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Letter From the President Campus Collage
Helping To Make CSU, Chico Better
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Enrollment Going up California State University, Chico's growing popularity with prospective students led to increasing enrollment and additional admissions requirements for freshmen applying for the fall 2000 class. The fall 1999 enrollment of 15,261 students, with the freshman class at 2,052, is one of the biggest in school history. Fall 2000 campus enrollment could reach 16,000. Starting with the fall 2000 class, CSU, Chico required all first-time freshman applicants to submit an SAT-1 or ACT test score along with their grade point average.
The CSU, Chico administration filled several important positions in 1999. Political Science professor Byron Jackson was named the new vice provost for Academic Affairs and dean of Undergraduate Education in September. Jackson was associate dean in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences from 1996 to 1998 and has been on the faculty since 1974. Earlier in the year, Arno Rethans, former dean of the College of Business, was named vice provost for Planning and Resource Allocation. Heikki Rinne is the new dean of the College of Business. He came to CSU, Chico from Purdue University, where he was chair of the consumer sciences and retailing department. Charles Crabb is the new dean of the College of Agriculture. Crabb was an agriculture and natural resources administrator for the University of California.
The CSU, Chico chapter of Students in Free Enterprise won the top 1999 university honor at SIFE's International Exposition in Kansas City. The students' multimedia presentation about its community outreach activities bested entries from over 100 other four-year universities. Accounting professor Curt DeBerg, SIFE adviser, was named the 1999 Sam M. Walton Fellow of the Year for his role in guiding the CSU, Chico chapter. The victory netted the CSU, Chico SIFE chapter $7,500 in prize money. The students traveled to Florida, Australia, and other locales during the year to reprise their winning presentation.
CSU, Chico's student newspaper, The Orion, received its fifth "Pacemaker" national journalism award in seven years in 1999, making it the most honored college newspaper of the decade. The Orion has also won the Associated Collegiate Press's National Newspaper of the Year award the past two years, and has placed first in the university division of the California Newspaper Publisher's Association Better Newspapers' Contest four of the past five years. The Orion, founded in 1975, is produced in conjunction with the journalism department.
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Board leaders chosen Suzy Roach is the new chair and Nancy McDougal the new vice-chair of the CSU, Chico University Advisory Board, which was formed in 1996. The board's twenty-five members from Northern California provide advice and guidance to the university on issues relevant to the university and community. Roach is owner of Pip Printing in Chico. McDougal, also a Chico resident, sits on the University Foundation Board of Governors in addition to the University Advisory Board.
California State University, Chico has established an endowment fund and an alcohol and drug ad-visory committee to support the Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center (CADEC). The CADEC Endowment Fund was established last summer with an initial $10,000 gift. Last fall, a CSU, Chico student injured in a traffic accident gave $5,500 from her insurance settlement to restore Chico Safe Rides, a free taxi service to help prevent students from driving while intoxicated that was discontinued due to lack of funding. The student wished to remain anonymous.
CSU, Chico has entered into a partnership with high-tech giant Cisco Systems of San Jose to support information systems networking classes and establish an advanced networking lab for the College of Business. The new Cisco Systems Lab in Glenn Hall will help management information systems students learn technical and managerial aspects and telecommunication issues related to advanced networking and the exploding business area of e-commerce. Cisco Systems donated approximately $360,000 worth of networking equipment and technology.
The Center for Regional and Continuing Education has been celebrating the university's 25th anniversary of distance education this year. CSU, Chico is nationally known as a distance ed pioneer. It was the first university in the world to deliver a graduate degree program via satellite, and one of the first to demonstrate video-streaming as an educational delivery system. In 1975, the university first broadcast computer science courses to UC, Davis as part of its Ph.D. program, and now uses satellite and video streaming technology to send classes throughout the country and the world.
Ninety-nine students, faculty, staff, and alumni went to China in November to tour the country and help celebrate the CSU, Chico Opera Workshop's 40th anniversary. The group visited the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Tian'anmen Square, the Terra-Cotta Warriors and other landmarks. Ying Yeh, director of the Opera Workshop and one of China's best-known opera singers, took music students to sing at China's top music conservatories. The group also rendezvoused with English professor Frank Li and fifteen CSU, Chico students, who were spending the fall semester at the Beijing Language and Culture University.
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More than 170 CSU, Chico faculty and staff in 1999 joined Safe Zone, a national campus-based effort to reduce discrimination and hostility toward gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. Safe Zone "allies" post small placards by their desks or offices showing that they support the program and want to have a workplace free of homophobia, stereotyping, and prejudice. Group goals include being available to gay and lesbian students in need of advice and working toward creating a positive, nonjudgmental model of behavior for the non-gay community.
The Honey Run Unit of the Butte Creek Ecological Preserve was officially opened last fall. The 90 acres located on Honey Run Road were purchased by the university's Research Foundation in summer 1998 to preserve the area's wildlife habitat. CSU, Chico's Office of Watershed Projects, led by geography professor Don Holtgrieve, will manage the preserve. Preserve plans include an outdoor classroom and restoration projects. An endowment fund has been established to support the preserve.
English professor and Nappy Hair author Carolivia Herron, who probably received more media attention than any other U.S. university professor in 1998-99, was reunited on campus with the Brooklyn schoolteacher who got fired for teaching Herron's controversial children's book. Herron and teacher Ruth Sherman addressed a packed house in Harlen Adams Theatre last March to discuss why Brooklyn school officials thought the book was racist and Sherman should be fired. Herron, who has taken a leave from campus this year, said she and Sherman hoped to write a teacher's guide for the book.
CSU, Chico's Northstate Public Radio is hosting Garrison Keillor and his popular program, A Prairie Home Companion, for a live performance in Redding May 20. The program, to be broadcast from the Redding Convention Center, will be aired live to an estimated three million listeners on Armed Forces Radio and National Public Radio affiliates, including Northstate Public Radio's KCHO, 91.7 FM, and KFPR, 88.9 FM.
A group of Professor Vic Fisher's geology students discovered a wooly mammoth tooth at Upper Bidwell Park last September while looking at rock formations. After receiving city permission to dig in the site and keep the tooth, the students excavated it. The rare 8-inch-long tooth has been placed on exhibit in the Physical Sciences building. |
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