April 14, 2003
Business Council Honors University
With Partnership Award
California State University, Fullerton and
President Milton A. Gordon will be honored Thursday, April 17, with
the Education Partnership Award from the Orange County Business
Council.
The honor is one of five inaugural awards the council
will present during its annual dinner at the Hyatt Regency Irvine.
“The awards are a first for the business council...a
formal way of recognizing Orange County business leaders who consistently
and positively impact the county in the areas of advocacy, economic
development and education,” said Stan Oftelie, president and
CEO of the Orange County Business Council. “We congratulate
all of the well-deserved business leaders who have helped shape
Orange County's economy and have made the business council a stronger
institution.”
The Education Partnership Award was developed to recognize
an institution and/or person who has shown a deep commitment to
working with the private sector to achieve an educated work force,
and an organization that has used its assets to address the needs
of the economy and the business community.
Gordon and Cal State Fullerton will be honored for
“significant contributions to teacher education, for providing
a valuable market research operation to serve the business community's
needs, and for offering a forum for regional issues.”
The university, with an enrollment of more than 31,500
students and nearly 140,000 graduates, is the third most populous
in the California State University system. As noted in the university's
latest Economic Impact Report, CSUF and its students generate $828.5
million in economic activity each year and support 11,679 full-
and part-time jobs. The university also generates $142.2 million
each year in federal, state and local taxes.
“The relationship between the Orange County
Business Council and all of education is so important,” said
Bill Habermehl, Orange County Superintendent of Schools and a member
of the OCBC dinner host committee. “The better the quality
of students that comes through the K-12 system and on to university,
the better the work force we have and that's very important for
our county.
“Its wonderful that OCBC recognizes people and
institutions that make a continuing and long-term commitment to
the business community, ” he added. “Cal State Fullerton,
no doubt, does that.”
Others who will be honored are: Southern California
Edison Company - Economic Advocacy Award; The Irvine Company - Economic
Development Award; Disneyland Resort and President Cynthia Harriss
- Workforce Development Award; and Henry T. Segerstrom and C.J.
Segerstrom & Sons - Segerstrom Lifetime Achievement Award.
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