CBAPP and Campus News

CBAPP and CSUDH Well Represented at CSU Teaching and Learning Conference
Fifteen CSUDH professors gave presentations or led poster sessions at the 12th Cal Poly Learning and Teaching Conference. The goal of the annual event is for CSU system faculty to share teaching and learning practices as well as promote collaboration across faculties. CBAPP, in particular, was well represented, with six of the college’s faculty presenting at the event.
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Political Science Students Win Top Honors at Western Model UN Conference
The Model UN class received top honors at WestMUN 2009 (Western Collegiate Model United Nations) conference, April 2-4, at Santa Barbara City College. Full story

CBAPP Students Present at State-wide Research Competition
Among the record number 167 students who presented their research projects earlier this year at the annual California State University, Dominguez Hills Student Research Day, 11 were chosen to represent the university in the 23rd annual CSU Student Research Competition. The system-wide competition, which was held May 2-3 on the CSU Los Angeles campus, gave these undergraduate and graduate students – including business administration majors Ryan Moody and John Grimes – the opportunity to showcase their research in front of representatives of academia, the corporate sector and public agencies. Full story

In Memoriam: Roger Berry (1939-2009)
Roger Berry, emeritus associate professor of marketing and an alumnus of California State University, Dominguez Hills, died suddenly on April 9 at age 70. Most recently, even though he was in the faculty early retirement program (FERP), Berry served the university by spearheading a project to offer online undergraduate courses in marketing, after having spent 10 years teaching online MBA courses in the college’s internationally recognized program. Full story

In Memoriam: Bob Dowling (1941-2009)
Robert Dowling, professor emeritus of management, died on May 14 after a brief illness. A founding faculty member of CSUDH, the Huntington Beach resident was instrumental in establishing the business program at the university and served many leadership roles in his 31 years on campus, including chair of the Academic Senate, co-chair of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) Action Report Council, and the CSU Dominguez Hills advisory board. He was 67 years old. Full story

M.B.A. Alum West Delivers Keynote at Honors Convocation
Long Beach City Manager Patrick West (M.B.A., 1986) served as the keynote speaker at this year’s Honors Convocation at CSUDH, which was held in mid-April on campus. After serving as the city of Paramount’s city manager for 11 years, West took the job of director of community development and executive director of the Redevelopment Agency in Long Beach in 2005. He was appointed its city manager in 2007, charged with the management of all city departments and a city budget of more than $3 million. Full story

Alum Heads Magic Johnson Foundation
Towalame Austin (B.S. business administration/marketing, 2004), president of the Magic Johnson Foundation (MJF), may be based in an office in Beverly Hills, but she remains connected to the underserved communities that the Foundation serves nationwide. Full story

Newsmakers

Mohammad Eyadat, associate professor of  information systems and operations management, was offered tenure and promotion from assistant to associate professor by President Mildred Garcia in May. Eyadat has served on the CBAPP faculty for 10 years.

Raoul Freeman, chair and professor of information systems and operations management,  stepped down as department chair to join the ranks of FERPs. For 25 years, Freeman has provided CBAPP with distinguished service and effective leadership. He has been department chair of information systems and operations management in its various forms for virtually all of those years. With the help of dedicated departmental faculty primarily hired by Freeman himself, he built the department into one of the best on campus. He has vigorously supported achieving AACSB accreditation, built a CISCO lab and is now spearheading the implementation of SAP software into the logistics and supply chain management concentrations at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has reached out and built alliances with community colleges, such as Santa Monica College to provide a pipeline of students for the logistics programs. He has been an active researcher and publisher and has also ably served the County of Los Angeles serving as chair of the Information Technology Commission.

Raoul Freeman, chair and professor of information systems and operations management, had a chapter published in the book, Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies, which came out this spring. Freeman’s 8,000-word chapter dealt with goals for e-government such as agency efficiency, user convenience and citizen involvement and promises to have major impact in the e-government field.

Senior Sarah Hollis, business administration, was named one of the Institute of Management Accountants “Outstanding Students” at a special event focused on the awards in April. Hollis represented CBAPP and CSUDH as one of the five awardees selected from universities and colleges throughout the South Bay area.

Juan Ramirez (B.S. criminal justice administration, 2009) was recently appointed a full-time Student Cooperative Experience Program coordinator with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The job offer for the student comes on the heels of his internship during the spring with the organization as a wildlife inspector, where he was praised and received outstanding reviews that led to his full-time offer. Ramirez completed his degree in criminal justice this spring, then re-enrolled in the biology program to help him better understand the wildlife concepts of the job. Assistant professor Marie Palladini, a former  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, was very proud of Juan’s good work in receiving this appointment.

Myron Sheu, professor of information systems and operations management, was appointed chair of the department in May. Sheu steps in for former chair, Raoul Freeman. Sheu served for one year as associate dean and also currently serves as the director of Learning Outcomes Assessment and AACSB Accreditation and has done so for the last four years. He has been intimately involved in CBAPP’s ongoing effort for AACSB accreditation.

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