Yes, it’s a bonus post for today since when I drafted this morning’s post (last night) I completely forgot what today actually was…
Today marks my 23rd anniversary in the CSU system. Most of that time has been spent at SJSU with a short detour in the middle to CSU East Bay. In that time I’ve…
Worked under 8 different presidents (1 of them at both SJSU and East Bay; 1 of them on 3 different occasions at SJSU)
Had 8 different direct managers (1 of them on 3 different occasions at both SJSU and East Bay)
Worked in 7 different buildings between the 2 campuses (3 of them in 2 different offices)
Had numerous exceptional staff reporting to me
Implemented countless modules of PeopleSoft
Trained hundreds of faculty, staff and students
Answered thousands (millions?) of emails
Met some incredible people
Made some wonderful friendships
Learned a lot!
In my 23 years I’ve visited almost all 23 campuses…maybe I’ll get to the others before I retire. Looking back I should have set a goal of visiting one per year but I’m not certain I thought I’d be here this long. I’ve marked with an ‘x’ those I’ve visited. SJSU and East Bay are not included since I mentioned those above. As you can see, I’ve still got a few stops to make so retirement will have to wait.
Bakersfield
Cal Maritime
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - x
Channel Islands - x
Chico - x
Dominguez Hills - x
Fresno - x
Fullerton - x
Humboldt
Monterey Bay - x
Long Beach - x
Los Angeles
Northridge - x
Sacramento - x
San Bernardino
San Diego - x
San Francisco - x
San Marcos
Sonoma - x
Stanislaus - x
It’s been quite a ride and it’s not over yet.
Congrats.. Maybe you'll catch me. 49 years with student ministry.
That's amazing.Congrats. Keep going and maybe you will catch me having worked with students now for 49 years and counting...