Les Adler joined the faculty of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University in 1970 after receiving his B.A. degree from the University of New Mexico (1963) and his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. degrees (1970) in history from the University of California at Berkeley. During his thirty years of teaching in the interdisciplinary Hutchins program, Adler also served as a resident faculty member in the American Institute for Foreign Study's London Semester program in 1983, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Singapore during the 1991-1992 academic year. Author of The Red Image: American Attitudes Toward Communism in the Cold War Era, (1991), as well as articles dealing with the effects of anti-communism on American life and culture, he has published essays on current events in several national newspapers and on National Public Radio, and has regularly reviewed books on Eastern Europe, Russia and the U. S. for the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to his teaching, research and writing, Dr. Adler also served as Provost of the Hutchins School, Director of the Hutchins Center for Interdisciplinary Learning and director of several California State University grant programs. He was appointed Dean of the School of Extended Education in 2002.