Six Cal State LA faculty members were recognized for excellence in teaching and outstanding achievements during University Convocation 2022.
Four Outstanding Professor Award recipients and an Outstanding Lecturer Award recipient were honored for significant achievements in scholarly inquiry or creativity, as well as professional activities and community service.
A President’s Distinguished Professor Award was presented to a previous Outstanding Professor Award recipient. This award recognizes faculty member’s superlative teaching and exceptional commitment to students, as well as their professional accomplishments and services.
Stephen McGuire is a professor of management in the College of Business and Economics, where he has served as director of the Entrepreneurship Institute, coordinator of the healthcare management program and director of graduate programs for the college.
An active researcher, McGuire has published more than 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. His current work examines status and happiness in organizations, and he has also recently published on entrepreneurial organizational culture and teaching negotiation skills to business graduate students. In addition, he prepares case studies on organizations in the Los Angeles community that face business, ethical and legal challenges.
McGuire is a recipient of the college’s Outstanding Teaching Award and the university’s Outstanding Professor Award. He has mentored more than 300 students on their theses, projects and advanced field studies. Hundreds of his students have been published in journals or conference proceedings to date. He has also mentored more than 600 students on business consulting or applied research projects with nonprofit, for-profit and governmental organizations in the community.
McGuire co-developed with colleagues the Fully-Employed Master of Business Administration Program for the Cal State LA Downtown campus, and revitalized the main campus’ MBA and Master of Science programs in business administration. He increased the MBA/MSBA census from 90 to 280 students, and renewed the MSBA and MBA curricula, adding applied research classes and courses allowing students to consult for organizations in L.A. Under his leadership, Cal State LA’s MBA program was ranked as the top MBA program in Southern California by Best Value Schools, and was included in U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Business Schools.
A Long Beach resident, McGuire earned his Ph.D. from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.