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Leroy M. Morishita is the fifth president of California State University, East Bay. He was appointed to the position in January 2012 by the CSU Board of Trustees, after taking office on July 1, 2011 as the Interim President. He came to Cal State East Bay from San Francisco State University, where he served as Executive Vice President for Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer.

Educational Background

A native Californian, President Morishita holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Science in Counseling from San Francisco State University. He also received a Doctorate in Education in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Professional Experience

Morishita has more than 30 years of experience in higher education, as an educator and administrator. He first worked in the California State University system from 1978 to 1981 as Counseling coordinator and Counselor for the Educational Opportunity Program at San Francisco State University.

After working as a Program Assistant in the Institute on Computing in Schools and a teaching fellow in computer services at Harvard Graduate School, the Freshmen Testing Programmer/Analyzer at Salem State College, and Director of Asian Student Programming at Tufts University, Morishita returned to the CSU system in 1984, as Assistant to the Director of Admissions and Records at San Francisco State University. In 1987-88, he worked at CSUEB (then Cal State Hayward) as an Administrative Fellow to the Provost.

In 1988, Morishita took a position as SFSU’s Director of University and Budget Planning until 1997. He also served a year in 1996-97 as the Interim Executive Director of Enrollment Planning and Management and taught courses in research methods. From 1997 to 2001, he was SFSU’s Associate Vice President of Budget Planning and Resource Management, and then served as Vice President of Physical Planning and Development (2001-2002).

Morishita was named SFSU's Vice President of Administration and Finance and Chief Financial Officer in 2002 and Executive Vice President in 2009.

Affiliations

Morishita has been a Commissioner of the Western Association for Senior Colleges and Universities since 2007, and chair of its Finance & Operations Committee since 2010. He also has also served on several committees for the CSU, including the CSU Risk Management Authority since 2002, serving as Chair from 2006 to 2010 and Vice Chair from 2004 to 2006; the CSU Systemwide Budget Advisory Committee since 2004; the CSU Human Resources Advisory Committee since 2008, and the CSU Investment Committee (2007-10).

Locally, he is a trustee of the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He is a former board member of the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California; and former president and board member of Oakland’s Asian Community Mental Health Services.

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