Final
president candidates to be announced
By Joseph Serna
Online Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
As Cal State Long Beach makes plans for the departure of President Robert C.
Maxson, the search is on for who will take his place.
The final candidates will be announced today, with only four or five names expected
to be on the list, according to Margaret Merryfield, chairwoman of the Academic
Senate and a member of the advisory-arm of the presidential search committee,
and Gary Reichard, senior vice-president of Academic Affairs and a candidate
for Maxson’s position.
The search committee is made up of a five-person committee, the Trustees’ Committee
for the Selection of the President, and a sub-committee, the Advisory Committee
to the Trustees’ Committee for the Selection of the President, comprised
of representatives of CSULB faculty, staff, students and alumni.
The Trustees’ Committee is comprised of Bob Foster, who will sit as chairman
of the committee, Debra Farar, Ray Holdsworth, California State University Chancellor
Charles B. Reed and Trustee Chairman Murray Galinson.
The Advisory Committee participates in interviews with the presidential candidates
and chooses the finalists. From there, the Trustees’ Committee makes the
final choice for president, with recommendations from the subcommittee.
Among
those on the 10-person Advisory Committee are Luis Arroyo, professor of Chicano
and Latino studies, Charles Noble, professor and chairman of the political science
department, and Guy Heston, from the CSULB Alumni Association.
Jamie Pollock, president of Associated Students, Inc., will be representing the
students. The president of Cal State Northridge, Jolene Koester, and superintendent
of Long Beach Unified School District, Chris Steinhauser, are also on the Advisory
Committee.
All candidates had applied by early summer, and through general screening the
field was narrowed to the most qualified, according to Merryfield.
Candidates are expected to meet a number of qualifications, including substantial
experience as a senior-level administrator, ability to work effectively with
diverse elements of the academic community, and having the energy and skill to
become a leader in the community and develop further support and external funding
for the institution, to name a few.
Once the candidates are narrowed to the four or five finalists, each will visit
the campus a separate day next week.
During their all-day visit to the campus, the finalists will participate in question-and-answer
sessions with students and faculty separately. Sites for the sessions will be
chosen when organizers have an accurate picture of how many people will participate.
Following each finalist’s day at The Beach the committee should make its
selection and announce the next president of CSULB by early November.
CBA in Princeton Review
By Starr T. Balmer
Online Forty-Niner
City Editor
The College of Business Administration (CBA) at Cal State Long Beach was named
one of the best business schools, according to
the Princeton Review.
Students said CSULB is the “best business school in the California State
University system,” because they were pleased with the business school’s
academic performance and environment, the school’s profile showed. CSULB’s
Evening MBA program, in particular, stood out as one of the most popular programs.
“
I am a second-year MBA student and I have enjoyed the program,” Lanie Minami,
analyst at Toyota Financial Services, said. “The professors and courses
are better than I expected.”
Luis Calingo, dean of CBA, said the college’s student body, competitive
admissions and faculty participation in research contributed to CSULB being one
of the best business schools.
“
Quality of the student body entering the College of Business Administration has
improved,” he said. “It is very important that faculty is involved
in scholarly research.”
Calingo said the quality of the student population and graduates in the college
also contributed to the business school. He said several students are executive
officers and take night classes just for the MBA program.
Minami, who will graduate in December 2006, said she chose CSULB because it was
flexible and offered a number of courses.
She plans to apply for a management position at Toyota.
“
Having the background will help me be the candidate for the management
position,” she said.
The Princeton Review rates business schools according to their competitiveness
of admissions and student opinions about professors and academic experience.
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