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Publication: The Collegian, California State University - Fresno, Fresno CA.
By Crea Jackson
This year will be Dr. Francine Oputa’s 25th year working at Fresno State. Oputa has done a large amount of service for the Fresno State community over the past 25 years. She continues to serve the Fresno State community as the director of the Cross Cultural and Gender Center.
Oputa is from the San Fernando Valley, in the Los Angeles Valley. She came to Fresno with her husband after they graduated from Stanislaus State.
Oputa said they were looking for a school that had graduate programs each wanted to be in. She said it was narrowed down between Fresno State and San Jose State.
“What made Fresno State win was the beauty of Fresno State’s campus, the green, the grass, the space as opposed to San Jose, which is in the downtown area,” Oputa said.
Oputa got her masters in media, communications and journalism (formerly known as mass communication and journalism) and her doctorate in Educational Leadership at Fresno State. She started working at Fresno State in 1991. She got hired as the director of what was formerly known as the Women’s Resource Center.
Oputa...