September 29, 2003

Fall brings influx of new faculty

The fall semester saw the arrival of more than 100 new full-time faculty members, the second triple-digit class in two years.

Included among the “new” faces are 18 former lecturers and part-time professors who are now full-time assistant professors. The largest growth was in the teacher education department which gained seven new members, followed by history and the library with six each, with nursing and mathematics and statistics each getting five.

California was the number one source of new faculty. Twenty-one faculty members – eight from the CSU system and 13 from the UC system – came to the campus from other California public universities including three from Fresno State, four from UC Berkeley and seven from UC Davis. Seven more came from California private universities, community colleges and libraries such as Stanford, University of the Pacific and Mills College.
Some new faculty may find familiar faces from their previous campus. Both the University of Arizona and the University of Oklahoma were the former campuses for three new CSUS faculty members, while two each came from Indiana University, University of Hawaii, University of Massachusetts, University of North Carolina and University of Washington.

Other former campuses for new faculty include Brown, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Yale. But not all came from a university setting. Faculty members have also come from the Chicago Historical Society, the Institute for Aging Research in San Francisco, CalTRANS, National Health Services in London, Saudia National Labs, and the USDA.

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