Three Accomplished Faculty Retire From the Fowler College of Business
Three long-serving faculty members of the Fowler College of Business wrapped up their final semester in the fall of 2020 before easing into retirement. Management information systems (MIS) professor, Murray Jennex; MIS lecturer, Robert Judge; and accountancy lecturer, Paul Sager have a combined 63 years of service to the college and the university. Their contributions and service, over several decades, have made a significant impact in the lives of their students, San Diego State University and their respective disciplines.
Dr. Murray Jennex
Dr. Murray Jennex
After serving as a U.S. Navy Nuclear power propulsion officer and as ANSI N45.2.6 level III inspector for containment and penetration leak rate testing for the San Onofre nuclear generating station, Murray Jennex joined the management information systems faculty at the Fowler College of Business in 2001. He specializes in knowledge management, crisis response, system analysis and design, and IS security.
Jennex won the 2018 SDSU Alumni Distinguished Faculty Award for Outstanding Faculty Contributor for the Fowler College of Business and he was twice selected as the most influential faculty member by the top MSIS graduates. “Murray’s many years of service as a faculty advisor have helped countless graduate students, especially international students,” said Bruce Reinig, the Thomas and Evelyn Page interim dean of the Fowler College of Business. “We applaud Murray for his impressive accomplishments which include numerous publications in the area of knowledge management and cyber security, founding two journals on these issues, and recognition throughout his discipline as a leading expert on these topics. His students appreciated his project-based pedagogy and his commitment to tackling the important research problems of our day.”
Dr. Robert Judge
Dr. Robert Judge
Robert Judge has served as a lecturer in the management information systems department since 1987 after earning his MBA from the Fowler College of Business in 1982. He earned a second degree, an MSIS in 2005 (with honors), also from the Fowler College of Business, before earning his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 2008.
Judge also has an exemplary record of service to the Fowler College of Business having recently served as the faculty advisor to the Business Honors Program and was recognized with the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Fowler College of Business in 2018. He was selected as the most influential faculty member on four different occasions by outstanding undergraduate students.
“Robert is a fearless educator in a discipline that is constantly changing. In recent years he tackled teaching ERP, application programming, and artificial intelligence, along with other technical topics – all with real-world applications to benefit our students,” said Reinig. “Robert has taught over a dozen different courses at SDSU and has maintained a high level of excellence throughout. He was never one to back down from a challenge and pushed himself, and our students, to embrace the change inherent in the IT domain.”
Paul Sager
Paul Sager
After graduating from the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy in 1978, Paul Sager worked for PwC for three years before embarking on a 26-year career as a corporate executive with SAIC. After his retirement from SAIC, Sager joined the Fowler College of Business as an accounting lecturer in 2010.
Sager was chosen by three top accounting students as their most influential faculty member and he served as the faculty advisor for the SDSU chapter of Beta Alpha Psi for the past few semesters. “Paul taught some of our most challenging accounting courses in a way which inspired our students and piqued their interest. He also mentored many of our students and he unfailingly went above and beyond to support students,” said Dr. Janie Chang, director of the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy. “We want to congratulate him for his retirement, and we know he will continue being active on campus as an alumnus and a donor of the Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy.
