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Volume 50, No. 33
News
| CampusMemo goes electronic | Attending
Commencement? |
| Fall 2003 fee waiver forms now available | Cruise Tahiti for a good cause |
| Reporting campus crime | Ready for a learning adventure? |
| Wednesday | |
| Honor retiring faculty | |
| Thursday | |
| The universe displayed | Speech students perform |
| Friday | |
| Getting hip on Holloway |
| Adult education conference | Discovery
Channel program to feature SFSU student, children |
CampusMemo goes electronic
CampusMemo is changing its format. Starting with its next edition,
Public Affairs and the Division of Information Technology will e-mail each
issue to
faculty and staff. The e-mail will contain links to the Web version of CampusMemo,
which will include longer versions of some items.
This is also the final CampusMemo edition of the academic year.
It will be published twice during the summer: Monday, June 9, and Monday, July
14. CampusMemo will resume its weekly publication schedule August
25 -- in electronic format only.
If you are planning a summer event, don't forget to submit it to the SFSU
Web Calendar at www.sfsu.edu/calendar/.
For details, contact Public Affairs at ext. 8-1665 or pubcom@sfsu.edu.
The University’s Commencement ceremony will take place Saturday, May
24, in Cox Stadium. Faculty members participating in the ceremony should line
up no later than 12:15 p.m. next to the Student Services building to guarantee
a seat on the staging area.
For details, contact Norma Urcuyo-Siani at ext. 8-6141. Both employee fee waiver and dependent fee waiver applications and information
sheets are now available in the Human Resources Department, room 252 of the
Administration building.
The Fee Waiver Program enables eligible University employees to take regular
courses, which are considered work-related or are part of an approved Individual
Career Development Plan, at reduced rates.
All fee waiver participants enroll through the Touch-Tone Registration process.
Participants should submit fee waiver applications and fees to the Cashier's
Office, no later than Wednesday, June 18, to ensure the Touch-Tone deadlines
are met. A $25 late registration fee will go into effect Monday, July 28.
Employees with eligibility questions or concerns should contact the Fee
Waiver Help Line at ext. 8-2678.
Cruise Tahiti for a good cause
The 2004 University Women’s Association (UWA) cruise sets sail Jan.
10, 2004, on an eight-day/seven-night cruise aboard Radisson’s m/s Paul
Gauguin. The cruise begins and ends in Tahiti and sails to four islands: Raiatea,
Tahaa, Bora Bora and Moorea.
Prices start at $2,650 per person and include airfare, shipboard gratuities,
complimentary wines with lunch and dinner and complimenatry in-room bar setup.
The Paul Gauguin is a small, luxurious ship, with superb cuisine, a spa and
a state-of-the-art watersports platform with direct access to the sea. Optional
pre- or post-cruise hotel packages are available.
UWA cruises generate funding for the UWA scholarship endowment fund, raising
thousands of dollars and dozens of scholarships for SFSU students during
the past 12 years.
For additional information, contact Lin Bushart Ivory at linivory@attbi.com or
Tom Fell Sr. of Fell Travel Inc. at 1-800-321-FELL.
A deposit of $400 per person reserves a stateroom. Final payment is due Sept.
30.
Reporting campus crime
The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics
Act requires the University report the occurrence of certain criminal offenses.
If you have knowledge of any crimes that occurred in 2002 and have not been
reported to the Department of Public Safety, please talk to your dean, director
or department chair as soon as possible. They must report all 2002 information
to Public Safety by Monday, June 2.
If you have questions about what types of crimes should be reported, your
supervisor has a list and can provide you with that information.
Ready for a learning adventure?
Ship out to sea or cruise the Yampa River this summer with a College of
Extended Learning adventure/learning program or stay in the Bay Area and
take a variety of fun classes. The College of Extended Learning's summer
bulletin is now available, offering more than 300 classes for academic credit,
noncredit and continuing education.
Among the new programs introduced this summer are a certificate program
in Clinical Trials Design and Management, new classes for visual artists,
creative
professionals and recording industry enthusiasts and classes that combine
learning with outdoor adventure.
The learning/adventure offerings are appropriate for both college students
who want to earn academic credit and faculty, staff and the general public
who seek a learning vacation. They include six days at sea aboard a traditionally
rigged tall ship, exploring oceanography and marine conservation in the
Channel Islands or seven days learning about wildlife, land use and water
quality
along the Yampa River in Colorado's Dinosaur National Monument.
For details, see www.cel.sfsu.edu. For specifics on adventure classes/vacations,
contact Richard Kay at ext. 5-7772 or rkay@sfsu.edu. Honor retiring faculty
Faculty and staff are invited to honor retiring faculty at the annual “Rites
of Passage” celebration held from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday in the University
Club.
The event will be hosted by President Robert A. Corrigan and Vice President
John Gemello. Faculty are invited to attend either as an emeritus honoree
or to congratulate and celebrate with colleagues and friends.
The universe displayed
The student-produced planetarium show “Measuring the Universe” will
be presented from 12:10 to 1 p.m. Thursday at the Charles Hagar Planetarium,
room 422 of Thornton Hall. The event is open to the public.
For details, contact Mark Ciotola at ciotola@sfsu.edu.
Speech students perform
The Department of Speech and Communication Studies presents “Baggage
Claim and Customs” from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday in room 133 of the
Humanities building.
The show, presented by speech students, explores themes of travel, identity
and peace. Getting hip on Holloway
Students from SFSU’s cutting-edge "The Independent Label: A-Z" class
will celebrate the release of their CD anthology "This Is Your Brain on
Hip-Hop" from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at Rasputin Music, 69 Powell St., San
Francisco.
The students, who are part of the College of Extended Learning’s Music/Recording
Industry certificate program, have formed the record label "19th and Holloway
Rechords." Some of the artists will be performing live, and the CD will
be available for purchase.
Adult education conference
The 44th annual Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) will be held
on campus fromJune 5–8. The College of Education’s Department
of Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies, Center for Adult Education
is hosting the conference and invites interested faculty, staff and students
to attend. Conference programs will be held in Burk Hall and the Cesar Chavez Student
Center.
The opening session takes place at 8:30 a.m. Friday, June 6, and features
four scholars engaging in a dialogue on “Making Space and Finding Place
for Equity and Social Justice.”
Conference fees are $180 for faculty and staff and $140 for student participants.
For details, contact Anarose Schelstrate at ext. 8-1479 or aerc2003@sfsu.edu.
Information can also be found at the AERC 2003 Web site: www.sfsu.edu/~educ/AERC/aerc.html. Discovery Channel program to feature SFSU student, children
The A.S. Early Childhood Education Center, two of its toddlers and an SFSU
student will be the focus of a program on adoption at 11 a.m. Monday, June
9, on the Discovery Health Channel.
History major Mark Taubman-Walker and his partner Todd Taubman-Walker adopted
two boys with special needs in 2000 and 2001. One boy was born addicted
to crack cocaine. Today Ethan is 3 and Tony is 2 and both are thriving.
Taubman-Walker began classes at SFSU in fall 2002 and at the same time
enrolled his children in the Early Childhood Center. In February a crew from
Discovery
Health spent a week with the family as part of an ongoing series looking
at adoption. The crew filmed the boys at the Center.
Check local listings for the exact channel. For more information, visit
the Discovery Channel at www.discovery.com. All about Commencement Two legends from opposite ends of the music world—one part of the
famed folk music trio Peter, Paul & Mary and the other an influential
chronicler of the rock music scene—will highlight SFSU's 102nd Commencement
at 12:15 p.m. Saturday, May 24, as a record number 7,344 graduates receive
their diplomas.
Peter Yarrow will deliver the commencement address before an estimated
crowd of 22,000 graduates, family members and friends. Yarrow also will receive
an honorary doctor of fine arts degree at the ceremony.
Writer and rock journalist Ben Fong-Torres, who earned a bachelor's of
arts degree in radio-television-film from SFSU in 1966, will be given the
SFSU
Alumni Association's 2003 Alumnus of the Year Award.
And for his four decades of service to higher education, Bernie Goldstein,
provost, vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer
at Sonoma State University and professor emeritus of biology at SFSU, will
receive
the prestigious President's Medal (see story below).
Commencement will be shown live in San Francisco on Cable Channel 27. It
will also be broadcasted over the Web. Check the University home page (www.sfsu.edu)
the day of Commencement to link to the Webcast.
Bernie Goldstein to receive President's Medal For the last four decades, Goldstein has held numerous positions within
the University and the CSU and is the longest-serving faculty trustee in
CSU
history.
During his long career at SFSU, which began in 1968, he was a beloved professor
and an esteemed administrator. His charismatic teaching style ensured long
waiting lists for his science courses, most particularly his groundbreaking
class in human sexuality, which today remains the cornerstone of SFSU’s
highly acclaimed Human Sexuality Studies Program, of which he is co-founder.
As chair of SFSU’s Academic Senate and the CSU Statewide Academic
Senate, he instituted numerous changes that remain in effect today.
Goldstein earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in biology
from SFSU and a Ph.D. in zoology from UC Davis. He was twice named Outstanding
Educator of America, and was named SFSU’s Alumnus of the Year in 1986.
Alumni Associaton honors emeritus faculty member
Robinson began her career at SF State in 1954 in early childhood education
and she was instrumental in developing both the master’s degree and
the credential program with an early childhood education emphasis. She served
on
the Academic Senate and the College of Education Faculty Council and she
played a major role in the University Child Development Committee.
Robinson is
a founding board member of the California Kindergarten Association and served
as the association's president from 1992 to 1994. She is also co-author of "Emergent
Literacy in Kindergarten."
Robinson, who lives in San Mateo, continues to be active at SFSU, editing
the University’s Retirement Association newsletter. She’s also working
on a series of children’s books as well as a professional book on curriculum
integration for elementary school teachers. Budget update
The Governor’s May Revise of the 2003-04 budget, which was released
last week, would essentially preserve his January budget proposal for the CSU
system. That proposal calls for a $260.7 million net reduction, a 10 percent
cut to the CSU’s budget. The Legislature is circulating three competing budget plans. While the exact
number varies, each proposal asks the CSU to take an additional cut. Trustees
will likely take up the fee increase issue this summer, after the CSU has received
more definitive information about the total cuts to its 2003-04 budget.
For continuing updates on the budget situation, visit www.sfsu.edu/~news/budget03.htm or www.calstate.edu/budgetcentral/.
Student research winners Two SFSU students won awards at the 17th Annual CSU Student Research Competition
held at CSU Stanislaus earlier this month. Bryan Kuo won first place at the
graduate level in the Biological and Agricultural Sciences category for “Dermomyotome-derived
Filopodial Projections Interact with Ectoderm and Regulates Somitic Deromomyotome
Growth, Proliferation and Myogenesis.” Norman Gilchirst, Jr. was named
runner up at the undergraduate level in the Humanities and Letters category
for his paper “Finesse and Blood: Dracula’s Deal with Hollywood."
Smith, who held a doctorate in education from Stanford, served as dean of
the College of Education through the 1940s and ‘50s. He taught education
courses with an emphasis on interdisciplinary education, his academic specialty,
and also served at one time as Dean of Instruction. “
We were saddened to learn of the passing of one of this University’s
significant leaders, Robert Smith,” President Robert A. Corrigan said. “As
a faculty member for many years, he had enormous impact. And at the most painful
time in San Francisco State’s history, he reluctantly moved from the
faculty position he loved to assume the presidency as the faculty’s choice.
That was typical of his dedication to the University. In the midst of that
period of bitter division, he retained the courage, forthrightness and integrity
for which he had long been respected.”
Chief of Staff Don Scoble, who was hired by President Smith to serve as his
executive assistant, recalls him as “a warm, really decent human being
who cared a lot about the University and doing the right thing. He was a strong
believer in shared governance and trying to let people fairly discuss the issues.
At a less divisive time, he would have been an enormously successful long-term
leader.”
Smith went on to co-author two books on the 1968 campus strike. He retired
in 1980.
He is survived by his wife Gloria, son Kevin A. Smith and daughter Heidi
Poole. The family requests that donations be made to your favorite charity.
Grants & Contracts
SFSU was awarded an additional $58,348 in grants and contracts in February,
$345,527 in March, and $719,636 in the first part of April.
Lily Chen, Biology, "Minority Biomedical Research Support and Support
of Continuous Research Excellence – Year 8 Pilot Project," National
Institutes of Health, $47,278.
Ramon Castellblanch, Health Education, "Hospital Nurses and Their Unions
in the Era of Managed Care," University of California, Berkeley, $11,070.
Kathleen O’Sullivan, Secondary Education, "Voyages through
Time – Year
4," Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Institute, $9,000. Frank Bayliss, Biology, "DoD Science Scholars," Office of Naval
Research, $159,327.
Nancy Carnal, Biology, "Mathematics and Science Teacher Education Program:
Follow-on Activities," San Jose State University Foundation, $56,500. Peter Pfaelzer, Science and Engineering, "Whirlwind Wheelchair International
Pilot Project Wheelchair," Arthur B. Schultz Foundation, $25,000.
Al Uy, Biology, "Signal Evolution and Speciation in Bearded Manakins," National
Science Foundation, $50,000.
Jeffrey Greensite, Physics and Astronomy, "Theoretical High-Energy Physics – Year
3," United States Department of Energy, $100,000.
Zheng Hui He, Biology, "Career: Genetic Dissection of Signaling Pathway – Year
4," National Science Foundation, $100,993.
Stephen Bollens, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, "Role
of Wind Driven Transport: Zooplankton – Year 4," National Science
Foundation, $149,286; "Efficacy and Ecology of Ballast Water Treatment," California
States Land Commission, $68,500.
Gretchen LeBuhn, Biology, "The Effects of Landscape Change," Regents
of the University of California, $18,000.
Nicholas Certo, Special Education, "San Mateo County Office of Education
Teacher Internship Program," San Mateo County Office of Education, $5,007.
Isabelle Pelaud, Asian American Studies, "Vietnamese American Dancers
and Performers," Zellerbach Family Founders, $1,500.
Ronald Caltabiano, Music and Dance, "Overture," Miranda Lux Foundation,
$12,500.
Anabel Pelham, Gerontology, "Geriatric Care Management Training and
Education," California Wellness Foundation, $150,000.
Sandra Radtka, Physical Therapy, "Effectiveness of Physical Therapy – Year
2," Eva Benson Buck Charitable Trust, $63,850 Academic Senate Action
At its May 13 meeting the Academic Senate ...
Heard announcements from:
In the action part of the meeting, the 2003–04 Senate:
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This Week
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Coming Up
In addition, a series of pre-conferences focused on the Kellogg Foundation
Cyril Houle Scholars program and issues related to African, Asian, Chicana/Latina,
diasporas,indigenous peoples and gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/queer themes
will be held Thursday, June 5.
News
Professor
Emeritus of Biology Bernard Goldstein, who retires this year as provost and
vice president of Sonoma State University, will receive the President’s
Medal at SFSU’s Commencement.
Longtime
educator Violet Robinson, who taught in the College of Education for 38 years,
will receive the first-ever Alumni Association Emeritus Faculty Award. The
Association will honor Robinson for her dedicated service to students and the
University community at a campus reception Friday.
The governor’s proposal also assumes a 25 percent fee increase for undergraduates
and a 20 percent fee increase for graduates—a proposal the trustees discussed
at their May 14 meeting.
Robert
Smith, emeritus professor of education and former president of SF State, died
Thursday, May 1. He was 87.
After then President John Summerskill’s sudden departure in May 1968,
Smith was appointed president by the Board of Trustees. It was a turbulent
time for the campus, and Smith resigned in November of that year and returned
to teaching.
February
March
James Wiley, Public Research Institute, "Safety Evaluation of Vaccinia
Vaccine," Kaiser Permanente, $10,000.
Charlotte Ferretti, Nursing, "High Quality Child Care Initiative," San
Francisco Foundation, $85,700.
April
Heard reports from:
In the action part of the meeting, the 2002–03 Senate:
The first Academic Senate meeting of the fall semester will be held from 2
to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Seven Hills Conference Center. All are welcome
to attend. Visit the Academic Senate Web site: www.sfsu.edu/~senate/.
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