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College of Professional Studies
The College of Professional Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt seamlessly integrates core competencies within practical contexts through a variety of immersive experiences. Our graduates emerge as exceptional leaders in their respective professions and communities, embodying a steadfast dedication to social, economic, and environmental justice.
Applied Learning
We provide every student with dynamic opportunities for experiential learning in real-world scenarios, where they engage in practicums, research, internships, clinical, and service-learning experiences. Each is designed to enhance students' career-ready skills, ensuring they are well-prepared for their future.
Social Justice and Sustainability
Through the application of active learning and critical thinking, we prepare students for meaningful community-oriented careers that foster a just, inclusive, and environmentally conscious society.
Personal Guidance
Through innovation and collaboration our faculty challenge and support our students, ensuring their success beyond the classroom. Our students receive academic and career guidance from their faculty advisors, professional advisors, and peer mentors.
Alumni Updates
Annhenrie Campbell
Business Administration, 1978 B.A., 1988 M.B.A.
Annhenrie taught accounting at CSU Stanislaus for 33 years. After numerous academic publications, she is most proud of a recent article, "Unsupervised Birder," in Habitat, the newsletter of the Stanislaus Audubon Society where she is Treasurer. She enjoys joining field trips for birding and native plants throughout Central California and taking classes in the local lifelong learning program, similar to OLLI. She is Vice President of the Stanislaus Chapter of ERFSA, the Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association, and serves as Treasurer of the Stanislaus Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society.
Dave Albert
Kinesiology, 1994
Dave recently retired after working over 20 years as a police officer in Santa Cruz. He is currently working part-time in law enforcement training in the Bay Area and otherwise spends time with his wife, three adult kids, and one (so far) grandkid. He frequents Tahoe in the summer at the lake and in the winter on the slopes, he enjoys traveling to as many different Major League Baseball stadiums as possible, and he is still best friends with his old HSU roommate!
Stephanie Rosier
Psychology, 2014
After graduation, Stephanie worked as a senior client advocate at Humboldt Domestic Violence Services. She then moved on to work as the Early Recovery Specialist at Aegis Treatment Centers in Ventura, California, for six years. In 2022 she moved to Missoula, Montana, where she continued to utilize the skills she learned obtaining her Psychology degree at Humboldt, acting as a mental health coordinator for Missoula County.
Achievements
Achievements
Dr. Meenal Rana
Child Development
Dr. Meenal Rana, along with her colleagues from Virginia State University and the University of Nevada, co-authored the article titled, "Transnational Families in the COVID-19 Era: Health and Well-being of South Asian Older Parents with Adult Children Abroad". Using the backdrop of the global pandemic, globalization, and immigration, the paper focused on the health outcomes of older parents in transnational families. The study used autoethnographic data from the three authors to examine the cultural perception of care, sense of familism, care reciprocity, gendering of care, use of technology, and economic factors relevant to health and wellbeing in transnational families.
Dr. Meenal Rana
Child Development
Dr. Meenal Rana and Dr. Mona Abo-Zena completed the special issue of Religions, “Focusing on the Elusive: Centering on Religious and Spiritual Influences within Contexts of Child and Young Adulthood Development” in the fall of 2024. The issue includes 11 articles representing a diversity of sociocultural and religious groups representing different countries of residence (e.g., El Salvador, India, Pakistan, USA), immigrant countries of origin (e.g., Nepal), ethnic and racial groups (e.g., Latinx, Asian, white European/Danish), and religious groups (e.g., Muslim, Jewish, Roman Catholic, Later Day Saints, Hindu) on topics such as sexual violence, parent-child relationships, death, LGBTQIA+, and mental health.
Riley N Nelson, Amanda Johnson Bertucci, Sara Swenson, Angel Seguine, Meenal Rana
Child Development
Child Development and Psychology students, three of whom were part of Dr. Rana's Children & Stress class in fall 2023 co-authored a peer-reviewed article, titled, "Building Resilience during Compassion Fatigue: Autoethnographic Accounts of College Students and Faculty in Education Sciences. The student authors are Riley N Nelson, Amanda Johnson Bertucci, Sara Swenson, and Angel Seguine. Utilizing an autoethnographic approach, this study covers a breadth of compassion fatigue, from predisposition to onset and recovery, and considers alternative strategies for coping, including creating meaning from difficult experiences.