January 2009 - V.5 I.1

Dean James T. Strong Welcome to The Report, CBAPP's newsletter, where we give you a glimpse of the great people working and great programs and events happening within the college each month.

If you have any ideas, comments or questions about the newsletter, please e-mail me at jstrong@csudh.edu

Administration
James T. Strong
Dean

Kaye Bragg
Associate Dean

Kenneth Poertner
Director of Graduate Programs

Ryan Brandt
Editor

Reza Boroon
Web Designer

Department Chairs
Mohamed El-Badawi
Accounting and Finance

Raoul Freeman
Information Systems and Operation MGT

David Hoopes
Management and Marketing

Iris Baxter
Public Administration

Richard Palmer
Political Science/ Economics/Labor Studies

General Contact
Judy Case
Dean's Office
310-243-3548

Newsletter
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Photo courtesy Joanie Harmon

Kaye Bragg, CBAPP associate dean and co-chair of the event, celebrates the conference's success with keynote speaker Gerry Hanley, executive director of MERLOT.

CBAPP Hosts Inaugural Business Conference on Online Teaching

In late November, CBAPP brought together 75 practitioners for the CSU System’s first-ever CSU Business Conference on Online Teaching and Learning. The two-day event, staged in the Loker Student Union, was focused on giving CSU faculty the tools and skills they need to successfully teach undergraduate curriculum in the dynamic learning environment that is the online classroom. With almost 30 sessions held over the two days, attendees and speakers represented faculty from 16 of the 23 CSU campuses, several key people from the Chancellor’s Office, and Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), which is an online forum where teachers share ideas and tools for teaching online. Full story

Special Series: Healthcare’s Vital Signs

In today’s world, perhaps no issue is as divisive and daunting as healthcare. For three straight months starting with the December 2008 issue, 10 Questions turns to experts on issues that are found at the intersection of business, public policy, and healthcare.

10 Questions…on Bringing Better Healthcare to the Developing World for Jim Katzenstein
Eleven years ago, part-time lecturer of management Jim Katzenstein traveled outside North America for the first time, arriving in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for a business consultant workshop that found him working with a local hospital. It was an unattractive assignment at the time, but he was so impacted by what he learned and saw that he now spends two months a year traveling abroad as the founder of HealthSpan International. The non-profit takes a case-specific, on-the-ground approach to finding healthcare solutions in Africa and other parts of the world. Here, Katzenstein explains how most non-profits go at fixing healthcare issues in the wrong way and how technology might be healthcare’s future best friend. Full story

Last month: An economist's take on universal healthcare

CBAPP and Campus News

Men’s Soccer Wins National Championship
Riding an early goal in the 16th minute and its trademark stellar defense, the Toros posted their 14th shutout of the season in a dominating 3-0 win over Dowling University in Tampa in early December to give CSUDH its second NCAA Division II title. CSUDH got hot at the right time as the Toros posted a 13-game unbeaten streak that ended with the final win in the national championship game, including five-consecutive wins in a dominant NCAA postseason in which they outscored their opponents 15-3, and posted three wins via shutout. Full story

Newsmakers

Theodore Byrne, assistant professor of public administration, was promoted this fall to lieutenant colonel of the United States Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Currently a team leader for the 78th Legal Support Organization, Byrne took military leave from CSUDH to complete a year and a half-long tour in Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar. He received the promotion upon his return.

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