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2023年2月24日

让-弗朗索瓦·科热出生在巴黎，童年的大部分时间都在卢森堡度过。 He even spent a year as a naval attaché at the French Embassy in Portugal.

But Coget, 囊状态’s new College of Business dean, has a developed a strong connection to the Golden State, beginning from his time in Southern California pursuing his doctorate.

“The wonderful weather, the culture, the open-mindedness of the people … there’s something about California that makes people more creative. California is leading the world in many ways, such as progress on such issues as sustainability and in the tech sector,” he said.

“Californians are adventurous, but there’s a responsible spirit at the same time.”

在全国范围内物色院长后，47岁的科格特被任命为院长，接替于2022年7月退休的威廉·科代罗。 Coget在一月份开始了他的工作。

“Dr. Coget’s commitment to equity-minded student success and his experience managing budgets in challenging fiscal environments make him the perfect fit to lead the College of Business,” said Carlos Nevarez, interim provost and vice president for 学术事务.

“We are very happy to welcome Jean-Francois to the Hornet Family and look forward to the impact he will have on the 囊状态 campus.”

After earning his master’s degree in management from the HEC School of Management in Paris, Coget worked for Ernst & Young and then Morgan Stanley’s stock exchange trading floor in Paris.

“It wasn’t my cup of tea,” said Coget, who also goes by “JF.”

His year of compulsory French military service as a naval attaché in Portugal helped Coget find a new direction.

“It gave me a year of reflection. I realized I really enjoyed psychology, and I always loved school and ideas,” he said.

“I realized I’d love to continue to learn more about people and how people function.”

He decided to get his Ph.D. in organizational behavior, a field where psychology intersects with business, from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

“I fell in love with California,” Coget said. “It’s much more relaxed than in Europe in some ways. 这里有创新和创造力。

“People will smile and say ‘hi’ to you on the street, even though they don’t know you. In Paris, that would never happen.”

从加州大学洛杉矶分校毕业后，他回到法国，在母校HEC管理学院担任教授，但他的目标是回到加州。 Two years later, in 2006, he was back stateside, teaching at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Orfalea College of Business.

He became the college’s associate dean of Academic Programs in 2018.

“Life is funny. I never planned to be a dean,” he said. “But I researched leadership and organizational management … and I got the itch to see what it would be like to practice and do what I’m studying.”

圣路易斯市奥比斯波也是科吉特遇到他妻子瑞秋的地方。 他们有两个儿子，分别是11岁和5岁的特里斯坦和马克斯。

“为学生安排好职业，让他们掌握成功所需的技能，进入中产阶级或上层阶级，这是一项崇高的使命。 囊状态 is fulfilling that mission the best I’ve seen in the CSU.” -- Jean-Francois Coget, College of Business dean 

In July 2020, Coget became dean of Sonoma State’s School of Business and Economics, where enrollment had dropped 25% after devastating wildfires and the COVID-19 pandemic.

他对学院进行了重组，以吸收12%的预算削减，并制定了营销和招聘策略，以增加入学率。

He raised millions of dollars to support scholarships for underrepresented students, and embarked on a strategic discovery process to identify the college’s strengths.

在北加州葡萄酒之乡的心脏地带，索诺玛州以其葡萄酒商业计划而闻名。 科格特知道，学院必须拓展到这个细分市场之外。

“He really helped us focus on what our real priorities are,” said Michael Visser, interim dean of Sonoma State’s School of Business and Economics. “We’re always trying to do the right thing by students and to put students first.”

The process created a new focus on purpose-driven business – the idea that business can have a positive impact on sustainability with a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce.

“A large segment of students go to college with some sort of social justice program in mind, and they don’t automatically think of business as a place to give back to the community,” Visser said.

“But we want to show them that business can be an important part of any community, and that it’s not just about extracting from the community, but in fact, growing and strengthening it.

“JF really helped put a laser focus on that kind of intentionality around those ideas.”

在索诺玛州立大学，科格特还为第一代学生创建了一个导师项目，并用论文和面试取代了MBA课程的研究生管理入学考试（GMAT）要求，让代表性不足的群体更容易接触到MBA课程。

他希望在萨克州立大学继续这些努力。

“Here in the CSU system, we have a noble mission of promoting social mobility and helping the population of California that is not necessarily the most privileged to gain upward mobility,” Coget said. “So placing students in careers and giving them the skills they need to succeed and join the middle or upper class is a noble mission.

“囊状态 is fulfilling that mission the best I’ve seen in the CSU.”

科格特说，他之所以被萨克拉门托吸引，是因为有机会在已经很成功的商学院基础上再创辉煌。

“I’ve been thoroughly impressed by 萨克拉门托 State,” he said. “It’s a really well-oiled machine that’s doing a lot of things right and has a lot of potential to go farther.”