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Volume 50, No. 28
News
| Service learning awards | Celebrating the best of SFSU |
| Workshop for members of tenure and promotion committees |
This Week
Coming Up
| Why photographers cover wars |
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| The ‘60s and civil rights |
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| Globalization’s effects on identity |
Features
News
Seven faculty members and six students will be honored at a luncheon today as winners of this year’s Community Service Learning awards.
Brigitte Davila, Raza Studies, and Hamid Khani, Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts, receive the Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Community Service Learning Institutionalization. This award recognizes their contributions to the development of service learning curricula and collaborative ventures with colleagues from other departments.
Also recognized will be Kristen Gates, Technical and Professional Writing; Mary Ann Haw, Nursing; Francisco Perez, Art; Gail Weinstein, English; and Darlene Yee, Gerontology for their efforts in developing and teaching community service learning courses.
In addition, four students will receive the Community Service Learning Outstanding Student Award: Lisa Cruz and Cynthia Blancaflor, Creative Arts, Peggy Ghofrani, Business, and Emelina Guerrero, Ethnic Studies. The award recognizes the impact each student had on a community organization while performing community service learning hours.
Two recent graduates will also be lauded for their efforts in service learning classes: Liam Lawlor, Health and Human Services, and Frank Tyler, Behavioral and Social Sciences.
For more information, contact Rosa Terrazas in the Office of Community Service Learning, at ext. 8-3867 or rosat@sfsu.edu.
Did you know SFSU is one of the West’s top ten universities for campus diversity, the No. 2 destination for international students among U.S. comprehensive universities, or home of the country’s largest collection of publicly accessible recorded poetry?
These and other campus notables are featured on a new “Superlatives” Web page, www.sfsu.edu/~news/superlatives/, compiled by Public Affairs. Scan Superlatives to learn about faculty discoveries, student awards and special program achievements.
The site includes a link for suggesting new Superlatives for the ever-expanding list, or you can e-mail recommendations to Public Affairs at pubcom@sfsu.edu.
Announcements
Workshop for members of tenure and promotion committees
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development is sponsoring a workshop for faculty serving on retention, tenure and promotion committees from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, May 1, in room 460 of the Administration building.
The workshop will review Academic Senate policies and basic principles of faculty evaluation. Participants will share their best practices and ideas. Refreshments will be served.
To register, call ext. 8-2204 or e-mail facaffrs@sfsu.edu.
Earth Day celebration
The Forces of Nature, a student group of environment studies majors, will sponsor festivities on campus Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate Earth Day. The events, which will be held each day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Malcolm X Plaza, include ceremonial dance, art, music, workshops and speakers.
Keynote speakers include Matt Gonzalez, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and one of the state’s highest ranking Green Party members; Antonia Juhasz, program director of the International Forum on Globalization; and Anne-Marie Sayers, a descendant of the Mutsan Ohlone Tribe who will speak about the Ohlone and their spiritual relationship to the ecosystem. Other sponsors of the festivities include the Environmental Studies Program, the Holistic Healing Studies Institute and the Associated Students Women’s Center, with support from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
For details call Eliana Kaya at either (415) 386-2609 or (805) 405-2309.
Today
Translation strategies and the reader
Chris Wen-Chao Li, assistant professor of Chinese, will present “Educating the Reader or Entertaining an Audience? Domesticating and Foreignizing Strategies in Translation” from noon to 1 p.m. today in room 131 of the Humanities building.
This event is a part of the spring Foreign Language Colloquium Series presented by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. For details, contact Midori McKeon at ext. 8-7413 or mmckeon@sfsu.edu.
The campus community is invited to attend a conference on “Sport as a Vehicle for Social Transformation” from 1 to 5 p.m. today in room 471 of the Humanities building.
The conference is sponsored by the Research Group for Studies in Sport and Physical Culture, which is affiliated with the Kinesiology Department. For details, contact Louisa Webb at ext. 8-2160 or lwebb@sfsu.edu.
Ballots for the spring University-wide Academic Senate elections are due by 5 p.m. today in the Academic Senate Office, room 551 of the Administration building.
For details, call ext. 8-1264.
The Community Involvement Center (CIC) asks faculty and staff to encourage students to attend a nonprofit agency fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday on the Main Lawn. Faculty and staff are also invited to performances by Three Weeks Yesterday and CIC student Robert Jackson from noon to 2 p.m. in Malcolm X Plaza.
In addition, there will be an exhibit of student work that relates to their community service and a “reflection labyrinth” on the Main Lawn.
For details, contact CIC at ext. 8-1486 or cic@sfsu.edu.
Environmental Studies Program candidate
Mark Meo, professor of civil engineering and environmental science at the University of Oklahoma, will give a presentation from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in room 361 of the HSS building.
Meo is a candidate for director of the Environmental Studies Program.
The Academic Senate will meet from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Nob Hill Room of the Seven Hills Conference Center.
Agenda items include: A report from Associate Vice President Gail Whitaker on upper-division course offerings at Cañada College and plans for course offerings at the College of Marin’s Indian Valley campus; a resolution on mitigating the effects of the budget crisis in 2003–04 (and beyond); a resolution opposing certain provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and endorsing corrective legislation; approval of proposed changes to the master’s degree program in history; approval of changes to the master’s degree program in museum studies; approval of proposed changes to the University policy on written English proficiency; approval of proposed changes to the policy on difference-in-pay leaves; and approval of proposed changes to the policy on appointment of tenure-track faculty members.
Photographer Steefenie Wicks will present “Lost Portraits from San Francisco’s ‘Greek Town,’ 1914-1922” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 587 of the Humanities building. The event features a series of photographs taken by Lenoidas Pantotio of San Francisco at the beginning of the 20th century.
The event is sponsored by the Center for Modern Greek Studies and the Hellenic American Professional Society. For details, call ext. 8-1892 or e-mail modgreek@sfsu.edu.
French/Japanese poet gives reading
Japanese/French poet Ryoko Sekiguchi will read from her work 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 512 of the Humanities building.
Sekiguchi translates her own poetry and the work of other Japanese poets into French. Stacy Doris, poet and assistant professor of creative writing, has translated the French versions of Sekiguchi’s poems into English. She will read the English versions at the event.
For details, contact the Poetry Center at ext. 8-2227 or poetry@sfsu.edu.
Environmental Studies Program candidate, part two
Stephanie Pincetl, professor of geography at the University of Southern California, will give a presentation from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday in room 361 of the HSS building.
Pincetl is a candidate for director of the Environmental Studies Program.
Trachtenberg speaks at Humanities Symposium
Alan Trachtenberg, professor of English and American studies at Yale University, will speak on “American Images” at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 19, in room 133 of the Humanities building.
The event is sponsored by the Humanities Department. For details, call (415) 786-9838.
Coming Up
Peter Howe, author of “Shooting Under Fire: The World of the War Photographer,” will talk about how and why photographers risk their lives to take combat photographs at 7:15 p.m. Monday, April 21, in room 128 of the Humanities building.
A former war photographer himself, Howe has been the picture editor of The New York Times Magazine and director of photography for Life magazine
Ilona Vandergriff, associate professor of German, will present “Why Chat? A Comparison of Language Learner Discourse in Computer-assisted vs. Face-to-Face Discussions” from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in room 473 of the Humanities building.
This event is part of the spring Foreign Language Colloquium Series. For details, contact Midori McKeon at ext. 8-7413 or mmckeon@sfsu.edu.
Ray Terry, retired chief deputy counsel for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will present “Civil Rights in the 1960s” at 12:35 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in room 270 of the Science building. Terry served as a civil rights attorney for the Justice Department, working on desegregation cases, voting rights and the famous “Mississippi Burning” case.
The event is sponsored by Christopher Waldrep, Pasker Chair.
Due to popular demand, an additional Basic Estate Planning seminar will be presented by the Office of University Development and the Human Resources Professional Development Program from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in room 150 of the Lakeview Center.
Space is limited. If you are interested in attending, R.S.V.P. to Jeanne Lee at ext. 5.3644 or jrlee@sfsu.edu.
Globalization’s effects on identity
Kuniko Miyanaga, former professor of social anthropology at International Christian University, Japan, and currently visiting scholar to Stanford University, will present “Globalization and Identity” from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in room 473 of the Humanities building.
This event is part of the spring Foreign Language Colloquium Series. For details, contact Midori McKeon at ext. 8-7413 or mmckeon@sfsu.edu.
Features
Paul Alires, senior benefits analyst, will present another series of retirement workshops this semester. All sessions will be held in room 352 of the Administration building.
To register for a workshop, contact Jackie Bender at ext. 8-2678 or jbender@sfsu.edu.
About the Faculty Early Retirement Program
- 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 23.
- noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, May 1.
Planning to retire by the end of 2003?
- 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 14.
- 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, April 22.
Planning to retire in the next five years?
- 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesay, May 7.
- 12 to 1 p.m. Monday, May 12.
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