After 28 years of dedicated service, Martha Rodriguez will retire on Dec. 31 from her role as financial analyst in Continuing and Global Education.

In 1993, her first assignment at Fresno State was in the Rehabilitation Counseling state-funded workability program. Two years later, she was hired as one of the first employees who helped launch the federally-funded program Educational Talent Search, which served 700 high school and middle school students from Dos Palos to Tulare.

In 2001, she was one of the first employees hired for the newly created Digital Campus (now known as the Center for Faculty Excellence), which introduced the Blackboard Learning Management system to the campus community. Over the past 12 years, she has worked in Continuing and Global Education, originally as a support staff for the special sessions coordinator and ending her career as a financial analyst.

Rodriguez had the pleasure of working with many great students, faculty and staff over the years and will miss being on campus and connecting with new people. Coming from a large family and having children and grandchildren living in Idaho, Tennessee and soon, Florida, she will have no time to let the grass grow under her feet.

We will miss her energetic dedication, generous attitude and caring nature to our campus community. We wish her a happy retirement as she pursues this next chapter of her life.

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