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Spring 2016 Stanislaus State Building Warrior Pride President Joseph F. Sheley leaves his mark on Stanislaus State. Proud to be part of the region’s university A WORD FROM PRESIDENT SHELEY I announced my upcoming and employers. The difference: Finally, the most gratifying part of our retirement recently. People now Gratitude for the chance to attend time here rests with the many friends ask about the accomplishments college now is joined with pride in we’ve made in the region - the sincere, of which I am proudest. There the Stan State diploma. honest, hardworking people who step up are several, but none is mine for each other. The chance to make such alone. My wife Bernadette and Changing people’s lives is important, but Stan State’s impact on our region - friends also has created the opportunity I were fortunate to have joined to remove the symbolic moat around the a University community indeed, on the entire San Joaquin Valley - is equally so. The Valley desperately campus. The difference: California State that truly wishes to make a University, Stanislaus no longer is the difference, and it shows. needs college graduates if it is to diversify its economy, attract new businesses, and university that happens to reside in the region. It is the Region’s University. Stanislaus State’s enrollment is climbing allow our college graduates to put their again (about 9,200) as a new generation education to work. We are producing What more could we ask for? Thank of “first-in-the-family” degree-seekers those degree-holders. A broader array you for letting us be a part of a great enters its gates. The University perhaps of businesses is taking a second look University community. is proudest of its role in helping families at the region, understanding that they achieve their piece of the American will not have to import a professional dream. Most of our graduates will stay in workforce. The difference: The region the region, raise families here, and send now sees Stan State as part of its larger their kids to Stan State because it is a economic engine, and strengthening Joseph F. Sheley higher education now receives bipartisan serious university whose alumni (about President t 55,000) are assets to their communities legislative support. 2 STAN Magazine 7 14 25 26 7 | The Story of Becoming Stanislaus State To reach the point of unveiling the new University brand took more than a year of hard work. But the process doesn’t stop there. 14 | Building Warrior Pride The pride President Sheley has reignited in Stanislaus State students, graduates and the community will be a driving force for generations to come. 18 | One Purpose: Scholarships for Success Students share messages of gratitude for the volunteers and donors who raised nearly $450,000 during the 2015 One Purpose annual campaign. 25 | Q & A with Maggie White Selected to serve as a student representative for the California State University Board of Trustees, Maggie White is a voice for the 467,000 18 students enrolled at CSU campuses. INVESTING IN STUDENT SUCCESS Volunteers and students celebrate 26 | Tuedio’s Grateful Trip Almost Never Began during the six-week One Purpose campaign for scholarships that will be awarded Stanislaus State Dean James Tuedio is a renowned scholar of the seminal to Stanislaus State students who demonstrate academic excellence. rock band The Grateful Dead, but he almost missed the bus. Magazine Spring 2016 STAN Magazine is published by the Office of Communications and Public Affairs in the Division of University Advancement at Stanislaus State. President Director, Communications Senior Web and Electronic If you receive more than one copy of STAN Magazine, please pass it along to a friend of Joseph F. Sheley and Creative Services Communications Developer Stanislaus State. If you would like to support Stanislaus State, visit csustan.edu/giving. Janice Curtin Mandeep Khaira Vice President for Stanislaus State serves a diverse student body of more than 9,000 at two locations in the Central University Advancement Senior Writer and Photographers Valley — a beautiful 228-acre campus in Turlock and the Stockton Center, located in the city’s Shirley Pok Content Specialist Marty Bicek, Jaspal Khaira, historic Magnolia District. Widely recognized for dedicated faculty, high-quality academic Brian VanderBeek Justin Souza programs and exceptional value, the University offers more than 100 majors, minors and areas of Associate Vice President concentration, along with 24 master’s degree programs and a doctorate in educational leadership. University Development Senior Communications Stay in touch! Michele Lahti and Public Affairs Specialist Phone: 209.667.3131 Kristina Stamper Fax: 209.664.3026 Associate Vice President csustan.edu Communications and Graphic Designer Public Affairs Steve Caballero Tim Lynch Stanislaus State is a proud member of the California State University, a 23-campus system across California. With more than 467,000 students, it is the largest, the most diverse, and one of the most affordable university systems in the country. The CSU is indispensable to California’s economic prosperity and diverse communities, and is renowned for the quality of its teaching and for its job-ready graduates. calstate.edu Spring 2016 3 NEWS BRIEFS University Joins Local Effort to Conserve Water Stanislaus State It’s still too early to tell how Irrigation District, the City much the current El Niño of Turlock and Turlock Continues to Earn National Praise weather pattern will quell Unified School District the catastrophic four-year held regular roundtable There are four concepts at In September, Stanislaus State drought, but no matter the meetings during the the heart of the mission of made the Princeton Review’s outcome Stanislaus State is spring and summer to every university in the CSU prestigious list of the nation’s poised to be a key partner share ideas about the system: helping students top 380 schools, based solely in the region’s water strategies that have exceed expectations, serving on the quality of academics, conservation efforts. worked for each agency. underserved communities, for a 10th straight year. Not only is the University The esultr of the achieving academic excellence And in October, in a study on the cutting edge of collaboration was the and spurring upward mobility. commissioned by National use and reuse with its development of a unified Not coincidentally, Stanislaus Public Radio, Stanislaus was innovative campus water approach for conveying State has been honored for ranked No. 5 in the nation for system, it has entered into the message of conservation. its commitment to students the “upward mobility” of its an ongoing dialogue with “We take pride in our in each of those four areas in students. The top four schools Turlock’s three other major approach to water 2015. The flow of accolades on the list were Harvard, water users to determine management,” President speaks clearly about how well MIT, Stanford and UC Irvine. the best ways to conserve Joseph F. Sheley said. the University is serving the “The recognition we’re the most precious “Thanks to our technology region and the state. natural resource. receiving means we’re being and our people we are In July, Money magazine noticed as one of the best Representatives from setting an example and ranked Stanislaus State No. 3 colleges at serving its core Stanislaus State, Turlock making a difference.” overall and No. 1 among the constituency,” said University nation’s public universities President Joseph F. Sheley. for helping students “exceed “Members of the region are expectations,” while in the experiencing the thrill and same month U.S. News & pride that comes with a son or World Report ranked Stan daughter becoming the first State ninth for attracting in the family to earn a college Hispanic students. degree and opening doors to success.” 4 STAN Magazine Josephine Hazelton, Political Science Major Historic Fall Season for Mayor’s Public Policy Award Warrior Athletes Comes to Fruition Warrior athletes made history Despite losing in the Last fall, Turlock Mayor Gary Soiseth announced that he during the fall semester, as conference final, the men’s would donate his mayoral stipend to fund public policy research the three team sports — soccer team had the longest at Stanislaus State. The “Mayor’s Award” was established to volleyball and men’s and run of the fall season, encourage students to apply their skills and knowledge to women’s soccer — all reached reaching the NCAA Division regional public policy issues. the postseason in the same II Tournament for the second year for the first time since time in program history. “While the Mayor’s Award honors my campaign promise, it is Stanislaus State athletics The Warriors’ luck ran out more than that,” Soiseth told the Turlock Journal. “It shows that went to Division II in 1998. at that point in a first-round I want to find real solutions to social, civic and economic issues that challenge our community, and I believe the solutions will “It was a great shootout loss to Cal State be found among Stanislaus State students.” accomplishment this fall Los Angeles after the teams to have all three of our played to a 1-1 draw through In September, students were invited to submit proposals for team sports participate in three overtimes. the award. The proposals were reviewed in a two-part process, the postseason for the first The biggest improvement including student presentations before a committee of faculty time in school history,” said of any team on campus was and community leaders. Director of Athletics Mike enjoyed by the volleyball Josephine Hazelton, a political science major, was announced Matoso. “I think it speaks to team, which posted a 16-10 as the first recipient of the Mayor’s Public Policy Award in our commitment to develop regular season record — December.