Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. has appointed Ellen Junn, President of California State University, Stanislaus, to the board of directors of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley.

The advocacy group was founded in June 2005 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger with the mission of addressing the unique challenges facing the Valley while promoting the importance of the eight-county region to California’s prosperity.

Stan State’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA), now in its 15th year as a partnership of faculty and students from the College of Business Administration, continues to help the area’s low-income and senior citizens feel confident about filing their income taxes.