Profile
Armando Ramirez
 Armando
Ramirez has been giving back to his employer, Cal State Fullerton,
for more than a decade.
A warehouseman in the university’s Logistical Services
Shipping and Receiving Department, Ramirez helped found the
Hispanic Faculty and Staff Association Scholarship Fund in
1991, which provides scholarships for students involved in the Chicano/Latino community, either through education, leadership or service. More recently, he’s supported the Samuel Mendoza
Scholarship with his $600 annual gift to Cal State Fullerton’s
“It’s Our University” (IOU) Campaign.
IOU provides Cal State Fullerton’s faculty and staff
an opportunity to make philanthropic gifts to the university’s
colleges, departments or programs. In ten years, more than
$1.36 million has been contributed to the campaign, which
is widely recognized as a model for the entire California
State University system.
The Mendoza Scholarship, named for a former university career
development counselor, provides unrestricted scholarship funds
for qualified members of the Latino Business Student Association
who are pursuing a career in business. “I knew Sam Mendoza,”
says Ramirez, “and he helped a lot of kids. It was something
I was really looking for, something in memory of a university
staff member, and I find it to be a very worthwhile endeavor.
And it’s a way to pay back to my people, Mexican American
individuals, and it’s my way of saying it’s been
a privilege working here at this university.”
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