Susan A. Andrzejewski has been chosen to serve as interim president of California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI) beginning August 4.
Located in Camarillo, California, CSUCI enrolls about 5,300 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students. Women represent two-thirds of the undergraduate student body.
A faculty member since 2014, Dr. Andrzejewski has led the university’s Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics for seven years; first as interim dean from 2018 until her permanent dean appointment in 2021. Earlier in her tenure, she was chair of the business program and executive director of the university’s Entrepreneurship & Small Business Institute. She has also been involved with several university-wide strategic planning committees. Before joining the CSUCI faculty, she was an associate professor and associate chair of the business, organizations, and society department at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
“It is truly an honor to serve as interim president of CSUCI — a university that has been my home for over a decade,” said Dr. Andrzejewski. “I care deeply about this campus community and am inspired every day by the passion, resilience and dedication of our students, faculty and staff. I’m excited to work alongside all of them and our community partners as together we continue to shape a bright and inclusive future for CSUCI.”
Dr. Andrzejewski is a graduate of Bethany College in West Virginia, where she majored in psychology. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in social psychology from Northeastern University in Boston.