Civic & Academic Engagement in the Multiversity (Symposium: June 10, 2005)
Panelists & Presentations
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Jodi Anderson is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in education at UCLA. Her research interests center on organizational change, institutional civic engagement as well as student engagement during and beyond the college years. While at UCLA, she has served as a teaching assistant in education courses and conducted course evaluation and research projects through the UCLA College of Letters and Science Office of Evaluation and Research. Currently, she is a research analyst in the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute and is working on a longitudinal study of the effects of service-learning on civic engagement in the post-college years. Ms. Anderson holds a BA in psychology from UCSB, an MA in education from UCLA and is the 2004-5 Student Regent for the University of California.
Robert J. Birgeneau became the ninth chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, on Sept. 22, 2004. An internationally distinguished physicist, he is a leader in higher education and is well known for his commitment to diversity and equity in the academic community. Before coming to Berkeley, Birgeneau served four years as president of the University of Toronto. He previously was dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent 25 years on the faculty. He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, has received many awards for teaching and research, and is one of the most cited physicists in the world for his work on the fundamental properties of materials.
Michael T. Brown is a Professor of Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California - Santa Barbara and Fellow in the American Psychological Association. Dr. Brown has published books, book chapters, and articles that contribute to understanding the cultural variables underlying the career and educational choice behavior of racial/ethnic minorities and women. He is the 2004-2006 Chair of Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools of UC’s Academic Senate.
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Clifford Brunk has been a faculty member in the Biology Department (Zoology, Biology, Organismic Biology Ecology & Evolution, Ecological & Evolutionary Biology) at UCLA since 1967. His research is in the area of molecular evolution, where he deals with the molecular mechanisms influencing the evolution of genomes. He teaches a general education course, LS15, dealing with evolution, genetics and the impact of humans on the earth for non-majors, an upper division course in molecular evolution, EEB121, and various graduate courses and seminars.
Thomas Ehrlich is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation where he co-directs the Political Engagement Project and the Foundations and Education Project. He also assists the Preparation for the Professions Program. Previously, he was co-director of the Foundation's study of Higher Education and the Development of Moral and Civic Responsibility. From 1995 to 2000, he was a Distinguished University Scholar at California State University and taught regularly at San Francisco State University in community-service learning courses. He was formerly president of Indiana University, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and dean of Stanford Law School. He is author or editor of 10 books, including Higher Education and Civic Responsibility (2000). Ehrlich was one of the authors of the Carnegie/Jossey Bass book, Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility (2003). He graduated from Harvard and Harvard Law School and holds five honorary degrees.
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Richard Flacks is one of the principal investigators for SERU. Professor of Sociology at UCSB, his research and writing on student culture and politics began in the early 1960s. His books include: Persistence and Change: A college and its students after 25 years; Youth and Social Change; Beyond the Barricades: The Liberated Generation Grows Up, and he is the author of a number of widely cited articles on student activism, student protest and academic engagement. He is the chair of the UCSB Committee on Admission, enrollment and Relations with Schools and a member of BOARS. His efforts to promote student civic engagement were recognized by the establishment of the Richard Flacks Internship by the UCSB Associated Students.
Andrew Furco is Director of UC Berkeley’s Service-Learning Research and Development Center at UC Berkeley, where he serves on the Graduate School of Education faculty. His research focuses on addressing issues pertaining to the impacts, implementation, and institutionalization of school-sponsored service-learning and civic engagement initiatives. Since 1994, he has led more than two dozen research and evaluation studies on service-learning in K-12 education, teacher education, and higher education. His more than 30 publications include the books, Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy (2002) and Service-Learning Through A Multidisciplinary Lens (2003), both of which he co-edited with Shelley H. Billig. His forthcoming book, Institutionalizing Service-Learning in Higher Education, takes a look at the key dimensions that enable colleges and universities to advance and ultimately institutionalize service-learning. Since 2002, he has served as a member of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement. Furco is the recipient of the 2003 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Service-Learning Research, presented by the Annual International Conference on Service-Learning Research. In March 2004, he was selected by The Ohio State University as the nation’s first John Glenn Scholar for Service-Learning.
Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. received his B.A. from Drake University and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is Associate Vice Chancellor, Community Partnerships, Professor of Political Science, and Founding Director of the Center for Communications and Community at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grinnell College, and the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. Most recently, he has taught with former Vice President Al Gore at Columbia University, Fisk University, and Middle Tennessee State University. He is a Visiting Scholar (not in-residence) at Brandeis University. Professor Gilliam has served as the Research Director for the California Commission on the Status of African American Males and as Chair of the B.A. and M.A. Programs at the Center for African-American Studies, UCLA. He is the author of the Farther to Go: Reading and Cases in African-American Politics (Harcourt Brace) and, with Shanto Iyengar, the forthcoming Race, Television News, and American Politics: Script-based Reasoning about Crime and Welfare (Princeton University Press).
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M.R.C. Greenwood is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs for the 10-campus University of California (UC) system. She previously served with distinction as chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, a position she held from July 1996 to March 2004. In addition to her administrative responsibilities, Dr. Greenwood also holds a UC Santa Cruz appointment as professor of biology. Prior to her UC Santa Cruz appointments, Dr. Greenwood served as dean of graduate studies, vice provost for academic outreach, and professor of biology and internal medicine at UC Davis. In addition, she served as associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1993 to 1995. Previously, Dr. Greenwood taught at Vassar College where she was the John Guy Vassar Professor of Natural Sciences and chair of the biology department.
Barbara A. Holland is the Director of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC), funded by the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service. She also holds appointments as a Senior Scholar in the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and as Adjunct Professor at University of Western Sydney and Australian Catholic University. She was an academic officer at Portland State University (91-98) and Northern Kentucky University (98-00). While serving as a loaned executive at HUD (2000-2002), she managed a portfolio of $40 million in competitive grant programs funding university-community partnerships. Her research agenda focuses on factors and strategies related to organizational change in higher education with a focus on institutionalization and assessment of civic engagement programs. A frequent speaker and consultant in the US and abroad, she has published more than 30 works on these topics, including co-authorship of Assessment of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (2001), a widely used model for assessing engagement programs. She is Executive Editor of Metropolitan Universities journal and on the editorial board of three other journals related to engagement. Her Bachelor and Masters degrees were earned at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, and she holds the Ph.D. in higher education policy from the University of Maryland-College Park.
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Joe Kiskis is Professor of Physics, University of California at Davis. His research specialty is elementary particle theory. He currently is Chair of the University Committee on Educational Policy. In the past, he has served as Vice Chair of the Davis Division of the Academic Senate, and Chair of the Davis Division Undergraduate Council, which was instrumental in establishing the University Writing Program at UC Davis. From 1999 to 2003, he co-led the WASC reaccredidation effort at UC Davis.
Kathleen L. Komar is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she won the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989. She was elected Chair of the Academic Senate at UCLA for 2004-05. And she was elected President of the American Comparative Literature Association for the 2005-07 term. Komar has published on a variety of topics from Romanticism to the present in American and German literature; she has written on the works of Hermann Broch, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfred Döblin, Christa Wolf and Ingeborg Bachmann, among others. Her books include Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation (2003), Transcending Angels: Rainer Maria Rilke's "Duino Elegies" (l987), Pattern and Chaos: Multilinear Novels by Dos Passos, Faulkner, Döblin, and Koeppen (1983), and the collection Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations, co-edited with Ross Shideler, (1998).
Jennifer Lilla is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in Biomedical Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco, and is currently President of the University of California Student Association, representing the 200,000 students of the University of California. She is a predoctoral fellow in the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program. Jennifer attended UC Berkeley as an undergraduate, majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies and minoring in French. In addition to her academic and advocacy pursuits, she is interested in science education outreach for girls.
Meredith Minkler is Professor of Health and Social Behavior and Director of the Program at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. She has close to 30 years' experience in working with under served communities on community-identified issues through community building, community organizing, and community based participatory research. Her current research includes documenting the impacts of community based participatory research on public policy, empowerment intervention studies with youth and the elderly, and national studies of health disparities in older Americans. Dr. Minkler is co-author or editor of 7 books and over 100 articles and book chapters including Community Organizing and Community Building for Health (2nd edition 2005), the co-edited volume Community Based Participatory Research for Health (with Nina Wallerstein) (2003), Grandmothers as Caregivers (with Kathleen Roe), and Critical Perspectives on Aging (with Carroll L. Estes).
Michael Schudson is Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at UCSD. He served as co-director 1996-2001 of the UCSD Civic Collaborative, a project to link UCSD faculty and students to the broader San Diego community through their research and teaching. He participates in Thurgood Marshall College, one of UCSD¹s six undergraduate colleges, serving as its acting provost 2001-03 and presently as director of the campus-wide "public service minor" administered through Thurgood Marshall. Schudson's academic research concerns the history and sociology of American journalism and the history of civic participation in the U.S. The latter topic is taken up in The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life (Free Press, 1998).
Denise A. Segura is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in Chicana Feminist Studies, Latina/o education, and Chicana/Mexicana employment. Professor Segura has been at UC Santa Barbara since 1987 and has contributed to the development of Chicana/o sociology in her department as well as in the Center for Chicano Studies where she served as Director from 1994-1999. She has published numerous articles and chapters on Chicanas and Mexican immigrant women, work and family. Currently she is engaged in collaborative research with Dr. Richard Duran (Education) on Chicano/Latino education that is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for $1.5 million with matching funds from UCSB. This project, "ENLACE y Avance" seeks to identify new sites of empowerment for families to negotiate pathways for their children in schools as well as develop more effective partnerships between UCSB and local community organizations and schools. This project builds upon the research report she authored, Latinos in Isla Vista (1999). ENLACE y Avance promotes the civic engagement of numerous undergraduates and graduate students interested in serving as mentors/advocates for children and families in the local community. She currently is Vice-Chair of the University Committee on Educational Policy. In the past she has served as Chair of UC Santa Barbara’s Undergraduate Council.
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Gregg E. Thomson has been the Director, Office of Student Research at the University of California, Berkeley since 1990 and is a Co-Principal Investigator for the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) project. Berkeley's Office of Student Research is recognized as a leader in the design and implementation of large-scale Web-based surveys of university students, and Thomson has helped direct the development of the University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES). With a particular interest in the analysis of minority issues in higher education, Thomson has conducted award-winning research on student use of ethnic categories and on minority retention programs at Berkeley. He is currently the University of California representative, Executive Board, California Association for Institutional Research.
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Lori Vogelgesang is the director of the Center for Service Learning Research and Dissemination at the Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA. She currently directs the multi-year grant: Understanding the Effects of Service Learning: A Study of Students and Faculty. This study continues the work of HERI to understand how service learning is affecting students and faculty in higher education. The student study examines the post-college impact of participating in service learning during the undergraduate years. The longitudinal survey will mark the second follow-up the 1994 freshman cohort, and explores how service learning and other college experiences are shaping their lives as adults. The faculty study surveys faculty across the nation, in order to understand their beliefs, work, and participation in service learning and civic engagement pedagogies. Lori is also "on loan" to the Chancellor’s Center for Community Partnerships at UCLA, working with the Center to implement and evaluate grants for faculty, staff, students and community agencies. In this work, she is examining how research universities work for the public good, and how they partner with local communities to improve lives.
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Jeff R. Wright is founding Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Merced (since September, 2001). He was formerly Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Indiana Water Resources Research Center at Purdue University. Professor Wright holds undergraduate degrees in social psychology and in civil engineering from the University of Washington, an MSCE also from the University of Washington, and a Doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University through the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Wright is a member of the Action Forum on Diversity of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of Civil Engineer's Journal of Infrastructure Systems, and is co-author of a leading textbook entitled Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering.
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