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Contact: Carmen Ramos Chandler
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UC Riverside Official Named New Director of
CSUN's Student Outreach, Recruitment Services

(NORTHRIDGE, Calif., Aug. 27, 2004) -- Javier Hernandez, former director of immediate outreach and educational opportunity programs at UC Riverside, has joined Cal State Northridge as its new director of Student Outreach and Recruitment Services.

Hernandez has extensive background in the development and administration of comprehensive recruitment programs, said Northridge's Vice President for Student Affairs Terry Piper.

"We are fortunate to have someone as experienced as Javier to lead Student Outreach and Recruitment," Piper added.

At UC Riverside, Hernandez served as director of early academic outreach programs and as director and principal investigator for educational opportunity programs before accepting his most recent post as director of the Office of Immediate Academic Outreach.

Hernandez has served on the Riverside County Department of Community Action Commission, the Riverside County Community Investment Corporation, the City of Riverside Human Resources Board and the Inland Area Writing Project Advisory Board.

He earned his bachelor's degree in sociology at UC Riverside, and his master's degree in educational counseling at the University of San Diego.

California State University, Northridge has 32,000 full- and part-time students and offers 61 bachelor's and 42 master's degrees as well as 28 education credential programs. Founded in 1958, it is among the largest single-campus universities in the nation and the only four-year public university in the San Fernando Valley. The university serves as the intellectual, economic and cultural heart of the Valley and beyond.


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