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University Affairs Office
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, CA 94928-3609
(707) 664-2057
e-mail: jean.wasp@sonoma.edu
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 7, 2003 File #360
Contact: Susan Kashack, Director of Communications, (707) 664-2122
Cal Poly Pomona Business Dean Selected New Provost for SSU
Eduardo Ochoa has
been chosen to serve as Sonoma State University’s new Provost as Bernie
Goldstein completes his service to SSU and the California State University.
Ochoa will begin his position as Provost on or about July 1. Ochoa was chosen after a national search in which many qualified candidates were pared down to five finalists.
Ochoa is Dean of the College of Business Administration at Cal Poly Pomona where he has been since 1997. For the previous 13 years, he was at California State University, Los Angeles where he taught economics and statistics and also served as chair of the Business and Economics Department, was associate dean and acting dean.
He was also director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Ochoa has worked in industry as an engineer for Ebasco Services (Applied Physics Group) and Gibbs & Hill (Radiation Safety Group), both in New York.
He earned his Ph.D. (1984) and M.A. (1980) in economics from the New School University; his M.S. in nuclear science and engineering from Columbia in 1976; and his B.A. in physics and philosophy from Reed College in 1973.
Ochoa joins SSU as Provost as well as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer.
SSU president Ruben Arminana says " Eduardo Ochoa is a good match for Sonoma as he strongly believes in the value of a liberal arts education and works diligently to meet the needs of faculty, staff and students while maintaining high standards. "
"He also has a healthy respect for academic freedom, shared governance, and the complexities of teaching and learning."
Arminana says Ochoa feels a strong connection to alumni is critical and that a University should engage as much as is possible with the missions of communities in which it is located.
Ochoa has published extensively, particularly in the area of economics and has been awarded many special honors including recently being chosen as a participant in the esteemed 2002 Millennium Leadership Institute of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.