CSUF's Fram & Friends

CSUF's Fram & Friends

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CSUF's Fram & Friends episodes

  • Asha Bhattacharya, President's Scholar and Business Marketing Student - February 25, 2021
    Asha Bhattacharya is a President’s Scholar as well as a University Honors and Business Honors student at Cal State Fullerton. Poised to graduate Summa Cum Laude this spring with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Marketing and a Minor in Psychology, Asha is currently conducting her Honors Senior Thesis on the relationship between mindset and leadership emergence in class settings, and has been selected to present her findings at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Throughout her time at CSUF, Asha has taken on myriad leadership roles, including serving as a Senior Resident Advisor, the Executive Director of Media Marketing for the Business Honors Program, the Programs Director for the Resident Student Association, and the VP of Public Relations for the Business Honors Program.
    Asha’s most meaningful area of impact with the university is also the avenue by which she met President Virjee: her dedication to provide CSUF students with better mental health care. In 2019, President Virjee appointed her to represent the university at the American Council on Education’s Mental Health Summit in New Orleans where she advocated for more accessible mental health resources for all CSU students. Upon graduation, Asha will begin a full-time position working for Amazon, but her leadership and legacy will continue to shine at her alma mater.
    53 min
  • Carolyn Thomas, Provost and V.P. for Academic Affairs - January 21, 2021
    A product of public schools — from kindergarten to Ph.D. — and a first-generation college graduate who calls CSUF her alma mater and second home, Dr. Thomas’s passion for equitable access to quality public education is matched only by her lifelong commitment to reinvest its transformative power in others. This is evident throughout her nearly 20-year career at UC Davis in myriad academic and administrative roles — from undergraduate faculty advisor, professor, and department chair in the Department of American Studies to Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education (UE). In her new role at Cal State Fullerton, Provost Thomas provides leadership for division student success initiatives and the planning and management of academic, instructional, and financial resources supporting teaching and scholarly activities.
    55 min
  • Cameron Cook, Veterans Resource Center - July 23, 2020
    Cameron Cook enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on September 11th, 2001, where he served as an Aviation Logistics Technician in Okinawa, Japan; Camp Pendleton, California; and Al Asad, Iraq. After his Honorable Discharge in 2005, Cameron utilized several VA education programs including the Montgomery and Post 9/11 GI Bills, Work Study, and On the Job Training. This firsthand experience gave him an in-depth understanding of multiple benefits, which is the foundation for his veteran service career. Since separating from active duty, Cameron has spent the last fourteen years pursuing his passion of serving veterans and their families, and he currently serves as the Director of the Veterans Resource Center (VRC) at California State University Fullerton. With expertise in program oversight, student services, benefit advising, donor cultivation, community engagement, data management, and many veteran-specific areas such as employment, mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness, Cameron is an active and well-qualified leader of the VRC.
    Born in Kansas and a journeyman resident of nine states over his lifetime, Cameron’s path to CSUF is chock full of soul-enriching life experience and adventures. Take a listen as Fram and Matt dive into a terrific conversation with this husband, father, veteran, creative writer, and proud Titan leader of our VRC – Cameron Cook!
    52 min
  • Cecil Chik, Engagement and Learning - July 7, 2020
    After immigrating to the United States from Hong Kong at the age of three, Cecil Chik grew up in Florida where she navigated and embraced Latinx culture while living in a traditional Chinese home and simultaneously learning three languages — Chinese, Spanish, and English. This intersection of cultures and identities sparked a lifelong passion for education and social justice that continues to be the foundation of her work and leadership today. Currently serving as the Director of Engagement and Learning in Cal State Fullerton’s Division of Human Resources, Diversity and Inclusion, Cecil is integral to the university’s nationally recognized diversity and inclusion work that creates and enhances learning and community building opportunities for all Titans.
    Cecil earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics Education and a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Central Florida, and she is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Education from — where else? — Cal State Fullerton.
    1 hr
  • Lou Correa, U.S. Congressman - May 4, 2020
    Congressman and CSUF alumnus Lou Correa represents Anaheim, Garden Grove, Orange, and Santa Ana in California’s 46th District. He formerly served Orange County in the California State Assembly, State Senate, and as an Orange County Supervisor.
    Congressman Correa is a longtime Orange County resident, with deep local roots. To this day, he lives only three miles from his childhood neighborhood. He is the son of working class parents who’s hard work gave him a chance at the success. He has spent his career fighting to protect the American Dream, and ensure anyone can reach the middle class, just as he did.
    Congressman Correa serves on the House Judiciary Committee, and is a member on the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security and the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. He also serves on House Homeland Security Committee, and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Maritime Security, and a member of the Subcommittee on Border Security, Facilitation, and Operations.
    Lou lives in Santa Ana with his wife of 28 years and their five children. He can be found at community events every weekend.
    46 min
  • Kelly Ford, Titan Softball Coach - April 15, 2020
    Kelly Ford, who has enjoyed success as a collegiate athlete, community college head coach, and a Division I head coach, enters her eighth season as the head coach of the softball program at Cal State Fullerton for 2019-20.
    Ford and her Titans took home their fourth consecutive Big West Conference championship in 2019, marking just the third time in Big West history that a program won four straight crowns. Fullerton went 38-18 overall and 18-3 in conference action claiming their 12th Big West title and making their 29th NCAA Regional appearance.
    The 18-3 mark ties the 2018 squad for seventh-best conference winning percentage in a single season. For the second straight season, the Titans did not lose a single Big West series now winning 14 straight and 25 of their last 28 going back to 2016.
    Coach Ford made history of her own claiming her fourth straight Coach of the Year honor becoming the first time in Big West softball history to accomplish the feat.
    49 min
  • Kristi Kanel & Michele Wood, Department Chairs - April 10, 2020

    Dr. Michele Wood is a full professor and chair of Cal State Fullerton’s Department of Public Health. Her research interests include disaster preparedness, risk communication, HIV/AIDS among high-risk populations, and program evaluation. Dr. Wood has served as a subject matter expert for the National Academies of Science in a series of workshops examining mobile alerts and warnings, and has helped several agencies study, develop, and test mobile alert and warning messages, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS), National Fire Protection Research Foundation, and the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES). She is currently a subject matter expert for the USGS ShakeAlert Joint Committee for Communication, Education, and Outreach and for the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC). She has recently been awarded funding by the USGS to conduct research on public response to ShakeAlert, the new earthquake early warning system for the US West coast.

     

    Dr. Kristi Kanel is a two-time CSUF alumna and a full professor and chair of the university’s Department of Human Services. She has served the Titan Family as an educator, mentor, researcher, and academic leader for more than 35 years, and quite literally wrote the book on crisis intervention (A Guide to Crisis Intervention). As a practicing psychotherapist, she served as a counselor in myriad settings, including non-profits, public agencies, and in private practice. All of her research — from crisis intervention theory to skill building for crisis workers — makes her ideally suited to join her colleague, Dr. Michele Wood, in maintaining healthy shared community experiences during in the COVID-19 pandemic.

    56 min
  • Chris Peterson, CSUF Choir Director - February 5, 2020
    Dr. Chris Peterson is a Professor of Music at Cal State Fullerton where he directs the CSUF Concert Choir, the Titan Men’s Chorus, and teaches myriad classes in music education. One of Fram’s closest Titan friends, traveling companions, and co-conspirators on many cross-campus shenanigans — see the 2019 Holiday Video or the now legendary “choral meeting interruption”— Chris is a harbinger of the joy, inclusion, engagement, and academic excellence that CSUF aims to provide all Titans at all times. He is also an internationally recognized vocal performer, judge, author, choral clinician, and guest conductor who transforms lives and lifts communities through the power of higher education and music.
    48 min
  • Mir Aminy, Project Rebound Enrollment Specialist - January 10, 2020
    Mir earned his Bachelor's degree in Sociology, with an emphasis in deviance and crime, from Cal State Fullerton in 2019. He was awarded the 2019 Steward of Place Award from the CSUF Center for Internships and Community Engagement for his work mentoring youth from underserved communities. Mir has a passion for student affairs and is pursuing a Master's degree in Counseling, with an emphasis in student development in higher education, at Cal State Long Beach.
    43 min
  • Timothy White, CSU Chancellor - Dec 12, 2019
    Dr. Timothy P. White is the seventh chancellor of the California State University, the largest and most ethnically and economically diverse four-year university in the United States. A champion of inclusive excellence and student achievement, he leads the CSU as it implements Graduation Initiative 2025, an ambitious systemwide plan to increase graduation rates, decrease time to degree and eliminate achievement gaps for students from all walks of life. White is also renowned for his commitment to environmental sustainability, diversity of leadership and compassionate action on behalf of Dreamers.
    White deeply believes in and is a product of California's Master Plan for Higher Education, having pursued his higher education from Diablo Valley Community College; Fresno State; Cal State East Bay; and the University of California, Berkeley. Like many CSU students and alumni, White was the first in his family to attend college and earn a degree.
    40 min

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