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35-Year Profile: Susan Tynan

As an academic counselor in the College of Business Administration, Susan Tynan has imparted wisdom to Sacramento State students for 28 years. As a Sacramento State staff member, she has helped the campus community for more than 35 years.

“I feel one of the reasons I’ve been able to sustain my time here so well and so long is because of the variety of work and the types of things I do,” says Tynan. 

Tynan has had several jobs since coming to the campus in 1972 but has been directly involved with student progress since 1980. She spent about 14 years as a graduate coordinator in the College of Business Administration and is in her 14th year as an undergraduate academic coordinator at the College.

“The job can be unpredictable sometimes, but I enjoy helping people,” she says. “I like the problem-solving component of it.”

Tynan is responsible for helping students through the college process and keeping them on a path toward completing their degree requirements.

“Getting them in and helping them graduate in a timely manner is the focus of the counseling center,” she says. “We provide consistent, useful and relevant guidance to help students from the time they arrive until they receive their degree. We don’t just say, ‘read the catalog.’”

She says students occasionally get overwhelmed with college and need guidance about what areas of study they want to focus on.

“We have 12 different programs in the College of Business Administration, and it is sometimes intimidating to students to have so many things to choose from,” she says. “They have to decide whether they are going to have a double concentration, what major and minor and if they are even going to continue in the area of study they initially chose.”