Benjamin Paul Bowser

Department of Sociology and Social Services 7075 Elverton Drive 3103 Meiklejohn Hall Oakland, Ca. 94611 California State University East Bay 510-339-2192 V/F Hayward, Ca. 94542 510-885-3173 Office [email protected] 510-885-2390 Fax ______1987- Professor of Sociology and Social Services, California State University, East Bay.

 Sociology and Social Services Department Chair (9/2005-6, 2008 - )  Director of CSUEB Urban Institute  Teaching Emphasis: Graduate and Undergraduate Research Methods.  Awarded 15 Research Grants - $1.7 million; Supervised up to 11 staff.  Associate Editor, Sage Race Relations Abstracts (London).

2006.8 Interim Dean, College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, California State University East Bay.

 Chief Academic Officer: 4,000 students, 374 faculty, $18 million budget.

1985- Research Director, Social Research, Evaluation and Training Network, Oakland, Ca.

 Conduct community-based program evaluations and needs assessments.

1990.1 Research Director, Bayview Hunters Point Foundation, San Francisco, Ca.

 Managed $857,000 National Institute Drug Abuse subcontract and 23 Staff.  Awarded $267,000 U.S. Centers for Disease Control research contract.

1985.6 Assistant to the Director, Information Technology Services, Stanford University

 Developed strategic and budget planning for 400 person $40 mil. Division.

1983.5 Director of Black Student Affairs, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Ca.

 Responsible for academic and personal counseling of Black students.  Reduced Black student attrition by 70%.

1982.3 Director, Minority Education Office, Western Interstate Commission Higher Ed. Boulder, Co.

 Strategic planning/minority education consulting for Higher Education Departments of 13 Western States.  Awarded $294,000 Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education grant for computer based interstate course credits transfer system. 1975.2 Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

 Coordinated University-wide effort to recruit minority graduate and professional students to 82 programs.  Managed University’s Minority Graduate Fellowship Program: $3 mil.  Awarded $1.8 mil in Patricia Harris Federal Fellowship funds.  Counseled to completion: 50 Ph.D. and 180 Masters minority students.

1972.5 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Afro-Am., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, N.Y.

 Taught Urban Sociology and African American Studies.

Education Ph.D. Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1969-76). Dissertation: Black Political Publics: The Formation of Non-Electoral Political Attitudes among Blacks in New York City (Harlem) 1976.

B.A. Sociology, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. (1965-69).

Awards/Honors

 Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Spring, 2005.

 President, Association of Black Sociologists, 2004-5.

 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Publication, Against the Odds: Scholars Who Challenged Racism in Twentieth Century. 2003.

 Presidential Distinguished Fellow, Franklin and Marshall College, 1997.

 Outstanding Professor of the Year, California State University, Hayward, 1996.

 James H. Nakano Citation for Outstanding Scientific Paper (Edlin, et al.), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1995.

 Field Poll Faculty Fellow, 1992-3.

 Meritorious Performance & Professional Promise, California State Univ. Hayward, 1990.

 Contribution to Higher Education in Santa Clara Valley, San Jose Urban League, 1987.

 Visiting Research Scholar, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1984.

 Social Science Association Honor for Impacts of Racism on White Americans, 1982.

 Rockefeller Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1972.

Extracurricular

Sailing San Francisco, Caribbean, France, Greece; Tai Chi; Okinawa Gojyu-Ryu.

Languages French; written Spanish.

BENJAMIN P. BOWSER -- BOARDS AND COMMITTEE SERVICE

Workforce Investment Board (WIB), Oakland, California, Office of the Mayor (2009- ).

Editorial Board, Thought and Action, National Education Association (2003-2008).

Board Member, Glide Foundation of Glide Memorial Methodist Church, San Francisco (9/93- ).

Board Member (Chair 2001), American Social Health Association (ASHA), Durham, NC. (member: 9/1996-2002).

Alumni Western Advisory Committee, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa. (1993-99).

Planning Committee on HIV Prevention Activity in 1997, AIDS Research Office, National Institute of Health, Bestheda, MD. (1995).

Review Panelist, Minority Graduate Fellowship Program, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. (1993-5).

Board Member, Bayshore Employment Service, Inc. East Palo Alto, An United Way Agency (5/86-97).

Board Member, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change of Santa Clara Valley, San Jose, Ca. (6/86-9/89).

Committee on Sociological Practice, American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. (9/85-8/87).

Board Member, Peninsula Association of Black Personnel Administrators, Sunnyvale, Ca. (11/87-11/88)

Advisory Board, Our Developing World, Inc. (Conducts educational tours to Africa and Latin America), Sunnyvale, Ca. (6/84-02).