Two-time alumnus Matthew Markin, academic advisor in CSUSB’s Office of Academic Success and Undergraduate Advising, was selected as a mentor for the 2024-2026 NACADA Emerging Leaders Program. He is one of six mentors and 12 emerging leaders were selected for the two-year program.
CSUSB’s Outstanding Professional Academic Advisor Award is presented to academic advisors who have demonstrated exceptional advising qualities through their dedication and commitment to students. The first-ever recipients of this award are Arturo Gutierrez from the ASUA Academic Advising office and Paola Godinez Martinez from the Undocumented Student Success Center.
Eduardo Mendoza, director of Academic Advising, earned the Excellence in Advising Administrator Award for Region 9 from NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising.
The grant from the Stupski Foundation is in association with the National Academic Advising Association, which, in its awarding of the grant to CSUSB, said, “after reviewing dozens of submissions, your application rose to the top,” in part because of its ability to outline the issues facing the campus and its intentions to address them.
University President Tomás D. Morales said Jeremy Murray was named the Outstanding Faculty Advisor in recognition of “his passion, commitment and dedication to student success and providing career and life guidance.”
News of Carol Hood (physics) being named Outstanding Faculty Advisor for 2020-21 makes the news, Francisca Beer (finance) teamed up with MBA candidate Danny Chung for a column on credit cards for students, and Brian Levin (criminal justice) comments on the Christchurch Call to Action and the spike in anti-Asian hate crimes in Vancouver, B.C.
“The students are my reason for everything at CSUSB and everything I do with everyone else is in some way to give back to help them, help them reach their dreams,” said Carol Hood, recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Advisor award.
NACADA, a global association of academic advising in higher education, has selected CSUSB academic advisor Maria Domingo for its Emerging Leaders Program.