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What is AOA?

The members that make up the Auxiliary Organizations Association (AOA) are the auxiliaries of the 23 campuses in the California State University (CSU) system. Typically these organizations include foundations that manage contracts and grants or gifts to the university, enterprise corporations that run bookstores and food services, associated student organizations and student unions, and sometimes athletic or housing corporations. The CSU system finds that certain functions important to its mission are more effectively accomplished by the use of an auxiliary organization rather than by the campus under the usual state procedures.

 

These organizations are, for the most part, 501(c)(3) public benefit corporations that provide services to their campuses in various ways, and they have their own governing boards, financial structures, and personnel operations. The auxiliaries are, by nature, hybrids. They are private entities nestled within the framework of a public structure and, as such, they are subject both to California corporate law and to the Education Code and the policies of the CSU and the campus. The auxiliaries enhance the capabilities of their campuses in the areas of property purchase or management, procurement, investment, and business administration, by providing alternatives to public procedures and undertaking entrepreneurial business risk.

AOA Mission Statement

We are a consortium of diverse, entrepreneurial, service-orientated California State University auxiliary organizations, whose purpose is to assist in exemplary services, programs, and facilities that further the educational mission of each campus.

Past Presidents of AOA

2020s

Sharleen Lowry Krater | 2022

Director, AS Programs, Associated Students, CSU, Chico

Monica Kauppinen | 2021

Director, Sponsored Programs Administration, University Enterprises, Inc., CSU, Sacramento

Kacie Flynn | 2020

Interim Executive Director, HSU Sponsored Programs Foundation, Humboldt State University

 

 

2010s

John Griffin | 2019

Executive Director, University Enterprises Corporation, CSU, San Bernadino

Jim Reinhart | 2018

Executive Director, University Enterprises, Inc., CSU, Sacramento

Keith Kompsi | 2017

Director, Fresno State Foundation, CSU, Fresno

Christina Brown | 2016

Executive Director, Associated Students, San Diego State University

John Griffin | 2015

Chief Financial Officer, The University Corporation, CSU, Northridge

Taren Mulhause | 2014

Executive Director, Associated Students Inc., CSU, Bakersfield

Jerri Carmo | 2013

Chief Operating Officer, SJSU Research Foundation, San Jose State University

Deborah Adishian-Astone | 2012

Associate Vice President for Auxiliary Operations, Fresno Association Inc., CSU, Fresno

Karen Finley | 2011

Associate Executive Director/HR Director, The CSU Chico Research Foundation, CSU, Chico

Dave Edwards | 2010

Associate Executive Director/USU Director, Associated Students Inc., CSU, Long Beach

2000s

Leslie Davis | 2009

Executive Director, University Union, Sacramento State University

Michèle Goetz | 2008

Associate Executive Director, SDSU Research Foundation, San Diego State University

Kim Clark | 2007

Executive Director, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker University Student Union, CSU, Dominguez Hills

Frank Mumford | 2006

Executive Director, Cal Poly Corporation, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Leslie Levinson | 2005

Chief Financial Officer, SDSU Research Foundation, San Diego State University

Tom McCarron | 2004

Executive Director, The University Corporation, CSU, Northridge

Richard Jackson | 2003

Executive Director, The CSU, Chico Research Foundation, CSU, Chico

Dan Cornthwaite | 2002

Executive Director, Associated Students, San Diego State University

Cora Culla | 2001

Executive Director, Associated Students, Inc., Cal Poly, Pomona

Steve Bloom | 2000

Associate General Manager for Operations and Property Development, SDSU Research Foundation, San Diego State University

1990s

William R. Foster | 1999

General Manager, Associated Students, Inc., CSU, Northridge

Joan Tyson | 1998

General Manager, Associated Students, Humboldt State University

Marti Gray | 1997

Executive Director, Foundation, CSU, San Marcos

S. Kent Gibson | 1996

Executive Director, Foundation, San Jose State University

Richard Blankenship | 1995

Executive Director, Associated Students, CSU, Chico

William G. Pollock | 1994

Administrator, Associated Students, CSU, Fullerton

Ron Duval | 1993

Executive Director, Spartan Shops, Inc., San Jose State University

William M. Dickerson | 1992

Executive Director, Foundation, CSU, Fullerton

Al W. Amaral | 1991

Executive Director, Foundation, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Susan Carruthers Heiser | 1990

Associate Director, Associated Students, San Diego State University

1980s

Roger L. Conway | 1989

Executive Director, Associated Students, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Harland Harris | 1988

Chief Executive Officer, Lumberjack Enterprises, Humboldt State University

Robert E. Griffin | 1987

Associate Executive Director, Foundation, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Harry Albers | 1986

General Manager, Foundation, San Diego State University

Earle Bassett | 1985

General Manager/Agricultural Foundation/Fresno Association/Fresno Foundation, CSU, Fresno

Mark Bookman | 1984

General Manager, Associated Students, CSU, Chico

Mark Bookman | 1983

General Manager, Associated Students, CSU, Chico

John R. Kropf | 1982

Director, Foundation, Cal Poly, Pomona

Lawrence Eisenberg | 1981

Director, Frederic Burk Foundation for Education, San Francisco State University

Harvey Goodfriend | 1980

General Manager, Associated Students, San Diego State University

1970s

Len McCandliss | 1979

Executive Officer, Foundation, CSU, Chico

William G. Pollock | 1978

Administrator, Associated Students, CSU, Fullerton

Al W. Amaral | 1977

Executive Director, Foundation, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

William L. Birdwell | 1976

Manager, Foundation, CSU, Los Angeles

Earle Bassett | 1975

General Manager/Agricultural Foundation/Fresno Association/Fresno Foundation, CSU, Fresno

Douglas H. Ritchie | 1974

General Manager, Forty Niner, Inc., CSU, Long Beach

Lawrence Eisenberg | 1973

Director, Frederic Burk Foundation for Education, San Francisco State University

Charles Hanson | 1972

Director, Aztec Center, San Diego State University

Donald Queen | 1971

Director, Foundation, CSU, Northridge

Earl Whitfield | 1970

Director, College Union, CSU, Fresno

What AOA Does

The members that make up the Auxiliary Organizations Association (AOA) are the auxiliaries of the 23 campuses in the California State University (CSU) system. The mission of the AOA is to facilitate the role of individual auxiliaries on their respective campuses by providing the auxiliaries with the resources and services that enable them to be more effective.

General Information

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How to Become a Member

Becoming a member is easy. At the top of this page, click/open the link entitled Become An AOA Member.   You will be required to enter your work contact information, auxiliary and university affiliations and a valid CSU email.  Your request will be sent to AOA for verification and activation. Please allow 24-48 hours for activation.

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