Community Has Been Lifelong Hallmark of Retiring Administrator (opens in new tab)

Almost from the day she started as Cal State San Marcos’ administrator in charge of community engagement more than a decade ago, Patricia Prado-Olmos had one goal in mind.Her aspiration was to build something lasting: a culture where community partnership would become so deeply embedded in CSUSM’s identity that it became a shared responsibility across the entire campus.“I wanted to work myself out of a job,” Prado-Olmos said. “My marker was that community-engaged work would be so endemic acro...