Academic Forces on the National Security Front
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Academic forces on the national security front | 2010-2011 We’re live and in color. magazine.csusb.edu Now you can read CSUSB Magazine online. Read feature stories about students, professors and alumni and view great photos of campus life – from classrooms to courts of play. Subscribe online at magazine.csusb.edu and receive your edition in your e-mail inbox. CSUSB Magazine is published by the Office of Public Affairs at California State University, San Bernardino for alumni, friends, parents, colleagues and the community. This publication is partially funded with non-state re- sources. Opinions expressed in CSUSB Magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or repre- sent the official policy of California State University, San Bernardino. The editorial committee reserves the right to edit all submitted material. Editorial and alumni informa- Volume 19 Issue 1 — 2010-2011 tion and photographs should be sent to: News for Alumni and Friends of the University Cal State San Bernardino editor pack tracks Public Affairs: Managing Editor 5500 University Parkway Sid Robinson Mark Reinhiller San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393 managing editor student scapes Photographs submitted for print consideration must be Sam Romero Carol Dixon of good quality. Low resolution digital images below art director/ contributing writers 200k or photographs printed on textured paper are not graphic design/ Jiggs Gallagher accepted. illustration Joanna Oxendine Alumni and Graduating Students Angela Gillespie Carmen Murillo-Moyeda Astrid Sheil Please note that your name, address, phone number, production manager school or college, and the year of graduation may be Alan Llavore photography used by CSUSB for the development of university affili- senior writer Corinne Jamieson ated marketing programs. If you do not wish to have this Joe Gutierrez Alan Llavore information used, please notify the university by writing Robert Whitehead to the Office of University Advancement at 5500 Univer- department editors administrative assistant sity Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393. alumni advantage Joselyn Yap Pamela Langford contributions Cindi Pringle Departments 2 President’s Observations CSUSB President Albert Karnig talks about how the proposed $500 million cut to the CSU budget will affect students — and the state. 3 Update What is RAFFMA? (page 4) Art and landscape 6 College News (page 3) In December, CSUSB graduated Over the years, CSUSB has built a fleet of programs that is addressing America’s national security efforts from many sides. its first two doctoral students in Kevin Grisham, Tony Coulson, Mark Clark and Dany Doueiri university history. (page 7) are seeing the programs they head grow, because mastering the fundamentals in security is the great commission in a more sophisticated world. 14 Contributions Page 10 A family celebrates the life of a son and a husband the life of a first wife with legacy scholarships. (page 15) Features 16 Pack Tracks Introducing the new class of Update 3 athletics hall of fame inductees. With all the beauty supplied by brush, (page 17) hills and mountains that surround CSUSB, the university is complementing nature’s art with works of its own. Euro props 18 Student Scapes Thirty-six freshmen become College News (page 8) 6 President’s Academic Excellence A CSUSB alumnus and former Model UN Scholarship recipients. (page 19) student keeps a winning tradition alive. 14 Contributions 20 Alumni Notes The new face for public art at CSUSB. What are your former classmates doing these days? (page 21) 16 Pack Tracks What does it take to play water polo, and Calendar why is Bryanna all ashivers this a.m.? Now you’re a-talkin’. Mozart’s comic opera, “Impresario,” comes 18 Student Scapes with plenty of English dialogue as A communication studies student and it settles down in the Old West. waitress delivers the goods by way of (back cover) food, verve and a little nerve. 20 Alumni Notes The first Alumni Association academic Grand ol’ opera excellence scholarship recipient talks (back cover) about why he chose CSUSB. 2010-2011 president’s observations in state support for the CSU is a “best institutions nationally, according to a case” scenario, because it assumes an Collegiate Learning Assessment report. extension of some temporary state Among some recent highlights, Eu- taxes due to expire at the end of June. ropean CEO Magazine recently ranked If those tax extensions don’t pass in a CSUSB’s M.B.A. program as one of the special election in June, the CSU could 18 most innovative in the world. It was suffer further deep cuts to its budget. one of only four in the United States Sharp budget cutbacks in recent and the lone U.S. university west of the years have already caused the CSU to Mississippi. rely more on tuition fees to provide as There are now more than 170 stu- many students as possible with a quali- dents in our President’s Academic Ex- ty education. Compared to other states, cellence Scholarship program, which California provides among the lowest attracts San Bernardino County’s top levels of support for its public universi- high school students, who all rank in ty students, despite having among the the top 1 percent of their high school lowest tuition fees in the nation. Appro- graduating classes. Doing more priations to the CSU are already lower The accomplishments of our campus per student than they are in Alabama, and students are especially encourag- with less Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missis- ing, because California needs addition- sippi and West Virginia, among many al, not fewer, college graduates if it’s to Following years of diminished state others. If the proposed budget cut is compete with other states as well as budget appropriations, it appears pub- approved by the Legislature, next year’s compete globally. We need higher edu- lic higher education will soon be head- CSUSB students will pay more than half cation to foster more educated workers, ed for even more difficult financial chal- of the total cost of their education. who will eventually be our future busi- lenges. If adopted, the proposed $500 That outcome would totally shred the ness and government leaders, entre- million cut to the California State Univer- 1960 California Master Plan for Higher preneurs, nurses, engineers, physicians, sity will further shackle our ability to pro- Education, which called for nearly free social workers, scientists, teachers, and vide academic programs and services. public university education. countless other important profession- Given California’s staggering bud- Nonetheless, the CSU system has als. Without an educated workforce, get deficit, the need for the state to in- pledged not to increase student tuition economic development will be further crease revenues and reduce expendi- fees next year. But it’s almost certain deferred or rendered impossible. tures is understandable. Unfortunately, that will change if the temporary state Reduced funding for higher educa- it will likely mean a renewed limit on taxes are not extended. tion may help balance the state bud- the number of students we will be able Despite the rough waters we’ve been get in the short term, but it also means to accommodate, as well as fewer class through and the storm that is almost there will be fewer college graduates for offerings. However, no matter faster-growing, how severe the cuts, we’ll con- That outcome would totally shred the 1960 higher-paying, tinue to do our best to serve knowledge- as many students as possible California Master Plan for Higher Education, based jobs. We with a high quality education. which called for nearly free public university education. hope you’ll join That will mean doing more us in encourag- with significantly less. At Cal ing the Legisla- State San Bernardino, we’ll face the certainly ahead, I’m extremely proud of ture to support higher education in Cal- challenge by being faster, friendlier, the way our students, faculty and staff ifornia, and clear the way for the state’s more responsive and more entrepre- have worked to cope with the situation. economic recovery by reinvesting in neurial. We’ll have to, because the pro- CSUSB students have recorded consis- our future, which will be led by the col- posed cuts will reduce the CSU system’s tently higher student persistence and lege students of today and tomorrow. overall budget appropriation to 1998- graduation rates than other campuses, Thank you for your support of the 1999 levels, despite a total enrollment and Cal State San Bernardino students university and higher education. of 70,000 additional students. demonstrate more improvement in The proposed 18 percent reduction skills than students at most comparison 2 | magazine.csusb.edu update on cal state from 12 inches to 30 feet tall, and range from gallery pedestal pieces to dramat- ic outdoor architectural installations. The pieces donated to Cal State San Bernardino are all outdoor pieces. And so is the stoneware clay-tiled mural column installed in September near the intersection of Northpark Bou- levard and Campus Drive. The public art project involved more than 10 CSUSB ceramic students. The intent was to make the urban area more engaging, says Alison Petty Ragguette, an assistant professor of art specializing in ceramics at Cal State San Bernardino. With four sides, the column portrays turbulent water flow, a coyote The drinking moon tears, a river streaming from the sun as it spawns humming- play birds, with the largest hummingbird feeding on a giant rain drop above a succulent garden. “The piece is highly textured and col- of the orful yet earthy, in a raised relief de- sign,” Petty Ragguette says. “Rather land than square, the tiles are organically By the time six straight days of 100- where they best complement the ar- plus degree temperatures had made its chitecture, texture and scale of univer- assault on campus in late September, sity buildings.