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CLASS Notes College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences January 2008, Vol. 4, No. 1 ‘07-08 CAPR9 Reviews Underway The Dean’s Office is working with several departments to prepare their program five year program reviews: Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, French, Public Affairs and Administration, Spanish and Social Work. These reports and the Annual Program Reports are part of the Committee on Academic Planning and Review ‘05-06 CAPR 9 document. The review process ends with a memorandum of understanding that may propose the allocation of additional resources, including new tenure track lines. Dean’s Message I welcome everyone back to winter quarter and wish you all a happy year. We have met our enrollment goals for winter quarter. A combination of reimbursements and $760,000 in salary increase funding has improved my budget, and has halved our projected budget deficient. In response to the Chancellor Office’s proposals for meeting a proposed 10 percent state-wide spending cut, President Qayoumi has outlined the following: • • Benjamin Bowser Interim Dean English, CSD, MLL Aid ALP Learning Sixty-five former American Language Program (ALP) freshman Asian students are enrolled in one class each from the Departments of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, Communication and English this quarter to give them three different ways to improve their English language skills. ALP helps non-native students prepare for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), on which each must score high enough to enroll at Cal State East Bay. Forensic Speech, Debate Revived After several years’ absence, the CSUEB Forensic Speech and Debate Program has reappeared under the direction of Terry L. West, assistant professor of communication. The program prepares students to compete against other colleges and universities in a variety of debate, public speaking, and oral interpretation of literature formats. In their first tournament in October at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, the two East Bay novice Parliamentary Debate teams came away with three wins and three losses apiece. “This ‘break-even’ record, among more than 30 colleges and universities with experienced forensic role models for their novices to emulate, suggests a bright future for the program,” said West. Recruitment is ongoing, and new students – with or without previous experience – are being added. Forensics participation is proven to increase students’ critical thinking, writing and speaking abilities, and is in the background of large numbers of national and corporate leaders, according to West. The program is currently preparing for tournament travel in Louisiana, Florida, and California, with the goal of qualifying for the Novice National Tournament March 14-16 in Pensacola, FL. • • No budget cuts are anticipated this academic year. We should continue with our faculty searches as scheduled and our efforts to meet, if not exceed, enrollment goals. If there are going be budget cuts, they will be in the 2008-2009 academic year. Furthermore, it is too early to know how the state budget scenario and politics will play out between now and then. If there are any cuts, the university will be ready to meet them without disrupting the progress we have already made in rebuilding the faculty and increasing enrollment. Enrollment Services is doing everything it can to minimize the impact of the March 1 freshman admissions deadline for California students, such as making personal contact with all its guidance counselors, recruiters, community supporters, Super-Sunday contacts and any prospective students who have made inquires to the university. To meet the March 1 deadline, only the application has to be submitted, not the entire file. Other actions are still in planning and will be described once they are put into effect. The message to faculty is to stay the course. I extend my heartfelt welcome to our next CLASS Dean, Diedre L Badejo, current associate dean of curriculum and program development for the Kent State University College of Arts and Sciences. Her many awards and honors include a 1990 Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Award. She will be visiting our campus in February, and assuming her new duties here in the spring. I look forward to seeing everyone at the President’s First Annual Faculty Reception at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29 in the New University Union. This will be an opportunity for the entire university community to properly recognize our newly tenured and emeriti faculty and hear an address by 2007 Outstanding Professor Michael Hedrick from the College of Science. Carol Channing Scholarship Set for 2009 The Theatre and Dance Department expects to award its first Carol Channing scholarship to a musical theatre student in Spring 2009 for Fall 2009, thanks to a two-day fundraising event on the Hayward campus last October. The octogenarian performer, best known for her Broadway portrayal of Dolly Levi in “Hello Dolly!,” and her husband, Harry Kullijian, have been promoting arts education throughout the state, and, in particular, bringing their enthusiasm to tomorrow’s teachers at California State Universities. Channing and Kullijian contributed $10,000 to establish the Cal State East Bay endowment, which is being matched by donor gifts. Music and Business Building Improvements • CSD More than Doubles Size To accommodate growth in both students and clients, and to meet accreditation standards, the Communicative Sciences and Disorders Department is more than doubling the space it occupies on the first floor of the Music and Business Building. In addition, six faculty offices have been added in the MB 650 series. The speech and hearing clinic is the largest ever, with over 100 clients receiving services this quarter. • MB Recital Hall Renovated For the first time since the California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) Music and Business Building was opened in October 1965, the recital hall in room 1055 has been renovated, including new seats, acoustical panels, carpet and fresh, burnt-orange paint. Everyone is invited to the public unveiling at noon, Tuesday, Jan. 22 when the CSUEB music faculty present a Chamber Music Recital of both classical and jazz on the Hayward campus. Admission is free. “This gives the department a beautifully remodeled space for student, faculty and ensemble performances – and provides the college and university with an attractive, professional showplace seen by approximately 2,000 community members who attend our concerts annually,” said Frank La Rocca, music chair, who spearheaded the renovation last spring, laid out the plan and saw it to completion in early-Janaury. More than 80 university concerts and recitals take place in the recital hall annually in addition to regular use for music classes, rehearsals, recordings, sectionals, clinics, auditions, workshops, and meetings. The room is also rented several times a year by community groups and individuals for recitals and concerts. The renovation was funded by an initial personal donation from a Trustee of the Education Foundation, with the bulk of the funds coming from the university’s Small Capital Projects account. The work was completed by craftspeople from University Facilities, Dudley Acoustics and KI Corporation, and overseen by Dan Franke, interim director of facilities management; Chuck Copus, senior planner/estimator/scheduler of facilities management, and La Rocca. Sean Cooper, senior voice major, and Irene Gregorio, accompanist, rehearse in the renovated MB 1055 recital hall for the Feb 14 East Bay Chamber Singers Valentine’s Day Concert. In the News . . . Faculty • Gwyan Rhabyt, associate professor of art, has received a Fulbright Scholar Grant to teach new media design and engage in collaborative new media art projects with a number of Croatian artists between February-July 2008. The Fulbright Scholar Program sends 800 U.S. faculty and professionals abroad Gwyan Rhabyt each year to lecture and conduct research in 144 countries. • Marc Jacobs, assistant professor of theatre/dance, has had his musical, “How to Make a Musical,” written as an outreach tour for American Musical Theatre of San Jose, picked up by Dramatics Publishing, for marketing throughout the country. The 50-minute script teaches musical theatre structure to middle and high schoolers by contrasting scenes from Marc Jacobs a classroom day as seen by a nerd, versus as presented in a musical. of theatre/dance, has received two national grants, a Multi-Arts Production (MAP) fellowship, and a Princess Grace Foundation Award. He will use the $15,000 MAP funds to co-producing a performance with his company, Dandelion Dancetheater, for the San Francisco International Arts Festival (IAF) May 9-25 at CELLspace. Eric Kupers The $10,000 Princess Grace award, plus money from the Zellerbach Family Fund and CSUEB Faculty Grants, will help create “Spinal Fluid,” an unconventional dance work that can withstand cast replacements among performers with widely diverse abilities/disabilities. • Amy June Rowley, assistant professor of modern languages and literatures, was the keynote speaker in October at the National Association of State Directors of Special Education 70th Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ, and at the “Making Education Work for Every Child” opening section of the Education Law Association 53rd Annual Conference Amy June Rowley in San Diego in November. It has been 25 years since she was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court Decision that mainstreamed children with hearing loss in public education. • Jan Avent, professor of communicative sciences and disorders, in conjunction with her client, Wilson K. Talley, and his wife Helen, made a presentation on aphasia to the White House Fellows Foundation and Association in Washington, D.C. in October. “Dealing With A Stroke” incorporated observations by Talley, a renowned nuclear physicist and Jan Avent namesake of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Wilson K. Talley Fellowship for graduate science education, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1998 after decades scholarly work as a nuclear physicist, and Avent’s evaluation of a new approach to working with aphasia patients. Talley is the perfect example of Avent’s research showing that Reciprocal Scaffolding Treatment, based on natural language use between experts and novices during shared learning activities, can result in dramatic improvements in as little as six weeks of treatment. Approximately 1 millions persons in the U.S. have aphasia, about 80,000 new cases develop annually. • Eric Kupers, assistant professor Tenure-track Searches • chair/associate professor of philosophy and public affairs and administration, is a member of the new Administrative Theory & Praxis editorial team. She published, “Enforced Homogeneity or Mutual Difference: Luce Irigaray, the War on Terrorism, and International Peace,” in Philosophical Perspectives on the War on Terror, Rodopi Press, 2007 and, Jennifer Eagan “Unfreedom, Suffering, and the Culture Industry: What Adorno Can Contribute to a Feminist Ethics,” in Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno, Penn State University Press, 2006. Jennifer Eagan, CLASS is conducting searches for the following 14 tenuretrack positions for the 2008-09 academic year. • Communication – Interpersonal Communication • Communicative Speech Disorders – Child Language Disorders • Criminal Justice – Investigations/Forensic Science • Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement/Investigations • Ethnic Studies – Applied Indigenous Studies • Human Development – Social Gerontology • Human Development – Women’s Development • Modern Language – French/Vietnamese • Philosophy – Religious Studies • Political Science – Asian Politics • Political Science – California/American Politics • Sikh-Punjabi Endowed Chair • Social Work – Methods • Sociology – Social Services What’s Happening • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Faculty Chamber Music Recital, T, Jan. 22, noon, MB1055 – free “Linda, Linda, Linda,” free film screening, W, Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m., University Theatre – free. Produced by Nobuhiro Yamashita in 2005, the joint presentation by the Consulate General of Japan (in San Francisco) and the CSUEB History Department, focuses on a high school girls’ band preparing for the school musical festival. Reservations requested at infoav@cgjsf.org 2 Art Gallery Exhibitions, the Annual Faculty Art Exhibition, and American Prints and Modern Books, opening reception: 5-7 p.m. M, Jan. 28; exhibits open M-Th Jan. 29-Feb. 21, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Art & Education Building – free. GO! – Faculty Dance Concert, directed by Eric Kupers, Nina Haft, and other dance faculty, F-Sat., Feb. 1-2, 8 p.m.; Sun, Feb. 3, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m., University Theatre - $5-10. Latino Leadership Summit, Sat., Feb. 2. CSUEB Jazz Workshop and Jazz Ensemble Concert, Johannes Wallmann, director, T, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m., University Theatre – $7/$5/free with CSUEB ID. Foothill College Memorandum of Understand F, Feb. 8, creating continuum toward a Human Development degree through on-line learning. Annual Social Work Internship Fair, Th, Feb. 7, 8 a.m.noon, New University Union. Fifty agencies will be offering a combination of internships and jobs. 21st Annual Invitational Band Festival Concert, Wesley J. Broadnax, director, Sat, Feb. 9, 3 p.m., University Theatre – free. Jazz Improv Ensembles performances, Johannes Wallmann, director, T, Feb. 12 & Thursday, Feb. 14, noon, MB1039 – free. East Bay Chamber Singers Valentine’s Day Concert, fundraiser for East Bay Singers’ Summer 2008 Mexico Tour, Buddy James, conductor, Th, Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., MB1055 – $15/$10/$5 with CSUEB ID. CLASS administrators will participate in the CSU system’s Third Annual Super Sunday Feb. 17. Information on qualifying to attend a CSU will be presented at churches, schools and community colleges in Concord, Fremont, Hayward, Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo churches, community colleges and schools in Concord, Fremont, Hayward, Oakland, Richmond and Vallejo. Chamber Choir Invitational, high school choirs perform/ receive clinics, public welcome. Buddy James, director, T, Feb. 19 and Th, Feb. 21, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., MB1055 – free. CSUEB Symphonic Band and Jazz Band Concert, Wesley J. Broadnax and Dann Zinn, conductors, T, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m., University Theatre – $7/$5/free with CSUEB ID. 9th Annual Night of Jazz, Music Scholarship Fundraiser. Guest artist Ralph Alessi, with CSUEB Jazz Ensembles, • • • • • • • • • • • • Johannes Wallmann, director, T, Feb. 26, Yoshi’s (Oakland) 2 shows: 8 and 10 p.m., $25 for 8 p.m. show /$15 for 10 p.m. show, additional $5 at the door. For sponsorship opportunities & VIP reception, call University Advancement at (510) 885-2849. Music for Two and Three Pianos, guest pianist Siro Saracino and others, F, Feb. 29, 7:30 p.m., MB1055 – free. Urinetown, The Musical, music, lyrics by Mark Holmann; book, lyrics by Greg Kotis; directed by Marc Jacobs. F-Sat, Feb. 29 & Mar. 1, 7, 8 at 8 p.m., Sun, Mar. 9, 2 p.m., Studio Theatre – $8-14. C.E. Smith Museum of Anthropology, 2 Exhibitions: New – Kachinas: The Spirit of the Hopi opening reception F, Feb 29, 4-7 p.m ; continuing – DNA: Cracking the Ancestor Code M-F, March 3-June 13 (closed March 24-31, May 26), 10 a.m.-4 p.m., MI 4047 – free. Entering Music Student Scholarship Recipients Recital, T, March 4, noon, MB1055 – free. CSUEB Symphony Orchestra Concert, Buddy James, conductor, W, March 5, 7:30 p.m. MB1055 - $7/$5/free with CSUEB ID. Chamber Winds Recital, Wesley J. Broadnax, conductor, Th, March 6, noon, MB1055 – free. Masterpiece – East Bay Singers, Buddy James, conductor, Sat, March 8, 8 p.m., The Old Mission San Jose (43300 Mission Blvd, Fremont), $7/$5/free with CSUEB ID. Student Composers Recital, T, March 11, noon, MB1055 – free. CSUEB Symphonic Band Concert, Wesley J. Broadnax, conductor, T, March 11, 7:30 p.m., University Theatre, $7/$5/free with CSUEB ID. Percussion Ensemble Recital, Arthur Storch, director, Th, March 13, noon, MB1039 – free. Musica delle Donne Concerts celebrating the music of women composers, Irene Gregorio, artistic director, Th, March 13 and F, March 14, 7:30 p.m., MB1055 – free. East Bay Oratorio Society – Messiah Sing Along, Buddy James, conductor, Sun, March 16, 4 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (166 W Harder Road, Hayward) – $7/$5/free with CSUEB ID. Information on all CLASS cultural events is at: http://class.csueastbay.edu/Performances_and_Exhibitions.php Individual contacts: • C.E. Smith Anthropology Museum, MI 4047 (510) 885-7414 http://class.csueastbay.edu/anthropologymuseum/ • Music Department, 510-885-3167 http://class.csueastbay.edu/music/ • Theatre and Dance Department, 510-885-3118 tickets@csueastbay.edu, http://class.csueastbay.edu/ theatre/ • University Art Gallery, 510-885-3299 http://class.csueastbay.edu/artgallery/