Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, October 2014

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Fall 10-1-2014

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Powering Academic Success

Appointment Upcoming Events

Center for Faculty Development Workshops

Wednesday, November 5, 3:00-4:00pm, IRC 101 - Tea and Talk. Featured speaker is Dr. Jennifer Dinalo, Namrata Shukla Named Senior Assistant Librarian at Associate Dean of the CIES our own MLK Library. Namrata or “Nami” Shukla has been Wednesday, November 12, named Associate Dean for the College 12:00-1:00pm, IRC 101 - of International and Extended Studies Understanding Our Students (CIES). She started her new position brown-bag series. This October 27 after being Interim session's topic: Veterans and Associate Dean since January of this their families. year. Thursday, November 13, 12:00-1:00pm, IRC 101 - As the Associate Dean, Nami provides Educated Person Dialogue leadership in the development and brown-bag series. This delivery of extended education session's topic: Recognizing programs and services. She manages the value of constructive a robust portfolio of programs that criticism. meets the educational needs of the Wednesday, November 19, University and local community, as well 3:00-4:00pm, IRC 101 - as work force needs of the State. She Providing Feedback on Student will work closely with faculty and staff to Writing, facilitated by Sara grow SJSU’s special session programs Cook. and oversee the operations of Friday, November 21, 12:00- Intersession and Open University 1:15pm, Engineering 285 programs. - Financial Literacy for Faculty. With the generous support of Prior to being Interim Associate Dean, an American Council on Nami served as the College’s Director Education/Sloan Foundation of Operations and Finance, a position award, we have developed a she continues to ﬁll in addition to her series of Financial Literacy new duties. She has been with SJSU modules to help acquaint you for over six years. with some of the key concepts Click here for the full story. and resources in this area. We invite you to join us for lunch, for a conversation with our Opportunities module authors (Dr. Marco Pagani and Dr. Stoyu Ivanov, of own College of Business). Please RSVP by November 14th.

Open Administrative Positions We are seeking nominees for an outstanding and innovative academic leader for the following positions:

Dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Arts Dean of the College of Social Sciences Associate Vice President for Graduate & Undergraduate Programs Deputy Provost (Posting Soon) SJSURF Executive Director (Posting Soon)

Campus Reading Program On Monday, October 20, Associate SJSU ScholarWorks Justice of the Supreme Court, Sonia Invitation Sotomayor, visited SJSU. Click here The University Library for the Spartan Daily article. There developed SJSU ScholarWorks, San are still opportunities to discuss the José State’s institutional repository, book! to serve our research community. All discussions are scheduled in Like research universities around the Clark Hall 100H: world, SJSU is committed to increasing access to their faculty and Thursday, November 6, students’ scholarly work. Individual 12:00-1:00pm scholars are similarly interested in Wednesday, November 19, promoting their work as widely as 1:00-2:00pm possible while preserving copyright Tuesday, December 2, 2:00- and intellectual property ownership. 3:00pm In response, universities created institutional repositories, or IRs, to offer open access to research including published peer-reviewed articles, preprints, creative works, presentations, data and more.

More than 350 faculty members are already in SJSU ScholarWorks. If your work is not yet in the institutional repository, please email your CV and a photograph to [email protected] to join the ranks of SJSU faculty whose work is accessible worldwide.

An author proﬁle will be created for you, which serves as an interactive CV, in SelectedWorks. ScholarWorks will check the copyright status of each of your scholarly publications and identify those which can be added to the repository.

For more information about SJSU Choices Matter: A ScholarWorks, see the research Community Conversation guide. with John Amaechi Facing History and Ourselves, in partnership with San José State University, welcome John Amaechi OBE, human rights advocate, psychologist, New York Times best- selling author, and former NBA player for a conversation about how each of us faces daily choices that shape the future for our community and Call for Proposals: SJSU ourselves. Diversity Initiative Speaker Series – Fall 2014 As part of Facing History's national In support of SJSU’s commitment to series of Community Conversations meeting the needs of our diverse sponsored by The Allstate faculty, staff, and students, the Ofﬁce Foundation, this event is FREE and of Faculty Affairs and the Center for open to the public. Seating is limited; Faculty Development seek proposals RSVP required. To register or for to bring to campus educators and more information, click here or call scholars who can share their (510) 786-2500 ext. 226. Thursday, knowledge, spark discussion, and November 6, 2014, from 7:00- inspire the SJSU community as we 9:00pm in Morris Dailey strive to nurture an inclusive, Auditorium. respectful, and caring learning community. For additional information and an application form, click here (PDF). Applications are due by 5pm, on Friday, November 21st, 2014. Contact Dr. Amy Strage for any additional information.

SJSU to Re-dedicate Renovated Yoshihiro Uchida SJSU ERFA Inaugurates a Hall New Research and Creative Activity Award President Mo Qayoumi will host the It is with great pleasure that the re-dedication of Yoshihiro Uchida Hall Board of the SJSU Emeritus and on November 7, from 3:00-5:30pm Retired Faculty Association (SJSU in honor of the 94-year-old judo ERFA) announces the inaugural year coach Yosh Uchida. The building has of the SJSU ERFA Faculty Research recently undergone a yearlong and Creative Activity Award, AY renovation. The building is shared by 2014-2015. the College of Applied Arts and

Sciences and the Division of The award was created by SJSU Intercollegiate Athletics. ERFA to support scholarly research For more information on the event or and creative activity that advance the Yoshihiro Uchida’s honors and careers of faculty applicants. It is awards, contact 924-1120. intended to support research, creative activity, travel to present at conferences, and/or acquisition of equipment related to scholarly and creative endeavors.

Faculty eligible to apply SJSU Celebration of include lecturers with more than 6 Research years of continuous service to SJSU, tenure-track faculty and tenured Monday, November 17, 2014, 4:00- faculty. 6:00pm in the Student Union Ballroom. Free & open to the SJSU Administrative support will be Campus. Refreshments will be provided by the Center for Faculty Development for the application served. process; the Tower Foundation will Presenting Early Career Investigator administer the award. The deadline Awardees: for submission of all required materials is 5:00 pm, Friday, Scott Hamilton - Moss Landing December 5, 2014. Marine Labs, College of Science Application materials can also found Matthew Holian - Department be on the CFD website, under the of Economics, College of RSCA tab. Social Sciences

Honoring Undergraduate Research Program:

Student-Faculty Research Pair Awardees Featuring the Research Foundation Collaborative Research Annual Report Honorees: Grants With sponsoring from the National Thalia Anagnos Endowment for the Humanities, Jonathan Lovell Collaborative Research Grants are Essam Marouf now available. Seeking proposals to Gilles Muller support interpretive humanities Matthew Spangler research undertaken by a team of two or more scholars, for full-time or part-time activities for periods of one to three years. Support is available for various combinations of scholars, consultants, and research assistants; project-related travel; ﬁeldwork; applications of information technology; and technical support University Scholar Series and services. View the ﬂyer (PDF) Jo Farb Hernández speak about her or visit the website for more book, Singular Spaces: From the information. If you are interested in Eccentric to the Extraordinary in applying to this program, please Spanish Art Environments. contact your Sponsored Programs Wednesday, November 19, from Manager, Sydney Chui, at (408) 924- 12:00 - 1:00pm in MLK 255/257. 1427.

For additional opportunities check the Foundation website. Important Announcements

Accessible Education Center The Accessible Education Center AAD Staff Appreciation (AEC) is here to help our students. Breakfast Please take a few minutes to review Join us at the Division-wide breakfast the Fall 2014 Accommodations event as we celebrate and recognize Bulletin (PDF), as it informs you of staff! There will be prizes, activities, AEC’s services. Do not hesitate to call and entertainment. Visit the event AEC at 924-6000 if you have any website for more information about questions pertaining to our the event and the food drive. department. Thursday, November 20, from 8:00 - 10:30am in the Student Union Ballroom.

Help Students Avoid Roadblocks to Spring Registration Women in Justice Studies During the summer and at the start of Professor Tanya Bakhru, Women's this semester, all incoming new Studies, will chair a panel discussion students were notiﬁed through their on the related topic of "Women in MySJSU accounts that they are Justice Systems." Participants will required to complete the online include Prof. Kate Davis, Global course(s) listed below: Studies; Prof. Edith Kinney, Justice Studies; Layma Ahmadzai, Student Undergraduate Affairs. Thursday, November 20, Haven: Understanding Sexual Assault at 4:30pm in MLK 225/229. (45 min) AlcoholEdu (90 min) Graduate Haven: Understanding Sexual Assault (45 min)

Students who fail to complete these What should our future as a classes will have a hold placed on their university be? Spring 2015 registration. These Please join us for a series of TED- courses support SJSU’s commitment to like talks about the long-term future creating a safe, healthy, and supportive of our university. Our ﬁnest teacher- learning environment for our whole scholars will deliver a 30-minute community while also addressing CSU lecture, “The Future of SJSU," to be Executive Orders 1095 and 1097 in followed by a 30-minute open compliance with new educational discussion. The goal of these mandates under Title IX, conversations is to provide a forum VAWA/Campus SaVE Act, and the for thoughtful, positive discussions of Clery Act. our future as an institution so that we can focus our goals and begin to Incoming students have received develop a strategy for achieving numerous reminders to complete the them. The lectures will be recorded, course(s) through EverFi, the course for those who are unable to attend. platform. A signiﬁcant number of students have not completed the Thursday, October 30, at noon courses and therefore, will NOT be in MLK 255 - Professor Michael able to register for classes when Spring Kaufman, Department of 2015 registration opens on November Physics 3, 3014. Tuesday, November 25, at Encourage students to complete the noon in MLK 255 - Professor courses listed above so they are able Guna Selvaduray, Department to register for spring classes on their of Biomedical, Chemical, and assigned date. Materials Engineering Friday, December 5, at noon Copies of the original letters students in MLK 225 - Professor Ronald received, including detailed directions, Rogers, Department of can be found at the Wellness & Health Psychology Promotion Website.

Awards and Honors New Website Shares SWEEP Collaboration The College of Applied Sciences and Arts Social Work Education Enhancement Program (SWEEP) Social Work Professor Awarded launched a new website to keep NIDA Grant visitors informed about past and The National Institute on Drug Abuse upcoming activities of the (NIDA) recently awarded funding to collaborative. SWEEP is an College of Applied Sciences and Arts international consortium, which School of Social Work Professor Laurie includes USAID, SJSU, eight Drabble and Alcohol Research Group universities in Vietnam, government Scientist Karen Trocki for their study on ministries, Cisco Systems, Inc., rates of alcohol consumption, hazardous community agencies, and stakeholders. drinking patterns, and tobacco and illicit The purpose of SWEEP is to assist the drug use among sexual minority women eight universities in Vietnam with (SMW). The researchers will apply and improving their undergraduate social test innovative methods and techniques work educational programs. Click here for sampling rare populations in addition to visit the SWEEP website. to comparing outcomes between populations.

Helen Stevens Outstanding Educators Awards The Helen Stevens Outstanding Elementary Educators Awards were presented at a Students Tour SJSU st reception and program on October 21 in As part of a College Day campus the MLK Library. This years award tour, students from Olinder winners are: Elementary School spent the day at SJSU. Provost Feinstein spoke to the Tamara McKinnon, Nursing students about what everyday life is Linda Levine. Health Science and like in college. Read the Spartan Recreation Daily article here and click here to Yasue Yanai, World Languages and see more photos from the event. Literature

SJSU Successes

25th Anniversary of the Center for the Development of Recycling Few people know of the successes accomplished by our Center for Development of Recycling program. The CDR was founded in 1989 and Fulbright Specialist Roster operates a local Recycling Hotline Professor Arvinder Loomba, Global and website RecycleStuff.org with a Innovation and Leadership, has been part-time Director, two compensated selected by the Fulbright Foreign part-time students who serve as Scholarship Board, the U.S. Department Administrative Managers, a Project of State’s Bureau of Education and Manager, and several volunteer Cultural Affairs, and the Council for students who earn academic credit. International Exchange of Scholars to the The CDR Director is Environmental Fulbright Specialist Roster for the ﬁve- Studies Professor Bruce Olszewski, year term of 2014-2019 in areas of who has been responsible for overall business administration and medical management since 1989. Students product development. This is a rigorously gain practical work experience in the competitive process of vetting candidates’ rapidly developing ﬁeld of integrated publishing and teaching records and waste management (IWM). So far, impact on international education. over 80 CDR Students have gone on

to careers in IWM. The Center for Development of Recycling has been recognized with several service- learning awards, including the prestigious 2014 Waste Prevention Program of the Year from the California Resource Recovery Association. Click here for more information.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Recognized as a Chapter of Merit Green Ninja wins Innovation San José State University’s chapter of the Award National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi On October 1, 2014, San José was named a “Chapter of Merit” at the State’s Green Ninja project received Society’s Biennial Convention in St. Louis, a 2014 Science Technology MO. Phi Kappa Phi is the oldest and Engineering and Mathematics largest collegiate honor society that Innovation Award from the Silicon inducts persons from every academic Valley Education Foundation. The discipline. The SJSU chapter, founded in award was presented during the 1953, has over 3000 members including foundation’s annual event, Pioneers students, alumni, administrators, faculty & Purpose, on Oct. 1st at the and staff. Last April, SJSU’s chapter Fairmont San José. initiated over 260 of the university’s “These organizations represent the highest performing juniors, seniors and best in the country working to provide graduate students. STEM experiences that strengthen

and inspire students to explore their To be chosen for membership, a student curiosity in STEM ﬁelds,” Silicon must be a second semester junior with a Valley Education Foundation CEO GPA of at least 3.65, a senior with a GPA Muhammed Chaudhry said. of at least 3.5 or a graduate student with a

GPA of 4.0. Candidates for membership The project is a multi-platform climate for 2015 will be selected from qualiﬁed science education initiative that is students after grades are reported for the driven by a strong collaboration of fall semester. For more information faculty members and students across contact [email protected]. various departments including Meteorology and Climate Science; Geology; Computer Science; Science Education; Primary Education; Television, Radio, Film and Theatre; and Animation and Illustration.

The project has worked with more than 100 teachers and reached 2,000 students. Episodes of “The Green Ninja Show” have had more than a million views on YouTube and TeacherTube.

The national award recognizes Kevin Jordon to Receive pioneering programs that have Prestigious Award from NASA demonstrated innovation in STEM Professor Kevin Jordan, Psychology, has education. It also included a cash been selected to receive the NASA prize of $5,000, which will support Exceptional Public Service Medal at the students working on the show’s NASA Honor Awards Ceremony on second season. The project uses a November 19. According to the NASA collection of funny ﬁlms and hands- Ames Center Director, Dr. S.Pete on experiences to help young individuals develop motivation and Norman, "This is one of the most the tools to do something about our prestigious awards an individual can changing global climate. receive, and is present to selected individuals who have distinguished “By blending science, engineering, themselves by making outstanding and the arts, the Green Ninja Project contributions to the NASA mission." aims to become a nationally recognized icon for education and This is the highest award given by NASA action on climate change,” said to a person who is not a federal Professor of Meteorology and employee. Kevin stated, "It is truly Climate Science, Eugene Cordero. humbling, and while it focuses on me as Click here to read more. an individual, it shines very brightly on SJSU."

Statway Program Awarded The Lucas College and $15,000 Carnegie Grant Graduate School of Business Earn High Marks Five colleges, including SJSU, have been In rankings for undergraduate and awarded grants to develop bridges from Part-Time MBA in the Bay Area, The the Pathways to other ﬁelds of study. The Lucas College ranks number one for collective goal is to develop bridge colleges offering only bachelor’s and courseware that can be used by all of our master’s degrees. colleges to create new destinations for Pathways students. These bridges to new courses are designed to make the Pathways an appropriate choice for many more students. Click here for more information

NEH funded Summer Institute Focuses on the Immigrant Experience The Communication Studies and Theatre Arts Departments at San José State University received a federal grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for FMA Named a Superior Chapter $161,797 to host a two-week-long The Financial Management Association summer institute on the topic of (FMA) student organization has again theatre and immigration, titled “The won the Superior Chapter Award. This Immigrant Experience in California highly coveted designation is awarded to through Literature and Theatre.” less than 1% of FMA chapters. Kudos to Twenty-ﬁve participants, selected Carroll Buck and Bill DeVincenzi for their nationally though a competitive excellent leadership as faculty advisors! application pool of 160 applicants, spent two weeks in San José (July 13-27, 2014). Participants met with some of the most highly renowned artists and scholars working at the intersection of theatre, literature, and immigration. Institute scholars included:

Maxine Hong Kingston (author Three Finalists from SJSU of Woman Warrior) in CSUMedia Arts Festival 2014 Luis Valdez (author of Zoot In the feature ﬁlm category of the CSU Suit) Media Arts Festival, there are only three Ping Chong (Obie award ﬁnalists this year--and they're all from winning performance artist, SJSU! The only suspense is WHICH based in New York, NY) SJSU student will win. See below for the Donna Gabaccia (Professor of full list. Note that one of the students is History, University of from the MFA Creative Writing Program. Minnesota) The awards will be presented at The CSU Judy Yung (Professor of Media Arts Festival, hosted by CSU Los History, University of California, Angeles on Saturday, November 8. Santa Cruz) FEATURE SCREENPLAY Kelly Lytle Hernandez (Associate Professor of History, EM, Cassia Homann (pictured University of California, above, left) Los Angeles) Porcelain, Chau Nguyen Sharon Ott (Professor of White Rabbit, Michael Quintana Theatre Savannah College of (pictured above, right) Art and Design) Kinan Valdez (Associate Artistic Director, El Teatro Campesino) Sara Zatz (Associate Director, Ping Chong & Company) Glen Gendzel (Associate Professor of History, San José Scholarship Award Winners State University) CASA Alumni Association Dean’s Persis Karim (Associate Scholarships Professor of English, San José State University) David Elliott, Social Work, Major Aditi Brennan Kapil (writer, Michelle Mussett, Social Work, actress, director based in Graduate Student Minneapolis, MN) Santa Cruz Area Chapter of the Matthew Spangler (Associate Alumni Association Scholarships Professor Performance Studies, San José State Anna Sramek, Nutritional Science University) Kelly McGuckin, Nursing David Kahn (Professor of Nancy Zuniga, Social Work Theatre Arts, San José State University) For more on these honorees visit the Alumni Association website. Matthew Spangler, associate professor of performance and communication studies, and David Kahn, professor of theatre arts, co- hosted the institute, along with Glen Gendzel, professor of history, Sara Zatz, associate director of Ping Chong & Company, and Maria Judnick, program coordinator. Dr. Spangler served as the point person and the grant’s Principle Investigator. Phyllis and Alan Simpkins Leadership Award Gina Guglielmoni was awarded the Phyllis and Alan Simpkins Leadership Award to pursue a graduate degree in kinesiology so she can start a career helping athletes rehabilitate sports-related injuries. She noted that she comes from a family of Spartans. From Pakistan to SJSU Phyllis and Alan Simpkins provided You may have seen some of our extraordinary leadership and vision for international visitors over the past SJSU and an unparalleled level of support month on campus. San José State across campus. To honor their memory, University is partnered with Allama the Alumni Association created this award Iqbal Open University (AIOU) in to recognize a student who demonstrates Pakistan through the Pakistan strong academics, leadership, and Distance Education Enhancement volunteerism efforts. Project (PDEEP). On September

20th, four selected faculty exchange guests arrived to begin their adventures at SJSU. Allama Iqbal Open University is based in Islamabad, Pakistan, and has over 1 million enrolled students annually. SJSU and AIOU participate frequently in faculty exchange programs as well as utilizing software conferencing and educational Scholarship Winner from MST management systems. Alexander Ciak, MS in Taxation received Click here for more information on a prestigious scholarship from Tax our various international programs. Executives International, Santa Clara For more details on the PDEEP Valley Chapter. Alex was also a Salzburg program, click here. Scholar and a member of the Sbona Honors Program. This Chapter also stated that it “believes the MST Program at SJSU is one of the ﬁnest programs in the country.” Kudos to Annette Nellen! If you have a story you'd like to see in the Academic Affairs Division Newsletter, please click here!

Grants Report from the Foundation Ofﬁce Of Sponsored Programs Summary for the September 2014 reports for contract and grant awards and proposals submitted by the SJSU Research Foundation:

Awards - 29 new awards were received for a total of $3,195,331. Proposals - 24 proposals requesting a total of $3,421,135 were submitted to sponsoring agencies.

Please note that these reports can also be found on the Research Foundation's website under "Quick Links."