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Faculty Reflection

Opportunities for Giving

Campus Collage

	Sigma Chi Rises from the Ashes
	1998-99 Outstanding Advisor, Proffessor, and Service Awards
	New Telecom-munications Master's Degree
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	With Respect
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Helping To Make CSU, Chico Better

ROBERT G. COTRELL, Department of History, is CSU, Chico's Outstanding Professor for 1998-99. Cottrell's areas of specialization include twentieth century U.S. history and intellectual, political, and cultural history reform and radicalism. His book on the American public intellectual I.F. Stone, Izzy: A Biography of I.F. Stone (Rutgers University Press, 1992), is now in the second edition and has been reissued as a paperback (1993). He has also published on the social gospel of Nicholas Comfort and on Roger Baldwin and the ACLU. He is currently writing 1920: The Year That Transformed Major League Baseball and America. Cottrell is passionate about calling on public intellectuals in the academy to inaugurate conversations on important moral and intellectual issues in public life through their teaching and writing, and he challenges students to deal honestly with these issues in American history. He has been called the "prototype of the professor of CSU, Chico's future."

DAVID DALEY, Department of Agriculture, is CSU, Chico's Outstanding Adviser for 1998-99. Daley has taken a strong leadership role in the College of Agriculture's advising strategy, including successful implementation of AGRI 10, agriculture's version of freshman orientation. He takes a keen interest in using the University Farm as a centerpiece for functions and events where students, faculty, and staff can interact with industry and community guests. He serves students by developing internships for them both in and out of state and coaching the CSU, Chico Livestock Judging Team, where students develop their communication and decision-making skills. He gives his time as faculty adviser to both the Young Cattlemen's Association and Students for Responsible Agriculture. Daley was selected as a 1999 Outstanding Adviser by the National Academic Advising Association.

CURTIS DEBURG, Department of Accounting and Management Information Systems, is the recipient of CSU, Chico's Outstanding Service Award for 1998-99. DeBerg played a major role in obtaining two grants from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) to innovate introductory accounting classes at CSU, Chico. The changes made included a shift in approach: both looking at accounting as "the language of business"—a means for helping businesses make decisions—and developing a service-learning component. DeBerg is most known for being the driving force behind the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) organization on campus. SIFE partners business and higher education to enable college students to develop leadership skills through teaching the principles of free enterprise. Under DeBerg's leadership, SIFE students have given 6,800 hours of community and campus service, many of which have been spent working with K-12 students. In May 1999 at SIFE's International Exposition in Kansas City, DeBerg was named outstanding SIFE adviser and his students won the top university honor.