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| Maxson Named "President Of The Year" Fourth Year In A Row | |||||||
| For the fourth year in a row President Robert C. Maxson has received the California State Student Association's "University President of the Year" award, but this year is slightly different - the award's name has now been changed to honor the Cal State Long Beach president. | |||||||
| The "Robert C. Maxson President of the Year Award," as it is now called, has existed for six years total, and Maxson has been the proud recipient of it four times. | |||||||
| "I am honored that not only my own students would be this generous but students from the other campuses would [as well]," Maxson said. | |||||||
| Between attending student functions and meetings, Maxson can usually be found walking around campus speaking to students and faculty alike, something which is a rare quality, according to Guido Piotti, vice president of Associate Students, Inc. �Piotti, along with student government officials from all the campuses in the CSU-system, developed a set of criteria to grade university presidents which is based on a five-point scale. The criteria, Piotti said, "was from our perception of what a perfect president does." | |||||||
| "Maxson is, hands down, the best president in the CSU-system and most likely all of California, period," Piotti said. �"The reason he gets the award [year after year] is because everything he does is not from some ulterior motive, [but] is because he genuinely believes that what he is doing will help everybody." | |||||||
| The two closest contenders for the award, according to Piotti, were from Cal State Universities Fullerton and Humboldt. �The C.S.S.A. serves as a voice for over 420,000 students in the CSU-system, and presented the award to Maxson at the end of the final board of trustees meeting held on May 19 at the chancellor?s office in downtown Long Beach. | |||||||
| "The reason why the award was changed to be named after Maxson," Piotti said, "is [because of two reasons]: one, C.S.S.A. thought he would be getting the award every year if they continued to allow him to be a candidate, [and two] naming the award after him symbolizes what a perfect president should be like. �Naming the award after him was the highest honor C.S.S.A. could offer him, and now it's a little bit easier for other presidents to have a shot at winning the award." | |||||||
| Maxson, Piotti said, has changed lives, including his, and "will forever be the best president that the CSU- or UC-system will ever see." | |||||||
| "I love students," Maxson said, "[and] an award from students is the single most meaningful award that I can possibly receive." | |||||||
| Copyright Gerry Wachovsky, 2004, and Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | |||||||
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