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.

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