Camarillo, Calif., Feb. 9, 2009—The Business & Technology Partnership at 91³Ô¹Ï is accepting nominations for the 2009 Business & Community Leader of the Year Award and the 2009 Technologist of the Year Award. Criteria for nominations and forms are available on the University’s Web site. Deadline for nominations is Feb. 16, and nominations may be made by anyone in the community.
The B&TP promotes and fosters regional collaboration between the University and Ventura, Santa Barbara, and northern Los Angeles County businesses, and promotes technological excellence among the University’s students, faculty, and staff.
The winners of the Business Community Leader and Technologist of the year awards, along with the winner of the Faculty Leader of the Year Award and five student scholarship winners will be honored at the fifth annual Business & Technology Partnership Leadership Dinner, sponsored by the 91³Ô¹Ï Foundation and Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. The dinner will be held at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23 at the Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Resort in Oxnard.
Additional sponsors of the B&TP Leadership Dinner include Logix Development Corp., Pacific Coast Business Times, and Sheeler Moving and Storage.
For more information about this event or to submit nominations, please contact Mitchel Sloan, director of University Affairs, at 805-437-8916 or mitchel.sloan@csuci.edu
For media inquiries about this event contact Nancy Covarrubias Gill, Director of Communication & Marketing at CSU Channel Islands at 805-437-8456 or nancy.gill@csuci.edu.
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Placing students at the center of the educational experience, 91³Ô¹Ï provides undergraduate and graduate education that facilitates learning within and across disciplines through integrative approaches, emphasizes experiential and service learning, and graduates students with multicultural and international perspectives.
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