Whereas:
Dr. Rosser’s career and family eventually brought her to SF State and the position of Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs for which President Les Wong recently commended her many accomplishments including but not limited to:
• Successful 10-year reaccreditation from WASC, representing the maximum time period for which WASC issues reaccreditation;
• Hiring of five College deans;
• Hiring of two deans of College of Extended Learning, one dean of Faculty Affairs, one dean of Undergraduate Studies, one associate vice president of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, one associate vice president of Academic Affairs Operations;
• Hiring of more than 209 tenure and tenure-track faculty;
• Initiating hires of clusters of faculty to increase interdisciplinary approaches to scholarship across the University;
• The tenure and promotion of more than 400 faculty; and
• Managing the Academic Affairs budget during the Great Recession, which represented the worst cuts in California and California State University (CSU) history; and