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5, 2005
DH 05 RH17
Contact: Russ Hudson,
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(310) 243-2455/2001
rhudson@csudh.edu
CSUDH’s
Sheila Butts: Elected to Represent All CSU Alumni Directors
Sheila Butts, director, Alumni Relations, was elected by the alumni
relations directors of the 23 CSU system campuses to represent
them with CSU Chancellor Charles Reed and the CSU Board of Trustees.
In fact, Butts had her first meeting with Reed only three days
after being elected.
As the directors’ representative, she is on the Alumni Council
Executive Board, which also includes the council’s president
and immediate past president, as well as the chairs of the Government
Relations, Programs, and Finance and Development committees.
Butts says, “It is my responsibility to convey information,
ideas and concerns between the Chancellor’s Office and the
alumni relations directors, who represent the California State
University system’s 2 million alumni. We have a lot of alumni.
“Meetings will be held in the Chancellor’s Office every other
month, at the same time the Trustees meet. I will have sit-downs
with Chancellor Reed to assess issues and I will be giving reports
from the Alumni Council to the Trustees. I will also be helping
to coordinate the efforts of the 23 campuses. For example, when
the legislation affecting whether California State Universities
could independently offer Doctor of Education degrees was being
considered, we, the Alumni Council, mobilized many, many alums
to support it. That legislation, SB724, was just signed into law
by the governor.”
The director, who is a CSU alumna, says she will also be responsible
for assessing the needs, concerns, issues, and ideas of the 23
campuses and setting an agenda for consideration, and she is the
lead in making certain that whatever comes out of the Chancellor’s
Office is conveyed clearly to the 23 campuses. “Also, if
there are any questions that need to be answered, I’m the
one who will get the answers,” she says.
Butts says she has an agenda of her own for her one-year term as
the representative: “We have 23 campuses, but they are at
different levels. Different sizes, different ages, differences
in the types of students. I want us to share information on what
makes campuses successful. I especially want to share information
on what campuses that are most comparable to each other have done
to make their alumni relations successful. We already have Best
Practices meetings and I want to build on that.”
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