CLU dean elected to foundation board

Dr. Charles Maxey, dean of the business school at California Lutheran University, has been elected to the Ventura County Community Foundation board of directors.

“We are honored and pleased to have Dr. Maxey’s expertise and commitment to our county and its future harnessed to the Ventura County Community Foundation agenda,” said board chair Mary Schwabauer. “His deep knowledge of the county, his relationships with the research and academic community along the Central Coast, and his commitment to the future of the region are all assets to our work. We are delighted to have him join us.”

In addition to his work with the Ventura County Profile of Health and Human Services, Maxey has been active with the Civic Alliance, serving on various committees and participating in the current updating of the State of the Region report. His community service includes the VCEDA board, Central Coast Venture Forum and the Ventura County Advisory Boards of the UC Santa Barbara Economic Forecast Project and Santa Barbara Bank & Trust.

Maxey received a bachelor’s degree in political philosophy from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree and a PhD in industrial relations, sociology and public administration from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations.

Prior to coming to CLU in 1991 as the dean of the business school and co-director of the Center for Leadership and Values, Maxey was a visiting professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand’s Sasin Graduate School of Business Administration.

Maxey also served as the senior associate dean of the School of Business Administration at

USC, a research associate at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and as the director of field research for the National Study of Labor Relations in Healthcare.

Maxey has published a number of articles and research monographs and has participated in numerous conferences as a panelist or presenter.

The Ventura County Community Foundation is a family of charitable funds. The foundation distributed $8.5 million in grants in fiscal year 2006.

For more information, visit www.vccf.org.