After 19 years of dedicated service, Helen I. Bailey will retire from her role as administrative analyst specialist in University Advancement on Oct. 22. She served on numerous committees including the Star Day Committee for five years, as a representative for CSUEU Chapter 309, as well as an EEOD for Human Resources. She was instrumental in creating a manual for new data entry employees and worked on a project that saved the University $2.9 million. She was a proud recipient of the President's Cultural Competency Certificate.

Bailey is excited to continue her development career assisting with a new campaign at Fresno Pacific University and looks forward to spending more time with her family. She will miss wearing her Fresno State gear on Red Fridays, attending football games and will cherish the memories she has made.

Faculty, staff and students will miss her tireless dedication, altruistic attitude, and caring nature after years of building lifelong relationships and we wish her a happy retirement as she pursues this next chapter of her life.

After nearly 32 years in service to Fresno State, Dr. Jim Marshall will retire at the end of the fall 2021 semester. His long and illustrious history began in 1990, when he was hired in what was then known as the Teacher Education Department in the School of Education and Human Development. The department changed its name twice during his tenure, and is now known as Curriculum and Instruction. Also during his tenure, the school was renamed the Kremen School of Education and Human Development. While there, Marshall worked his way up to tenured professor and a variety of leadership roles followed: graduated coordinator, department chair, director of the Ed.D. program, and finally, associate dean.

In 2014, he became dean of the Division of Graduate Studies (later, the Division of Research and Graduate Studies), where his priority became elevating the status of graduate education at Fresno State on campus and in the region, state, nation and world. This has included, though not yet realized, the elevation of our division to a full-fledged graduate school. He has also overseen a dramatic rise in research activity on campus, including three straight record-setting years. During Marshall’s deanship at the Division of Research and Graduate Studies, he served concurrently as the Acting Dean of Kremen, the Interim Dean of Health and Human Services, and most recently, assistant to the provost.

Marshall will take an administrative leave in the spring 2022 semester, then he will enter the Faculty Early Retirement Program (FERP) beginning in August 2022, during which time he will administer an NSF-supported grant program designed to diversify the professoriate in the STEM fields. When he is not doing that, he plans to re-learn golf, spend time outdoors (hiking, fishing and camping), and maybe even do some painting and woodworking. All of us here certainly wish him the very best in his retirement.

We will celebrate Marshall on Thursday, Nov. 18 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. in North Gym 118. Use the Google form to RSVP by Nov. 2. He would love to see you!