Volume 63 | Issue 11 | March 29, 2016
SPORTS
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
BUSINESS & TECH
Baseball team speeds up as season progresses
Local I.E. designer revives hat designs
CBU alumni celebrate anniversary of film debut
Progress from baseball is picking up as the team moves closer to conference and coach sets big expectations for team. | Page 12
Business meets design as one long-time resident of the region gives nostalgia a new look with his recently launched headwear brand. | Page 11
Alumnus screens original film on campus to share the message of diversity within values of the deaf community. | Page 9
Nonprofit aids local immigrants
International festival illuminates with color
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NEWS EDITOR
Ariel Smith* was born in 1995 in Afghanistan. Her mother was a teenager — her father not much older. He was skilled and worked as a photographer, a doctor, an engineer and a journalist. After three years, however, Ariel’s younger brother was born and their family grew. They needed food and her father needed a good job. She said they were starving. One day an American man came to Ariel’s father’s shop and told him that he would help him learn English. Ariel’s father was able to find a good job, and in 2005, applied for a visa. Dec. 17, 2013, was the day Ariel said her life was forever changed.
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A group of California Baptist University students throw colored powder into the air to celebrate the Holi Festival March 22 during the annual Festival of Colors.
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Public Health announces PA master’s degree BY DAVIDA BRENDA ASST. NEWS EDITOR
California Baptist University is consistently growing and expanding the opportunities it provides for students as the Department of Public Health Sciences is currently in the process of adding a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies degree. Dr. Allan Bedashi, director of the Physician Assistant Studies program, chair of the department and professor in
the program, and Grace Utomo, department secretary for physician assistant studies, explained what this new addition will offer for students who may be interested. “This is a graduate program that will prepare students to sit for board exams and practice as licensed physician assistants,” Utomo and Bedashi said in a joint email. “PAs are mid-level practitioners who treat patients under physician supervision. They examine patients, perform physical examinations,
order and interpret diagnostic studies, prescribe medications, administer treatments and assist in the operating room.” They also explained the job opportunities for someone with a PA master’s degree, including being able to specialize in medical fields such as family medicine, pediatrics, orthopedics, emergency medicine, dermatology and women’s health. For prospective students interested in joining the program, Utomo and Bedashi said the application cycle ends March 31.
“We have already started reviewing applications and interviewing students for our first cohort,” they said. “The first cohort of students will begin classes in September 2016.” The program is also already anticipating receiving accreditation from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for Physician Assistants in March 2016. “The program underwent its accreditation site visit in October 2015 and obtained a perfect score,” Utomo and Bedashi said.
The new program will have approximately 60 members including full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, specialist guest lecturers and clinical preceptors. “The PA profession is in high demand at this time,” Utomo and Bedashi said. “This is due to the increased patient population because of Obama Care, retirement of clinical practitioners and an increase of baby-boomers reaching retirement age.” The benefit of this program
reaches beyond students and CBU, in general, to the Inland Empire. “(It) is identified as a health care provider shortage area, (so) we are helping to close this gap,” they said in the email. The addition will add to an increase in health science and natural sciences enrollment. “The program also offers an opportunity for current students and alumni of CBU to continue their studies here at the graduate level,” Utomo and Bedashi said.
Professor wins prestigious award for business-student research BY KAYLYN KUNTZ ASST. NEWS EDITOR
Dr. Andrew Herrity, professor of business and entrepreneurship at California Baptist University, received the 20152016 Trustees Scholar Award for his progressive research and concerns on the career endeavors of pre- and post-graduation business students and alumni. Dr. Steve Strombeck, professor of marketing and interim dean of the Dr. Robert K. Jabs School of Business, said the Trustees Scholar Award means Herrity is one of CBU’s top emerging scholars. “It was a great testimony to all his hard work and commitment to learning,” Strombeck said. Strombeck said Herrity’s current research project is about better understanding his students and where they are, what they are going through, and how he can help them become better people. “After maybe a year or two
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of this, recently, I became aware that (alumni are) struggling in the workplace,” Herrity said. “To find jobs, to figure out how to make their first job work, to figure out how their faith fits together with their work, even though we teach them all about it here — they’re still struggling with it.” Herrity said this was an accidental research project, so little by little he began treating this as a research project. He begins every encounter with alumni with one main question, which is asking what the biggest struggle is at work. He gives open-ended questions, making the conversation often up to an hour long before he and the student identify what is the most substantial problem. “I’m finding there are five areas of big struggles,” Herrity said. “The first is a struggle to know themselves, what they are good at and what they really value.” Another area of struggle
Herrity has uncovered is with bosses. He said in today’s world, many bosses do not make time to ask what is and is not working in the workplace. “If it’s the boss, I have a set of questions I give them to ask the boss, including things like what exactly the expectations are and then to begin to develop a working relationship,” Herrity said. The next two areas of problems are with peers and with the person’s relationship with God. “Often they work with people who are not Christian, so trying to find common ground to have a relationship and even with fellow Christians at work, is a struggle,” Herrity said. The last theme is the struggle of the concept of business, since he said business is often portrayed as a bad thing in the media and how they need to figure out where they fit in the world. “It’s all about relationships in the end, and there are all different kinds of relationships to
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Dr. Andrew Herrity, professor of business and entrepreneurship at California Baptist University, explains the website builder “Wix” to students. Herrity received the 2015-2016 Trustees Scholar Award for his research. nurture,” Herrity said. Herrity has his main indepth interviews for his research with 15 students and will continue to address problems and give advice on issues with
spiritual peace or the boss. “What I am finding is the solution to the problems is the path to healthy life, a fulfilled Christian life,” Herrity said. He hopes that his research
will potentially lead to something more one day. “My hope is to do a book out of this,” Herrity said. “I know God’s put me on this path, so we will see what happens.”
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