Beth A. Steffel

A longtime servant leader, Beth A. Steffel currently serves as Legislative Specialist, Communications Specialist, and Immediate Past Chair of the Academic Senate of the California State University (ASCSU) and Parliamentarian of the California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) Faculty Senate. The ASCSU is the official voice of the nearly 30,000 faculty in the California State University system. Professor Steffel served as chair of the ASCSU from 2022-2024, as the Faculty Senate Chair for CSUSB from 2019-2022, and as Chair of the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates (ICAS) from 2023-2024. Professor Steffel has been a member of ICAS since 2019 and has served as the inaugural ASCSU-appointed member of the AB928 Associate Degree for Transfer Intersegmental Implementation Committee since 2022. Beth Steffel has been an Associate Professor of Design at CSUSB since 2007 and is the first CSUSB faculty member to be chair of the ASCSU. In 2023, the Cal State Student Association (CSSA) chose Professor Steffel to receive the "Faculty Excellence of the Year" award, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the nearly half a million students of the CSU, and the first time they had given it to the Chair of the Academic Senate for the CSU. Professor Steffel also served on the inaugural CSU Systemwide Generative AI Committee and represented the CSU at the Joint California Summit on Generative AI in 2024.