Rising in the East Cal State East Bay Looks to the Future with a New Campaign
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FALL2016 RISING IN THE EAST CAL STATE EAST BAY LOOKS TO THE FUTURE WITH A NEW CAMPAIGN ZERO TO SIXTY SECRET MEETINGS MADE OF HAYWARD FEATURES DEPARTMENTS is published by the Office of Creative Director Inquiries University Communications, a Jesse Cantley Send your letter to the editor, On the cover: Junior Danielle 04 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE department of the University submit a class note, or update Advancement division, and by Editor your address/subscription Armstrong is one of Cal 22 Zero to Sixty the CSUEB Alumni Association. Krista Dossetti preferences, including the State East Bay’s many first- option to receive Cal State East generation students. She will Alumnus Scott Pallesen stress-tests motors for Tesla 05 UNIVERSITY NEWS President Graphic Designers Bay magazine electronically, graduate in 2018 with Leroy M. Morishita Kent Kavasch by contacting: a liberal studies degree. — and pushes himself just as hard Gus Yoo 10 STUDENTS University Advancement [email protected] Inside cover: The Cal State Tanya Hauck, Contributing Writers 510.885.4089 East Bay community and Vice President Natalie Feulner its supporters gathered Barbara Hedani-Morishita Or mail to: September 24 to announce 28 12 FACULTY Jeff Bliss, Fred Sandsmark Cal State East Bay Magazine Rising in the East the university’s goal of raising Associate Vice President, Kimberly Tere-Hawkins SA 4800 $60 million in honor of its 60th The university announces its first-ever comprehensive Communications 25800 Carlos Bee Blvd., anniversary. GARVIN TSO 16 ALUMNI Cover Photography Hayward, CA 94542 campaign, Rising in the East: The Campaign for Cal Kathleen Brady, Garvin Tso Associate Vice President, * Please note: Letters will be State East Bay Development Photography printed at the discretion of 46 GIVING Jesse Cantley Cal State East Bay and may Richard Watters, Natalie Feulner be edited for publication. Executive Director, Stephanie Secrest 48 CLASS NOTES Alumni & Constituent Garvin Tso 34 Engagement Secret Meetings Contributing Copyeditor Melanie Blake Education is illegal for the Bahá’í in Iran, but that doesn’t 55 PARTING SHOT stop Lecturer Farhad Sabetan from teaching them 40 Made of Hayward The numbers are in — more local students are going to college, thanks to Hayward Promise Neighborhood CAL STATE EAST BAY PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE he beginning of the academic year is always a watershed period in the life of our university — it marks a season of renewed optimism and exciting possibilities. That is especially true this year. In September, we kicked off “Rising Tin the East” — our first-ever comprehensive campaign, with a goal of raising $60 million to take Cal State East Bay to the next level. At the same time, we launched a high-profile branding campaign with ads on billboards and AC transit buses, in BART stations and trains, in print and online. “Rising in the East” evokes the dawn of a new day — and I believe it is a new day at Cal State East Bay. The theme speaks to the aspirations of our students, the accomplish- ments of our faculty, and our optimism for the future. And it sends a message to the broader community that these are exciting times on our side of the Bay. In the pages of this magazine, you will see many of the reasons we are a university on University Welcomes New Provost, the rise. It’s because we have students like Jamila Guerrero-Cantor, a tireless champion of education rights for the deaf, and Cal State East Bay’s first Chancellor’s Doctoral Dr. Edward Inch Incentive Program recipient within the university’s Doctorate in Educational Leader- ship for Social Justice; faculty like Farhad Sabetan delivering online courses for Iranian Following a nationwide search and ap- leges and Universities. At Sacramento Inch replaces Dr. Carolyn Nelson, who students of the Bahá’í faith, who are banned from higher education and literally risking pointment, Dr. Edward S. Inch became State, Inch led the initiative to double his served as interim provost and vice presi- their lives to learn; and alumni like Randy Davis, who came here to achieve his dream provost and vice president of Academic college’s four-year graduation rates and dent for Academic Affairs for the past of building an electronic DNA sequencing chip, and ended up building a biotech com- Affairs for Cal State East Bay on August 1. improve retention rates, and served as a year. Nelson resumed her position as dean pany that was acquired by the Swiss healthcare giant Roche. “I am very pleased that Dr. Inch has member of the university’s Strategic Plan- of CSUEB’s College of Education and Al- agreed to serve as provost and vice presi- ning Committee. lied Studies. The “Rising in the East” campaign is vital to the university’s future. Fresh funding will dent for Academic Affairs at Cal State East Inch said he is impressed with how Cal enable us to launch innovative programs, strengthen our faculty, offer more scholar- Bay,” President Leroy M. Morishita said. State East Bay students, staff, and faculty — Kimberly Tere-Hawkins ships, and modernize and expand our facilities. Thanks to the efforts of our Founda- “He is a proven leader with a collaborative work together to improve opportunity, tion, friends, and alumni, we are already halfway to our goal. and team-oriented style, who will contin- not just on campus, but across the region. ue strengthening our academic programs “What I think Cal State East Bay is re- NATIONAL HONORS We have a terrific story and it is time to tell it to the world. That is what “Rising in the and student success initiatives. Dr. Inch’s ally poised to do is to engage this region Cal State East East” is all about. knowledge of the California State Univer- in very meaningful ways that give our Bay was recently sity system and breadth of experience pro- students experiences that prepare them as named to the Go Pioneers! vide a strong background that will serve civically engaged people,” Inch said. “I am President’s Academic Affairs and the university well. most looking forward to hearing the in- Higher Education He is an excellent addition to the Cal State sights of the people who work here, who Community Service Honor East Bay leadership team and will help take understand the place, our students, and Roll, a first for the university. us to new heights.” our community, and to think through The honor roll, which started Dr. Leroy M. Morishita Inch has served as the dean of the Col- with them the best strategies and direction in 2006, is the highest federal President lege of Arts and Letters at California for our university.” recognition an institution can State University, Sacramento since 2011. Inch received his bachelor’s degree in receive for its commitment to He previously served as provost and vice speech communication from Western community, service learning, president for Academic Affairs at Capi- Washington University and his master’s and civic engagement. A full tal University in Columbus, Ohio, and degree in rhetoric and communication list of recipients is available at has participated as an American Council from the University of Oregon. He earned nationalservice.gov/special- on Education Fellow, and an accreditor his doctorate in speech communication initiatives/honor-roll. for the Northwest Commission on Col- from the University of Washington. 4 FALL 2016 CAL STATE EAST BAY MAGAZINE CAL STATE EAST BAY MAGAZINE FALL 2016 5 UNIVERSITY NEWS UNIVERSITY NEWS Cal State East Bay Foundation USGS Simulates Local Quakes with Receives $500,000 from AT&T for Help of CSUEB Hayward Promise Neighborhood As the sun shone high above Lake Chabot in Bay Professor Luther Strayer. and we have no idea what it looks like,” early September, several Cal State East Bay Strayer first started involving students McEvilly said. “This is going to help us ness in helping students graduate ready for students drilled a 20-foot hole in the hard in his work in 2013 when he was asked to do that.” a career or college. Selected programs use ground. The students were participating in oversee the implosion of Cal State East Bay’s evidence-based approaches to serve stu- an experiment with the U.S. Geological Sur- iconic Warren Hall building. — Natalie Feulner dents and were able to demonstrate quan- vey that will help characterize and map the “They [are] able to work alongside and titative results. underground geology of the Napa, Chabot, be mentored by some of the best scientists “Young people need a high school di- and Hayward faults. in the world,” Strayer said. “The beauty and ploma to stay on track for college and ca- It involves digging into the soil and set- wonderful thing about the relationship we reer success,” said Ken McNeely, president, ting off tiny “earthquakes” — tremors so have with the [USGS] is that they mentor AT&T California. “Our company’s future, small they can only be felt within a few feet my students in geophysics and in techniques as well as the country’s, is dependent on of their “epicenter.” Those mini quakes are that allow us to find and study faults in the today’s young people. Through Aspire, we then tracked to see how the ground would local geology.” support programs like the Hayward Prom- respond to a larger shake. Once the infor- CSUEB graduate student Adrian McEv- ise Neighborhood that invest in students mation is gathered, scientists will be able to illy is on his way to just that. McEvilly said so they achieve their highest potential in create a map that can help plan for the inevi- he had wanted to study chemistry, but real- school, in the workforce, and in life.” table earthquakes of the future.