Online Forty Niner: v8n3: CSULB hires new faculty

New semesters bring many new faces to campus, teachers as well as students, and as President Maxson highlighted in his convocation speech, there are 65 new tenure track faculty members on campus this semester.

The College of Education's associate dean, Kathleen Cohn, is excited about the 12 new members to the staff.

"We have a very diverse group in terms of experience, and we are adding seasoned teachers as well as some who recently completed their doctoral programs," Cohn said.

Cohn is highly confident in the education potential of the college's new members.

"We are a professional school training specifically for careers in education, and many of our new hires also have a rich experience in public elementary schools to draw from," she said.

Besides hiring new teachers, the university is also hiring new people for higher positions, such as Maureen McMahon, who joins the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics as the chairwoman of science education.

Taking her first full-time administrative position after teaching on the elementary and university level, McMahon high hopes for CSULB's science education department.

"In Long Beach I saw an emerging department and an opportunity to create a center for science education that could be a center of excellence nationally," McMahon said. "With our new faculty, we have seven science education teachers, already the most on the West Coast."

The College of Business Administration welcomed Luis Calingo as dean at the convocation held Friday, along with five new faculty members.

Also adding to its staff is the College of Liberal Arts, which introduced the most teachers of all the university colleges at the convocation with 22 new hires, including two in the journalism department.

Journalism professor Raul Reis comes to CSULB from Cal Sate Monterey Bay. He recently spent two and a half months studying effects of media on indigenous peoples of Brazil by studying the effects on traditional education following the introduction of television, he said.

"I came to Long Beach to have the opportunity to teach at a large, well-respected university," Reis said.

The College of Health and Human Services is bringing in nine new faculty members, and Associate Dean William Sinclair said he is excited about the new crop.

"Overall, I think the group is as good as any we've ever hired, based on their track records, research and collected expertise," Sinclair said. "I think they have excellent potential in scholarship and teaching to help the department."

The College of the Arts is also bringing in new faculty, adding seven new teachers for the fall semester.

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