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 Linda Serra and Scott Akerley
represent the best of what the college has to offer in its business
division and were honored recently as co-recipients of the first
Glendale College Business Award. The award ceremony took place at the
12th annual Glendale College Foundation Business Luncheon on Wednesday
October 5 at the Hilton Glendale.
Serra has dedicated 34 years of her life helping young people find
academic success at the college as a classified employee, professor and
chair of the business division for the past six years.
Akerley was a student at Glendale College in the in the late 1980s
and early 1990s and now owns three escrow management firms. He is also
active in the community in support of several projects and is a
long-standing member of the Foundation Board of Directors.
The annual business luncheon serves as a bridge between the college
and the Glendale business community and is co-sponsored by Glendale
Partners. This year the speaker was Dr. Esmael Adibi, director of the A.
Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research and Anderson Chair of
Economic Analysis at Chapman University.
While the awards given to Serra and Akerley represent the high
level of excellence that is achieved by the instructors and students in
the business division, it also shows how much the division has responded
to the demands of specific job markets. To keep up with the changing
face of technology, the classes are constantly evaluated and revised,
and new courses and programs are added to reflect this change.
At the luncheon to accept his honor, Akerley downplayed his own
accomplishments and said how fortunate he was to get a great start in
business education at Glendale, and how it has helped him not only as a
business owner and employer but as a volunteer giving back to the school
and the community.
But it was a comment by Dr. John Davitt about Linda Serra that
seemed to sum up what the business division stands for. She typed
faster than almost anybody I had ever seen when she was a classified
employee at the college and went on to become a highly regarded
professor and chair of the business division, he said. To honor both
Linda and Scott shows not only what great teachers we have but what
great students we turn out at the college.&
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