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CSU, Chico’s Professional Achievement Honors recognize faculty who have excelled in the last 30 months in one or more of the following areas: research, creative works, scholarship, funded projects, publications; or who have achieved national or international recognition through fellowships, prizes, invited presentations, exhibits, or awards.

Professor Raymond Boykin has been a faculty member in the College of Business since 1986. During this time, he has consistently been identified as one of the best teachers in the college. In the past five years alone, Professor Boykin has received six outstanding teaching awards for his commitment to continually enriching his students’ learning environments. Specific activities include continued leadership of the SAP Program within the college which led to his appointment to the SAP Innovation Institute Advisory Board in 2000.

Numerous funded research projects involved a wide variety of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has participated in faculty internships with such companies as Bay Networks, Nortel, and Micron. In addition to his own work with Micron, he included five undergraduate students on various supply chain management projects, and he has supervised many graduate projects.

He has also spoken at conferences on the enhancement of student learning in operations management and supply chain management through the integration of Enterprise Resource Planning systems into the curriculum. In the last two years alone, he has given more than half a dozen workshops on this topic.

Nothing History Professor Susan Green undertakes in the area of research is done without her students, and her students benefit in clear, direct ways from their involvement in these activities. Professor Green has written a series of grant proposals that combine her research in Chicano studies with her interest in creating high-quality learning environments. Most notable was her support of students in preparing grant proposals to host a range of educational events for Caesar Chavez Day.

Professor Green’s activities also include a Butte County Office of Education Alcohol Prevention Partnership Grant to host events and conduct research on Mexican Americans’ alcohol use and abuse. She has used grant funds to take students to participate in and present to conferences, and she has taken students to local schools to speak about their immigration experiences and to assist in the teaching of Chicano studies lesson plans. She also helped MECHa and Chicano studies students host a three-day statewide symposium on Chicano studies.

For more than a decade, Professor Katie Milo, department chair of the Department of Journalism, has directly enhanced the high-quality learning environment at CSU, Chico. By providing research opportunities and hands-on practical experience for students, she has informed her teaching, allowing her to better mentor students in the classroom and beyond. Literally dozens of current and former students assist Professor Milo in the execution of public information campaign contracts amounting to just shy of one million dollars a year.

Professor Milo could not win and keep these contracts without the students she employs, and the students’ educational experiences and professional career opportunities would not be as rich and rewarding without the opportunities afforded by Professor Milo’s contracts.

Projects resulting from these contracts include the “Get Hooked on Fishing” campaign for the State of California’s Department of Fish and Game and the Chico community; the “Child Support Project” for the California Department of Social Services (this project is currently creating a state child support handbook that will be sent to every person visiting a county office seeking to establish child support); the “CalWORKS Family Planning Outreach Project,” which provides information about family planning and healthy planning choices leading to self-sufficiency. A former student manages the project, while current students work part time as field researchers, translators, graphic designers, and video producers.

Theatre Arts Professor Joel Rogers’s vita reveals an astounding list of noteworthy accomplishments that include students as integral participants. In only his third semester at Chico State, he has directed three full productions and several musical revues for the “Off-Broadways,” an outreach touring troupe he created. In addition, he has performed a major singing and acting role, choreographed dances for other directors, and served as musical director, accompanist, and music sequencer for additional productions, auditions, and recitals. All these activities were accomplished with the enhancement of student learning experiences as the central outcome.

Theatre production is the most collaborative of all the art forms. When students participate in a production as actors, designers, or technicians, their collaboration with faculty mentors is a laboratory experience in which teaching and learning take place on the highest level possible—that of guided self-discovery.

University arts programs in general, and theatre programs in particular, place the creative work of their faculty and students before the public as a fundamental part of the educational process. As such, the products of artistic disciplines are regularly open to the judgment and critique of both lay and learned audiences. Professor Rogers’s creative offerings have been praised by both of these audiences as being of the highest caliber.

Ted Singelis, associate professor of psychology, is a leader among behavioral and social science faculty in providing students with opportunities to learn through research and to contribute to the science of psychology. Through his own highly productive research program, his students have presented at professional meetings, as well as co-authored at least one publication. Recent multiyear funding from the National Institute on Aging has allowed him to expand his research program and the opportunities they present to his students. Currently, there are 11 students working on this project.

In addition to involving students in his research, Professor Singelis also supervises undergraduate and graduate students working on their own projects. In the past three years, he has mentored three senior honors theses for undergraduate psychology students, along with 14 graduate student theses and one graduate student review paper for the M.S.

His teaching assignments regularly include research methods classes. In all of his classes, Professor Singelis involves students in all phases of the research process, often working in teams.