Fall 2005 the Theflame Magazine of Claremont Graduate University

Flame Summer 2005Q5.qxd 11/4/05 2:32 PM Page 1 Volume 6, Number 2 Fall 2005 the TheFlame Magazine of Claremont Graduate University A Global Vision: President Robert Klitgaard brings a world of experience to CGU 1 C LAREMONT G RADUATE U NIVERSITY Flame Summer 2005Q5.qxd 11/4/05 2:32 PM Page 2 I believe that the future success of our world community theFlame lieslies inin aa tirelesstireless efforteffort toto protect and empower women The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University and children of all societies. Elizabeth Delgado’s skill at soccer led Fall 2005 to an All-American career and a full Volume 6, Number 2 scholarship to Georgetown University. The Flame is published three times Elizabeth Delgado, Ph.D. student in Political Science After graduation, Delgado worked a year by Claremont Graduate with children in Americorp’s City Year University, 150 East Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711. program where she helped create a ©2005 by Claremont Graduate University camp for ESL students, led community Send address changes to: service projects for Young Heroes, and Office of Alumni Affairs facilitated dialogues on racial issues and Claremont Graduate University 165 East Tenth Street discrimination for high school students. Claremont, CA 91711 [email protected] While serving an internship at U.C. Irvine’s Center for Unconventional Managing Editor Carol Bliss ’02, ’04 Security Affairs, Delgado enrolled at CGU and earned a master’s in Inter- Art Director Susan Guntner national Relations. During her doctoral Swan Graphics studies, she was awarded a CGU News Editor fellowship to study the politics of village Bryan Schneider fisherwomen in India, interviewing Alumni Editor community activists about their struggles Joy Kliewer ’97 for social justice. “I tried to grasp their Editorial Contributors social position, struggles and ambitions Mandy Bennett as well as the differences between Jennifer Harden Terence Dobkins rural and urban poverty in India. As Michael Mahin the lowest social class, these women Photographer Credits faced enormous economic and political Cover: Tom Zasadzinski discrimination. I learned about the Page 2-6: Tom Zasadzinski Page 6: Cathy Corder hopes and growth of their grass roots Page 8: Tom Zasadzinski movement, an experience I will never Page 9: (Ryan) Trish Branley (Phillips) Ellen Brazier forget,” she recalls. Page 11: Tom Zasadzinski Page 12-13: Thomas Epley Page 14: Tom Zasadzinski While in India she interviewed and Page 16: Tom Zasadzinski assessed the involvement and impact of Page 20: Anthony Scoggins Page 21: Melissa Jacobs women’s entry into politics on India’s Page 22-23: Anthony Scoggins political policies. Claremont Graduate University, “Liz demonstrated a willingness to take founded in 1925, focuses exclusively on graduate-level study. It is a member on extraordinary challenges. Studying of The Claremont Colleges, a consortium the politics of coastal village fisher- of seven independent institutions. women for CGU’s partnership with the President and University Professor University of Kerala was extremely Robert Klitgaard difficult, given the many social divisions Interim Provost and Vice President in the community,” reports Professor for Academic Affairs of political science, Dean McHenry. Teresa Shaw Help Develop a “She did an extraordinary job.” Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration William L. Everhart Her vision for the future is to help create a more just society Vice President for Advancement John W. Crowe through increasing women’s political empowerment. Vice President for Student Services James Whitaker DREAM Claremont Graduate University does not discriminate in its educational programs on the basis of race, color, creed, place of national origin, gender, Your gift to support the CGU Annual Fund helps students sexual orientation, age, or disability. fulfill their dreams. Make your tax-deductible gift today by calling (909) 621-8027 or click www.cgu.edu/giving. Flame Summer 2005Q5.qxd 11/4/05 2:33 PM Page 3 Contents 4 president’s notebook 5 news from 10th and college Features: 10 A Global Vision: President Robert Klitgaard brings a world of experience to CGU Robert Klitgaard saw many challenges and triumphs in his decades of work to improve the lives of millions around the world. Now, as he becomes Claremont Graduate University’s 13th president, he reflects on the lessons learned that guide him in his new journey. 16 Learning by Design Laurie Richlin of CGU’s Preparing Future Faculty Program improves the quality of learning for college students by teaching future profes- sors to maximize their impact in the classroom — empowering great students to become great teachers. 20 Art for All People Alumna Martha Longenecker’s inspiration and life-long dedication has built the highly acclaimed Mingei International Museum, showcasing the spirit and richness of objects of art from around the world. 24 bookshelf 24 faculty spotlight 28 alumnotes 39 upcoming the Flame Fall 2005 3 Flame Summer 2005Q5.qxd 11/4/05 2:33 PM Page 4 the president’s notebook Overcoming the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide ithin many pastimes there are this reaction is because the quals simply don’t Marx’s history of England). W competing enthusiasms, cultural understand quantitative methods. As a result, Once quantitative work is underway, differences, even barriers of antipathy. quals are incapable of thinking rigorously qualitative techniques can help improve it. For Motorcycling is a good example. In a rude about the multivariate relationships that example, qualitative techniques are being used cartoon two bikers regard each other at a characterize our world. Quants may bristle to calibrate the accuracy and bias of the stoplight. One is a bulky, bearded renegade on when quals distinguish nuanced, qualitative U.S. census. Anthropologists help survey a huge Harley.The other is a sleek youngster participant-observation from clunky, researchers “translate” questions into forms in leathers on a bright Japanese superbike.The quantitative surveys. Listen, for example, that are more understandable to members of cartoon shows each biker’s thoughts. “Idiot,” to the annoyed economist T.N. Srinivasan: different cultural groups. the Harley rider is thinking. “Idiot,” thinks the Quals, conversely, can use quantitative racer.They share at least these opinions in If the description of nuances can vary with research as a springboard for their own work. common, and the fact that, as one motorcycle the observer in a conceptual sense, then Quantitative methods can help identify typical advertisement puts it, “No one has to ride a there is no scientific point in attempting or atypical places to carry out case studies, motorcycle.” to describe them anyway.The quantitative focus groups, and historical research. Quals Most of those whose pastime is research versus qualitative argument is again a may also discover that valuable qualitative have something in common too.They are aca- phony one. If by qualitative one simply insights can emerge from statistical tech- demics, and no one has to be an academic. means an ordinal measure of ranking of a niques and mathematical models. But academics exhibit subcultures as strongly characteristic rather than a cardinal one, When I listen to the hostility between quals differentiated as the motorcyclists’ choppers it is still quantitative. and quants, I’m reminded of the bikers at and cafe racers—and sometimes as hostile. the stoplight. My hunch is that we should cut Among researchers, one line of cultural Equally annoyed, the anthropologist Arjun the methodological muttering and get our differentiation concerns qualitative versus Appadurai responded to Srinivasan by ques- academic Harleys and Kawasakis in motion, quantitative research. Part of our transdisci- tioning “whether problems of social life (and enjoying together what our machinery is for— plinary agenda at CGU is to bridge the standard of living) can be reduced largely to the journeys, the discoveries, the results. qualitative-quantitative divide. You’ll find the their quantitative dimensions (and still remain Friedrich Nietzsche once made a similar divide across and within many disciplines, significant).” Moreover, he questioned point.To paraphrase: Whether we are after including sociology, psychology, management, “whether the problems of how rural people laws through quantitative research or precious political science, and areas of history and talk and think can be divorced from the fact stones through qualitative methods, the real philosophy. that serious differences of worldview and point is not getting to the other side of the Qualitative research methods include terminology separate them from the social earth but the discoveries we make en route. participant observation, case studies, action scientists who study them.” And then to quote: “For this reason, Lessing, research, open-ended interviews, experiential I feel sympathy for both Srinivasan and the most honest of theoretical men, dared to research, clinical studies, textual analysis, Appadurai, and by extension for both quants say that he took greater delight in the quest ethnographic fieldwork, and more. Qualitative and quals. But instead of disdaining each for truth than in the truth itself. He thus researchers, let’s call them “quals,” come in other, won’t we address important problems revealed the fundamental secret of science,” many varieties but share a disdain for exclu- better if we can bridge the qualitative- and perhaps also of successful transdiscipli- sively quantitative

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