Business Down Under
A 2014 business administration alum took $200 in coffee and supplies, rented a table and started a business in Australia.
A 2014 business administration alum took $200 in coffee and supplies, rented a table and started a business in Australia.
As he grew up in Zambia, Africa, Ash Patel, a member of Mihaylo College Dean’s Advisory Board, didn’t know he was going to be a banker, let alone the head of his own bank. “It was a surprise that I made my career in banking as that was not the original plan,” says Patel, who pursued a graduate degree in finance at Loughborough University in England. In the mid-1980s, he moved to California and got a job as a teller at Bank of America.
The tenure and/or promotion of 57 faculty members has been announced by the Office of Faculty Affairs and Records.
More than 300 Cal State Fullerton students, faculty and staff are participating in study abroad and away programs during the summer.
The late Leonard Ullrich started Hydraflow in a small garage 55 years ago with two employees. Today, under his daughter, Cindy Ayloush, the family-owned company employs nearly 250 people in their 174,000-square-foot facility in Fullerton designing and manufacturing low-pressure, lightweight, flexible products, like hose assemblies and couplings, for the aerospace industry.
When Nicolette Passerello got an email about applying for a fellowship in which she could spend the summer interning with a nonprofit and gain valuable, high-impact, real-life experience, she saw it as an incredible opportunity.
Faculty members in business and the arts have upcoming presentations in the U.S. and abroad.
CSUF professors have authored recently published books and articles ranging from educational support for farmworker students, social responsiveness, economic growth, the making of modern Mexico, and adoptions and family migrations.
Communications master’s student Daniel Coats, who writes a blog for Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, completed his degree this spring with a communication audit of the Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce.
Two top scholars and leaders have been honored with the Alumni Association’s 2017 Outstanding Senior and Outstanding Graduate Student awards, which recognize academic achievement, as well as service to the campus community.