Environmental Economist
Honored With Faculty Leadership Award
Longtime campus leader Jane Hall is this
year's recipient of Faculty Leadership in Collegial Governance
Award.
June 2, 2005 :: No. 229
A nationally recognized expert on environmental
economics, former university outstanding professor and longtime
campus leader is this year’s recipient of Cal State
Fullerton’s Faculty Leadership in Collegial Governance
Award.
Jane
V. Hall — who has served in positions as
wide ranging as Academic Senate chair, acting business dean
and a member of the presidential search committee that brought
Milton A. Gordon to Cal State Fullerton — was surprised
during the May 26 Academic Senate meeting, where the honor
was presented.
“I couldn’t be prouder,”
said Gordon, who noted Hall’s “24 years of exemplary
work,” not only as a highly regarded scholar and professor
of economics, but as a mentor to junior faculty and students
and a staunch representative of faculty rights. “As
president of this university, I always have to keep in mind
the concerns and needs of the entire institution. Jane has
always kept that same perspective.”
Hall is the seventh recipient of the governance
award, which recognizes faculty members who have made significant
contributions to collegial governance and the mission of the
California State University. Gordon noted that the honor is
not presented for the positions an honoree has held, but for
one’s accomplishments while in those positions. The
campus is a better place, he added, because of Hall’s
service.
The economist, who was just elected Academic
Senate vice chair, previously served as senate chair from
1998-2000, vice chair from 1997-1998 and a member of the senate
for six years.
She was named the university’s Outstanding
Professor for 2000-01 and that same year, won the California
State University Wang Family Excellence Award for outstanding
faculty achievement.
In addition to her senate service, Hall was
a member of the University Planning Committee from 1998-2001
and the CSUF Foundation Board of directors for two years.
She chaired or co-chaired the University Personnel Committee,
the Ad Hoc Committee to Revise Faculty Personnel Standards
and the University Budget and Research committees.
In the College of Business and Economics, Hall
is a member of the Economics Department Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee, which she chaired in 2003-04. She chaired the Economics
Department for three years until she was named acting associate
dean for the college in 1988, and a year later, acting dean.
Off campus, Hall is a member of the Environmental
Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Council, Illegal
Competitive Advantage Economic Benefit Advisory Panel and
EPA/UCLA Scientific Advisory Committee for the Southern California
Center for Airborne Particulate Matter. For four years she
was a member of the National Academies of Science Committee
on Air Quality Management in the United States, as well as
a member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board Council
on Clean Air Compliance Analysis and Science Advisory Board
Health and Ecological Effects Subcommittee. She chaired the
Economics and Assessment Work Group of the EPA’s Children’s
Health Protection Advisory Committee for four years and was
a member of the California Air Resources Board’s Innovative
Clean Air Technologies Advisory Committee for seven years.
In her community, Hall serves on the advisory
board for Women Investing in Security and Education (WISE)
and is a member of the South Coast Air Quality Management
District’s Scientific, Technical and Modeling Peer Review
Advisory Group. She was a member of the South Coast AQMD’s
advisory council for nine years and served on the Planning
and Conservation League’s board of directors for 14
years.
She is a noted author of more than 60 governmental
and agency reports, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles.
Her most recent book, “Air Quality Management in the
United States,” co-authored by William Chameides of
the Georgia Institute of Technology, was published in September.
Her research has garnered more than $1.3 million
in grant support, and she has made presentations throughout
the United States and as far away as Thailand, Hong Kong,
Australia and Belgium. In 2001, the researcher traveled to
Burundi and Rwanda to study how environmental resource degradation
contributes to internal and trans-border conflict.
The resident of Laguna Beach holds a doctorate
from UC Berkeley.
Media Contacts: |
Jane V. Hall at 657-278-2236 or jhall@fullerton.edu
Pamela McLaren of Public Affairs at 657-278-4852 or pmclaren@fullerton.edu |
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