Hall hailed for her leadership

Jane V. Hall, a Laguna Beach resident and nationally recognized

expert on environmental economics, is this year’s recipient of Cal

State Fullerton’s Faculty Leadership in Collegial Governance Award.

Hall, a former university outstanding professor and longtime

campus leader, was surprised during the May 26 Academic Senate

meeting, where the honor was presented.

She has served in positions ranging from Academic Senate chair,

acting business dean and a member of the presidential search

committee that brought Milton A. Gordon to Cal State Fullerton.

“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 California State University.

Gordon noted 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. She holds a doctorate from UC Berkeley.