professor of economics and chair of business, and nine as college dean. She is responsible for faculty hiring and performance and curriculum quality and accreditation for nine academic units at the university, including business, nursing, education, history/political science, sociology/social work, psychology, kinesiology, family consumer sciences and communication/theatre. Her contribution to the university also includes building a university-wide assessment program for WASC accreditation, and leading the School of Business in achieving professional accreditation by ACBSP. She does occasional consulting, speaking, writing and teaching. Her interests in economics include poverty, inequality and gender. Her research is quantitative in nature and her most recent research assesses whether American women have been adversely impacted by globalization. She has an MA and PhD in economics from UCSD and a BA in mathematics from Point Loma College.

Becky has been married to Ray Havens for 25 years; Ray has a married daughter and a grand-daughter, and together they have two college age children, both students at Point Loma Nazarene University. They attend San Diego First Church of the Nazarene, and they love golf, tennis and long walks with their dogs during leisure time. The family enjoys three basenjis, one of which is from a litter of four puppies whelped at home.