Meet the Team

Associate Vice President for Faculty Development and Chief Academic Technologies Officer

Bradford Owen, Ph.D.

Email: bowen@csusb.edu

Phone: (909) 537-7379

Dr. Bradford Owen joined CSUSB as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media in 2007, was tenured in 2013, and was promoted to Professor in 2018. He served as the Interim Chair of the department from 2017 to 2019. In August 2019, Brad was appointed Interim Director of Academic Technologies & Innovation and Chief Academic Technologies Officer, and then permanent Director in May 2021. During his tenure, Brad raised the profile of the ATI department in the service and support of our faculty community, most notably during CSUSB's pivot to remote instruction for the 2020 pandemic. In August 2022, Brad was promoted to oversee both ATI and faculty development through the FCE, and in August 2023 the instructional design staff and Brad moved formally to the Division Academic Affairs, so all CSUSB faculty development, instructional design, and higher level academic technologies support is under the FCE. 

Teaching Resource Center Director

Mihaela Popescu, Ph.D.

Email: popescum@csusb.edu

Phone: (909) 537-2597

Dr. Popescu is a Professor of Media Studies with nearly two decades of experience at CSUSB and a strong record of leadership in faculty professional development at both the campus and CSU system levels. She currently serves as Interim Chair of Communication & Media and as Faculty Director of the Extended Reality for Learning (xREAL) Lab. Over the course of her career, she has designed, led, or organized more than a hundred faculty development initiatives, supported course redesign and online quality efforts, managed instructional design teams, and helped secure external funding for teaching innovation.

She brings particular expertise in emerging technologies and pedagogy, including extended reality, generative AI, and multimodal course design, along with a strong grounding in equity-minded teaching, universal design for learning, and authentic assessment. Her leadership of the xREAL Lab and CSU-wide collaborations has positioned CSUSB as a leader in innovative, interdisciplinary, and experiential learning.

Dr. Popescu has also been actively engaged in advancing conversations around AI in teaching and learning, with a research-informed perspective on both its opportunities and risks for students’ academic work. She has demonstrated a consistent commitment to supporting faculty across career stages and to advancing inclusive, forward-looking approaches to teaching and learning.
 

Interim Faculty Mentoring Program Director

Jane Chin Davidson, Ph.D. 

Email: ealgan@csusb.edu

Phone: (909) 537-7469

Jane Chin Davidson is an art historian/curator whose research focuses on transnationalism in relation to Chinese identity, feminism/ eco-feminism, performance/performativity, and global exhibitions of contemporary art.  Her recent publications include the forthcoming Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) co-edited with Amelia Jones, the monograph Staging Art and Chineseness: Politics of Trans/Nationalism and Global Expositions (University of Manchester Press, 2020) and the co-edited volume Global and World Art in the Practice of the University Museum (Routledge, 2017). Chin Davidson was awarded top honors with the Distinguished PhD Postgraduate at the University of Manchester, a British ESRC Fellowship at the Cultural Theory Institute, and a Getty Research Institute Postgraduate Fellowship. In addition to her monographs, edited books, and peer reviewed journals, such as the Case Studies in the Environment (2022) she contributes to Hyperallergic https://hyperallergic.com/author/jane-chin-davidson/ and to other art criticism.

Administrative Support Coordinator

Marcy Iniguez 

Marcy Iniguez began her career at CSUSB as a student assistant in 2018 and was promoted to staff administrative support assistant the next year. During this time, Marcy received two Bachelor of Art degrees in Psychology and Human Development from CSUSB. In 2024, she joined the Faculty Center for Excellence department as administrative support coordinator. Marcy enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.