http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/category-pages/all-blogs.xmlhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/category-pages/all-blogs.xmlSat, 25 May 2013 13:05:15 GMTCascade ServerThe application deadline is quickly approaching for those needing to take the foundation courses for Cal State East Bay’s new Master of Science in accountancy (MSA) program. Students planning to enroll in the program, beginning in fall 2013, and have non-accounting backgrounds may be required to take foundation courses during the summer before starting the program in the fall. The application deadline for those needing to take foundation courses during the summer quarter is May 31. The program, accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, is designed to prepare students for entry into accounting careers. The MSA program provides students with the 36 accounting-education units required for the U.S. Certified Public Accountants (CPA) exam. The program also satisfies both the accounting and ethics study of the new 150 hour educational requirements for CPA licensure in California (effective in California starting January 1, 2014). Foundation courses can be satisfied by courses taken in an undergraduate program with a grade "B-" or better within the last five years. Two foundation courses will be held on Monday and Wednesday evening from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and two foundation courses will be held on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the Hayward Hills Campus. Additional information on CSUEB’s new MS in accountancy program and how to apply to the program can be found on the program’s Web page.http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/dcie-msa-summer-deadline-052313.html?utm_medium=rssFri, 24 May 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/dcie-msa-summer-deadline-052313.html?utm_medium=rssCal State East Bay will be closed on Monday, May 27 in observance of Memorial Day. We share our appreciation for the sacrifices of our fallen heroes and their families. We also remember those who have served our nation in the past, like our student veterans, and those who currently serve America today.http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/memorial-day-2013.html?utm_medium=rssFri, 24 May 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/memorial-day-2013.html?utm_medium=rssWhile Nicholas Vasallo may be a composer, vocalist and bass player for an extreme metal band called Oblivion, the group’s name in no way describes where his musical career is headed. Nick Vasallo’s musical influence is only continuing to grow. Vasallo’s pursuit of a musical career began when he first picked up an electric guitar while in high school, eventually forming the extreme metal band Antagony. From there he went on to California State University, East Bay, earning a bachelor’s degree in music in 2007. Since then he has been winning recognition in the Bay Area for his work as a musician and composer. He’s also been busy the past year – his third as a college-level music teacher – for his alma mater as well as for Gavilan College in Gilroy. His teaching has been recognized. The San Francisco Classical Voice, a music news Web site, honored Vasallo as its “Music Educator of the Year” first runner-up after he received 27 nominations for the honor from students, CSUEB alumni and fellow faculty members. “He (Vasallo) was the most-nominated teacher in the SFCV Music Educator Award competition,” wrote Mark MacNamara, a journalist for several news outlets who reports on the music industry for the SFCV Web site. “Mr. Vasallo has taken on the incredibly challenging job of connecting inexperienced college students to a larger musical tradition, unlocking their own creativity in the process.” Vasallo, completing his first year as lecturer of music for his alma mater and as an adjunct professor for Gavilan, has been teaching courses in music theory, orchestration, music history, songwriting and electronic music – while continuing to perform for Oblivion and write music as artistic director for Composers Inc. The Dublin resident, whose wife Denise recently gave birth to their first child, credits his success as a teacher to “my students’ trust in me because I am still actively involved in current popular music,” Vasallo said. Vasallo, who earned his master’s in 2009 and doctorate in 2011 – both in music from UC Santa Cruz – also is an award-winning composer. In the past few years he’s won accolades from the 2012 H.M. Gorecki International Composers Competition and the 2011 Indiana State University CMF Music Now. His work as a creator has been more than favorably described in recent reviews. “Nick Vasallo is a composer on a mission and one possessed of a distinctive voice,” said Michael Quinn of The Classical Review, while Froncois Couture of Monsieur Delire described the CSUEB alumnus’ “strokes of genius that blend the density of heavy metal with the harmonics of gamelan.” One of his compositions was performed in Cal State East Bay’s recital hall during the annual Glenn Glasow Fellowship Concert May 23. In April, the Kronos String Quartet and San Francisco Symphony premiered his composition, “Only One Survives.” A video of that performance can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8afG_t9RXQ. Due to his teaching success at CSUEB and Gavilan, Vasallo has been offered, and accepted, a tenure track faculty position to teach music at Cal Poly Pomona. He begins that assignment this fall. Further information about Nick Vasallo is available at http://nickvasallo.com and http://www.youtube.com/nickvasallo. BZhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/nickvasallo-musiceducator-052313.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 23 May 2013 19:20:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/nickvasallo-musiceducator-052313.html?utm_medium=rssCal State East Bay will host a campus recycling event on that day to remove mixed paper, confidential documents, books, and furniture cluttering up workspaces.  All 17 students enrolled in the Environmental Studies (ENVT) 4800 Senior Seminar class in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department will be working with 40 campus volunteers and staff of the Facilities Development & Operations Department to reuse, recycle and donate unwanted items. They will report the results of their efforts to Cal State East Bay President Leroy M. Morishita. “Having developed and piloted this event this year as a class project, it is envisaged that it could be taken on in future years by the student club or as a student-organized activity,” said Michael Lee, professor of geography and environmental studies. After reaching out across campus for feedback, the ENVT 4800 students limited the scope of the cleanup to items likely to be most voluminous (paper, books, furniture).  They will be creating a series of outreach material  for the campus community on how to deal with other types of waste (e.g. hazardous, e-waste and universal) which were not included as part of the clean-up day. Facilities staff members, volunteers and students will be coordinating recycling efforts with each office between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on May 30. For more information, contact Professor Lee at michael.lee@csueastbay.edu. KLhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/csueb-sustainability-campus-recycling-spring-cleaning-day-2013.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 23 May 2013 12:17:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/csueb-sustainability-campus-recycling-spring-cleaning-day-2013.html?utm_medium=rssThis August, the Cal State East Bay baseball team will be traveling to Japan for a week of friendly competition with the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT). The trip will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Pioneer players to engage culturally with other student-athletes and compete on the international stage. "This team is a special, tight-knit group of players, so it's great that they'll be able to take this trip to Japan together," said Pioneer head coach Bob Ralston. "They'll get to experience a different culture, different language, and different style of baseball. I think going abroad will be a great experience for these young men and their growth as student-athletes." CSUEB is coming off one of its best baseball seasons ever. The Pioneers went 32-18, matching the school record for wins. They were 23-6 at home, reached a peak of No. 22 in the national rankings, and placed fifth in the CCAA, the program's best finish since joining the conference. Eight players were selected to the All-CCAA teams, which was also a record. Among numerous stellar individual performances, junior pitcher Sean Becker was named CCAA Co-Newcomer of the Year and second-team All-West Region, and senior third baseman Kyle Zozaya was voted CSUEB's Male Athlete of the Year for 2012-13.   "Our upcoming trip to Japan will give our players the opportunity to get a different perspective on the world and where they fit in it," added associate head coach and former MLB player Darren Lewis. "It may be the only chance for some of our players to take a trip out of the United States, and they will never forget it. This journey will be a fantastic way for the players to culminate an extremely successful 2013 season!" Cal State East Bay is accepting gifts in order to relieve some of the cost off the players for this unique cultural experience. Please click here to make an online donation. Thanks for your support and go Pioneers! SC/KLhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/csueb-baseball-team-to-play-in-Japan-August-2013.html?utm_medium=rssThu, 23 May 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/csueb-baseball-team-to-play-in-Japan-August-2013.html?utm_medium=rss"Life today is very fast and flooded with information coming to us from all directions,” said Cal State East Bay grad and life coach Brian Slater ’10, business administration. “The only way to know your passion –whether as a college student or at any age -- is to want to know it." In his new “Do What You Love” ebook collection, Slater offers a ‘confidence building package’ to help readers determine their passion and make meaningful life changes.  One tip is to keep a small notepad or journal with you and write down everything that inspires you throughout the day, right when it happens.  “After a few weeks you will begin to see a pattern of where your passion and inspiration stems from,” he advises. As the title implies, he wrote his ebooks as a way to “help people see the routine and teach them how to break it to do what they love.  Be it career, confidence or socialization or just having more passion and excitement.” He admits that he didn’t discover his own life passion until 2011 when he first heard about the life coaching profession, “It felt like a perfect fit and really something that I have been doing for a long time.” After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy, Slater transferred to CSUEB from San Diego.   He said he was immediately impressed by the upbeat and friendly campus atmosphere. “I felt like the professors and faculty really wanted me to challenge myself to create and grow as a student and as a person.” He credits Marketing Professor Sweety Law, Associate Management Professor Gregory Theyel and Lecturers Rochelle Nameroff and Julie Stein for helping him to succeed at CSUEB. His advice for soon-to-be college graduates? Graduates should clear their schedule and take the time to write down their dreams and goals for the future.  They should honestly determine their strengths and weakness because this will help them weed out the right job position or entrepreneurial endeavor.  “I think a lot of people have a misconception of this idea of goal setting and awareness as being a chore or too time consuming,” said Slater. “This is your life, you get one shot, why not give it a little planning to help it turn out the way you envision it? For more information, visit http://www.brianlslater.com/. KLhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/brian-slater-life-coach-csueb-alumni.html?utm_medium=rssWed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/brian-slater-life-coach-csueb-alumni.html?utm_medium=rssCal State East Bay's Concord Campus will be one of three locations in Contra Costa County offering hands-only CPR training on Wednesday, May 22. The training, which is free, will be offered from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. at the Concord Campus, located at 4700 Ygnacio Valley Road. The public is invited to the training. The training is part of the HeartSafe Community program, a public education effort led by Contra Costa Health Services' Emergency Medical Services (EMS) division. "Hands-only CPR is almost as effective as traditional, mouth-to-mouth CPR when performed by a non-expert," said Joe Barger, Contra Costa EMS director. "It can triple a victim's chances of survival, and it takes most people less than five minutes to learn." Further information is available at cchealth.org/ems/heartsafe.php. BZhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/cpr-training-concordcampus-052113.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 21 May 2013 18:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/cpr-training-concordcampus-052113.html?utm_medium=rssNational Public Radio interviewed Cal State East Bay professor emeritus Benjamin Bowser in chapter two of its three-chapter report, “When our kids own America.” “If Harlem gave us the Cotton Club and the Harlem Renaissance, then Oakland gave us the Black Panthers and a groundbreaking resolution on Ebonics," said NPR reporter Gene Demby. "For a long time, Oakland was the cultural anchor on the West Coast for black Americans.” Uptown Oakland used to be a hub of black life but now that has changed. Forbes magazine named the Uptown section one of the 10 best hipster neighborhoods in the country. “The Chocolate City notion — gone, gone, gone!” said Bowser. “There are multiple cultures: chocolate; Vietnamese; you can’t even say Hispanic anymore, it’s Mexican and Salvadoran (and) Nicaraguan. We even have enough people from Africa to say there’s Nigerians, Senegalese.” Demby added, “What’s happening in Oakland is definitely gentrification, but it’s not the way we often think of gentrification. It’s not white people pushing out black folks; in Oakland, it’s black folks leaving of their own volition, black folks being pushed out, black folks staying, and everyone else moving in.” Read the NPR report. KL  http://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/oakland-gentrification-benjamin-bowser-npr-when-our-kids-own-america.html?utm_medium=rssTue, 21 May 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/oakland-gentrification-benjamin-bowser-npr-when-our-kids-own-america.html?utm_medium=rssAmong the 246 firms that completed an enterprise resource planning (ERP) installation within the past year, implementation exceeded budget 56 percent of the time and only 46 percent were completed on schedule or earlier. California Smart Business magazine interviewed Zinovy Radovilsky, interim chair and professor of management for the College of Business and Economics at California State University, East Bay, about avoiding delays and budget overruns when tackling ERP projects. “The scope and complexity of ERP implementations makes forecasting treacherous,” said Radovilsky. “While cost overruns can’t be eliminated, they can be managed with the right tools and tactics.” His first recommendation is to select a qualified project manager who has extensive experience with ERP implementation and updates, then incorporate risk management into the budgeting process by considering every possible problem and starting with a rough order of magnitude (ROM) budget followed by a more accurate, and typically higher cost, budget estimate and finally, a definitive estimate. Read How to keep ERP projects from exceeding budgets and timelines Princeton Review has rated Cal State East Bay as one of the country's "Best Business Schools" for seven consecutive years.  KLhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/erp-installation-avoiding-delays-budget-overrruns-zinovy-radovilsky.html?utm_medium=rssMon, 20 May 2013 12:00:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/erp-installation-avoiding-delays-budget-overrruns-zinovy-radovilsky.html?utm_medium=rssPioneer men's soccer team hosted over 70 youth players on May 5 for a free clinic at Pioneer Stadium prior to their spring game against UC Davis. The entire CSUEB squad participated in the event, along with several members of the women's team, to provide an unforgettable afternoon for the kids, ages 4-12, who represented nine surrounding cities. “The day was extremely successful both for our athletes and the aspiring youth soccer players,” said CSUEB market coordinator Tenaya Davis, who organized the event. “The East Bay players did a phenomenal job interacting with the youth and creating a welcoming, friendly environment. I think the clinic created a friendly bond between our players and the participants, making it even more special for them to cheer on the team against UC Davis.” Read news story. KLhttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/csueb-mens-soccer-youth-player-clinic-hayward-east-bay-2013.html?utm_medium=rssFri, 17 May 2013 12:08:00 GMThttp://www20.csueastbay.edu/news/blog/2013/05/csueb-mens-soccer-youth-player-clinic-hayward-east-bay-2013.html?utm_medium=rss