Faculty & Staff
CSULB’s Anton Striegl and Dave Neumann, former Advanced Placement (AP) world history teachers at Long Beach’s Wilson High School and instructors in the university’s secondary history/social science credential program, cheered Wilson’s recent identification by the College Entrance Examination Board’s annual Report to the Nation as the public school with the largest number of Latino students having passed the AP world history examination in the graduating class of 2008.
CSULB Professor John Lacey has been named the 2008-09 Outstanding Accounting Educator award recipient from the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Lacey has also been nominated by CalCPA for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Distinguished Achievement in Accounting Education award.
Training is one key to the success of Staff Human Resources’ Berta Hanson, an 11-year CSULB employee, who was named recently as the campus’ 2009 Outstanding Staff Member.
Nineteen faculty members, two staff members, and one student will be honored for outstanding work at California State University, Long Beach and within the community at the University Achievement Awards on Tuesday, May 19 from 4 – 6 p.m. at the Pointe in the Pyramid. Look for more information on this event in the first week of of May.
Dr. Juan Benitez has been appointed executive director of the Center for Community Engagement (CCE). For the past two years Benitez has served as interim director of the CCE, which creates opportunities to expand civic participation for students, community-based research for faculty, and empowerment strategies for communities. More.
More than 270 Scholarly and Creative Activity Committee (SCAC) awards worth $1.3 million have been granted to support faculty research, scholarly and creative activity for the 2009-10 academic year.
