Professional Announcements

8/30/2004

° Faculty listed below have recently been deemed eligible as Faculty Emeriti by the President: Susan Barnes, Hutchins; Daniel Haytin, Sociology; Julia Allen, English; Marilyn Cannon, Biology; Thomas Cooke, ELSE;
Gregory Crow, Nursing; Sandra DeBella, Nursing; Jayne DeLawter, Education; Susan Garfin, Sociology; Lucia Gattone, Counseling & Psychological Services; Richard Gordon, Computer Science; Robert Jefferson, History Lecturer; Stephen Lewis, Economics; Wingham Liddell, Business Administration; Jane Luchini, SSP, Student Admissions; Thomas Nolan, Nursing; Patricia Monighan Nourot, LSEE; Robert Plantz, Computer Science; Dianne Romain, Philosophy; Robert Slagle, Psychology; David Van Nuys, Psychology and Judith Hunt, Psychology.
 
° Recently announcing their retirement are Raymond Castro, Chicano and Latino Studies, and Sandra Heft, Cataloging Librarian.

° The Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) announced its inaugural Excellence in Media Literacy Award winners during its "Declarations of Media Independence" conference held in San Francisco this summer. Project Censored was a winner of one of the Advocacy/Reform awards. ACME is an independently-funded and member-supported nonprofit coalition championing critical media literacy education, independent media production, and grassroots media reform. To find out more, visit www.acmecoalition.org.

° Kathy Harris, Director of the California Literature & Reading Project, and Greta Vollmer, English, will collaborate with Carol Tateishi, Director of the Bay Area Writing Project, UC Berkeley,on a year-long research initiative funded by the University of California Literacy Consortium. The two subject-matter project directors will work with teams of middle school teachers doing classroom-based research on the teaching of academic genres to at-risk students. The two school sites involved are in Oakland (Ascend Charter School) and Santa Rosa (Lincoln Elementary School). Greta Vollmer will serve as research advisor and faculty support to the project.

° In July, Elizabeth C. Martinez, Modern Languages AND Literatures, made a presentation on various levels of meaning in Sandra Cisneros' novel, "House on Mango Street," for volunteer leaders and directors of the Konocti Girl Scouts of Sonoma County. Since this is the book designated for reading in this region for the present school year, the Girl Scout leaders were seeking how to better guide reading and understanding of this novel.

° William Babula, English, delivered a paper, "THE TAMING OF THE SHREW and the New Historicism," at the fourth annual Wooden O Conference held at Southern Utah University in conjunction with the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah, August 2-4.