Alliant Connect Online Community Welcomes Members 100 and 500: Dr. David A. Brown and Regan Bach
San Francisco, March 27, 2007 — Alliant's online community went live on Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 1:10 pm, Pacific Standard Time. Within half an hour, the community welcomed its 100th sign up, Dr. David A. Brown. By the following Monday, Regan Bach, had joined as member 500.
 | | Above: Alliant Webmaster and Online Designer Chelsea Bullen |  | | Above: Alumni Relations Director and Special Envoy of the President Dr. Ali Abu-Rahma | Within two days, alumni online profiles had been posted from the United Kingdom, Bangkok, Tanzania, Greece, Kenya, Egypt and South Africa among other places. In addition to being a run-away success, Alliant Connect, is a place where alumni of all of Alliant's legacy institutions can find colleagues and friends, advertise a business or consulting expertise, find jobs and much more. Within one day of the site going live, alumni had posted several jobs and had begun several online interest groups affiliated with Alliant Connect. Alumni Check in From Around the World While this was happening, Alumni Director Dr. Ali Abu-Rahma, who is an alumnus of USIU, received emails from alumni in Costa Rica, Israel, Australia and all over the USA. "I am very excited about this and looking forward to meeting with our Alumni in the United States and around the world," said Dr. Abu-Rahma.
Alumni Connect was conceptualized and developed by Chelsea Bullen, Alliant's webmaster and online graphic designer. “I knew how myspace helped connect so many people across such a broad spectrum. People were finding people across countries and coasts. I thought it would be the best way to connect the Alliant community on a global level,” said Bullen. Alliant alumni - graduates of CSPP, USIU, Cal Western, CSOS, CSBOS and Alliant - plus students who will graduate this spring are being invited to be the first to publish their during priority sign-ups through April 15, 2007. After that, the community will be open to all Alliant students, faculty and staff as well. “We hope to connect alliant alumni so that they can learn from each other share experiences,” said Bullen. Meet Alliant Connect Member 100: USIU Alumnus Dr. David Brown The 100th member to join Alliant’s online community is USIU grad Dr. David A. Brown, who earned a PhD in Leadership and Human Behavior from United States International University’s Elliot Campus in San Diego in 1972. “Life at the university was the best it could have been,” said Brown. “I was honored to be a part of it!” Since graduation, Dr. Brown has lived numerous professional lives as a college and secondary school administrator, author, professor, counselor, psychologist, director of operations and program developer. “I loved attending the United States International University on the Elliott Campus in San Diego,” said the author and college professor. “They were some of the very best days of my life.” Dr. Brown is the author of The Pocket Therapist, and The Pocket Therapist II, and he has published numerous articles regarding the practical application of rational thinking. Stress management, Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, and rational use of hypnosis are topics that Dr. Brown has presented at numerous state and national conferences, service clubs, Chamber of Commerce, and other professional meetings. As for his hopes for Alliant’s new online community Dr. Brown says, “I think it would be great fun to hear from more of the old crowd. They were indeed special people and great students. I believe we all loved it there!” Dr. Brown is currently a Professor of Psychology . He serves on the faculty at International College in Fort Myers, Florida, where he’s taught for the past twelve years. He has made tremendous contributions to local communities. He has developed and led successful experiential training programs in the Florida swamps to resolve interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship problems among high school students in high-risk areas for the federal Department of Education's Title III program. He was also executive and clinical director of an intensive, long-term, family-oriented, adolescent, drug rehabilitation treatment program in Florida. Meet Member 500, Marshall Goldsmith School of Management Grad Regan Bach New member 500, Regan Bach, graduated from the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management in San Francisco with a master's degree in Organizational Development (OD) last December. Ms. Bach works as a Leadership Consultant and PR/Marketing Manager at Mariposa Leadership, Inc. in San Francisco. Her primary areas of OD interest are coaching and leadership, and she aspires to begin her own coaching firm. Concerned with with the way that stress, overwhelm, and work/life balance plague people's lives, Ms. Bach wants to change the way people relate to their work.
Ms. Bach, who originally came to Alliant by way of referral from fellow alum, Chris Tobin, PhD, who graduated from the California School of Professional Psychology, writes that she would "like to be able to find and contact all past Alliant alums" through Alliant Connect, and adds,"Keep up the good work."
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