CBA Launches The Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate, Names New Director

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SDSU’s College of Business Administration recently announced the launch of The Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate. The Center was established with a donation from the McMillin family who owns one of San Diego’s most successful real estate and development companies.

The Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate was created to improve the educational experience for real estate students at SDSU, foster academic research in the area of real estate, and to act as a liaison with real estate professionals, government and industry organizations.

“As a real estate professional, I look forward to the contributions The Corky McMillin Center for Real Estate stands to make in terms of real estate research and the education of future industry professionals,” said Mark McMillin (’79, marketing), president and CEO of The Corky McMillin Companies. “On behalf of the McMillin family, we proudly support the continued development of SDSU’s real estate program and the student-run Real Estate Society of San Diego State University.”

The College also announced Dr. Michael Lea as the Center’s director. Lea has over 30 years of experience in the financial and real estate industries having previously held high-level positions at Countrywide Financial Corporation, Freddie Mac and Imperial Corporation of America.

Lea formerly taught at Cornell University, the University of California, San Diego, and the Wharton International Housing Finance Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, he is the principal of Cardiff Economic Consulting which specializes in analysis of domestic and international mortgage markets and institutions.

Lea began his role at the Center on October 12, 2009 and will begin teaching classes during the spring semester of 2010.