About President Haynes
In her professional career as an educator, a scholar, and a leader, Dr. Karen Haynes has gone from social worker to social transformer.
When she arrived at Cal State San Marcos in 2004 to begin her second university presidency, she brought with her a reputation for building the kind of institutions where people want to come to work, to study, and to initiate lasting partnerships. Now beginning her sixth year as President, she has continued that kind of building to make Cal State San Marcos the driving force to address the needs of its rapidly growing region. Under her leadership, Cal State San Marcos has won acclaim for excellence in 21st-century learning... for building educational access and equity... for institutional accountability... and for community engagement and transformational regional impact.
President Haynes holds a doctorate in social work from the University of Texas in Austin. She is the Presidential Sponsor for the American Council on Education's Southern California Network of Women in Higher Education, and she serves on the regional boards of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and the San Diego Economic Development Corporation. She was honored in 2007 with the San Diego YWCA's Top Women in Industry Award for contributions to the community and the San Diego Business Journal's "Women Who Mean Business" Award. She and her husband and co-author, Jim Mickelson, are working on the seventh edition of their landmark text, "Affecting Change: Social Workers in the Political Arena."
