titan pride: csuf 50th anniversary commemorative book

TITAN PRIDEDISCOVER INNOVATE ACHIEVE

California State University, Fullerton

CAL STATE FULLERTON TITAN PRIDE: DISCOVER INNOVATE ACHIEVE2

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.

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 fa-

cilities. 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.

TITAN PRIDE

Discover Innovate Achieve

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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!”

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

Chapter One The Quality of Education ...................................................... 8

Chapter Two Outstanding Programs ............................................................ 16

Chapter Three Outstanding Faculty .................................................................. 22

Chapter Four Stellar Student Research ................................................. 28

Chapter Five Striving For Excellence ...................................................... 34

Chapter Six The College Experience ...................................................... 40

Chapter Seven Pledge to Local Schools .................................................... 46

Chapter Eight Community Resources ........................................................ 52

Chapter Nine Community Connections .................................................. 58

Chapter Ten Serving Society’s Needs .................................................... 64

Chapter Eleven Outstanding Alumni ........................................................... 70

Chapter Twelve The Next 50 Years ............................................................ 76

Dedication and Credits ................................................. 82

Contents

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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:

“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. ”


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

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 embar-rassing 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 advi-sory 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.”

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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.”

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 stu-dents 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.

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

Entrepreneur Albert Wong ’75, who majored in electrical engineering before founding one technology company and playing key roles in others, credits a part-time 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

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 comprehen-sive 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.”

Z Z Y Z X D E S E R T ST U D I E S C E N T E R

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

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

flower, thrives in Zzyzx’s desert climes.

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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

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the center. Zzyzx Road is unpaved for most of its

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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, pro-fessor 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-of-the-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., Nickel-odeon, 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.”

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-divi-sion courses, seven anthropology students became curators of an exhibit, “Conquest of the Pacific,” which showcased the explora-tion 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 identify-ing 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 situa-tions we thought we might not be able to overcome, and forced to work out problems within the group.”

“It was very time-consuming, more time-consuming 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.

T H E T E AC H I N G M U S E U M

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 profes-

sional 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.

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Business Students Put Their Expertise to Work for Area Firms

The Small Business Institute selected a busi-ness 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 In-stitute. 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 com-panies,” 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, de-pending 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.”

Communications Students Learn How to Break into the Business

Each spring for more than a quarter of a century, students in the College of Commu-nications 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.

MBA capstone course student consulting teams have

provided consulting projects for more than 800 busi-

nesses, 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 Admin-

istration and/or the Small Business Institute Directors

Association, as well as 40 other awards.

WANG FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS HONOR FULLERTON PROFESSORS

P R O F I L E 0 1Jane 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).

P R O F I L E 0 2 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.

P R O F I L E 0 3David Pagni (mathematics), 2003 – At Ful-lerton since 1969, he specializes in training elementary and high school educators to improve the teaching of mathematics (see ar-ticle, Pledge to Area Schools, pages 44-47).

P R O F I L E 0 4 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.

P R O F I L E 0 5 Raphael Sonenshein (political science), 2005 – At Fullerton since 1982, he special-izes 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).

P R O F I L E 0 6 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.

P R O F I L E 07 Maria Linder (chemistry and biochem-istry), 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.

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 — Mas-ter’s — Western U.S. The category highlights public institutions that award master’s and bachelor’s degrees but few if any doctor-ates. 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 inter-national students, highest graduation rates, campus diversity, economic diversity, and least debt accrued by students.

Fullerton is ranked eighth in the 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).

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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.”


Outstanding Programs

Chapter Two

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

“Fortunately, Dr. Ono sold me a product that was true to its label, because my under-graduate 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 appreci-ate 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

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 presen-tations about them. “That’s when I feel I’m a scientist,” she says.

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 inter-actions with the professors. Her answer ultimately convinced me to attend this university over UCLA — a decision that many people questioned at the time.

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.

College of Business and Economics Provides Real-World Knowledge

Javier Serna aims for the top. “My career am-bition 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.”

Dedication isn’t for

one semester or one

class. It goes beyond

that for me.”

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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.


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 engineer-

ing 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.

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] writ-ten 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 men-tion 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 dia-lects and accents, and practicing incorporat-ing 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 incred-ibly 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 truth-fully 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 relation-ships 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 profes-sional experience in the theatrical world outside of the university environment].”

After graduation Dietrich expects to per-form 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.”

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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 Preemi-

nents – the university’s premier performers — dance and sing at Front & Center, Cal State Fullerton’s annual gala for scholarships.

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Larry in the Lab with Professor...Outstanding professors Steve Murray and Jane Hall, joined by Hall’s husband, enjoy a study trip to

the rocky Laguna Beach coastline. Both professors are involved in coastal ecological research.


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.”

Outstanding Faculty

ChapterThree

“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 Thera-peutic 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.

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.


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 infra-red, 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.


An Historian Takes a Broad View of College Education

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 de-mocracy, and allow you to hold any job that requires thinking, reading and writing.”

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.

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 Ange-les 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 poli-tics, 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.”

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 contribu-tors to or a drain on society,” he says.

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.”

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.

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.

“The original aim of the sanctions was to force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait,” Haddad explains. “Though this was accom-plished 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 teach-ing 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 African- American 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

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.”

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-

Afro-Ethnic Studies Lecturer Stan Breckenridge — a

musicologist, consultant and public speaker — uses music

and dance as analytical tools for understanding world

cultures.

The best thing about teaching

here is knowing that you are

making a difference.”

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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. “This

award is a confirmation of the internationally competitive program the College of Engineering and Computer Science

at Cal State Fullerton offers students,” Cupp says.


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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Minority Students Prepare For Biomedical Careers

The Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) training program offers extraor-dinary 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-

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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.

Renowned Twins Expert Works With Psychology Students

Psychologist Nancy Segal, Fullerton’s Out-standing 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 Chavar-ria studies social interaction among twins and their families. “Working for Dr. Segal has been one of the most fun and interest-ing 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.”

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.

There are more opportunities

for undergraduate research

at Fullerton than at many

research universities.”

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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 dif-ferent 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 individ-ual attention given to them and my willing-ness to guide them every step of the way.”

EXPANSIVE FACILITIES

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.

A 71,000-square-foot expansion to the Kinesiol-ogy 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 state-of-the-art classrooms and laboratories for more than 1,000 majors preparing for careers in fields related to health and physical activity.

Biology Undergraduates Pursue Independent Research

Undergraduate biology student Tracy Valen-tovich studies geographic variations among stands of Joshua trees. Robin Keber investi-gates 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 environmen-tal 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 inde-pendent research projects, closely mentored by faculty members, and then present their results at scientific meetings and in publica-tions.

“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 stu-dents are enrolled in an exchange program to study coastal ecology in Brazil. These are a few examples of success.”

CO M BAT I N G WAT E R CO N TA M I N AT I O N

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.

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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.


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

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

The program began in 1979 with 10 scholars and now numbers about 100. Funded en-tirely 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 reg-istration and consideration for on-campus housing. Two particularly valued perks are complimentary parking permits and laptop computers.

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

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 bright-est of their graduating class, are attracted to

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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.

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

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 intimidat-ing. I don’t feel that there is a competitive edge to it at all. Everyone is there to help you out.”

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 scholar-ships, 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 imple-mented 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 mini-mum 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, founda-

tions, 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 academi-cally and socially. New freshmen can enter one of five Freshman Programs communi-ties, 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 im-pact 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. Fresh-man 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.

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.

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.

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

crucial to your experience here at Cal State Fullerton,”

says Angela Abraham, a human services major from

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

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.”

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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 col-lege 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 engi-

neering 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.

STEM PROGRAMS PROMOTE STUDENT SUCCESS

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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 recruit-ing 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.

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A number of programs have been created to focus on increasing the retention of students in math-

and 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.

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 achieve-ment 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 explo-sion, 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 pro-gram 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 first-generation, low-income college students and members of racial or ethnic groups under-represented in graduate education.

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Pitcher Jason Windsor — named Most Outstanding Player — revels in the final moment

as the Titans defeat the Longhorns, 3-2, for the 2004 NCAA National Championship.


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 mem-bers administer an annual multi-million dol-lar 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

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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

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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

the children of students, faculty and staff. 04 The Student Recreation

Center will serve both individual and group fitness needs.

The College of Business and Economics, in collaboration with three European universi-ties, 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.

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 implica-tions 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 Mathemat-ics, himself a leading authority on marine ecosystems.

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.

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 Experi-ence 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.

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS

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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.”

“Learning more about the university and really feeling like I am an active participant on our campus makes me feel like I am giv-ing 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 non-credit certificate program that both teaches effective leadership skills and provides ways to practice them. Workshops, offered fre-quently 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 leader-ship, personal and organizational traits; EMBRACE; intercultural communication; public service and nonprofit leadership, civic responsibility; peer health education, promoting healthy lifestyles; and student- to-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.

Cal State Fullerton has so

many diverse opportunities

for students, faculty and

staff.”

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Tami Elliott-Harrison was one of the nation’s top gymnasts, winning All-Ameri-can 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 pro-gram. In 21 seasons (1973-87 and 1991-96), he compiled a record of 931 wins, 391 losses and six ties, including 15 conference cham-pionships — 11 consecutively. Garrido took the Titans to the College World Series in Omaha on seven occasions, winning nation-al championships in 1979, 1984 and 1995, and placing second in 1992. He was selected national coach of the year four times.

A Few for the Record Books: Titan Hall of Fame Athletes

Titans sports teams have won 12 national championships — testimony to the out-standing 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, estab-lished in 2005.

They include:

Basketball player Greg Bunch, star of the team that advanced to the finals of the 1978 NCAA Western Regionals — the univer-sity’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 1973-77 seasons. A three-time Kodak All-American, she also served two seasons as Titans’ head coach for women’s basketball.

TITAN ATHLETICSC A L S T A T E F U L L E R T O N

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 (100-21), appearances (149), starts (116), complete games (98), shutouts (59), strikeouts

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

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

Eugenia Miller-Rycraw holds virtu-ally 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 profession-ally 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 Dodg-ers, winning three Golden Glove

Awards for fielding excellence at third base and making

the National League All-Star team five times. Wal-lach 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.

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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.


Pledge to Local Schools “CAL STATE FULLERTON IS A CULTURAL AND ACADEMIC RESOURCE FOR THE COMMUNITY.”

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.

The partnership focuses on teachers during their first two years. They receive support from more experienced teachers and univer-sity professors. Established in 1992 as one of about 20 similar programs, the partner-ship 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 partici-pants have become school principals.

“We are one of the few colleges or universi-ties that maintains such a direct and active role in this program,” says Ruth Yopp- Edwards, 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.”

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 teach-ers to bridge the gap. Some future teach-ers 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 four-and-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 devel-oped. 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 con-nections with other students planning to become teachers.

In addition, a grant from the U.S. Depart-ment of Education encourages Hispanic

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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.

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.

Pagni, a Fullerton faculty member since 1969, was honored in 2005 with a Presi-dential 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 educa-tion 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 pro-vide,” says English. “In just two years we’ve seen immense improvement in our students.”

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.

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.”

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Faculty Help Fullerton Teachers Make Math as Easy as 1-2-3

When Fullerton School District was award-ed 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.

The message that Marty Bonsangue, profes-sor of mathematics, and fellow CSUF mathematics faculty are giving to Fullerton School District teachers is that they need to focus less on their classroom presenta-tion 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 prac-tices, 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.

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 princi-pals 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.

Better-prepared, student-centered elementary school teachers are more successful at teaching math,

according to CSUF’s math team.

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.

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.”

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

photo manipulation and 3-D design/sculp-ture, 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 pro-grams 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 approach-ing 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 scholar-ship, as well as two others who began their studies — also on scholarships — at Laguna College of Art & Design.

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

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.

“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.

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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.”


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

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 con-crete 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 Thanks-giving, 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

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 Mediter-ranean 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 opportuni-ties 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

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that inhabit it. Located in Modjeska Canyon and operated by Cal State Fullerton since 1968, the sanctuary is famous for its hum-mingbirds 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 fea-tures 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 Can-yon 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 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.


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 of-ferings 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 un-familiar areas. Language classes help people from abroad learn English or English speak-ers become proficient in foreign languages.

Courses are offered year round at campuses in Fullerton, Garden Grove, and Irvine as well as online. Through exchange agree-ments with China, teachers and business people can extend their university training across the Pacific.

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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.

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The intimate, thrust-style James D. Young Theatre is the major venue for

large dramatic productions, from the classics to contemporary offerings.

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 South-ern 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 larg-est 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 Depart-ment, 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 Perform-ing Arts Center and elsewhere on campus

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 com-munity 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 person-nel and more than 3,000 campus and com-munity 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, includ-ing 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

commemorative award ribbon and T-shirt.

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 spon-sors 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 phil-anthropic 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 environ-ment,” 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 sum-mer 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.

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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.

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Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Successful Aging has a number of programs

to help older Americans with fitness, balance, strength, mobility and more.


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 Busi-ness 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 confer-ence targets Hispanic family businesses.

The council began by offering small break-fast 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 non-family 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, member-ship fees are $2,800 per year. The council

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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.

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

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.

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 pre-dominantly 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.

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 fami-lies. 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 over-weight 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.

Offering Stimulating Programs For Older People

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

facility that also houses several institutes and research programs such as the Wellness Cen-ter, 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 stu-dents 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.

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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.


Helping Children Gain Fluency

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 profes-sionals in the area of fluency, and provides

continuing education and mentoring for communicative disorders professionals.

Using the latest research findings available, the center provides expertise in stuttering diagnosis, prevention, treatment and com-munity 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

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.

Focusing on Controversial Issues

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 mem-bers turn out, sometimes in the hundreds, for lively discussions among experts with a variety of viewpoints.

Topics have included “Is Lady Liberty’s Lamp Still Lit?,” a discussion on immigra-tion from the perspectives of economics, human rights and national security; “Same- Sex Marriage,” examining the issue from sociological, legal, civic and religious view-points; “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.

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.

It is estimated that more than 3 million

Americans stutter. With early interven-

tion, three out of four children can be

successfully treated.

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 Broad-casting Service, have bonded through fruit-ful 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 univer-sity, Titan Communications and President Gordon,” says Al Jerome, president and

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 view-ing 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 gen-erated 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.

We’re impressed with the uni-

versity, with the potential to

be partners in a collaborative

venue.” - Al Jerome, Pres. & CEO of KCET

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two institutions. 02 Jerome speaks to

students in the Titan Communications stu-

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brief some of the university’s top staff on

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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 background — have access to higher education.


Serving Society’s Needs“THE UNIVERSITY IS POISED TO CHANGE NURSING EDUCATION IN ORANGE COUNTY.”

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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.”

planning director. (Eight similar programs exist statewide.)

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.

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.

Accelerated Nursing Program

California and Orange County suffer from a severe nursing shortage. Conservative esti-mates 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.

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 accred-ited college or university in Orange County, according to Mary Wickman, the program’s

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.”

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Online Instruction

Online courses, where students can work on their own time without entering a classroom, are beginning to supplement traditional in-struction. 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 instruc-tional design and technology. The College of Engineering and Computer Science’s degree in software engineering, intended for work-ing 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 worth-while, 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 Ma-terials Handling, U.S.A., Inc., commented on the online master’s program in informa-tion 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 execu-tive management bridge the gap between

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 camarade-

rie 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.

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.”


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-produc-tion facilities, restaurants and the Orange County High School of the Arts.

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-year-old 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 residen-tial, educational and commercial compo-nents 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.

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features the work of students and alumni. 02 Grand

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other universities. 03 The Gypsy Den provides a

convivial atmosphere to discuss the installations

featured in the gallery spaces of Grand Central.

Providing Economic Answers About the Environment

The Institute for Economic and Environ-mental 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 environ-ment 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 pro-mote interdisciplinary research and educa-tion 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 Califor-nia. 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.

“It really is important to understand the larger implications of alternative decisions regarding things like land use and regula-tion,” says Jane Hall, co-director of the insti-tute and professor of economics. “Research-ers 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 an-nual economic forecast of what the state, county and region can expect in job growth, inflation, energy costs, imports and exports, consumer spending, investment and hous-ing.

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 compensa-tion, performance reporting and transpar-ency 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, com-munity, 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 coopera-tive 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 Econom-ics 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.

CSUF MEETING INDUSTRY NEEDS

Jane Hall, professor of economics, co-directs the

Institute for Economic and Environmental Studies at

Cal State Fullerton.

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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.


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

Chemistry professor Scott Hewitt invited her to apply for Fullerton’s Research Experi-ences for Undergraduates, funded by the Na-tional 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 Out-standing 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

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 undergo-ing intensive

training in preparation for the August 2007 launch of Mission STS 118 to the Interna-tional Space Station. She previously pro-vided 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 prepa-ration 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.

Chapter Eleven

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

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.

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 phys-ics. “I give to CSUF because the university changed my life in a major way,” he explains.

“Since 1998, Dan Black has provided ex-traordinary 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-re-lated companies. Students in the program complete courses in finance, management,

marketing and advanced business commu-nication.

Most recently, he donated $4.5 million to the College of Natural Sciences and Math-ematics. The funds will refurbish laborato-ries, 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 Superinten-dent of Public Instruction, he gained more votes than any other con-

tested 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 ex-pand 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 discus-sions 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 Ful-lerton was not a step towards the so-called real world but a real-world experience that prepared me well for a lifetime of learning.”

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.

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.”

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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 busi-ness 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 knowl-edge, 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 profes-

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 situ-ations as they taught us, and that was excellent for students as we learned theory. I found it an excellent learning situa-tion.”

His first position after gradu-ation was with a small tele-communications firm. Later he went from being the sole employee in his own shop to leader of a global organization: Inter-Tel, a publicly traded

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.

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 univer-sity 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.”

Miguel Pulido is mayor of Santa Ana.

Steven G. Mihaylo is one of the

university’s most generous donors.

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 sing-ing” and USA Today says of her, “There comes a point in a Deborah Voigt opera per-formance, 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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Deborah Voigt didn’t sing opera until college, but has

become one of the world’s most popular sopranos.

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The President’s Scholars program recognizes the accomplishments of the brightest students. Based solely on merit, the

President’s Scholars Program recognizes the outstanding achievements of freshmen who have demonstrated excellence

in academic work, leadership ability and community service.


The Next 50 Years “OUR ALUMNI WILL GIVE BACK TO THE CAMPUS, TAKE PART IN ACTIVITIES, GIVE LECTURES. THEY’LL CONSIDER THEMSELVES TITANS.”

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 free-wheeling discussion appears here.

The panelists included: n Milton A. Gordon, Presidentn Ephraim Smith, Vice President of Academic Affairsn Robert Palmer, Vice President of Student Affairsn Steve Murray, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematicsn Diana Guerin, Academic Senate Chair; Professor of Child and Adolescent Studiesn Jane Hall, Professor of Economicsn Raphael Sonenshein, Professor of Political Sciencen Heather Williams, Associated Students Presidentn Kristin Crellin, Alumni Association Presidentn John Kroll, Moderator

Chapter Twelve

Enrollment

When Fullerton was established, early planners

assumed that enrollment would reach the then-

astounding 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?

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 short-term, intensive courses that update skills, as we internationalize more, as language becomes more important. That will affect how we package our curriculum.

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.

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

Gordon: Immigration will play a significant role in enrollment. The largest potential applicant base is Latina. The growing popu-lation 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

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.

Rising fees and accessibility are both issues right

now, and it looks as though that will not change in

the immediate future. Rising fees continue to widen

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 acces-

sibility 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.

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. Legisla-tors 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 outstand-ing 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, stu-dents 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 instruc-tion. We could accommodate tremendous numbers of students if this were truly a 24/7 institution. I hate to think of us contribut-ing 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

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.

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-mo-tivated 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. Stu-dents 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

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

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 air-planes. 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

Heather Williams Steve Murray President Milton A. Gordon

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 disci-pline to participate in the real world. How-ever, 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 cur-rent 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 adminis-tration 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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Latina, President Gordon says. The fastest-growing

population is Hispanic. 02 Applicants for jobs

are often asked, “Have you worked in a group?”

03 Diverse work times mean students can take

classes in the evenings, on weekends — and via

the Internet. 04 The university may continue

to be organized around disciplines, just as it

has been for thousands of years.


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-a-week 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

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 relation-ships. 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?

Gordon: I watch the data on success in American life. In the last three years I’ve seen devastating data about students without

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 sophis-ticated 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 look-ing for a particular discipline. Almost half the positions posted in the Career Center require a broad college education, not a par-ticular degree. They are looking for people with skills in critical thinking, communica-tion 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 col-lege education, you’ll have those opportuni-

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01 Investment in education is good both for

the individual and for society, says VP Palmer.

02 President Gordon believes that in the future,

the student body will be different — perhaps

even more connected to the campus. 03 Taller

buildings, more residential housing, and more of

a university community is on the future horizon,

says Dean Murray. 04 Alumni will feel more

connected to the campus and more invested

in what’s going on at CSUF in the future, says

Alumni Association President Crellin.

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 pre-

professional 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 stu-dent 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

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 cru-cial 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 com-municate 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

and campuses in other population centers, like Corona.

Gordon: A different student body. A more exaggerated difference between the propor-tion 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 cam-pus 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 connec-tion 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.

Ephraim Smith Robert Palmer Kristin Crellin


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.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to the entire Cal State Fullerton family — to those individuals who have grown the university during the past 50 years and those students, parents, faculty, staff, alumni and emeriti who will continue to build it in future decades.

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