certificate programs ranging from forensics to finance, from leadership to landscape and horticulture; online courses in grant preparation, education, and other subjects; a summer art program

for children 7 to 14; customized corporate training – all these and more are the offerings of Cal State Fullerton’s University Extended Education. Dedicated to lifelong learning, University Extended Education offers both professional training and courses for people who want to acquire a new skill or learn more about unfamiliar areas. Language classes help people from abroad learn English or English speakers become proficient in foreign languages. Courses are offered year round at campuses in Fullerton, Garden Grove, and Irvine as well as online. Through exchange agreements with China, teachers and business people can extend their university training across the Pacific.

The intimate, thrust-style James D. Young Theatre is the major venue for large dramatic productions, from the classics to contemporary offerings.

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commemorative award ribbon and T-shirt.

All Athletes Win At Special Games The Cal State Fullerton Special Games, Orange County’s largest annual event for students with autism, Down Syndrome, and other developmental disabilities, draws crowds of student athletes, assisted by community volunteers, including CSUF and local high school students, hosted by the university. The Special Games event was launched in 1986 as a CSUF class project. Two years later, it was dedicated to the memory of Kathleen E. Faley, a CSUF alumna who died in a car accident in 1987. She was the sister of event co-organizer Dan Faley and among the inaugural core group of Special Games volunteers. The Faley family remains active in the annual event. “We have almost 6,000 people involved — about 2,400 athletes, 500 school personnel and more than 3,000 campus and community volunteers. And, that’s not counting the folks who turn out to watch,” says Paul Miller, director of the university’s Disabled Student Services. Participants take part in the opening ceremonies and a variety of events, including a football and basketball toss, T-ball, wheelchair races and a 50-yard dash. The day generally concludes with a barbecue lunch and entertainment. All the athletes receive a

CSUF also has been host to the Special Olympics Southern California Fall Classic Games competition for the past few years. Attracting 1,200 to 1,400 athletes with developmental disabilities, SOSC sponsors such events as cycling, power lifting, bowling, soccer, softball and volleyball in the Fall Games, which complement the Summer and Winter Games that are held annually.

Camp Titan Creates Lifelong Memories For Disadvantaged Youngsters Disadvantaged youngsters from ages 7 to 14 from schools and shelters across Orange County have the opportunity to experience the great outdoors every summer thanks to Camp Titan, the Cal State Fullerton philanthropic program funded through student fees, donations and campus fundraisers.

About 150 kids take part in the nonprofit program founded by students in 1969 and sponsored by Associated Students, Inc. The youngsters spend one week in June at Camp Oaks near Big Bear Lake. “Many of these kids have never been to camp or can’t afford to go, so we give them a chance to get out of their urban environment,” says Alex Chung, Camp Titan’s co-director of camper management. “They come back with a better appreciation for nature because they can learn about the environment and how to take care of it.” As a boy, Chung’s parents sent him to summer camp. So now, he wants to give those less fortunate the opportunity to gain the many positive experiences he had as a child. “One of the biggest benefits is taking home the memories, which last a lifetime,” says Chung, a radio-TV-film major. There are no televisions or computers. Instead, nature awaits. Campers participate in activities such as hiking, horseback riding, canoeing, archery and arts and crafts.

01 Camp Titan welcomes about 150 campers each summer to Camp Oaks. 02 Disadvantaged youth come from schools and shelters throughout Orange County. 03 Cal State Fullerton students volunteer

to spend the week with campers.

Cal State Fullertonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Center for Successful Aging has a number of programs to help older Americans with fitness, balance, strength, mobility and more.

Chapter Nine

Community Connections

“ALTHOUGH CSUF IS A LARGE CAMPUS, FACULTY AND STAFF MEMBERS WORK HARD TO PERSONALIZE IT.”

Providing Practical Advice To Family Businesses For more than 10 years, the Family Business Council has helped family businesses recognize their common problems and find solutions to issues that confront them. It aims to help these businesses prosper while keeping harmony in the family. An educational forum organized and directed by the College of Business and Economics, the council offers monthly workshops each academic year, along with confidential discussion groups and events. It maintains monthly meetings for CEOs, second-generation business owners, and women business owners. An annual conference targets Hispanic family businesses. The council began by offering small breakfast meetings where guest speakers addressed issues related to family business: succession, communication, sibling rivalry, strategic and family missions. Those topics still appear on meeting agendas, along with subjects such as fair compensation for both family and nonfamily employees. An annual family business awards program showcases the success of family businesses, both large and small, new and long-established. Under the direction of Mike Trueblood, the membership has doubled to more than 40 family businesses. Currently, membership fees are $2,800 per year. The council

took another step forward with a gift of $500,000 from Rick Muth, the president of Orco Block Co. and a founding member of the Family Business Council, to establish an endowment for the Rick Muth Family Chair in Family Business.

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Bob Mellano ’90 (business administration-marketing) has been a Family Business Council member since 1998. A third-generation leader of Mellano & Company, Mellano says in addition to the council’s programs, “the ability to interact with other businesses, to learn how they are navigating the same roadblocks, is invaluable to me.”

Promoting Better Eating And Recreation Habits

Offering Stimulating Programs For Older People

It’s not only diet plan ads that focus on the need to lose weight. Almost daily, news reports highlight health problems in store for people, especially children, who are overweight or obese.

Workshops in ceramics and computers, discussion groups on the great books and political issues, foreign language and poetry classes, excursions to museums and other points of interest, Tai Chi sessions, movies, socials and meetings. Area seniors could spend nearly all their weekdays at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, and more than 800 take advantage of its many programs. The OLLI is part of the Ruby Gerontology Center, a multi-faceted, 15,000-square-foot

Cal State Fullerton has an outreach program to address the problems of childhood obesity. Its Center for the Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles and Obesity Prevention targets low-income, at-risk children in predominantly Hispanic communities in Santa Ana, Garden Grove, and parts of Fullerton, where obesity rates and risks for diabetes are among the highest in the nation.

facility that also houses several institutes and research programs such as the Wellness Center, which studies ways to improve mobility and reduce the risk of falling. The Center for Successful Aging, also part of the Ruby Gerontology Center, trains students and others to work with older adults as health care practitioners, rehabilitative specialists and fitness leaders. Working with community agencies, it provides services to improve the quality of life in later years and serves as an advocate for affecting public policy on healthy aging.

Working closely with local schools, the program encourages good eating habits in schools and promotes physical activity. Working with local hospitals, it helps school nurses incorporate healthy lifestyle habits into lessons for children and their families. In addition, three kinesiology faculty members have collaborated with Santa Ana’s Latino Health Access on a 12-week physical activity and nutrition program for overweight youth. The center, based in the College of Health and Human Development, was funded by an award from the Centers for Disease Control’s Nutrition and Physical Activity/ Research Earmark Funding.

01 Rehabilitative specialists work with older adults in CSUF’s Center for Successful Aging programs. 02 Fitness comes in many forms for young people. 03 Family fitness is encouraged at the Center for the Promotion for Healthy Lifestyles and Obesity

Prevention. 04 Fitness can be fun.

continuing education and mentoring for communicative disorders professionals. Using the latest research findings available, the center provides expertise in stuttering diagnosis, prevention, treatment and community education. The center is funded by fees for services (based on ability to pay), personal and corporate contributions, and fundraising. The majority of the children at the center are on scholarships.

A Strong Economic Impact

Town Hall discussions focus on important issues facing the public. They are free and open to the public. Recent issues have included the death penalty, the U.S. Patriot Act and same-sex marriage.

Focusing on Controversial Issues

Helping Children Gain Fluency

To get beyond the sound bites of evening newscasts, a series of Town Hall meetings delve into controversial issues facing the country. Area residents and campus members turn out, sometimes in the hundreds, for lively discussions among experts with a variety of viewpoints.

Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Children Who Stutter aims to aid the estimated 15,000 children ages 3-12 who stutter and who live within traveling distance from the university. The center’s mission is to provide outstanding services to these children and their families, including those who cannot afford private practice fees. In addition, the center prepares communication professionals in the area of fluency, and provides

Topics have included “Is Lady Liberty’s Lamp Still Lit?,” a discussion on immigration from the perspectives of economics, human rights and national security; “SameSex Marriage,” examining the issue from sociological, legal, civic and religious viewpoints; “Our Environment in Peril — What, Me Worry?,” looking at long-term threats; and “A Closer Look at the USA Patriot Act.” The events, which take place in the Titan Student Union, are sponsored by the Center for Community Dialogue and the Center for Public Policy.

It is estimated that more than 3 million Americans stutter. With early intervention, three out of four children can be successfully treated.

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The vast majority of Cal State Fullerton’s 180,000 alumni live in Southern California, contributing to the region’s remarkable employment and economic growth. The university’s annual economic impact on the Los Angeles region is enormous, as noted in the California State University 2004 study “Working for California: The Impact of the California State University.” n Annual spending related to Cal State Fullerton in the Los Angeles region is $458 million, and the university generates a total impact of $851 million on the regional economy. n This impact sustains more than 12,500 jobs in the region and generates more than $45 million per year in state tax revenue. n $1.8 million of the earnings by alumni from Cal State Fullerton are attributable to their CSU degrees.

KCET Orange: Collaboration Creates New Digital Channel KCET Orange — the innovative new PBS television channel that will debut in late 2007 — is the result of a carefully cultivated relationship between two organizations that, like two individuals, saw a lot in each other from the very beginning. Cal State Fullerton and KCET, the West Coast flagship station of the Public Broadcasting Service, have bonded through fruitful sponsorship agreements and advertising accords over the past two years — all of them successful. KCET was the exclusive media sponsor for the new Performing Arts Center’s inaugural season and has supported CSUF in myriad advertising opportunities. CSUF President Milton A. Gordon, in turn, has become part of KCET’s CEO Spotlight series. “As Cal State Fullerton was partnering with KCET, we were getting to know the university, Titan Communications and President Gordon,” says Al Jerome, president and

01 02

01 Al Jerome, president and CEO of KCET, and CSUF President Milton A. Gordon shake on the agreement between the two institutions. 02 Jerome speaks to students in the Titan Communications studios. 03 President Gordon and Al Jerome brief some of the university’s top staff on the KCET agreement.

“We’re impressed with the university, with the potential to be partners in a collaborative venue.” - Al Jerome, Pres. & CEO of KCET

CEO of KCET. “In time, we met with them to discuss partnering on a KCET digital channel, with special emphasis on Orange County. “It’s not easy to bring two organizations together to mesh talents,” he adds. “It takes patience, creativity and persistence to have a good partnership. KCET and CSUF both have a lot to give. KCET Orange and Orange County have a lot to gain.” The new, 24/7 digital television channel will

broadcast to KCET’s entire 11-county viewing audience beginning in November 2007, expanding the local programming KCET already provides to its viewers. “This is a tremendous opportunity for both of us,” says President Milton A. Gordon. “To date, the KCET-CSUF partnership has been one of the best partnerships established in my 17 years at the university. Literally everywhere I go, someone mentions seeing me on KCET, or seeing the Performing Arts Center on KCET. The partnership has generated more visibility for Cal State Fullerton than anything I’ve engaged in.” PBS programming will be supplemented with original programming developed in part with Cal State Fullerton faculty and students, as well as with other Orange County institutions. KCET executives and CSUF deans are meeting to discuss the ways in which university and station staffs can collaborate on future programming.

Many Latinos have traveled lonely and difficult roads to earn a formal education, Professor Isaac Cardenas says. He believes this has instilled in them a strong commitment to ensuring that all persons -- regardless of ethnic, racial, cultural or economic backgroundâ&#x20AC;&#x2030;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x2030;have access to higher education.

Chapter Ten

Serving Society’s Needs

“THE UNIVERSITY IS POISED TO CHANGE NURSING EDUCATION IN ORANGE COUNTY.”

“Our mission is to advance free enterprise. Our goals are to provide business education, build a network of resources and enhance the professional depth of consulting and advice.”

Accelerated Nursing Program

planning director. (Eight similar programs exist statewide.)

California and Orange County suffer from a severe nursing shortage. Conservative estimates suggest the county will need 800 new registered nurses a year for the next 10 years. Cal State Fullerton is responding with a new program offering an advanced degree in nursing to students with bachelor’s degrees in fields other than nursing.

Students will complete prerequisite courses in subjects like physiology and chemistry in about 18 months and finish the MSN degree in another 15 to 18 months.

The “entry-level” master’s program provides course work and clinical experience needed to qualify students as a registered nurse and awards a master of science degree in nursing. About 60 students a year will be accepted. It’s the first of its kind offered in any accredited college or university in Orange County, according to Mary Wickman, the program’s

In addition to the accelerated program, the university offers accredited bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing programs that prepare students to be leaders, as well as caregivers. The master’s program includes concentrations in several specialty areas that address the personnel shortages local hospitals and communities now face: nurse administrators, nurse anesthetists, school nurses, family nurse practitioners and women’s health care.

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01 Nurses can work virtually anywhere at almost anything. Specialties include pediatrics, occupational health, school nursing, emergency room nursing, surgical nursing and much more. 02 Jacquie Maple ’02 (B.S.N.) says she chose Cal State Fullerton for its convenience, “but I’d recommend it to others because of the quality. The nursing students came from all walks of life and all specialties. The instructors weren’t just good — they were current and still practicing.”

Online Instruction Online courses, where students can work on their own time without entering a classroom, are beginning to supplement traditional instruction. Chat groups and message boards take the place of in-class discussion, audio lectures substitute for live ones, and students query their professors via e-mail. Three online master’s degree programs are currently available. The initial one, offered by the College of Education, is in instructional design and technology. The College of Engineering and Computer Science’s degree in software engineering, intended for working professionals, emphasizes both theory and practical applications in each course. The College of Business and Economics’ program in information technology deals with both the technological and managerial aspects of the subject.

Many students find that on balance, the advantages of online instruction are worthwhile, as this software engineering student’s comment illustrates: “While face-to-face communication is often more efficient, the use of e-mail and discussion boards is still an effective way to resolve problems and have questions answered.” Alan Cseresznyak, vice president, finance and information technology for Toyota Materials Handling, U.S.A., Inc., commented on the online master’s program in information technology. “I feel Fullerton’s MSIT program provides the flexibility necessary for today’s busy executives to earn a degree in the information technology field. The content enables non-technical IT executives to gain a better understanding of today’s business application, network and system support demands. The course helps executive management bridge the gap between

business needs, application development, system support requirements and ongoing application/system support. It has helped me better understand my firm’s information technology systems, processes and needs. I can now make more knowledgeable and informed information technology decisions leading to more efficient and cost effective operations.”

Tammy Galaviz ’07, recent graduate of the master’s program in instructional design and technology, works with one of her professors, JoAnn Carter-Wells, on a class project. Galaviz says the convenience originally drew her to the online program but the camaraderie between classmates kept her aboard. “You are in charge of your own learning, but everyone was motivated,” she recalls. “You have continual e-mail access to one another and more interaction with your classmates than in a traditional setting.” She found that she participated more, learned more and had closer relationships with both fellow students and her instructors in the program. Armed with her new degree, she intends to pursue both artistic and teaching challenges.

Transforming a Local Community A worn-out, fading portion of Santa Ana’s Second Street has become the Santa Ana Artists Village, teeming not only with artists but related enterprises that thrive on creative people: advertising agencies, post-production facilities, restaurants and the Orange County High School of the Arts. 01 02

The hub of this site is the Grand Central Art Building, home both to artists’ studios and apartments for graduate art students at Cal State Fullerton. In a partnership with the City of Santa Ana, the university took the lead in gutting and remaking the 75-yearold structure into a centerpiece that would attract businesses, artists and enthusiastic visitors who sample the work. “We wanted to do something that was unique in the country, combining residential, educational and commercial components into one building in a downtown area,”

recalls Mike McGee, the project facilitator who is a professor of art at the university and directs the campus’s Main Gallery. McGee, along with Fullerton alumnus and Santa Ana mayor Miguel Pulido, was instrumental in the transformation. Project planners recognized that the center would need to become financially self-sustaining. They created a framework so that Grand Central generates income from gallery sales and rent collected from the apartment-dwelling students and such private businesses as the Gypsy Den, with its vegetarian cuisine, belly dancers and poetry readings, and the Watermark Printmaking Studio. The center was dedicated in 1999. Now its warmth, light and color typically draw 1,500 guests on the first Saturday of each month to assess and buy art, listen to lectures and sit in a cozy theater to watch a play or listen to a concert.

01 Grand Central’s rental and sales gallery often features the work of students and alumni. 02 Grand Central Art Center has inspired emulation among other universities. 03 The Gypsy Den provides a convivial atmosphere to discuss the installations featured in the gallery spaces of Grand Central.

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Jane Hall, professor of economics, co-directs the Institute for Economic and Environmental Studies at Cal State Fullerton.

“It really is important to understand the larger implications of alternative decisions regarding things like land use and regulation,” says Jane Hall, co-director of the institute and professor of economics. “Researchers at the center help frame issues in terms of the alternatives and assess the consequences of taking or not taking action.”

Since 1994, the institute provides and annual economic forecast of what the state, county and region can expect in job growth, inflation, energy costs, imports and exports, consumer spending, investment and housing.

Providing Economic Answers About the Environment CSUF MEETING INDUSTRY NEEDS

The Institute for Economic and Environmental Studies is the place where business leaders, elected officials and interested consumers can find answers to the questions that plague them about the environment. Forecasts on what the economic environment holds for the region, indicators reflecting trends in economic activity, or studies into the health and related economic benefits of improved air quality in the San Joaquin Valley — all of these are available at the institute. The center was established in 1990 to promote interdisciplinary research and education and to distribute information about the environment. Its first project was to study the city of Fullerton’s solid waste output to help the municipality prepare a source reduction and recycling program. It has delved into the effects of recession and the North American Free Trade Agreement on Orange County, and studies the impact of air pollution in various regions of California. Researchers have looked at the role of defense spending in the county economy and the economic impact of the closure of the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station.

n The Center for Corporate Reporting and Governance disseminates information on current financial reporting issues and provides interpretations of financial rules. It holds conferences that focus on issues such as auditor oversight, stock-based compensation, performance reporting and transparency in financial reports, as well as Securities and Exchange Commission updates. n The Affiliates program of the College of Engineering and Computer Science was founded on the premise that industry, community, university and individuals benefit by working to educate workforce-ready technologists of high caliber. With their contributions of time, funds, advice and industry connections, Affiliates support and enhance the college’s curriculum, growth of programs, technical infrastructure, such

as laboratory and classroom equipment, student and faculty research, and cooperative educational partnerships. n The Center for Entrepreneurship provides guidance and support to small companies. “Our mission is to advance free enterprise,” says Michael Ames, center director. “Our goals are to provide business education, build a network of resources and enhance the professional depth of consulting and advice.” n The College of Business and Economics established the Center for the Study of Emerging Markets to facilitate the interchange of ideas and inquiries between students, academics and business through lectures, research projects and a database of information.

The challenging, hyperfast world of Ashley Force ’04 — drag racer on the NHRA circuit and torchbearer-in-training for the John Force racing empire — includes modeling for Oakley sunglasses and starring on her family’s TV series on A&E.

Chapter Eleven

Outstanding Alumni

“I GIVE TO CSUF BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY CHANGED MY LIFE IN A MAJOR WAY.”

Tracy Caldwell ’83

ASTRONAUT

As a girl, Tracy Caldwell dreamed of a future as an astronaut — a future she is living out. At present, she is undergoing intensive training in preparation for the August 2007 launch of Mission STS 118 to the International Space Station. She previously provided crew support for Expedition V on its journey to the International Space Station. As a mission specialist, she is responsible for space walks and operating the remote manipulator system as well as working with the ship’s commander and pilot. Her preparation began in high school, where she took four years of math and science, and gained major impetus as a chemistry major at Cal State Fullerton.

Chemistry professor Scott Hewitt invited her to apply for Fullerton’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates, funded by the National Science Foundation. He remembers watching her improve. “When Tracy began here, she was not sure whether she had the ability to do undergraduate research. In her first presentation, she was very nervous and was visibly shaking. By the time she left CSUF, she was poised and confident.” As a result of her Fullerton training, Caldwell blitzed through a Ph.D. program at UC Davis in three years, earning the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. Then she was one of 2,500 applicants for the astronaut program, surviving the first cut to be among the 122 people selected for more extensive screening. She became one of 17 mission

Attired in training versions of their shuttle launch and entry suits, from left: Commander Scott Kelly, Pilot Charles Hobaugh, Mission Specialists Tracy Caldwell, Rick Mastracchio, Dafydd Williams and Barbara Morgan, and Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clayton Anderson await the start of a training session in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at Johnson Space Center, Houston. 70

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specialists chosen for the 1998 astronaut class — and at the time the youngest. Astronauts undergo rigorous survival treks and physical training. Caldwell called on memories of Benny Brown, her college track coach, who inspired her to run faster or jump farther when she ran sprints and competed in the long jump. She also recalled another crucial mentor, John Olmstead, professor of chemistry and biochemistry, who encouraged her to follow her dream. “When asked if I had the ‘right stuff,’ it was Dr. Olmstead who said to me that if determination was all it took, I could be whatever I wanted to be,” Caldwell recalls. “I took that message to heart.” * Photo, below, courtesy NASA

“When asked if I had the ‘right stuff,’ it was Dr. Olmstead who said to me if determination was all it took, I could be whatever I wanted to be. I took that message to heart.”

CSUF President Milton A. Gordon and Dean Steve Murray join Dan Black and his wife, Kathy, to thank them for Black’s recent gift to the university.

Dan Black ’67

ENTREPRENEUR

“The key to success is simple — hire good people who love to do what they do, treat them good, and let them do their job,” says Dan Black, who has done that repeatedly, founding and directing several companies. He sold one of them, Advanced Medical Nutrition, for more than $16 million in 1998. Currently the president of ProThera Inc., a nutritional supplement company based in Reno, Black is a major benefactor of Cal State Fullerton, where he majored in physics. “I give to CSUF because the university changed my life in a major way,” he explains. “Since 1998, Dan Black has provided extraordinary scholarship support for physics majors,” says Roger Nanes, former chair and professor of physics. “His junior and senior scholarships have allowed physics majors to concentrate on their advanced course work with a reduced burden to work for outside income. Since 1999, he has provided the funds to establish the Dan Black Program in Physics and Business.” Launched the following year, the program — believed to be the only one of its kind in the nation — is designed for physics majors who want to apply their technical knowledge to launch businesses or join the management teams of technology-related companies. Students in the program complete courses in finance, management,

marketing and advanced business communication. Most recently, he donated $4.5 million to the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. The funds will refurbish laboratories, purchase new equipment and finance student scholarships. “Dan Black has often stated that his wish is to provide opportunity to physics majors that he never had, that is, to allow them to focus on their education and to prepare them for their careers after graduation,” says Nanes. “His extraordinary generosity has done much to make that a reality.”

Jack O’Connell ’73

CALIFORNIA STATE

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

In 2002, when Jack O’Connell ran for State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he gained more votes than any other contested candidate in the country. His election built on 20 years of service in both houses of the state legislature, where he concentrated on efforts to improve public education. He

is a longtime advocate for smaller class sizes, improved teacher recruitment and retention, comprehensive testing and modern school facilities. “Many believe that college prepares you for the ‘real world,’” he says. “However, I believe that college is a real-world experience that helps you build habits for successful living at any stage of life. “As a student at Cal State Fullerton, I had a passion for history and an eagerness to expand my horizons by connecting with others different from myself. I remember waking up early to finish a paper, staying up all night to perfect a project, or just having discussions with others with the same interests and passions. I learned teamwork and discipline, and the importance of stretching myself to succeed in difficult subject areas in order to achieve a goal. “The habits I learned as a student have served me well in life as a teacher, a legislator and statewide official. I still stay up late into the night working on education policy, I wake up early to go over speeches, and I continue to discuss issues and try to seek consensus with others whose views may be different from mine. I use what I learned in college in all aspects of my profession, past and present. My experience at Cal State Fullerton was not a step towards the so-called real world but a real-world experience that prepared me well for a lifetime of learning.”

Miguel Pulido is mayor of Santa Ana.

provider of communications hardware, software and services. He is recently retired as its chairman, president and chief executive officer. The telecommunications firm where he first worked became a partner in the company.

Miguel Pulido ’80

MAYOR OF SANTA ANA

Miguel Pulido majored in mechanical engineering, but for the past two decades he has dealt with stress points and fractures of a different kind. Elected to the Santa Ana City Council in 1986, he is serving his sixth term as mayor. The city has flourished over the past two decades, its population increasing by 70 percent. To promote business growth and job opportunities, Mayor Pulido convinced the State of California to designate Santa Ana as an enterprise zone, offering state tax credits and other business incentives. The mayor is especially proud of the decrease in crime during his tenure. The crime rate is now at its lowest since 1963, and Santa Ana is one of the 50 safest most populated cities in the U.S. “My experience at Cal State Fullerton has lasted a lifetime,” Pulido says. “Fullerton helped me discover a very exciting world and new possibilities. My education gave me a solid foundation to build on. The knowledge, skills and personal growth I gained have served me well, both as an individual and in my service to the community. I appreciate Fullerton’s multicultural campus community and the university’s focus on achievement and inclusion. Extending access to quality higher education opportunities is a national priority. and I am proud to have graduated from a university which earns top ranks in awarding undergraduate degrees to Latinos. I thank all of the dedicated profes72

sors who challenged me and provided a great overall learning experience.”

Steven Mihaylo ’69

BUSINESS EXECUTIVE

Steve Mihaylo worked the graveyard shift at McDonnell Douglas while studying business administration at Cal State Fullerton. As a result, he recalls, “My time at Fullerton whizzed by in a big hurry.” Nevertheless, he recalls his accounting professors. “They could relate their real-world experiences in realistic situations as they taught us, and that was excellent for students as we learned theory. I found it an excellent learning situation.” His first position after graduation was with a small telecommunications firm. Later he went from being the sole employee in his own shop to leader of a global organization: Inter-Tel, a publicly traded

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Mihaylo has pledged $4.5 million to the College of Business and Economics — one of the largest cash pledges in the university’s history. To honor his generosity, the university will name the college’s future building Steven G. Mihaylo Hall. “I think the partnership of myself, all the academicians and the Cal State Fullerton alumni throughout the state have a real opportunity to build something special here, and I’m not just talking about the building itself,” Mihaylo told the California State University trustees. “I’m talking about the opportunity to gain national prominence for the business school. That’s my real goal.”

Deborah Voigt

INTERNATIONAL OPERA STAR

Deborah Voigt, like her rich and lustrous voice, has soared since her early, critically acclaimed successes in Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos” and “Elektra” with the Boston Lyric and Metropolitan Operas, respectively. The Wall Street Journal has described her performances as “seemingly effortless singing” and USA Today says of her, “There comes a point in a Deborah Voigt opera performance, at the end of a difficult aria, when you think she has given her all. Suddenly, the voice hits overdrive — and a whole new level of vocal power. Audiences go wild.” Many consider her unequalled in her repertoire of operas by German composers Richard Wagner — “Tristan und Isolde,” “Lohengrin,” “Die Walkϋre” — and Strauss. Of this success and her reputation in these roles, Voigt points to former Cal State Fullerton voice teacher and coach, Professor Jane Paul. “Jane’s own background was in German music. She worked extensively on my German diction. “My voice is larger than most; the color is very bright, so it naturally lends itself to a particular category of music that includes many German roles. My first successes happen to have been in German roles, so I think I became identified with that. I also have that sort of Nordic, Germanic look, being blond and blue-eyed, so that also had something to do with it.” Voigt, a graduate of El Dorado High School, first began singing in church choirs. After Cal State Fullerton, she was snatched up by San Francisco’s Merola Program and awarded an Adler Fellowship. Among her

honors are a first prize in Philadelphia’s Luciano Pavarotti Vocal Competition as well as the Gold Medal in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. During her undergraduate days, Voigt sang in operas, including “Suor Angelica,” “La Traviata” and “Don Giovanni.” Dean Hess, emeritus professor of theatre and dance, directed the productions and recalled, “She had a glorious voice. Whether or not it would be the world-class quality that it is, I had no idea — I’m not trained to tell. All I knew was that I could listen to her any time, all the time.” Although not raised on opera, Voigt was open to it. “I think it was really curiosity more than anything else. I didn’t have any

idea what it was all about, so I didn’t think of it as being an antiquated art form of another culture. Quite frankly, Jane could have asked me to sing the theme song from ‘Gilligan’s Island’ and I would have done it — she’s a very persuasive woman.” Paul also has traveled to New York, Europe and San Francisco to see her former protégé on stage and is clearly proud of Voigt’s achievements. “We saw her perform in her first “Tristan und Isolde” in Vienna, and it was so exciting, because she got a 23-minute ovation. At the end of her big soprano solo, it was quiet at first; just as quiet as could be. And then the applause started and it grew and it grew. It was wonderful!”

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Chapter Twelve

The Next 50 Years

“OUR ALUMNI WILL GIVE BACK TO THE CAMPUS, TAKE PART IN ACTIVITIES, GIVE LECTURES. THEY’LL CONSIDER THEMSELVES TITANS.”

Enrollment When Fullerton was established, early planners assumed that enrollment would reach the thenastounding figure of more than 30,000 students. Today’s enrollment surpasses that figure. Can we assume enrollment will continue to increase? If it does, will the bulk of it come from the traditional cohort of post-high school students, or will it span a wide range, as people in the workforce return for additional training or retirees return for leisure time enrichment?

Previous pages have looked at Cal State Fullerton as it is now. But what will the future bring? In April 2007, nine panelists looked ahead 25 to 50 years. A condensation of their freewheeling discussion appears here. The panelists included: n Milton A. Gordon, President n Ephraim Smith, Vice President of Academic Affairs n Robert Palmer, Vice President of Student Affairs n Steve Murray, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics n Diana Guerin, Academic Senate Chair; Professor of Child and Adolescent Studies n Jane Hall, Professor of Economics n Raphael Sonenshein, Professor of Political Science n Heather Williams, Associated Students President n Kristin Crellin, Alumni Association President n John Kroll, Moderator

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Guerin: Institutional data suggests that our potential pool of high school graduates will rise for a few more years, then level off and decline. We won’t have this embarrassment of riches forever, so we have to think about whom we’ll be serving after the tidal wave of available students. We need to think about the programs we’ll need in less than 10 years time, when we’ll have to work harder to recruit students and to think about the kind of students who will need our programs. Hall: Two social trends will drive us. “No Child Left Behind” and other programs using specialized testing may give us a higher yield rate. If we legalize the immigration status of a lot of people already here, it will provide a huge potential pool for the CSU. In addition, we’ll see a growth in demand from individuals and industries for shortterm, intensive courses that update skills, as we internationalize more, as language becomes more important. That will affect how we package our curriculum.

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Sonenshein: The numbers of applicants being turned down by the UC system, from both in state and out of state, is staggering. The quality of research suggests that [the] Cal State [system] is becoming closer to [the] UC [system] all the time. That fact hasn’t sunk in to applicants, but when it does, it may give us a huge pool. We’ll also have military people returning from long tours of duty who look to education as a way to refocus their lives.

minority campus with 52.5 percent minority enrollment. I see that continuing to grow, especially in the first generation of Asian students. (The second generation tends to go to the UCs and similar.) It depends on the U.S. government’s decisions on immigration. [People] used to refer to the CSU as “the people’s university.” I still think that’s a great slogan and mission.

Murray: There may be a surge in baby boomer retirees who may want to take enrichment courses. But the bread-and-butter enrollment will come from traditional-age students.

the immediate future. Rising fees continue to widen

Gordon: Immigration will play a significant role in enrollment. The largest potential applicant base is Latina. The growing population is Hispanic, but right behind that are the Asian students. I don’t see the first wave abating at all. Our location is ideal, right off the Riverside (91) Freeway. We’re close to Riverside and San Bernardino; we’re close to L.A. I don’t see us hitting 50,000. I do see us in the immediate future continuing strong. This is our first year as a majority

Rising fees and accessibility are both issues right now, and it looks as though that will not change in the gap between the haves and the have-nots, the college-bounds and those who cannot afford to attend. What can we do to assure continued accessibility to those we want to serve: first-generation college students?

Sonenshein: The fees question depends on political choices. How do we become central to the public agenda so that it’s a no-brainer that funds are allocated? We form alliances with the UCs and community colleges. After World War II, society made a clear statement about the value of education that lasted about 20 years. Now we’re on our own. It’s not a partisan question; it’s a public policy issue.

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Williams: Students are concerned about this. In California, 17 percent of the General Fund used to go to higher education; now it’s 11 percent. Clearly the state has lowered its priority for higher education. Legislators say they don’t want to raise taxes. In lobbying, we explain that they are raising taxes in effect on a certain part of the middle class even though it will benefit the state as a whole. Murray: The question about the haves and have-nots is especially significant in this region. We have many students for whom the smallest perturbation in their own lives can ruin a semester. Gordon: Part of this is a state philosophy. [Some] other states believe that if you make less than a certain amount, you pay nothing to go to the state university. About nine years ago, the CSU developed an outstanding five-tier funding proposal. It argued that if you were in the top fifth in terms of income, you paid full freight. If you were in the bottom fifth, you paid nothing. [Other tiers paid] a graduated increase. But [at the] state legislature, the proposal went right out the window. California believes that in terms

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of fees, everyone should be treated the same. The other problem with our fee structure is its total irrationality. Students can’t predict what they will pay on a year-to-year basis. If the fee were tied to a particular index, students and their parents could plan for that.

Instruction Will on-campus instruction expand to include many more evening and weekend classes, or can we assume that much more instruction will take place online?

Sonenshein: I can’t imagine how you replace education as a people-in-the-same-room endeavor with Internet-based instruction. We could accommodate tremendous numbers of students if this were truly a 24/7 institution. I hate to think of us contributing to the increasing isolation of society to save space and time. What a difference it would make for working people if we offered classes on weekends. Murray: Electronic capability and global connections mean that our West Coast time 78

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clock will be less constraining. We will see an expansion of more diverse work times, which means that people could take classes in the evening and weekends.

thinking they’re stupid or rolling their eyes. The learning is at least as good in an online class. Online classes allow people to continue their education instead of dropping out for a semester.

Smith: Online classes are no more than a niche market. Dropout rates from students in those courses are as strong as in regular courses. It takes a more dedicated, self-motivated student. We now offer three degree programs online. Probably we could add 10 or 15 more. But I don’t see online courses taking over. Williams: They can’t replace in-class courses. Something happens in the classroom that can’t be duplicated online. We need to come here to learn how to interact with people face to face, not only with cell phones and computers. As for evening classes, students like to take them, but a lot of campus services aren’t available then. Offices close at 5 or else at 7. Hall: I have to defend online classes. Students are speaking in the mandatory chat sessions who wouldn’t say boo in a regular class. They tell me they’re participating because they aren’t intimidated by people

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Gordon: We may be restricting our view of online courses to the way they are given now. I doubt that anyone would have predicted 15 years ago the impact of technology on education. Young people have new ideas about education. They work at home, on airplanes. They sit on floors with cell phones and laptops and work wherever they are. Palmer: The university experience is broader than the classroom. Young people come to learn from us in many ways, psychologically and spiritually as well as intellectually. These are valuable experiences. Will the university be organized as we now know it, around traditional disciplines grouped within schools and colleges?

Smith: In the 1970s this was a hot topic of conversation. Universities found students couldn’t do excellent research unless they were trained in sufficient depth in a specific discipline. Disciplines evolve, but I don’t see

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a sudden shift. Sonenshein: [A field] changes more easily if it changes everywhere. Political science and communication have traditionally been very different, but now departments of political science and communication are starting to come into existence. It took decades of people taking each other’s classes, doing research together, publishing articles and then creating journals for that to occur. It’s certainly not something we can do on our own because it puts our students at a competitive disadvantage. Murray: The real world is interdisciplinary. However, one has to have depth in a discipline to participate in the real world. However, to stay inside the same boxes and wait for those boxes to evolve is wrong. Change is what we’re about. [But] choosing between disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary exploration is a classic polarized position. We need something in between. Are our current constructs of general education realistic in today’s world? Some excellent types of interdisciplinary training could be brought in to make them more futuristic.

Hall: The organizational question goes beyond disciplines. What will the administration chart look like? Will we have deans and colleges? We’ve been doing it that way for a thousand years. Palmer: That’s why we’re likely to do it for another thousand! The colonial college of 300 years ago is still here in terms of structure. We change slowly, we adapt, we adopt new structures, but it’s been that way for hundreds of years. In recent years, students in many disciplines have been encouraged to work together to solve problems rather than each one working alone. Is this trend likely to continue?

Hall: Collaboration is going to be more general, across walls in universities as well as in the work force. Teamwork of people with different skills is becoming the model. Williams: I’ve learned a lot working in groups. General education has been helpful in teaching students to cross disciplines. It’s always interesting to see how much your work overlaps with others. It creates a more productive team.

Smith: Many companies use teams and want employees who can work in teams. They aren’t asking for specific skills but for the soft skill of working with other people. Crellin: From a corporate point of view, it’s important to know how to do crossover work. Applicants are asked, “Have you worked in a group? How do you work in a group?”

Buildings What kind of new and upgraded buildings will be needed most? Will we need individual libraries at all?

Murray: If you were to cut everything down on this campus and build it back, would you build it in the same way? Obviously not. We have a historic constraint. We have to take the territory we have and somehow mold it into the vision we want it to be. To educate people for the professional work force in many fields, they need to use the tools and techniques they have to draw on at work. [In

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science] we’re always trying to find spaces in which people can use labs and instruments. Future learning depends on that kind of capability. Smith: Many of our buildings are coming to the end of their useful lives. Palmer: We need buildings that make the university experience important: child care facilities, recreation centers. We could reconfigure library space and take advantage of the new technology by building learning centers. Gordon: We need places for collaborative learning where more than one discipline can be taught, where it’s open and friendly and a group experience. Sonenshein: What will be the experience of going to CSUF in 20 or 30 years? How will the buildings serve that experience? So many students are tired when they get here because they’re working a 20- or 30-hour-aweek job. How can we make the university more than just another element of their already-tough day? Guerin: We need to look at our mission. If 80

we see ourselves as creators of knowledge, then we need more laboratories and studios. If we see ourselves as collaborators with the community, then we need to soften the lines between the campus and the community. It is so difficult to bring a community member on campus now. They can’t find their way; they can’t park their car. That hinders our ability to engage in town-gown relationships. We still need spaces to collaborate with students and colleagues. If we see that as part of who we are, we need to think of facilities to support that.

The Purpose of Education Many students now go to college because they assume they need a degree to get a well-paying job. But in recent years, a degree is no guarantee of a good job. Will this trend continue? If it does, how will it affect college enrollment and the kinds of courses offered?

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a minimal college degree. The results are mixed for students with some college. Their potential for future success in our society is greatly diminished. A college degree now is similar to a high school degree some years ago. They may not be able to get a career in the field they want, but they will be able to build a more successful life. Smith: Students at a macro level are sophisticated about where the available jobs are. Students are flexible; they switch into fields where jobs are available. They can move among disciplines. They seem to have a sixth sense as to where the opportunities are. Palmer: Employers are not necessarily looking for a particular discipline. Almost half the positions posted in the Career Center require a broad college education, not a particular degree. They are looking for people with skills in critical thinking, communication skills, etc. They find them in students with a liberal arts background. Murray: The skill sets employers demand are larger than any one major can provide. If you pick those skills up in the course of your college education, you’ll have those opportuni-

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ties. If a student has a narrow career goal and takes courses leading to it, that student has the most difficult time. Will taxpayers be likely to fund public universities if they doubt that education benefits students financially? Will universities like Fullerton need to present a convincing rationale other than preprofessional training?

Gordon: When I got a college degree, people thought of it as benefiting society as a whole. In the past 15 to 20 years, society came to see [a degree] as an individual benefit. California and its economy benefited from its strong support of higher education since the creation of the 1960 Master Plan [which provided higher education opportunities for all students who qualified for them]. It discourages me that California is losing the concept that the education of a single student benefits the state and the United States. Hall: Isn’t this part of a larger social shift in which people are seen as individuals and benefits accrue to individuals rather than community — whether it’s in health care or education? Also people pay more of the cost of education out of their own pockets. They

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ask “Is it going to be good for my kid?” Palmer: It doesn’t have to be either-or. Investment in education is good both for the person and for the society. Guerin: [Because of ] the costs that students take on to attend college, people tend to look at it as a personal investment. We have to ask ourselves how well we teach the crucial skills — writing, critical thinking, social interaction and working in teams — and ask ourselves how we know it. How do we assess the effectiveness of what we do and communicate the quality of our programs to an external community, especially as education becomes more expensive? Crellin: We need to keep the importance of higher education in front of the community and let them know what its value is. Don’t wait for problems to come up. Keep it consistent. So we already have a buy-in when problems like funding arise. What other changes will we see in 25 years?

Murray: Taller buildings. More dorms and apartments. More of a university community. Smith: A South Orange County campus

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and campuses in other population centers, like Corona. Gordon: A different student body. A more exaggerated difference between the proportion of male and female student body. A different faculty. The new and younger faculty we’re hiring will reflect some of the same lifestyles as our students. A different president. Hall: The whole county will look different. Transportation must be different. The campus will be a hub, connected to many others. That will change the nature of what we do and how we do it. Williams: There will be a lot more connection to the campus and more investment in what’s going on here. We’ll always have students commuting, but I hope we won’t be known as a commuter campus. Our alumni will feel a stronger connection to the campus community. They’ll give back to the campus, take part in activities, give lectures. They’ll consider themselves Titans.

Dedication

Credits This publication was produced by the University Communications and Marketing Department at Cal State Fullerton. Cathi Douglas and Kathy Pomykata were instrumental in its planning and production. Howard Chang did the design. John Kroll wrote or edited the copy. Images are by Jeanine Hill, or were taken from university archives. Archival images are by Patrick O’Donnell, Phil Channing and Matt Brown. Marcia Escobosa did photo color correction. Andrea Davis is production planner. Associate Vice President Bruce Erickson heads the department. Parts of the text were adapted from articles that first appeared in Dateline, the university newsletter, edited by Pamela McLaren; in Inside, the campus magazine, edited by Mimi Ko Cruz; in Titan, the university magazine, edited by Cathi Douglas; in news releases produced by Paula Selleck; and on the university’s websites. Credit goes to the authors of those articles: Dennis Arp, Mimi Ko Cruz, Orman Day, Russ L. Hudson, Pamela McLaren, Laurie McLaughlin, Gail Matsunaga, Valerie Orleans, Debra Cano Ramos and Dave Reid.

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