SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC SENATE
RESOLUTION RENOMINATING PROFESSOR KATHLEEN
E. KAISER
AS FACULTY TRUSTEE
WHEREAS, Professor Kathleen E. Kaiser has been an honored faculty
colleague for the last 32 years at California State University, Chico and
has been recognized for her outstanding teaching and advising, successful
grant writing and scholarly activities, and her remarkable record of service
to students and faculty; and
WHEREAS, Professor Kaiser has long been dedicated to the principles of shared
governance and academic excellence as reflected in her fifteen years of service
to the CSU, Chico Academic Senate and her twelve years of service on the Academic
Senate, CSU, and
WHEREAS, Professor Kaiser has served in significant Systemwide leadership
positions and developed a broad knowledge of California’s system of
higher education through her participation on the Executive Committee of the
ASCSU, the GE Breadth Committee, on which she served as chair, the Academic
Affairs Committee, on which she served as vice chair, and the Intersegmental
Committee of Academic Senates where she worked with colleagues from the University
of California and the California Community Colleges in developing intersegmental
transfer and articulation programs in the state, and
WHEREAS, Professor Kaiser has been a leader in the state and a champion for
course articulation and transfer between the CSU and all other segments of
higher education in California so that the principle of seamless transfer,
as envisioned by the Master Plan for Higher Education, can be brought to fruition;
and,
WHEREAS, Professor Kaiser has had an extended commitment to service learning
and distance education not only as reflected by her participation on statewide
and international programs, the Technology Task Force, and the Information
Competency Task Force, but also as the director of hundreds of internships
at CSU, Chico that place students at sites located throughout California and
the United States as well as a writer, leader and evaluator of many community-based
grants and outreach activities; and,
WHEREAS, Professor Kaiser has demonstrated time and again that she is a dedicated
and trustworthy colleague who has the ability to articulate and represent
the faculty’s perspective in shared governance but recognizes, understands
and values the necessity to work collegially and constructively with other
bodies who have also been entrusted to carry out the Master Plan for Higher
Education; and
WHEREAS, Professor Kaiser in her first year of service as Faculty Trustee
visited 14 campuses, attended 9 graduations, was the first trustee to accompany
the CSU Maritime Academy’s T.S. Golden Bear on cruise, including presiding
at the 'at-sea' graduation, serves on four BOT committees and as a CPEC alternate,
and was recognized by CSSA as the Outstanding Trustee of the Year in 2004;
and,
WHEREAS, Faculty Trustee Kaiser has been an effective voice for students,
faculty and staff on the Board of Trustees and has become a respected force
on the board that should be continued for another term, therefore be it
RESOLVED: That the Academic Senate of Sonoma State University supports the
re-nomination of Professor Kathleen E. Kaiser for the position of California
State University Faculty Trustee.
Approved 12/16/04