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LARRY LINAMEN NAMED NEW VICE PRESIDENT FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVES
California Baptist University has announced the appointment of veteran educator Dr. Larry Linamen as Vice President for Global Initiatives effective July 16, 2012. Linamen comes to CBU after three years as president of Greenville College in Illinois.
At CBU Linamen will be responsible for promoting global engagement across the university through international recruitment, faculty and student exchange programs and related activities. He is also charged with increasing awareness among CBU faculty and students of emerging global issues as well as initiating and increasing preparation for an educational environment extending beyond national boundaries and driven by global marketplace demands.
“I am pleased to welcome Dr. Linamen to the leadership team at California Baptist University,” said Dr. Ronald L. Ellis, CBU president. “We are confident that he will help strengthen the role of CBU as an impact player in global educational and service opportunities.”
Linamen has traveled extensively throughout Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East, conducting high-level negotiations for international cooperative endeavors, leading classes, and performing service projects.
“I applaud California Baptist University for anticipating the future by including global initiatives in its strategy for the coming decades,” Linamen said. “I am honored to join the team as we work to fulfill the Great Commission.”
Linamen has extensive experience in higher education. In addition to the presidency at Greenville College, he has served as Acting President & Executive Vice President at Crichton College; Dean of Graduate Business Programs at Taylor University; Provost at Colorado Christian University; and Provost at Dallas Baptist University. Previously he was Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Biola University and vice president of The Barna Research Group in Glendale, California.
Linamen earned B.A. degrees in Business Administration and Accounting from Anderson University; an M.B.A. from Ball State University; and an Ed.D. in Business and Educational Administration from Ball State University.
CBU SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY
President Ronald Ellis, on behalf of California B
aptist University (CBU), signed a new educational partnership agreement June 15 with Shanghai Ocean University (SOU). The agreement is the ninth with a Chinese university. The first agreement was signed in 1996.
Dr. Zhong Jungsheng, professor and vice director of SOU’s foreign affairs office, toured CBU’s Riverside campus with other representatives prior to signing the document. The partnership agreement will allow a student exchange between the two institutions.
CBU has partnership agreements with 15 universities in China, Korea, Russia and Rwanda.
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY SENDS OUT 300TH ISP TEAM
California Baptist University launched its 300th International Service Project (ISP) team June 6 with a celebration that included confetti and prayer for the volunteers.
The ‘South Asia: Christian Challenge’ team is one of 46 scheduled this year from CBU, totaling 420 students, faculty and staff serving in more than 20 countries.
“We will be teaching English and starting conversations that will lead to the gospel,” said Keith, a team leader, as he introduced the other eight volunteers. “We pray for the opportunity to share our faith.”
The group will return in late June after serving for nearly three weeks. This year marks the ISP program’s 16th year. All ISP teams leave from the Ronald L. and Jane D. Ellis Great Commission Plaza on CBU’s campus.
“Under Dr. Ellis’ leadership, we commissioned our first teams in 1997,” said Kristen White, CBU director of global mobilization. “That included three teams. This team is our 300th, but it’s also the 33rd group of the year and the 18th currently serving on a field.”
White asked parents and friends gathered for the team’s departure to “pray for boldness of faith and opportunities to have gospel conversations.”
OFFICE OF MOBILIZATION LAUNCHES NEW BLOG TO HIGHLIGHT TEAMS
From left: Southeast Asia Faculty– Team leaders Dr. DawnEllen Jacobs, assistant provost, and Phil Martinez, director of assessment, at a university in Southeast Asia at which the all-faculty team taught lectures; South Asia Global Studies Team A, led by Courtney Watson and Ryan Falsetti, at a local village at which they ministered during their three weeks in the area.
The Office of Mobilization (MOB) launched their new blog titled, “Our Journey,” which features stories from every team serving this summer, as well as prayer requests and highlights from the field. Visitors can read up on the teams currently on the field or read through all past entries from teams who have already returned. The blog can also direct readers to the MOB’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube page to help them stay in touch with activities throughout the year.
ISP, USP and SOS teams have ministered in a variety of ways since the first team left on May 7th, including engineering projects to bring clean water to villages, teaching English lessons in parts of the world where no foreigner has been before, operating day camps in several orphanages, doing disaster relief in areas affected by natural disasters, teaching basketball drills at sports camps and facilitating medical clinics in both urban and rural settings. The blog can be accessed at http://blogs.calbaptist.edu/mob/.
CBU SELECTED AS SEMIFINALIST IN 2012 AMX INNOVATIONS AWARDS
The Global Education Alliance (GEA) selected California Baptist University (CBU) as a semifinalist in its 2012 AMX Innovations Awards. The alliance program is a multi-level initiative designed to build a community among educational leaders and industry experts. CBU is one of 22 institutions internationally to be recognized for the use of technology in improving the campus experience.
“These universities are answering 21st century challenges in higher education with ground-breaking uses of technology,” said Jackie DeLuna, AMX marketing manager for education. “From connected campuses to multimedia lecture capabilities, distance learning and environmental sustainability, we were blown away by how many truly creative entries we received.”
Hundreds of international universities submitted entries in the competition. CBU entered under the collaborative initiatives category for its work to connect students and faculty in a variety of settings. GEA awarded the AMX grand prize to Wake Forest University in the connected campus category. The two other award winners were Stanford University in the automation and control category and George Washington University in the collaborative initiative category.
AMX provides solutions to simplify the implementation, maintenance and use of technology to create effective environments.
CBU LANCERS WIN 2012 NCCAA PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
On the strength of six national championships, California Baptist University was awarded the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) Presidential Award at the association’s annual convention.
The NCCAA Presidential Award is presented annually to the institution in each division that compiles the most points through national championship competition. The Lancers garnered 93 points, finishing just two points ahead of second-place Cedarville. Indiana Wesleyan was third with 62 points.
CBU won national titles in men’s and women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s golf, softball and baseball, grabbing 12 points for each national title won.
The Lancers also had a runner-up finish in women’s cross country, finished third in men’s cross country and seventh in women’s basketball. Despite competing in just four of the 18 events offered, the Lancers also registered an eighth-place finish in men’s indoor track and field to nab an additional point.
Women’s golf also earned a runner-up finish at the NCCAA National Championships, but the NCCAA stipulates that at least 33 percent of the division’s membership must sponsor the sport in order for it to be eligible for the point system and thus it doesn’t factor into the scoring.
Only three institutions won multiple national championships this year, but the other two only won two apiece. Cedarville won women’s indoor track and field and men’s basketball. Olivet Nazarene won men’s indoor track and field and women’s outdoor track and field.
Indiana Wesleyan won men’s indoor track and field. Campbellsville won men’s tennis, and Palm Beach Atlantic won women’s tennis. The Lancers won six of 16 sports and also scored points in 10 of the 14 sports for which they were eligible.
With a membership of more than 100 colleges and universities, the NCCAA is an association of Christ-centered collegiate institutions whose mission is to use athletic competition as an integral component of education, evangelism and encouragement. It is committed to equipping student-athletes and coaches to make a positive impact for Christ. The non-profit organization hosts 23 national championships and invitationals annually and has two divisions of membership.
The NCCAA Presidential Award was the second major recognition for the Lancers in the past few weeks. They also received the 2011-2012 Pacific West Conference Commissioner’s Cup, an annual ward given to the top athletic program in the PacWest.
CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY SENDS HOPE AND LIGHT ACROSS U.S.
The Light small group includes (from left) Shaylene Judson, Jeyeon Kim, Ben Halsne (Leader), Meghan Ostrosky, Kelsey Doolittle, Evan Lo, Megan Lopez; The Hope vocal ensemble includes (top row): Jamie Fischer, Matthew Kost, Katie Kopitzke, Jordan Smith, Linda Jacoban, Cameron DeCou; and (bottom row): Leah Alford (Leader), Ivan Utomo
CBU’s Hope and Light vocal groups will travel across the U.S. this summer to perform at schools, churches and camps.
The Hope ensemble will travel through eight Western states. CBU students involved with Hope include Leah Alford (leader), Jamie Fischer, Linda Jacoban, Katie Kopitzke, Cameron DeCou, Matthew Kost, Jordan Smith and Ivan Utomo.
The Light performance group will travel across 16 eastern states. Performing with Light are Ben Halsne (leader), Evan Lo, Kelsey Doolittle, Shaylene Judson, Megan Lopez, Meghan Ostrosky and Jeyeon Kim.
Both ensembles left the CBU campus on June 5th for eight-week tours. Click here for the groups’ Summer Tour itinerary.
Small groups from the Shelby and Ferne Collinsworth School of Music at CBU perform in various venues several times each month throughout the year. The six- to nine-person ensembles are student-led and feature a commitment to music ministry.
Family Updates
MORRIS LEADS TEAM TO L.A.’s SKID ROW
Nita Morris, department secretary in student services, recently led a mission team to skid row, deep in the heart of Los Angeles. Eighteen people from The Crossings Church/Eastvale ministered to hundreds of homeless. The team passed out tracts, created an assembly line stuffing groceries in sacks, prepared the lunch for the day and presented a chapel service for about 70 men and women, some in wheelchairs.
“The streets were rougher than I imagined,” said Morris. “You can drive through skid row, but you don’t really feel skid row until you walk the streets and alleys.”
At the end of the trip the team was taken seven stories up to the roof. With the L.A. skyline in the background, they reflected on the day and prayed the seeds planted and the helping hands offered would impact eternity.
From left: Dr. Bonjun Koo, associate professor of environmental science; biology majors Alexandria Taylor, Brianna Bernard and Ryan Oliverio; and Dr. Hyun-Woo Park, associate professor of biology, presented papers at the 37th West Coast Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, in April. Presentations included “Assessing bioavailability of metals in polluted ecosystems using rhizosphere biogeochemistry” by Bernard, Taylor and Dr. Koo and “Identification and characterization of the novel bipyramidal crystal protein gene in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. morrisoni PG-14” by Oliverio and Dr. Park .
Dr. Trevor Gillum, assistant professor of kinesiology, presented data at the annual American College of Sports Medicine conference in San Francisco. The conference was May 29-June 2. The paper was called “men and women differ in anti-microbial protein expression after acute, moderate running.”
Vi Estel, archivist, recently attended the annual Association of Librarians and Archivists at Baptist Institutions
(ALABI) meeting in Wake Forest, NC. She moderated a session on “Finding Baptist Voices: Locating Baptist Oral Histories in Baptist and Non-Baptist Collections.”
Renee Williams, adjunct professor of chemistry, was hooded June 17th at the University of California-Riverside commencement ceremony for earning a Ph.D. in chemistry.
Dr. Angela Brand Butler, associate professor of music, performed authentic, historical music for the Manitoba Theater for Young People’s production of Romeo and Juliet. Butler and two other musicians researched, practiced and even recorded some of Shakespeare’s contemporaries’ music. They presented the pieces before, during and after the four performances of the play.
Personnel Updates
| Date |
Department | Position | Name | Status |
| 6/4/2012 | Athletic Department | Office Assistant | Lynnelle McCray | New Hire |
| 6/18/2012 | Online and Professional Studies | Asst Director-Academic Advising | Shelley Clow | Change |
| 6/1/2012 | Tahquitz Pines | Office Manager & Guest Relations | Mary Calderon | No longer employed |
| 6/6/2012 | Athletics | Athletic Trainer | Ashlee Harlow | No longer employed |
| 6/13/2012 | Office of Mobilization | Financial Coordinator | Erin Wood | No longer employed |
| 6/13/2012 | Information and Technology Services | Application Support Analyst I | Latanya Cayetano | No longer employed |