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CBU contributes more than 681,000 hours of community service
An International Service Project team serving in East Asia worked with students.
California Baptist University students, faculty and staff contributed more than 681,000 hours of community service during 2012, with a monetary value of nearly $5.5 million. Service areas included the Inland Empire area and the state of California, as well as across the nation and around the globe.
“Service is an integral part of the experience at CBU,” said Dr. Ronald L. Ellis, president of California Baptist University. “The commitment of students, faculty and staff to be involved in service activities represents a very practical application of one of the university’s core values: equipped to serve.”
Most of the service hours were a result of service learning in academic areas, where students applied what they are learning in their major areas. The Collinsworth School of Music accounted for a large share of the service learning hours through more than 400 concerts and vocal performances by about 400 students. The College of Engineering contributed the second largest number of service hours through a cross-cultural experience requirement in all of its major areas.
Many of the community services hours were a result of CBU’s flagship programs, administered through the Mobilization Office. International Service Projects, United States Projects and Summer of Service sent 422 volunteers to 20 countries last year.
“Under Dr. Ellis’ leadership, we commissioned our first teams in 1997,” said Kristen White, CBU director of global mobilization. “Our faculty and staff leaders seek to connect with and invest in students to challenge them to take their next step in engaging the world.”
Compassion Ministries, with oversight from the Office of Spiritual Life, also contributed service hours during the year through local ministries with the elderly, teens, children and the homeless.
One group of students working with the homeless said they want to be a stepping stone between area churches and various homeless programs.
“Our hope is to build relationships with the people we encounter, with the goal of meeting their physical needs and eventually being able to share the gospel with them,” said Melody Henderson, a CBU student involved in the ministry. “Our desire is to be Jesus’ hands and feet in this community and to love the people around us as best we can.”
The combined efforts of 18 California Baptist University athletic teams helped raise 5,640 canned food items to be donated to charity.
“I am really proud of our athletes,” Micah Parker, director of athletics, said. “It’s important that they recognize how fortunate they are to have so much.”
The canned food drive was also a competition to see which team could raise the most cans per athlete. The cheer team won the competition by raising 1,866 cans, which averaged 50.43 per athlete.
Men’s golf raised 487 cans, or 37.46 per athlete, the highest total of any men’s team.
“It was fun to see our teams talk about who was going to give more this year,” Parker said. “It is great to see them give back.”
The 5,640 cans were donated by CBU athletics to Set Free Ministries.
In addition, the teams volunteered time at the local YMCA, worked with a food pantry, a toy drive and various sports clinics.
The Division of Institutional Advancement partnered with Keep Riverside Clean & Beautiful to work on a street beautification project. Staff worked with alumni volunteers to remove trash, weeds, debris, leaves and graffiti on a local street. In addition, a group of freshmen picked up trash at the city’s Don Derr Park as part of their FOCUS orientation group.
Some of the community service hours came from service learning projects that enable students to use professional skills. Freshmen engineering majors worked on projects sponsored by the College of Engineering, and students from the School of Business contributed approximately 500 hours in free tax preparation for low income taxpayers and seniors in the Riverside community.
Press-Enterprise names Lancers as coach, player of the year
Levi Cabral
Gary Adcock
Riverside’s Press-Enterprise has named Gary Adcock, CBU’s head baseball coach, as 2013 Coach of the Year and Levi Cabral, an outside/opposite hitter on the men’s volleyball team, as 2013 Player of the Year.
The Coach of the Year award is given to the top collegiate coach in the PE’s readership area, which includes UC Riverside, Cal State San Bernardino, Redlands, La Sierra, Riverside Community College, San Bernardino Valley College and Mt. San Jacinto College. Adcock is a two-time NCCAA National Coach of the Year, the 2012 PacWest Coach of the Year and a three-time GSAC Coach of the Year.
The Player of the Year award goes to the top collegiate athlete in the readership area. Cabral helped lead CBU in its transition into the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation this season, putting up one of the best seasons in program history. He is one of the all-time greats in Lancer history, finishing his career with 1,999 kills, 189 service aces, 574 digs and 266 blocks. Along with the aforementioned career kills and aces records, Cabral also owns the top three single-match kill performances and is the only player in program history to go over 500 kills in a season twice.
IABCU meeting attracts college presidents from the U.S., Japan and Nigeria
Dr. Ronald L. Ellis, CBU president, presented a talk titled “Building a University Committed to the Great Commission” to more than 100 top administrators of Southern Baptist institutions.
More than 100 attendees participated in the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities (IABCU) annual meeting held at California Baptist University June 2-4. The organization elected new officers; approved a $268,170 budget for the association’s 2013-14 fiscal year; and heard reports on the Baptist College and University Scholars program, and the state of IABCU member institutions.
Top administrators from IABCU schools came from as far as Nigeria and Japan for the three-day meeting. The group elected new officers for 2013-2014: Dr. David Olive, president of Bluefield College, as chair; Dr. Fitzgerald Hill, president of Arkansas Baptist College, as vice-chair and chair elect; and Dr. Samuel “Dub” Oliver, president of East Texas Baptist University, recording secretary.
New board members elected for terms beginning June 2013 to June 2017 are: Dr. Jairy Hunter, president of Charleston Southern University; Dr. Kina Mallard, provost at Carson-Newman University; Dr. Elizabeth Davis, provost at Baylor University; and David Wilkinson, executive director of Associated Baptist Press, who will serve as an at-large member.
An IABCU research study titled “The State of Higher Education Among Baptist Colleges and Universities 2013” revealed that enrollment at IABCU member institutions is up 21.3 percent from the fall 2000 to fall 2011. Also, tuition at those schools is still an average of 22 percent less nationally than other private, four-year, not-for-profit institutions, even as the total cost of attendance for students steadily increases at all institutions.
In addition, the majority of students enrolled at IABCU schools are within the traditional college age group, with more than 76 percent of undergraduates under the age of 25 and the same percentage of graduate students aged 25 or older.
The research also revealed that larger IABCU institutions report higher retention rates. For colleges and universities with 4,000 or fewer students, about 65 percent of first-time freshmen in 2010 enrolled again in the fall of 2011, while universities with larger enrollment saw higher retention rates—77 percent for institutions with 4,001-9,999 students and 85 percent for those with 10,000 or more students.
The study was conducted for IABCU by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning & Assessment at California Baptist University. It was based on data reported in the 2011 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the latest IPEDS data available when the analysis began last April.
Dr. Laine Scales, associate dean of the Baylor University Graduate School, announced that the Baptist College and University (BCU) Scholars program had six new scholars in 2012-2013, for a total of 13. Scales said she expected participation to grow to 20 in the next academic year. The program encourages scholars nominated by Baptist schools and accepted at Baylor for Ph.D. study to combine scholarly research skills with integration of faith and learning in the classroom.
The IABCU contributes up to $10,000 annually in support of BCU Scholars.
David Kinnaman, author and president of the Barna Group, delivered the annual Hester Lectures, warning his audience that colleges and universities must pay attention to changes in the younger generations of students who are less connected to institutional church.
“If we don’t think differently about our institutions, we are going to lose them,” Kinnaman said. “Something is happening here that we need to pay attention to. What is it God is telling us about our opportunity with this upcoming generation?”
Next year’s meeting of the IABCU will be held at Charleston Southern University June 1-3.
Family Updates
Dr. Chuck Sands
Dr. Chuck Sands, dean of the College of Allied Health, participated in the American Public Health Association’s Mid-Year Governing Council meeting on June 24. Sands serves as a governing councilor for APHA.
Dr. Daniel Prather
Dr. Daniel Prather, professor of aviation science, taught a four-day course in airport operations on behalf of the American Association of Airport Executives for the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey on June 3-6 in Manhattan. He also taught a four-day course in airport operations at the headquarters of the American Association of Airport Executives on June 18-21 in Alexandria, Va. Prather also successfully passed the Certified Aviation Manager (CAM) exam through the National Business Aviation Association. He is one of only 200 business aviation professionals nationwide to hold this credential. Additionally, he is one of three faculty members nationwide to possess this distinction and the only one at a CCCU institution.
ISP East Asia team
Kushi Jones, director of career services, recently returned from leading an International Service Project team to East Asia. The co-leader was Joey Garcia, a recent CBU alumnus, who is preparing to teach overseas in Southeast Asia. The team’s taught ESL classes in a local university, at a primary/middle school and at English training centers. They also visited and engaged with students at a blind/deaf school, an orphanage with special needs children and a leper colony. The team was able to share their testimonies to many who have virtually never heard the name of Jesus.
Dayna Herrera
James Cypert
Sarah Pearce
Dayna Herrera, assistant professor of nursing; James Cypert, technical director of simulation/skills lab; and Sarah Pearce, learning resource center assistant, gave a podium presentation titled A Nurse, A Geek & A Thespian: A Novel Interdisciplinary Model for a Clinical Simulation Center at the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning in Las Vegas June 12-15. In addition, Pearce presented the topic Using Live Theatre Techniques to Enhance the Realism in Medical Simulation.
Dr. Kenya Davis-Hayes
Dr. Kenya Davis-Hayes, associate professor of American history, has joined a group of 14 experts that form Past Preservers People, a boutique, full-service agency representing expert presenters from around the world. Davis-Hayes has a special interest in women’s roles in history.
Dr. Mary Ann Pearson
Dr. Mary Ann Pearson, associate professor of communication arts for Online and Professional Studies, was nominated to the position of president elect for the Public Relations Society of America’s Inland Empire chapter for 2015. The chapter sent Pearson to New York June 14-16 for the annual PRSA Leadership Rally, which included sessions on inspirational leadership, financial planning for chapters, recruiting, programming and management. Leadership from chapters across the nation attended the workshops.
Dr. Keanon Alderson
Dr. Keanon Alderson, associate professor of business, was recently recognized as Faculty of the Year for 2012-2013 by CBU’s School of Business.
Left to right: Mike Labosky, Dr. Chuck Sands, Dr. Meg Barth
Dr. Chuck Sands, dean of the College of Allied Health, and Dr. Meg Barth, director of the nutrition and food science program, visited Golden State Foods (GSF) in City of Industry, Calif. to meet with Mike Labosky, vice president for global quality and food systems safety. Sands and Barth toured the facility and explored potential areas of collaboration between GSF and the nutrition and food science program. GSF, a $5 billion company, is a food service supplier with operations worldwide, including expanding markets in China and Australia.
Three CBU Master of Public Administration students received scholarships from the Inland Empire American Society for Public Administration Chapter on June 20. Recipients included Holly Stuart, development project coordinator for the City of Banning; Amy Esquivel, assistant superintendent secretary for Menifee Unified School District; and Talika Graham.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Gooch Jr.
Nicole Shackelford, financial aid technician, married Glenn Gooch Jr. on March 28 in Temecula, Calif.
Personnel Updates
| DATE | DEPARTMENT | POSITION | NAME | STATUS |
| 6/17/2013 | Academic Advising | Academic Advisor | Whitney Walter | New Hire |
| 6/7/2013 | School of Education | Graduate Program Advisor | Jammy Yang | No Longer Employed |
| 6/10/2013 | Financial Aid | Financial Aid Loan Counselor | Teresa “Tia” Pace | No Longer Employed |
| 6/14/2013 | Department of Natural and Mathematical Sciences | Secretary | Brittany Sparkman | No Longer Employed |
| 6/10/2013 | Residence Life | Residence Director | Tonette “Toni” Jauregui | No Longer Employed |
| 6/21/2013 | Institutional Advancement | Grants Administrator | Lauren Savord | No Longer Employed |