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Volume 8, Number 1 Spring 2007

the FlameThe Magazine of Claremont Graduate University

“9-1-1, what’s the nature of your emergency?” Flame Spring 07 acg r5:Flame Fall AR 2004 fQ4.qxd 7/12/07 4:18 PM Page 2

theFlame The Magazine of Claremont Graduate University inin aa universityuniversity dedicateddedicated Spring 2007 InvestInvest Volume 8, Number 1 The Flame is published by toto unboundedunbounded thinkingthinking andand excellence.excellence. Claremont Graduate University 150 East Tenth Street, Claremont, CA 91711 ©2007 by Claremont Graduate University

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Editorial Contributors Brendan Babish Mandy Bennett Deborah Haar Clark Joseph Coombe Dean Gerstein Steven K. Wagner

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Photographers Kevin Burke Marc Campos Gabriel Fenoy Kimi Kolba Fred Prouser/Reuters/Corbis in a university dedicated Tom Zasadzinski Invest Claremont Graduate University, founded in 1925, focuses exclusively on graduate-level study. It is a to unbounded thinking and excellence. member of The Claremont Colleges, a consortium of seven independent Your gift supports: Annual Giving institutions. President and University Professor Robert Klitgaard Office of Advancement World-class teaching and distinguishedYour gift supports: Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs research that cultivates future leaders 165 E. Tenth St. Yi Feng World-class teaching and distinguished research that cultivate future whose talents enrich the lives of others. Claremont, CA 91711-6160 Senior Vice President for Finance and leaders whose talents enrich the lives of others. Administration 909.621.8027 William Everhart To give online, visit Vice President for Advancement Pioneering technology and academicPioneering technology and academic innovation that enhance the Grantland S. Rice university’s reputation. innovation that enhances the university’s www.cgu.edu/giving Vice President for Student Services James Whitaker

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contents

4 the president’s notebook 6 news: research, teaching, outreach 10 news: the university

Features

12 Emergency in Health Care: Continuing inventive research and a new master’s degree program focusing on information technology and health care show a School of Information Systems and Technology that’s progressive, challenging, and growing in scope. 18 Honor Roll 2006-2007: Claremont Graduate University could not continue to offer such a high level of scholarship and research without the support of our generous donors. We profiled some of our recent benefactors in this year’s honor roll.

22 The Journey of Deron Marquez: When SPE student Deron Marquez looks to the future, nothing is more certain than the importance of education – for himself and his tribe. 38 Carrying the Flame: Claremont Graduate University alumna and professor Daryl Smith exemplifies our school’s drive for first-class research and pedagogy. Her story continues a series of profiles celebrating our outstanding individuals.

26 faculty achievements 30 alumnotes Read Diana Chen’s story in Alumnotes 37 student spotlight

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Great Conversations that Matter

reenland Is Like the Moon is the working title of a advance knowledge, provide new perspectives, even reframe Gforthcoming book by Jeff Davenport. The book explores questions. “Great conversations that matter” may even help create analogies, metaphors, and similes. When I saw Jeff recently for the research and action that can make the world a better place. first time in three years, he was curious about my almost two years Claremont Graduate University is dedicated to great at Claremont Graduate University. conversations that matter—in the classroom and at leisure, in “What’s it like?” he asked. research and in social action, within the university and outside it. What could I say to Mr. Metaphor? Should I compare Claremont to an intellectual candy store? A cornucopia of ideas? A rose? Examples of Great Conversations that Matter Let’s back up one step, I thought. What is it that’s special and Some of the great conversations are in courses. For example, different about Claremont Graduate University? under the leadership of Professor Wendy Martin, CGU has People at Claremont are remarkably cordial, I told Jeff. They are pioneered transdisciplinary doctoral courses, where second-year willing and able to talk across disciplines. They are interested in the students from many fields consider how collaborative research can real world. All this contrasts in welcome ways with the academic shed new light on fascinating, important issues. The topics of these hostility, insularity, and theoretical narrowness that characterize T-courses range widely, including “New Orleans: Legacy and many universities. Promise,” “Death and Dying,” and “The Nature of Inquiry.” A new “Why is Claremont that way?” Jeff asked. online, collaborative tool called “the Claremont Conversation,” I could only hypothesize. Claremont Graduate University shares developed by a team led by Professor Terry Ryan, enables groups of the liberal-arts-college DNA of the Claremont Colleges. Claremont’s students to work together on research proposals, which can be seen small size enables intimacy. We have a lovely, welcoming campus, a and commented upon by professors and other students. kind of oasis in Southern California. Many Claremont courses involve conversations across disciplines The Claremont culture is also intentional. Over the years, and professions, as well as with leading practitioners. For example, professors and students and staff have worked hard to create a Professor Jack Schuster’s seminar on public policy and higher humane, adventurous, and relevant educational experience. While education annually visits Sacramento to dialogue with key other academic institutions are accused of increasing precision on policymakers. This year’s expedition included students from ever more irrelevant issues, a disproportionate number of professors education, politics and economics, and information systems and and students at Claremont take on the most important issues of our technology. region and our world with a distinctive Claremont combination of Other great conversations involve students, faculty, and transdisciplinarity, rigor, and flair. distinguished outsiders. For example, under the leadership of Dean Maybe I was now ready to supply Jeff with a telling phrase about Karen Jo Torjesen, Claremont’s School of Religion recently held Claremont. the First Annual Conference of Religions in Conversation. I told him about the plaque on the DesCombes Gate with a quote Professors and students from six faith communities discussed from our first president, James A. Blaisdell. “The center of a college exclusivity and inclusivity within and across their traditions. In is in great conversation, and out of the talk of college life springs many religions, sacred texts contain passages that seem exclusive everything else.” Claremont is graduate education that creates great (only people in this particular religion can know God) and other conversations that matter. passages that seem inclusive (nonbelievers in the particular faith Think of what “great conversations” require. Interlocutors who can still know God). How do individual religions cope with the are passionate and knowledgeable, open to new ideas and diverse tensions in interpreting, reconciling, and applying such texts? How, viewpoints, and civil. “Great conversations” require people who have by looking across religions at similar tensions, can we gain a deeper learned to express themselves clearly and succinctly. They also understanding of each faith and of the general problem of require people who have learned to listen, and listen well. exclusivity and inclusivity? Think of what “great conversations that matter” entails. In the In May, the commencement forum “Science and the Quality of context of graduate education, these are conversations that can Life” convened social scientists, activists, and publishers to consider

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how to know what works in dealing with important social problems. information technology for www.cgu.edu/pages/4844.asp social and organizational Other convenings this spring convey the flavor of great learning. conversations that matter. The Drucker Institute One of the objectives • In March, a symposium at the School of Behavioral and of the Drucker Institute, Organizational Sciences convened scholars from across the nation created in May 2006, is to discuss how to improve behavioral health interventions. They to convene leaders from focused on organ donation as a quintessential example. business, government, and www.cgu.edu/pages/1004.asp civil society on major issues • In April, researchers from many fields joined practitioners in facing our region and “Moral Markets: A Symposium on Values, Economics, and the our world. The idea is not Brain,” under the leadership of Professor Paul Zak. conferences of talking heads, but something more • In May, spearheaded by Professor Samir Chatterjee, the Second akin to conversations that International Conference on Design Science Research created a matter. great conversation among researchers and students from diverse backgrounds ranging from computer science, information systems, The Claremont Painting by Yvette Gellis and software engineering to social ethnography and artistic Conversation Online disciplines. http://ncl.cgu.edu/desrist2007/ We can expand the online Claremont Conversation. The software tool described above could be opened up to a wider audience, • In May, students in the Master of Arts in Art and Cultural including alumni. We are creating a cutting-edge, dynamic website Management organized an exhibition called “Moving Past for the new Drucker Institute, which is connecting Drucker Societies Present,” drawing on art from the Claremont Consortium and and scholars from around the world. beyond. The exhibition created another kind of conversation, this one based on art, with dialogue across time and genre. Encouraging Even More Collaboration www.cgu.edu/pages/4854.asp The university will do even more to encourage intellectual adventuring and rigorous thinking on big issues. We are expanding Individual artists also create conversations. Yvette Gellis, a first- our office of sponsored research, under the leadership of the new Vice year MFA student, kindly loaned one of her remarkable paintings for Provost for Research, Dean Gerstein. We are exploring how changes display at the President’s House. “My paintings are meant to draw in our budgeting system can encourage crosscutting courses and the viewer into a conversation,” she has written, “an exchange that is collaboration. And we are eager to explore with partners outside the both visually satisfying and provocative. I am seeing our everyday university ways to collaborate on intellectual work on major world in a new way. I want to give something more to my audience. questions facing our region and our world. The hope is in turn they will have an experience. It is through that A Central Place to Convene Conversations personal experience where the conversation begins, one that is Our physical setting can do more to encourage great conversations authentic and truthful, and great exchanges begin out of truth.” that matter. We have just broken ground on a wonderful graduate housing complex, which will enhance our intellectual community. In Enabling Great Conversations that Matter the future, we may want to create a new facility purpose-built to If “great conversations that matter” characterize Claremont at its encourage conversations that matter, small and large, with people best, how can our university create even more of them? inside and outside Claremont Graduate University. Transdisciplinary Teaching We can expand our transdisciplinary offerings. Currently, T-courses are designed for PhD students and focused on research. We can supplement them with distinctively valuable transdisciplinary masters courses, which might contribute to a variety of professions and Robert Klitgaard careers. Claremont will consider courses in such areas as evidence- President and University Professor based decision making, leadership, working across cultures, social entrepreneurship, “good work and good institutions,” and

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FOCUS: FOCUS: In addition to providing case samples of Evaluating Community Building Evaluation ECB activities, a conceptual model will be developed to further help organizations and Initiatives Capacity Research Study communities conceptualize, design, and FACULTY: FACULTY: implement successful and sustainable ECB Dean Stewart Donaldson and Professor Hallie Preskill, School of initiatives. Associate Professor Christina Christie, Behavioral and Organizational Sciences Preskill and Boyle plan to disseminate their School of Behavioral and Organizational findings in a series of conference presentations, Sciences How are organizations such as the annual conference of the American building evaluation Evaluation Association, through journal First 5 LA is a Los Angeles capacity – that is, how are articles, and eventually a full-length book. group dedicated to they increasing the ability improving the first five of its members to conduct years of young children timely and effective FOCUS: living in Los Angeles evaluations and to think County. They recently evaluatively? SBOS Professor Hallie Preskill Asset Management Practicum awarded SBOS Dean wants to answer this critical question. FACULTY: Stewart Donaldson and She has just been awarded a $110,000 grant Professor of Financial Management Associate Professor from the James Irvine Foundation to study Richard Smith, Peter F. Drucker Christina Christie more evaluation capacity building (ECB) in and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School than $185,000 to organizations and communities across the of Management complete a comprehensive country. Preskill and SBOS doctoral student analysis of their and Project Assistant Shanelle Boyle have Students in Drucker’s effectiveness. begun research that will lead to a better Asset Management The analysis will determine the value of First understanding of the ways in which Practicum are using real 5 LA’s initiatives and services relating to organizations and communities are developing money – and lots of it – to younger children and their families, including their capacity building efforts, and the extent test their financial systems and policy reform efforts, as well as to which those efforts are achieving their hypotheses. their contribution to the development of desired outcomes. In today’s ever-changing The Asset Management broad-based knowledge and theory about the organizational environments, evaluation can Practicum is led by Professor Richard Smith, outcomes of comprehensive community play a significant role in helping organizations director of the Financial Engineering Program initiatives. learn about what it is going well and and the Venture Capital Institute in the The efforts of Donaldson and Christie will understand where things may need to improve Drucker School. The practicum class was focus on two areas: increasing understanding of and change. established in 2001 to provide a real world, the effects of First 5 LA at the broader This 15-month project will begin with the “investment firm-like” experience in asset community level, and the refinement of a selection of 18 organizations that will management for Drucker School students. An “place-based” evaluation framework for the participate in the study. Using phone initial gift of $300,000 from Henry Kravis, co- prenatal through three-years-old focus area. interviews, a survey of participants’ capacity founder of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, and Co., Work on the project is scheduled to commence building experiences, daylong appreciative one of the leading private equity firms in the in June 2007 and be completed by the end of inquiries, and Preskill’s survey instrument world, funded the practicum. the year. entitled Readiness for Organizational Learning The class operates like a small corporation, and Evaluation (ROLE), the team will assess the with a CEO coordinating functional extent to which the various evaluation capacity committees tasked with marketing, efforts are based on workplace, adult learning, administrating, and auditing past strategies of organizational change, and evaluation theories. the firm. Every student also participates in a research team, identifying and developing various investment strategies. The process leading to the implementation

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of these strategies is rigorous: an initial class – worked on the report with the guidance of at early treatment of the affliction, and develops a hypothesis, which is reviewed and Associate Professor Annette Steinacker. Microsoft Research is providing $103,000 in retested the following year by a second class. “The report shows that San Bernardino is in funding, plus $45,000 in software, to support The two separate classes need to find success a unique position to benefit from international her work. in the hypothesis before it is proposed to the trade,” Coan said. “If projects to facilitate trade One of the primary impairments with investment committee. If approved, the are appropriately funded, the San Bernardino autism is a difficulty with communication; following class can implement the strategy. region could become an important link between one-third to one-half of autistic The class reports annually to the investment between the US and Asia-Pacific.” individuals do not have functional verbal committee of the board, just as any other asset Highlights of the report clearly indicate communication skills; approximately 80 manager of Claremont Graduate University’s the burgeoning role of trade in the Inland percent of children with autism below the age endowment would do. Empire’s economy. of five do not speak; an even larger group “The Asset Management Practicum is International trade for San Bernardino cannot read or write. very close to the business world – more than County increased from nearly $4 billion in While there are devices that help autistic any other class I have experienced,” said 2000 to $16 billion in 2005. people communicate, there is a lack of software Christopher Martin, CEO of the 2007 Asset On its own, San Bernardino County would designed specifically for children. Currently, Management Practicum. be ranked in the top 50 regions in the world parents, teachers, and therapists often This year the class tested five strategies in gross domestic product, bringing in communicate with low-tech materials, such as and found strong evidence that all five could $96 billion. intricate series of photographs and drawings outperform the S&P over the long run. Because of its proximity to area ports and of rooms in a house, food items, etc. Leroy, For more information about the practicum, strategic location, San Bernardino County along with Professor Gianluca De Leo of Old and to see the final outcome for the class, handles 90 percent of all trade flowing through Dominion University, is developing software visit the Claremont website at: inland Southern California. that digitizes this visual communication www.cgu.edu/pages/4000.asp. “The study provides research critical to system and puts all images on one easy-to-use our core strategy and mission,” said Brian electronic device, such as a SmartPhone or McGowan, Economic Development Agency Pocket PC. Work will soon begin with an initial FOCUS: administrator for the County of San user group including the San Bernardino Bernardino, and a Claremont Graduate County Superintendent of Schools office; Research Reveals Importance University alumnus. “It provides resources we Stephen K. Vaughn, area director for of International Trade in can bring to local businesses who know they Desert/Mountain Operations; and many area San Bernardino County must engage competitors around the globe to teachers such as Anna Chilcoat. Efforts will survive and thrive.” focus on keeping project communication FACULTY: strong between developers, teachers/therapists, Associate Professor Annette Steinacker, and children. School of Politics and Economics FOCUS: These devices provide several advantages for Many know that trade is of Microsoft Funds Project communication between adults and autistic vital importance to the San children. The images of family members can be Bernardino Country Using SmartPhones to stored and used to reinforce learning. They will economy. The School of Enable Communication also be easily portable, thus enabling on-the-go Politics and Economics with Autistic Children communication. Most importantly, the software recently finished a Leroy is developing will store user actions, FACULTY: research report which will enable analysis for research and demonstrating just how important it is, and Assistant Professor Gondy Leroy, treatment purposes. will be in the future. School of Information Systems At the end of the research and development and Technology The report, titled “International Trade in period, the plan is to make the software available as open source, meaning that it will the San Bernardino Region: Transportation, Autism is a chronic be free to any family in need of it. Trends, and Employment,” quantified developmental disorder international trade for the region and provided that affects one in 150 the county’s Economic Development Agency children in the United with data to promote trade to the area as it States. SISAT Assistant drafts an international trade strategy. Professor Gondy Leroy is Travis Coan and Mirya Holman – both developing software aimed Claremont Graduate University PhD candidates

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Three new trustees joined Vobile, a privately held Internet video virtually every type of dispute involving Claremont Graduate University fingerprinting and recognition company. entertainment matters. His clients include He is also a member of the boards of motion picture studios, international directors of the San Francisco Bay production/distribution companies, Vernon Area Council, the California Business television networks, major producers, Altman is Roundtable, the California Chamber actors and directors, talent agencies, and senior of Commerce, and the San Jose Tech management companies. Hedges has also partner and Museum. He is a presidential nominee to organized and led archaeological director of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee explorations into unexplored regions in Bain & for the Engineering Systems Division, a Yemen and Oman, leading to the discovery Company. member of the Board of Visitors and of the ancient incense roads and the lost Altman Fellows at the University of California-Davis city of Ubar. In addition, he is the founder joined Bain School of Viticulture and Enology, and and president of the Archaeology Fund, a at its a former board member of KQED (San nonprofit corporation devoted to founding in 1973, and currently leads Francisco’s public TV and radio archeological exploration. their Telecommunications, Media & broadcaster). Hedges has several educational and Technology practice, and Aerospace & Early in his career, Altman held philanthropic affiliations, including his Defense practice. He also leads Bain’s Full technical positions at General Electric and current positions on the School of Arts and Potential practice, which assists companies Honeywell. He received bachelor’s and Humanities Board of Visitors for in transforming and achieving their full master’s degrees in electrical engineering Claremont Graduate University and potential. Together, these practices from Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the Board of Directors for the Mental represent about one-third of the firm’s (MIT), and a masters in management from Health Advocacy Services. global business. Altman founded Bain’s MIT’s Sloan School. Hedges received his JD degree from the European, Japanese, and US West Coast University of Southern California, and his practices, and has broad experience in George R. master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the strategy development, implementation, Hedges, from University of Pennsylvania. and organization and change management Los Angeles, for the US and international corporations. specializes in Ellen Palevsky, from Bel Air and Malibu, Altman is a member of the Board of entertainment California, is a philanthropist. In addition Directors of Napster, an Internet music litigation and has to her new duties as a trustee of Claremont distribution company, and chairman of experience in Graduate University, she is an advisory

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New student housing is going up. Old dorms are coming down.

The much-anticipated student housing complex is about to become a reality; a very impressive reality. The construction site can currently be viewed north of Foothill Boulevard on North College Avenue, the street that leads into Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. The housing complex will consist of five buildings with 62 studios, 19 one- bedroom, and 77 two-bedroom apart- ments. The seven-acre site will also feature a playground, parking lot, and several grassy areas and sidewalks. The project should be completed before the fall semester of 2008. Around this time the dorms on the corner of 11th and Dartmouth will be demolished and replaced with a temporary parking lot.

board member of the university’s School In Memoriam: Marshall Waingrow (1923 – 2007) of Arts and Humanities. Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English, Marshall Waingrow, has passed away. Palevsky is involved in activities He served as a Claremont Graduate University professor and was department chair at ranging from the Grameen Foundation various times before retiring in 1989. “He was an accomplished scholar who believed (microcredit in developing countries) to foremost in education, and taught through the eyes of perfection,” said his daughter, the arts (the Ellen Palevsky Collection at Emily Hope Falke. the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) to political activism (ACLU of Southern California Foundation Board of Directors). A member of the Chairman’s Council of the Metropolitan Museum 80th Annual Commencement in New York (where she supports Greek On Saturday, May 12, 2007, Claremont Graduate University held its 80th Annual and Roman art, Islamic art, Ancient Commencement Exercise. Congratulations to all those who had their achievement Near Eastern art, and the Watson Library), recognized. For details and pictures of the ceremony please visit our Palevsky is also a founding board member commencement website at: www.cgu.edu/pages/1249.asp. of Shine on Sierra Leone, a nongovern- mental organization active in rebuilding schools in that impoverished African country. She is also an advisory board member of Intelligence Squared US, the acclaimed public-debate series based in New York. Palevsky holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, and a masters in public policy from the University of Southern California.

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Positive psychology School of Behavioral and Organi- organizational psychology. now at SBOS zational Sciences (SBOS), and have Positive psychology aims at developed a new degree program enhancing human strengths such as offering the world’s first PhD with a creativity, joy, enhancing flow at work, concentration in positive psychology. responsibility, and optimal performance the university Among his many other accomplish- and achievement. ments, Csikszentmihalyi is the author of the 1990 bestseller, Flow: The Psychology

NEWS: of Optimal Experience, a cofounder of “Imagine CGU” positive psychology, and the director of the Quality of Life Research Center at Imagine Claremont Graduate the university. Nakamura, director of the University 10, 20, or even 30 years from Good Work Project – a series of studies now. This was the task of the trustees, of excellence and social responsibility faculty, students, and staff who attended Right, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi; left, Jeanne in professional life – has overseen the the “Imagine CGU” seminar this spring. Nakamura work of numerous SBOS students at Coordinated by Professor Hallie Preskill the Quality of Life Research Center and from the School of Behavioral and Known affectionately as the specializes in adult development. Organizational Sciences, the workshop “happiness people,” world-renowned SBOS is launching two degree encouraged everyone to discuss what is developmental psychologists Mihaly concentrations in the emerging field unique about the university and what Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura of positive psychology: positive develop- they wished for its future. have joined the full-time faculty of the mental psychology and positive

2007 Tufts Poetry winners honored Rodney Jones, winner, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Rodney Jones—a professor of English at Southern Illinois University—is the winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection of poetry, Salvation Blues. Salvation Blues represents a body of Jones’ work that stretches over 20 years, and draws upon material from six previous collections. The meditative and narrative poems – which playfully combine sacred and profane themes and language – evoke a rich Southern smoothness that is both lyrical and profound. “The attempt to make poetry is one of the most sustaining activities on earth, but it is lonely work,” Jones said. “To win such an award makes one feel and trust the silent accompaniment of kindred souls.” Robert Wrigley, chair of the Tufts Award Judging Committee, said: “Rodney Jones is a poet whose work is intellectually sparkling and, at the same time, beautifully readable.” Eric McHenry is the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award – a prize for younger, emerging poets – for which he received $10,000. McHenry, the associate editor of Columns, the alumni magazine of the University of Washington, won for his poetry collection, Potscrubber Lullabies. “I’d like to think of it as a book that is ironic and humorous,” McHenry said, “with the humor not masking but perhaps revealing deeper ambiguities.” The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award was established at Claremont Graduate University in 1992 by Kate Tufts to honor the memory of her husband, Kingsley Tufts, a poet, Eric McHenry, winner, writer, and certified public accountant. The Kate Tufts Discovery Kate Tufts Discovery Award was initiated in 1993. Please watch for the Fall 2007 issue of Award the Flame for coverage of the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Awards ceremony, including highlights of the ceremony with master of ceremonies Leonard Nimoy and featured guest, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.

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Great memories inspired Robert Redford This spring, Claremont Graduate University was When participants were separated into the center of activity when a major motion picture, brainstorming groups, a wide array of Lions for Lambs, starring Robert Redford, Tom ideas sprang forth. Cruise, and Meryl Streep, began filming on campus. “Planning can be an elite activity, but Redford, who is also directing the movie, was a we wanted to open this up to everyone,” member of the School of Politics and Economics said President Robert Klitgaard. “At Board of Visitors for eight years, a commencement knowledge institutions, power and passion speaker in 1995, and holds an honorary degree from are decentralized.” the university. In preparation for the role, Redford The convergence of ideas helped spent time shadowing SPE Dean Tom Willett. The inspire the spring board of trustees Academy Award-winning director plays a college meeting, which help set the course for the professor whose story about making ethical choices future of the university. and influencing students plays against the backdrop of a parallel story of a US senator and a journalist, played by Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep. Redford said his memories of his eight Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka years with Claremont inspired him to come to campus for the film. "I have great memories of my time here," he said. For more information on the shoot please visit www.cgu.edu/flame. and journalist Peter Steinfels speak on religion

This winter, who puts out a challenge to rethink the brought their expertise in evaluation the School of kind of structures of our religious myths sciences to inaugurate the training event Religion hosted and religious traditions.” in Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa. Wole Soyinka, In a separate engagement, Peter The weeklong event featured a series of winner of the Steinfels presented “What Catholicism workshops presented by national and 1986 Nobel Will We Choose for the 21st Century?” international evaluation specialists. It drew Prize in Steinfels is an author, university professor, delegates from Botswana, the Eastern Literature, to and New York Times columnist. Cape, Bloemfontein, and Worcester. inaugurate the “His talk outlined the agenda for a The focus of the IME workshop was the Institute for forward-looking chair in Catholic studies evaluation of business, government, Signifying that seeks to be of service to the Catholic NGOs, and educational programs. “South Scriptures (ISS) community,” said School of Religion Dean Africa is grappling with some serious Distinguished Karen Jo Torjesen. “It was presented societal problems such as AIDS, health Speaker Series. within the context of the kind of open care, violent crime, and the delivery of Soyinka discussion that a university can provide. basic government services,” Donaldson addressed an We were very honored to have these said. “The potential for change is huge, audience of distinguished speakers as our guests,” because they have the resources to make hundreds, who she added. changes, they just need to carefully decide were eager how best to deploy those resources to best to hear the meet human needs.” thoughts of SBOS evaluation team Plans are underway to formalize this great student and faculty exchange programs scholar and brings expertise to Top, Wole Soyinka; bottom, between Claremont Graduate University intellectual. His South African officials Peter Steinfels and UCT. lecture, In addition to making multiple visits to “Deities for a Secular Dispensation,” The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) various agencies in South Africa over the discussed the dynamics of and threats Institute of Monitoring and Evaluation past few years, Claremont faculty and from religion that the twenty-first century (IME) recently hosted School of students are also forging strong faces. Behavioral and Organizational Science connections with evaluation groups in Vincent Wimbush, director of the ISS, (SBOS) Dean Stewart Donaldson and Europe, Canada, and the South Pacific. said, “We should hear someone like him, Associate Professor Christina Christie, who

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As Tom Horan was lifted into the ambulance, the irony began sinking in. Moments earlier, a large wave had tossed him onto Malibu Beach, leaving Horan with a lacerated head and dislocated shoulder. As witnesses dialed 9-1-1, he was thrust into a world that was strangely familiar to him. IN HEALTH CARE ndeed, this was more than a dangerous and traumatic event for Horan, By Steven K. Wagner associate professor at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Information Systems and Technology (SISAT), and executive director of the Claremont Will the best care arrive Information and Technology Institute. The events that followed both in the for me when I call ambulance and in the emergency room at a local hospital propelled him into a 9-1-1? Where can I find real-world intersection with the focus of his research: analyzing the role that more information on my information technology (IT) can play in making emergency response systems health-care concerns? more effective, thus improving health care. Horan was no longer the disengaged Is anybody thinking of researcher studying hypothetical dilemmas—he was the “end-user” in an I emergency health-care system that is becoming increasingly infused with, and the future of my health needs – besides me? driven by, information technology. Claremont Graduate As the ambulance raced toward the hospital and his head began to clear, University’s SISAT is Horan began asking important questions—questions that might not have looking for answers to occurred to those not involved in a related study: Why hadn’t he been given a the most pressing issues pain reliever? Had emergency personnel responded to the 9-1-1 call within their you will face in health- contracted time period? Would his medical records be waiting in the emergency care information. room when the ambulance arrived? Would anyone there be apprised of his injuries as he sped toward the hospital? To add to the irony, Horan is also beginning a case study evaluating the use of emergency response IT with the world-renowned Mayo Clinic, consistently ranked as one of the country’s top medical centers. The study, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, will evaluate the implications of effective IT at a major medical center that owns all aspects of an emergency response system, including the dispatch service, emergency medical systems, and the thriving health care component. That, and other case studies underway in collaboration with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Excellence in Rural

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“...enhanced IT could enable a heart attack patient’s electrocardiogram to be sent electronically to the hospital while the ambulance was in transit...”

Safety, are expected to culminate in the door,” Horan said of their collabo- Services in northern California. That recommendations for improving the ration. “We’d want to understand system differs from the Mayo Clinic use of IT in managing emergency empirically how timeliness can be operation in one distinct way: San response systems throughout the improved through IT and the role that Mateo County does not own the various United States. information could potentially play in emergency components. “At Mayo we’re focused on deliver- improving quality of care.” “The timing of [Horan’s] research is ing high-quality health medical care For example, Horan noted, quite fortuitous, as we are just entering during transport into any medical facil- enhanced IT could enable a heart into a strategic planning mode to craft ity, including our own medical centers,” attack patient’s electrocardiogram to a vision for the next-generation EMS said Dr. Scott Zietlow, trauma surgeon be sent electronically to the hospital [emergency medical response] system,” and medical director of Medical Mayo while the ambulance was in transit, said Barbara Pletz, EMS administrator Transport, who is collaborating with expediting care and improving the for San Mateo County. She went on Horan on the study. “Our research with patient’s treatment and chances for to cite the results of the study as “an Claremont provides an important recovery. IT also could make a patient’s opportunity to rethink our overall opportunity to take a comprehensive entire medical history available to EMS process, and how advances in look at how pre-hospital care can be hospital staff, including the vitally technology can improve the timeliness linked to health outcomes, including important prescription medication and quality of our system.” how well our information systems profile, before the ambulance arrived “They were so pleased with our work capture this impact.” at the emergency department. in San Mateo County that they asked us “We’re interested in the whole The Mayo Clinic study, which will to stay on and help with their strategic process, the end-to-end performance— conclude in 2008, follows a similar case planning effort as they redesign their from the time of a 9-1-1 call through study undertaken by Horan and his system over the next 10 years,” Horan dispatch through delivery to the colleague Ben Schooley to evaluate San said of the case study, which began hospital through health care and out Mateo County Emergency Response in 2006.

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Still, the Mayo Clinic study remains a $1 million gift from the Kay Family Horan’s priority. His research will focus Foundation, the Kay Center is charged on two areas of interest: the role of a with conducting national research on patient’s personal health record in development and implementation of expediting and improving treatment, e-health systems in the health-care and the nature and quality of in-ambu- industry, with a focus on preventive lance treatment—treatment that health, chronic disease management, generates data that could be electroni- and disability determination. Research cally transmitted to the hospital in projects emphasize innovative approaches real time. and varying user perspectives. “We care about the end-users— The Kay Center’s mission is patients, consumers, disabled people, straightforward: to advance scientific SISAT faculty (clockwise from lower left): Gondy the underrepresented—and their use of understanding and public policy Leroy, Terry Ryan, Dean Lorne Olfman, Samir technology,” Horan said. “The question improvements relative to how new Chatterjee, and Tom Horan is, how does their ability to gain control electronic health information systems of and access to personal health infor- can best incorporate health, chronic enrolled for the first term,” Chatterjee mation affect the nature of health-care disease, and disability needs to enable said. “We want to grow in an orderly services and the care they receive as industry efficiencies and promote the fashion due to our internship pro- well as their own health management?” welfare of society. gram—it’s very difficult to place 100 According to Horan, many of the The scope and objectives of the Kay students in internships. After our first IT challenges that he’ll be examining Center include research, policy impact, year we’ll scale it up to 40 students and in the context of health care have and education. In collaboration with so forth.” already been addressed by the banking various research partners, the center HIM, or medical informatics, is a industry, which now makes user records has undertaken research studies, policy growing interdisciplinary field that available online—instantaneously. forums, and training initiatives focused prepares specialists to design and man- All that is needed to achieve the same on bringing the advances of e-health age health-care information systems. in health care is incentive—financial systems to diverse and often underrep- The field is specifically concerned with or otherwise. resented health care consumers. the cognitive, information-processing, A key player in the Mayo Clinic study “It’s become a national voice,” and communication tasks involved will be Claremont’s Kay Center for E- Horan said of the Kay Center. “We’re in health services, using information Health Research, a growing entity in doing things that no one else is doing.” science and computer-based technology the School of Information Systems and Newer still is the school’s recently to support these functions. Technology. The Kay Center, which established master’s degree program Recently, a major national effort has Horan also directs, will focus on a in health information management been initiated to meet the growing number of specific end-user groups, (HIM), which kicks off in the fall. need for HIM professionals. The new including the disabled and the The program, which was approved in degree program is a response to that uninsured. Methodology, some of March, was proposed and developed shortage. It’s comprised of 44 credit which will be initiated by the Kay by SISAT Professor Samir Chatterjee. units, 10 courses, and a mandatory Center, will include focus groups, Several applications from students wish- clinical immersion, or practicum interviews, national surveys, systems ing to enter the program already have project; classes are derived from four analyses, and pilot programs. been received. interdisciplinary domains: information Established in January 2006 through “We hope to have about 20 students technology, management, e-health med-

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Tools for the End Users

Nearly all people with health problems seek out information on their illnesses. If they have the means, they consult their doctor or a primary health- care professional. However, it is difficult for a single doctor to form a complete diagnosis, and patients are often encouraged to seek other sources and second opinions. Some of the complimentary information patients seek is available tacitly – through consulting with other professionals, fellow patients, or ical informatics, and biostatistics. The knowledgeable friends; some is available explicitly – through electronic or print clinical immersion project places stu- documents. Internet search engines clearly facilitate the gathering and dents in a health-care setting where interpretation of explicit knowledge. Professors at SISAT are currently they will work closely with high-profile working on tools that will aid patients in their search for this information. health-care providers, such as the VA The mission of SISAT’s Social Learning Software Lab (SL2) is to develop enhanced social Greater Los Angeles Healthcare networking software for this purpose. In conjunction with Claremont Graduate University’s System, the City of Hope, Cedars-Sinai Transdisciplinary Office and Professor Wendy Martin, students in transdisciplinary courses have Medical Center, and Kaiser been using software that combines a number of social networking software applications (blogs, Permanente. wikis, social networking space) to create the Claremont Conversation, a website that can be The program is specifically utilized for health-care applications. A student team, led by SISAT Professor Terry Ryan, designed for: designed the Claremont Conversation website, and they are currently monitoring how students and faculty utilize the site. Using this feedback, SL2 will be working with SISAT Assistant Professor Gondy Leroy and her colleagues to redesign the site over the summer to make it more • Students who have completed a accessible for health-care information. bachelor’s degree and are hoping Social networking software has been used for decades, but recent innovations motivated by the to enter the health care and IT simplicity and accessibility of the Internet have made this software nearly ubiquitous, as well as management fields. cheap and easy to use. The most popular form of social networking is done through blogs, forums • Mid-level managers who are seeking that allow individuals and groups to write and post their personal stories on the Internet. Blog a career change. entries also facilitate discussion by allowing readers to discuss the content of posts through • Individuals with an interest in comment boxes or talkback features that link one blog entry to another. Discussion forums are health and biology research. also a popular means for disseminating information online; someone poses a question or offers an • Those involved in a related industry idea and, as with blogs, readers provide comments in the form of answers, questions, stories, etc. and who want to enter HIM on a Discussion forums are typically threaded, so that each subtopic is allotted a unique space. A wiki part-time basis. is a set of web pages that is accessible for editing by groups and individuals. Its format makes it • Consultants for large firms who are topic-oriented, and somewhat easier to browse, but it is not geared for discussions. A social entering the HIM sector. network application lets individuals post their profile with a set of tags that allow users to identify others with similar interests. • Entrepreneurs who wish to establish Preliminary findings, culled in a different setting than health care, indicate that combining all new companies and want to learn networking options into one application portal can have value for social groups. That is why how best to manage electronic SISAT professors are adapting the Claremont Conversation model, which combines elements of medical data. all social networking options, to create a comprehensive health-care site for accessing information and facilitating discussion. “This is really the first program of its kind in Southern California,” Dean Lorne Olfman Chatterjee said. “There is nothing in School of Information Systems and Technology this area focusing on the use of infor- mation combined with management aspects of health-care information. That’s what we believe our niche is.” On the research side, the work of Assistant Professor Gondy Leroy is elevating the School of Information Systems and Technology in a different way. Leroy is studying the visualization

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“We care about the end-users—patients, consumers, disabled people, the underrepresented—and their use of technology.”

of consumer health information—read- ability—under a grant from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. The study began in 2005 and will continue for at least the next year. Using WebMD, a popular medical website, Leroy and three students are examining text found online in hopes of developing algorithms that can help users more easily find, understand, and recall information. The project is focusing on three specific groups: non-native speak- ers, the elderly, and severely ill patients. “Each group has specific needs,” Leroy said. “The elderly have memory problems, non-native speakers have vocabulary problems, and severely ill patients are stressed and often have memory problems. We’re trying to develop prototypes that will help these people.” Specifically, Leroy and her colleagues are evaluating text with high readability— 12th grade—requirements. Using their own algorithm, which remains under development, they are categorizing infor- mation in what they believe is a topically useful, understandable, and relevant way. The algorithm incorporates word color ed its many and varied research and at this high level of achievement. The coding, increased font sizes, and other educational efforts. future certainly looks bright.” variables. “Our focus on the application of infor- With the research and teaching under- “This is very important,” Leroy said. mation systems and technology to health way at Claremont’s School of Information “If 85 percent of the American public care is important because our mission is Systems and Technology, the future will searches online for information, what’s to be on the cutting edge in designing certainly be brighter for those of us who the cost to health care if only one percent and applying information systems and may one day find ourselves dialing 9-1-1. makes an incorrect decision? These technology to important social problems,” are the kinds of implications we’re he said. “Health care is one of the world’s thinking about.” most pressing social problems. Clearly, the School of Information “We are now one of the leading Systems and Technology is leaving its programs in health-care informatics in mark in more ways than one. Just ask terms of funding, publications, and SISAT Dean Lorne Olfman, who applaud- curriculum, and we expect to continue

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Here at Claremont Graduate University we strive to ensure that the gifts made by our generous contributors are utilized to affirm our school’s world-class reputation as a pioneer in graduate education, allowing us to sustain operations and expand infrastructure. These gifts also support today’s students – tomorrow’s leaders – as they pursue their dreams, and continue on their journey to becoming future stewards of our flame. All of us at the university benefit from our loyal donors’ support, and all of us are deeply grateful to those who gave.

The following is a list of all cash gifts of one thousand dollars and above recorded between July 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007. We are deeply grateful to all of our donors, and we have included brief profiles of a few of those who have made an investment in the future of Claremont Graduate University. Members of the Colleagues, Claremont Graduate University’s prestigious annual fund leadership group, are listed in italics. Donors affiliated with the Howard W. Hunter Foundation (see profile on page 21) are listed with an asterisk.

obuhiro Iijima has pledged numerous documents and letters that compose the Drucker Na $1 million gift to The Archive, currently housed on the Claremont campus. Drucker Institute to promote In addition, this gift will partially underwrite the Peter F. the legacy and teachings of Peter Drucker Award, given each November to three nonprofit Drucker. This commitment will organizations that operate innovative programs that make a further strengthen the institute, difference in the lives of the people they serve. and underscore the many Iijima is the president of the Yamazaki Baking Company different ways that both academic of Japan. The Yamazaki Baking Company was founded as a communities as well as provider of reasonably priced, high-quality baked goods management practitioners can continue to be informed and shortly after World War II, at a time when most of Japan was inspired by the legacy of the late Peter F. Drucker. still suffering from extreme food shortages. Over the years the This gift will be joining millions of dollars already donated company has broadened its operations to include not only to help the institute fund several key programs, including the Japanese and Western-style confectionary products, but also Drucker Society. Many countries have “Drucker Societies,” rice and jams and several side dishes that are sold throughout organizations that facilitate networking between fellow supermarkets and convenience stores, as well as in Yamazaki’s “Druckerites.” The Drucker Institute is currently organizing own licensed bakeshops. the first such society in the United States – the North American Drucker Society. Iijima’s donation will also help fund the Drucker Digital Archive, an online repository of the Nobuhiro Iijima

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Honor Roll 2006-2007

$3,000,000 and $10,000 to $49,999 Medical Management Vanessa C.L. Chang above Deborah Anders Consultants, Inc. Peter Cronin The Kenneth T. and Eileen Diversified Builder Services San Manuel Tribal Anonymous L. Norris Foundation Enid Hart Douglass Administration John W. Bachmann Calvin C. Brack Ben O’Brien Hanmi Bank $1,000,000 to Mara W. Breech Foundation Arthur Olguin Russell and Kristy Frandsen Robert P. Buford Foundation Pacific Life Insurance Michael M. Hertel $2,999,999 Ellen Palevsky P. Blair and Janet Hoyt* Masatoshi Ito Ronald W. Burkle Robert and Carolyn Denham The Ann Peppers Foundation Independent Colleges of Oneida B. McQuarrie- Mashi Rahmani Southern California Gibson Doris Drucker Edison International James M. Robinson Ira Jackson $500,000 to Robert and LaDorna Stephen Douglas Rountree Lee & Louis Kuhn Beverly Ryder Foundation $999,999 Eichenberg* Richard S. Falk, Jr. St. Shenouda the Robert L. Kuhn Nobuhiro Iijima Priscilla Fernandez Archimandrite Coptic Donald G. Laws The Larry and Anne Glenn Society Paul A. Lewis Trust $100,000 to Foundation Richard J. Slater Armand and Ruth Mauss* $499,999 Gruter Institute for Law and The H. Russell Smith Bruce and Helen McGregor AIG SunAmerica, Inc. Behavioral Research Foundation Joseph B. and Jean F. Platt William Randolph Hearst Rondell B. Hanson Lewis Snider R. J. Romero Foundation Paul and Dorothy Hatch Elliot H. Stein, Jr. Walter B. Rose The Howard W. Hunter John Randolph Haynes and Levi Strauss Foundation Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Dora Haynes Foundation Marilyn P. and Thomas C. Sutton Foundation The James Irvine Foundation George R. Hedges Deborah Szekely Sung Won Sohn The Kay Family Foundation William and Dorothy Heide Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Peter Taylor The Henry Luce Foundation, William and Sarah Hurt Inc. Pamela Wiley-Wells Inc. Institute of International Rafaat and Laila Wassef Mohannad Malas Education Stephen J. Weed $1,000 to $4,999 National Endowment for the Margaret Jagels Douglas M. West Anonymous Humanities The Matthew and Roberta Marisa Antonini Foundation Mary Enone Nicolai Jenkins Family Foundation $5,000 to $9,999 Arbor Park Apartments The Elden Smith Trust Michael J. and Mary C. Johnston Victor K. Atkins AVEX, Inc. The Starr Foundation Robert and Elaine Klitgaard Donald P. Baker Ross Barrett Antone TH and Edith Joseph and Marilyn Bentley* Cathy Bao Bean $50,000 to $99,999 Kohler, A.H.A Robb Bourland The Boeing Company The Ahmanson Foundation John F. Llewellyn Robert H. Briggs* Stephen L. Bradford Anonymous* Jon B. Lovelace The Capital Group Catherine Vail Bridge Empowered Wealth Robert W. Lovelace Companies Ralph Boswell Foundation John D. and Catherine T. The Castillo Charitable Larry E. Burgess Helen Richter Watson Estate MacArthur Foundation Foundation Patrick R. Bushman Paul K. Richter Memorial Ernest M. Maldonado Jacqueline Castillo Patrick Finbar Cadigan Fund Vinda Chainuvati John K. Carmack The Ford Foundation

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California Community Cecily Drucker Edward R. Godfrey LaVonne M. Huntley Foundation Edward Jones Foundation The Ann Jackson Family Joan King Chamberlin George El Raheb David J. Harper Foundation Rafael Chodos John Bonnell Emerson Antonious Latif Henein Charles A. Jackson Robert Earl Coe Frank Farner James and Sharon Hightower James and Lesley Jacobson The Community Foundation J. Michael Fay Diana L. Ho Lee Andre Jacobus for National Cap. Region Fieldstone Foundation Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Jonathan and Garnet Johnson Davis Memorial Trust Fund Marilyn Tyler Gaddis Orthodox Church Jaak Jurison Jennifer and Royce Diener James L. Gatten Albert Yu-Chang Hsu Mitchell Elliot Kauffman Robert E. and Jacqueline Doud Hesham George John and Louine Hunter* Richard S. Kirkendall

ith a $3 million endowment overwhelmingly W grant to Claremont Graduate positive from the University for a program unique in tribe’s perspective. higher education in the nation, the This new and San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission distinctive program of Indians has taken a bold step to further study continues the strengthen the tribe’s ability to provide tribal government’s for the future of its members, and to emphasis on nation remain an exemplary member of the building. It will offer Southern California community. tribal government The grant will support the San employees the special Manuel Tribal Administration Claremont educational Certificate Program based in the San Manuel Band of environment while strengthening their understanding of the Office of the Provost. It is designed to Serrano Mission Indians myriad of complex laws, rules, regulations, and policies that provide a comprehensive professional former Chairman Deron apply to tribal governments in today’s environment. Marquez (center) development center for tribal Additionally, the program will emphasize the unique status pictured with Professor government employees to study Michael Uhlmann and of Indian tribes and tribal government sovereignty. “There is historic and current events, students from the San no entity in the world like an Indian tribe,” said Deron governmental policies, and laws that Manuel Tribal Marquez, former chairman of the San Manuel Band of Serrano impact Indian tribal governments. Administration Mission Indians and Claremont doctoral candidate. “Tribal Certificate Program “This is an important and exciting governments will make progress by providing as much undertaking for the tribe,” stated information and education as possible about the unique nature Henry Duro, San Manuel tribal chairman. “For years we have of Indian tribes and their governments. This will be a program discussed various ways of providing our employees with an with a central focus to provide that understanding.” opportunity to learn more about tribal governments as distinct Claremont President Robert Klitgaard underscored the and unique entities. This partnership with Claremont Graduate value of the relationship with the San Manuel Band of Serrano University will result in tribes being stronger employers and Mission Indians. “This gift solidifies a remarkable and vital governments because our employees will better understand the partnership,” Klitgaard said. “San Manuel and Claremont will nature of Indian tribes.” expand our work together to create new opportunities for This award recognizes the successful pilot program sovereignty to express itself fully and effectively.” developed by Claremont last year. The result of that trial was San Manuel Tribal Administration

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he Howard W. Hunter Foundation has pledged $2.5 Representatives of the Council million to endow a chair, plus another $2.5 million for for Mormon Studies, Chair T Joseph Bentley (top right), fellowships, library resources, outreach activities, and other and members P. Blair Hoyt academic programs in Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate (top left) and daughter University’s School of Religion. This will be the first Mormon Amy Hoyt studies chair at the graduate-level in the world. The chair and program began with an initial gift of $1 million toward fulfilling the pledge. When completed, the chair and program will focus “The goal is to expand on the study of Mormon history, its people and traditions, and the religious pluralism the doctrine and practices of the church. within the classroom, and Named for Howard W. Hunter, the 14th president of the to teach and model rules of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this program will engagement where insider help bring greater understanding about one of the world’s and outsider issues can fastest growing religions. be addressed within an academic context,” School of Religion The Mormon studies program is part of the master plan of Dean Karen Jo Torjesen said. “In a climate of growing religious the School of Religion. The school is dedicated to studying conflict, the ability to engage insiders is critical. The academic religions in their relationships to each other and understanding study of religion has an important contribution to make.” religions in terms of their interdependence, cultural exchange, The Mormon Studies Council, which began in 2002, has and unique contributions to civilization. It has established eight already begun to fulfill this mission by sponsoring several councils as partners with the school. The Mormon Studies lectures, conferences, and courses at the School of Religion. Council, like the seven other councils, advises and consults with Donors affiliated with the Howard W. Hunter Foundation, who supported the the school on the needs of the community and the development designated chair’s first-year salary, are listed with an asterisk. of courses. The Howard W. Hunter Foundation

Cree-L Kofford The Leland T. Lynch and Terry John C. Pingree/CARM Rodney T. Smith Mary Lynn Kotz Saario Fund of The Investment Co. Mark Soliman John Peter Lafare Minneapolis Foundation Daniel and Margaret Preska Nabil Soliman Raymond Anthony Lavine Richard L. Moore Marcos Vinicio Ramirez George A. Stern Min-Kun Lin Robert and LoMarie O’Brien Cecelia and Dudley Rauch Donald E. Stewart Michael J. Lindsay William A. Odio Robert A. Rees* Hany N. Takla Benjamin Hironobu Liou Ronald L. Olson Frank Powell Richards Mary Thieleke Estate of Hazel E. Lipa Paul Henry O’Neill John B. Richards Ventura Foods, LLC Estate of Catherine B. Steve Palagyi Henry Norton Riley Lavern Vosburg Livingston Palm Foundation Evalyn Cook Richter Memorial Piero Luigi Wemyss John D. Maguire John S. Park Fund Ian White-Thomson Barbara Mahaffie Mary Elizabeth Parker Michael Rizkalla Pamela Esther Wiedenbeck Amal Malek Malcolm E. and Pamela R. Robert and Ethel Rogers Wilmington Trust FSB Sadek Mansour Peabody Larry M. and Jane D. Rosen Terese Trudy Winson Morcos F. Massoud Don and Ann Pearson Judy Bogen Rosener Margaret Yanney Jack B. McEwan Plans Made Perfect, LLC Terry Saario Moheb S. Youssef Robert L. Millett* Peggy T. Phelps Deborah Smith Eugene Sumner Mills Milan D. Smith, Jr.*

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The Journey of Deron Marquez

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By Deborah Haar Clark

hen Deron Marquez looks to the future, nothing is more certain than the importance of Weducation—for himself and for his tribe. Marquez is the first member of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to earn a bachelor’s degree. As of May’s commencement, he can also add a master’s degree from the School of Politics and Economics. Now in his doctoral program, if all goes as planned, he will be only the fourth Native American in history to obtain a PhD in government. He hopes his academic endeavors will inspire others in his tribe to enroll in colleges, universities, or trade schools—anywhere they can gain knowledge and skills critical to ensuring the future cultural and economic welfare for themselves and the San Manuel Band.

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“Growing up in Fontana you always heard of the Claremont Colleges, but you never felt it was for you,” he said. “In Fontana at that time the options were the military, the steel mill, or jail.”

“Once you get a degree at any level, Native Americans, uprooting them from bachelor’s degree in history and then no one can take it away from you,” their ancient homelands and placing headed to San Francisco State University he said. “You have security, you have them into the mission system. to pursue a graduate degree in ethnic built-in wealth. What you do with your The mission system was still in place studies. But while there he found education once you have it, that is the in the mid-1800s, a period that saw a himself drawn to a different field. big question.” huge influx of new settlers to California. “I never wanted a career in ethnic There’s no question Marquez has In those turbulent times, tracts of land studies,” said Marquez. “I always enjoyed an impressive record of achievements, were taken for ranching, farming, and politics and the theory of politics. Being especially considering that he was logging; tribal leader Santos Manuel led born into a tribe you are born into simultaneously pursuing his education. his people from the mountains to a safer politics. There are little enclaves of In October 1999, two months after area near the mountains. In 1891, this different political views, but instead of beginning his studies at Claremont, he reservation was formally recognized as a political parties, we have families. I was was elected tribal chair of the San sovereign nation by the American always interested in the formations, like Manuel Band at the age of 29. During government, and the tribe took on the how can two individuals agree on one his six-and-a-half-year tenure as chair, name of its heroic leader and became topic and be polar opposites on Marquez helped guide the tribe into a the San Manuel Band of Mission another?” period of unprecedented prosperity that Indians. While in San Francisco, Marquez continues today. However, it wasn’t until 1975 that was contacted by Alfred Balitzer, then a federal authorities guaranteed Native full-time faculty member at Claremont A JOURNEY Americans’ right of self-governance. Graduate University and Claremont BEGINS Marquez was still a young child at this McKenna College, who had been time, and the long period of economic impressed by the young man’s Marquez grew up 20 miles east of hardship had greatly affected his people, intelligence and drive. Claremont in the suburban town of and the surrounding area. “Deron is a person of enormous Fontana. As a youth, he visited his “Growing up in Fontana you always energy,” he said. “He has an ability to mother’s family on the San Manuel heard of the Claremont Colleges, but focus on many things at the same reservation, which lies nestled in the you never felt it was for you,” he said. “In time. This is not usual; it is very rare. rocky hills just north of the city of San Fontana at that time the options were Few people have his executive and Bernardino. the military, the steel mill, or jail.” leadership skills, his focus and energy.” It was a confluence of history and Even at an early age, Marquez After learning of Marquez’s desire personal determination that shaped dismissed these limited options and, to study politics, Balitzer urged him to Marquez’s future. The ancestors of those after graduating from high school in come to Claremont. “I thought the small who now comprise the San Manuel 1988, began his educational journey at university quality made it a perfect place Band of Mission Indians had lived in the University of Arizona, a choice for him,” he said. California for centuries before coming that—due to its distance from home— Marquez heeded his advice, and soon into contact with Spanish settlers in the appealed to this young man’s yearning found himself making the drive between middle of the eighteenth century. It was for independence. He received his Claremont’s leafy campus and the San Spanish settlers who rounded up the

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excellent tribal business committee. travel that he spent approximately three Still, his accomplishments are months of the year away from his wife, extraordinary.” Cindy, and their two young children, As the tribe’s wellbeing improved, ten-year-old Skyler and eight-year-old the tribal council took steps to establish Keely. He had missed Keely’s earliest sustainable means of income. “My words and first steps and some of message since the beginning has been: Skyler’s soccer games and school let’s plan for a changing future,” performances. Marquez said. “Gaming’s not going to “I wanted the opportunity to spend Manuel Band’s reservation, splitting be here forever. At San Manuel, we will more time with my family,” Marquez his time between his studies and his be prepared.” said. “And I felt that my job as tribal responsibilities as tribal chair. That preparation includes chair was complete and I had investments in office buildings, a hotel accomplished what I set out to do.” in Washington, DC, and an upscale He’s also happy to spend more time REBUILDING A restaurant in Pasadena, California, in the School of Politics and Economics. NATION as well as a state-of-the-art water-bottling “I love the faculty; they have been Marquez took office at a time when facility on the reservation. The tribe’s absolutely wonderful,” he said. “The the state first allowed tribes to expand newest project, currently under professors have practical experience gaming operations, a decision that construction, is San Manuel Village, and can translate theory into practice. meant increased revenue for the San a 12-acre complex in Highland, It’s very helpful to learn about a topic Manuel Band. With increasing financial California. and then hear how a professor was resources to draw on, Marquez set to “Our tribal compacts with the working at the White House and dealing work improving quality of life for the state are due to expire in 2020,” said with that issue and how it worked or, roughly 200 tribal members. Marquez. “Our goal for that year is for sometimes, didn’t work.” “From when I was starting as chair it our tribe to say we are no longer going Marquez’s immediate plans are to was more about putting back together to be involved in gaming because we complete his doctoral degree in the this very full society that at one time had have all these other sources of next few years. After that, he’s keeping a lot of wealth, spiritual and cultural sustainable revenue on the table.” his options open. wealth, not just material wealth,” One of the tribe’s most important “The day may come when I find he said. goals is to promote a secure future for myself going The reservation and its inhabitants its members by investing in education. back into saw many improvements: paved roads Millions of dollars have been invested in politics,” he said. and streetlights, sewer lines and K-12 education, and at the university “Who knows? health care, college scholarships and level as well. These programs benefit the Like I tell my home loans. San Manuel’s full-time tribe and other non-tribal American parents, I’m only government employee was joined by Indian youth in general. “The more 37. I have time, more than 300 others as the tribe, a education our people have the better and I’ve only sovereign entity like all Native American off we will be,” said Marquez. begun this Indian tribes, established its own journey.” agencies, including fire and public safety departments. THE FUTURE IS “There was pitifully little, if any, WIDE OPEN infrastructure before Deron became In 2006, Marquez decided not to run chairman,” said Balitzer. “Of course, he for reelection to the tribal council. His was aided by a willing tribe and job as tribal chair required so much

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Peter Boyer (School of Arts and Humanities, Charles Kerchner (School of Educational Studies) Music) has had more than 40 live performances and his colleagues published two articles on of his orchestral works in recent months. adapting labor law to the realities of modern The Vanderbilt University Orchestra toured schools. “Charter Schools and Collective China with a program, which included his Bargaining: Compatible Marriage or Celebration Overture; it was played in seven Illegitimate Relationship?” coauthored with cities. The Virginia Symphony performed excerpts from Martin Malin, was published in the Harvard Journal of Law his Ellis Island: The Dream of America over a series of 23 and Policy. It argues that authorizing charters should be performances of educational concerts for more than required to specify a form of teacher representation 20,000 children. Boyer’s Ellis Island was also performed by compatible with the operating principles of the school. orchestras including the Richmond Symphony, Columbus “Negotiating What Matters,” coauthored with Julia Koppich, Indiana Philharmonic, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, was published in the American Journal of Education. It argues Naples (Florida) Philharmonic Orchestra, and Laredo that public school bargaining contracts should be required Philharmonic Orchestra. The Lamont Symphony Orchestra, to specify student outcome goals. based at the University of Denver, performed his work, The Phoenix. Boyer’s major new work, Dreaming a World, John Maguire (President, Emeritus) and his wife commissioned through the American Composers Forum’s spent a week as Woodrow Wilson Foundation Continental Harmony program, premiered in Battle Creek, Visiting Fellows at St. Joseph’s College of Michigan, with over 300 performers, including the Battle New York. Creek Symphony Orchestra, Battle Creek Community Chorus, Kellogg Community College Choral Union, three children’s choruses, a narrator, and a percussion ensemble. Boyer was chosen for this commission from a national pool Jennifer Merolla (School of Politics and of applicants and completed a composer residency in Economics), along with Jennifer R. Ramos and Battle Creek. Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, published “Crisis, Charisma, and Consequences: An Dean Gerstein (Office of Institutional Research) Experimental Study during the 2004 U.S. recently had the following published: 2006 Election” in the Journal of Politics. She also California Problem Gambling Prevalence Survey published, with Laura B. Stephenson and Elizabeth J. by the Department of Alcohol and Drug Zechmeister, “La aplicación de los métodos experimentales Programs in Sacramento, California, en el studio de los atajos informativos en México” in Politica y coauthored with Rachel Volberg and Kari Gobierno. Merolla also presented papers at the Western Nysse-Carris; “Questionnaire Development: The Art of a Political Science Association meetings in Las Vegas: “The Stylized Conversation,” with Marianna Toce-Gerstein, in Gender Gap among Latino Partisans,” with Juana Mora, and Research and Measurement Issues in Gambling Studies; and, with “Arnold Habla Espanol: The Effects of Targeted Ads on Zhiwei Zhang and Peter Friedmann, “Patient Satisfaction and Latino Vote Choice in Cah-lee-forn-ya,” with Matt Baretto Sustained Outcomes of Drug Abuse Treatment,” in the and Ricardo Ramirez. Journal of Health Psychology. Ali Nadim (School of Mathematical Sciences) A Russian translation of President Robert recently had the following published: Klitgaard’s book, Controlling Corruption, has “Electrowetting Droplet Microfluidics on a recently been published. The book has Single Planar Surface,” coauthored with C.G. previously been translated into Spanish, Cooney, C.Y. Chen, M.R. Emerling, and J.D. Portuguese, Arabic, French, Chinese, and Sterling, in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics; Indonesian. “Oxygen Transport from the Outer Boundary of a Pulsating

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Professor, School of Educational Studies PhD, Education (Administration and Policy Analysis), Stanford University Wall of an Arteriole,” coauthored with A. Limon, S. Bertuglia, and P. Salamon, in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation; “Confined Motion of a Long Bubble through a WHY HERE? It’s an institution that’s resources to accomplish public goals. In Power-Law Fluid,” with A. Borhan, in AMRX Applied big enough for important research and education, this ultimately means how we Mathematics Research eXpress; and “A Model for p53 public engagement, small enough for create equal and meaningful educational effective teaching, wise enough to see opportunities for America’s students. It Dynamics Triggered by DNA Damage,” coauthored by these enterprises as complementary, and anchors my work in the policy context of V. Chickarmane, A. Ray, and H.M. Sauro, in SIAM Journal skilled enough to succeed at them all. schooling and in the relationship on Applied Dynamical Systems. between policy and practice. At present TEACHES: Reforming America’s I’m exploring ways to redesign K-12 Allen M. Omoto (School of Behavioral and Schools, Making Money Matter, and finance to better support student Organizational Sciences) recently received a other courses that examine the policy performance. BLAIS Challenge Fund grant from Claremont context of elementary and secondary Graduate University for his project “Research, education. FAVORITE BOOK IN HIS FIELD: Teaching, and Community Involvement: A Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century Multi-Directional Mentoring Project.” The TEACHING STYLE: For me, teaching is of Public School Reform by David project is being conducted in collaboration with Debra about building a bridge between where Tyack and Larry Cuban—a wonderful demonstration of how conflicting values Mashek of Harvey Mudd College. The project involves students are and where they need to be and aspirations have produced both bringing together graduate and undergraduate students, to succeed as scholars, policy analysts, more and less school improvement than along with community collaborators, to learn about and and educational leaders. I contribute disciplinary perspectives and a culture we might wish and how our way of doing pursue theoretically and practically relevant research of evidence-based knowledge and business likely consigns us to continuing related to interpersonal relationships, community, and real- action. Students contribute their own cycles of reform and retrenchment. world helping. Omoto spent two weeks as a visiting scholar knowledge and experiences, then do the at the Institute for Advanced Study, a multidisciplinary hard work of crossing the bridge. If INSPIRATION: The late Lucien center at the University of Minnesota. While there, he done well, we both benefit, as do the Marquis, professor of political studies at presented “Understanding Volunteerism and Social Action: university and the educational Pitzer College, who taught me how (not The Role of Psychological Sense of Community” and universities we influence. what) to think. “Psychology and Social Policy: Training and Career Opportunities.” Omoto has been invited to the National RESEARCH: The exciting question for INTERESTS: Books, boats, bikes, and Institute of Mental Health to present the results of his me asks how we organize public blues. research, “AIDS Volunteerism and Client Health: Exploring Community,” a project funded by a five-year grant from NIMH.

Susan J. Paik (School of Educational Studies) presented “Understanding Alterable Factors: Families and Schools” at the American Educational Research Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois, and recently published “Altering the Curriculum of the Home: Learning Environments for Korean and U.S. Students” in the Marriage and Family Review Journal. Paik chaired and sponsored two panels entitled “Global Action in Education: Issues and Perspectives I and II” at the Minority Mentor Program Conference, Global Action and Social Change.

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She also collaborated with 10 doctoral students from the Daryl Smith (School of Educational Studies) is on School of Educational Studies in presenting their research the founding editorial board of the Journal of on global issues from different countries. Diversity in Higher Education. Launching in 2008, this quarterly journal will offer research William Perez (School of Educational Studies) findings, theory, and promising practices that presented “Loss of Talent: High Achieving guide the efforts of institutions of higher Undocumented Students in the U.S.,” education in the pursuit of inclusive excellence. coauthored with K. Ramos, H. Coronado, and R. Cortes, during a symposium at the annual Deborah Smith and Sue Robb (School of American Educational Research Association Educational Studies) attended an invitational Conference in Chicago, Illinois. He also presented this paper dinner symposium hosted by the California at the annual Association for the Study of Higher Education Teachers Association at the Sterling Hotel in Conference in Anaheim, California. Perez also presented a Sacramento, California. The focus of the poster on “Civic Engagement Patterns of Undocumented symposium was to discuss the challenges and Latino Immigrant Youth: Model Citizens at the Margins of opportunities for professional development Society,” coauthored with K. Ramos and H. Coronado, at the created by recent California legislation, The Society for Research on Child Development Biennial Quality Education Investment Act (QEIA). Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Robb and Smith, along with two special education doctoral students, presented “Online Linda Perkins (School of Educational Studies) Course Enhancement Material for Pre-service spoke at a presidential session of the American Training of Education” at the Association for Supervision Educational Research Association Conference and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Conference. in Chicago, Illinois entitled “The World of (InE) Quality: Fifty Years after the Little Rock Gail Thompson (School of Educational Studies) Nine.” The session commemorated the 50th conducted a six-hour workshop for more than anniversary of the integration of Central High School in 100 teachers and administrators in the Little Rock, Arkansas. Antelope Valley School District in Southern California. Her presentation was “Wings of a Marc Redfield (School of Arts and Humanities, Dove: Helping African-American Students to English) was invited by Northwestern Soar Academically.” Thompson also presented at the 33rd University’s program in Comparative Literature annual conference for the Los Angeles Unified School and Department of German to give a lecture in District’s Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) teachers their yearlong Future of Comparative Literature and administrators on “Becoming a Powerful, Influential series. He spoke on “Aesthetics, Theory, and the Teacher of Children from Challenging Backgrounds.” Her Profession of Literature: Derrida and Romanticism.” article, “The Truth About Black Students and Standardized Tests,” was published in the January/February 2007 issue of Henry Schellhorn (School of Mathematical Leadership magazine. Thompson is also the author of a new Sciences) recently had his work “Credit Risk in a book, Up Where We Belong -- Helping African-American and Network Economy,” coauthored with Didier Latino Students Rise in School and in Life, which attempts to Cossin, accepted by the journal Management answer the question of what it takes to get all students--even Science. the most disenfranchised--engaged in school and motivated to learn and achieve.

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faculty Program Theory-Driven Evaluation Science bookshelf By Stewart I. Donaldson (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007)

Donaldson’s book illustrates authentic challenges faced in the implementation of an evaluation approach in practice. It outlines commonly accepted strategies for practicing evaluation and includes comprehensive accounts of how those strategies have played out with the complexities and challenges of “real world” settings. It also features detailed examples of how evaluations actually unfold in practice to develop people, programs, and organizations. This book fills the gap between twenty-first century literature on evaluation and what is happening in practice.

Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students By Susan J. Paik and Herbert J. Walberg, editors (Springer Company, 2007)

Evidence shows that minority children face an ever-widening achievement gap throughout their school years. This book will serve as a valuable professional tool by providing effective strategies from experienced scholars and professionals that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students; collectively examining three cultural groups in one concise book on themes related to diverse families, immigration issues, and teaching and learning; and conceptualizing opportunities and challenges in working with minority children in the context of the federal No Child Left Behind Act and other state and local educational policies.

Introduction to Special Education: Making a Difference (sixth edition) By Deborah Deutsch Smith (Allyn & Bacon, 2007)

Smith’s book provides an applied approach to children with disabilities by using specific and well-grounded research and suggestions to focus on how the educational practices impact the lives of children, their families, and their teachers. This sixth edition includes a new chapter on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Several well-known scholars in the fields of education and psychology endorsed the book, and its chapters and strategies are helpful to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from interdisciplinary fields in understanding and supporting education for the most visible minority groups in the United States.

Follower-Centered Perspectives on Leadership: A Tribute to the Memory of James R. Meindl By Boas Shamir, Rajnandini Pillai, Michelle C. Bligh, and Mary Uhl-Bien, editors (Information Age Publishing, 2006)

A tribute to the late James R. Meindl and his contributions to the field of leadership studies –specifically his follower-centric approach–this book covers a wide variety of perspectives that acknowledge the active roles of followers in the leadership process. These include the psychoanalytical perspective, leadership categorization theory, social identity theory, the shared leadership approach, attribution of charisma through social networks, the role of the media in constructing images of the leader, the social construction of followership, vision implementation by followers, and a post-modern approach to followership.

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ARTS AND HUMANITIES BEHAVIORAL AND Board of Trustees by voters in the John Tiberi III, MBA, 1993, was ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES California beach communities of named president of the Mideast divi- Andrea Anderson, PhD, Music, 2001, Huntington Beach, Westminster, sion of Martin Marietta, the nation’s toured China, Sweden, Finland, and Robert Kennison, PhD, Psychology, Midway City, and Fountain Valley. second largest producer of construc- Lithuania as well as 40 US states, 2000, is now a tenure-track professor The board oversees the district’s tion aggregates. Tiberi will be respon- performing works by Bach, Mozart, at California State University, Los $85 million budget, 14 locations with sible for company operations in Ravel, and Liszt on the piano, clavi- Angeles. He was also the recipient of 9,500 students in grades K-8, and Indiana, northern Kentucky, chord, harpsichord, and fortepiano. funding to research the topics of cog- 1,000 instructional and service staff. Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and West A graduate of the Manhattan School nition and aging. Prior to assuming Virginia. Tiberi has been with Martin of Music and University of Southern this position in the fall of 2006, Eric Frykman, MBA, 2004, was Marietta since 2002, and was previous- California, Anderson is the recipient Kennison worked at the University of appointed director and public health ly vice president and general manager of a Rockefeller Grant and grants Southern California in the School of officer for the Riverside County of the MidAmerica region. from her sponsors from the National Gerontology as a post doctorate and Community Health Agency. Along Endowment for the Arts. research associate with Liz Zelinski. with his Claremont Graduate University degree, Frykman has a BS, EDUCATION Chris Anderson, MFA, 1973, and Victoria Romero, MA, Psychology, MD, and MA in public health from more than 80 artist-members of the 1998, earned a PhD in applied cogni- Loma Linda University, and is board Dinah Consuega, MA, Teacher Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts tive psychology and is a consultant for certified in public health and general Education, 2003, accepted a position (EFA) welcomed the public to their Kohn Communications. As a consult- preventive medicine by the American as principal for a new Green Dot studios for EFA Open Studios 2006. ant, Romero applies research on Board of Preventive Medicine. The public high school to be built in the The exhibition, held in Manhattan’s thinking and learning to help her chairman of the Riverside County Watts area of Los Angeles. historic garment district, is the flag- clients overcome psychological obsta- Board of Supervisors, which runs the ship event of the annual Fashion cles to professional development. agency, noted that, “In an age when Elizabeth Kenneday, MFA, 1988; PhD, District Arts Festival Open Studios Romero is also an experienced col- pandemic flu and other potential Education, 1996, was honored as weekend. The EFA Studio Center is a lege professor, currently on special crises are serious concerns, this has the Outstanding Higher Education pioneering visual arts program found- appointment as an adjunct assistant become one of the most important Visual Art Educator for 2006 by the ed in 1998 to provide artists with the professor of psychology at Occidental health positions in the state.” California Art Education Association. rare opportunity to work within a College in Los Angeles. The award recognizes association professional arts community in close Merodie W. Hancock, MBA, 1988, is members who have achieved the proximity to New York City’s primary Jennifer Taylor, MA, Cognitive the new vice president of Off Campus highest level of professionalism in the gallery district. Psychology, 1998; PhD, 2001, is chief Programs for Central Michigan field of art education. Kenneday is an research officer for Green Ribbon University (CMU). Under Hancock, associate professor of art at California Daniel Callis III, MFA, 1986, and Health, LLC. A cognitive psychologist CMU, a long-time leader in online State University, Long Beach, and several other noted Los Angeles with expertise in the fields of geron- and distance learning, will focus on holds joint faculty appointments in artists, celebrated their New York tology and program evaluation, growing its off-campus programs via the arts for the College of Arts and debut with SWELL, a group exhibi- Taylor’s primary responsibilities enhanced academic programs, new in liberal studies for the College of tion held in the Chelsea gallery of the include providing data-driven strate- online and distance offerings, and Education. New York Center for Art and Media gic direction for the company as part superior student services. Before join- Studies, a Bethel University program. of the executive management team as ing CMU, Hancock was the associate Consuella Lewis, PhD, Education, A painter, Callis’s work focuses on nat- well as leading the information man- vice president for business process 2000, has received a Fulbright New ural elements that embody human agement and analytic departments. improvement at the University of Century Scholars grant for the potential; as a group, the works Maryland University College. 2007-2008 academic year. Lewis, an represented thoughtful and inspiring DRUCKER assistant professor in the University of views of the human condition. Patricia Schaeffer, MA, Pittsburgh’s School of Education, will Richard Boyd, Jr., EMBA, 2002, joined Executive Management, use the grant to study the topic of Darlene Campbell, MFA, 1986, held a Dickerson Employee Benefits (DEB) 1987, vice president of higher education in the twenty-first solo show, Portraits of California, at as vice president of sales. Head- regulatory affairs at the century. Among the 36 scholars the Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Los quartered in Los Angeles, DEB’s DCI Consulting Group, chosen from 25 countries to receive Angeles. Campbell’s work was also mission is to make quality health Inc., was selected to head the compa- the award, Lewis was the only junior included in Suburban Escape: The insurance available to all, with a focus ny’s new national nonprofit employer faculty member selected. Lewis’s work Art of California Sprawl at the on providing affordable insurance to association, known as the Center will take her to Zanzibar, where she San Jose Museum of Art. A book those in underserved markets. In his for Corporate Equality (CCE). The will study access to education and published by the University of new role, Boyd will be responsible CCE will be dedicated to promoting equity within the system and develop Chicago Press accompanied the for all business written through the proactive affirmative action and equal a 10-year master plan for the State museum exhibit. company’s largest profit center. employment regulatory compliance, University of Zanzibar. with the ideal being to create diverse John Briscoe, EMBA, organizations free from workplace 1990, has been elected bias. DCI is a Washington, DC-based to serve a four-year firm that provides human resources term on the Ocean risk management consulting services. View School District

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laremont Graduate University was the host of a private 1. Martha Longenecker Creception and exhibition for 125 alumni and friends at addressed the attendees. the Mingei International Museum in San Diego’s historic 2. President Robert Balboa Park. During the evening, President Robert Klitgaard Klitgaard with friends and guest of honor, alumna Martha Longenecker, Certificate, (L-R) Robert Dynes, Education, 1947; MFA, 1953, founder and emerita director of Ann Parode, and the Mingei Museum, offered their insights. Mary Walshok. Longenecker, an acclaimed ceramist, discussed the history of the museum—which is dedicated to understanding the art 3. Alumni William Holland and Diana of all cultures—and described how her experiences as an art Holland enjoyed the student at the university inspired her to pursue her dream of show. founding the Mingei. During the evening, alumni enjoyed viewing an exhibition of Longenecker’s pottery, which she created for the event. 3 Participants also viewed several other spectacular exhibitions.

Kerry McCartney, MA, Education, chosen as a result of her work as positions at various institutions in the ingful interaction with his students, 1995, joined Vanderbilt University as diversity director at the Orange United States and in Nigeria. At and is dedicated to keeping students associate dean of development and County United Way. This includes her Pomona College, she was a founder up to date on the constant changes in alumni relations for Peabody College, involvement with the Somos Familia of the Black Studies Center and technology. The selection committee the university’s school of education program, which steers members of served as president of the Mortar was also impressed with his research and human development. McCartney low-income Latino neighborhoods Board. and his commitment to improving was previously director of principal toward economic independence student access to state-of-the-art gifts at Harvey Mudd College, where by teaching them the basics of money technology. she helped lead the college to the management. INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND highest fundraising total in its history. TECHNOLOGY She received her bachelor’s degree Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran, Certificate, POLITICS AND ECONOMICS from Pitzer College and a doctorate Education, 1973; MA, Education, 1974; Samuel Yang, PhD, Information Science, of education from University of PhD, Education, 1977, was elected to 2001, professor of information sys- Iris DeGruy-Bell, MA, California, Los Angeles. the board of trustees of Pomona tems and decision sciences, was hon- Government, 1976, College, the school she graduated ored as the 2006 Outstanding joined the Oregon Yesenia Velez, MA, Education, 2004, from in 1969. Wilson-Oyelaran Professor for the College of Business Commission on was selected as one of The Orange became president of Kalamazoo and Economics at California State Children and Families County Register’s top 100 Latinos in College in July 2005, and has held University, Fullerton. Yang has devel- as director of Youth Policies and Orange County, California. Velez was many teaching and administrative oped many avenues to assure mean- Initiatives. In this position, she

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TEACHERS GET AN EDUCATION

eld on campus, the fourth annual Teaching and H Learning in Higher Education Workshop was facilitated by Laurie Richlin (PhD, Education, 1991). Richlin is the director of the Preparing Future Faculty and Learning Communities Program at the university and a national expert on faculty development and the scholarship of teaching. Richlin led the group in discussions of topics ranging from strategies for building community in the classroom and developing course syllabi to engaging students in teaching. Alumni from many fields participated in the workshop, and were given an opportunity to exchange ideas in small groups as well as with the larger audience. Richlin and participants discuss the art of teaching.

DIANA CHEN’S CAREER IS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS

Diana Chen received her MBA from the Drucker “The university taught me School in 1996. She is chairperson of the board and independence, autonomy, CEO of TAIPEI 101, the world’s tallest skyscraper, respect, tolerance, and located in Taiwan. teamwork.”

The Flame: Diana, what is your management suggestions. In fact, there is no division between policy? working hours and after-work time for me. I am Chen: I believe “human management” is the thinking about work all the time. That’s because core of good management because it deals with I enjoy what I am doing and am very passionate real people. A good business leader should have about my job. a long-term, consistent policy to invest in human The Flame: resources—that means entrusting employees How did Claremont Graduate with due responsibility, encouraging them to University prepare you for such an important grow and be creative, and allowing them to career? Chen: make mistakes. At the university, I enjoyed reading biographies of famous people. I learned from

The Flame: What do you do in a typical day? their experience and wisdom. In addition, the Chen: I get up at around five o’clock in the university taught me independence, autonomy, morning and leave for work at seven. I take respect, tolerance, and teamwork. These values advantage of the commuting time to read local continue to assist me in my current job. and international news. I often have a number The Flame: of meetings with management teams to discuss Any other insights you’d like and analyze the company’s pros and cons. We to share? Chen: also collect a large amount of industry I believe that opportunity waits for those information to facilitate the process of decision- who come prepared. Therefore, I live every making. I spend lots of time communicating day to the fullest. with colleagues and listening to their

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STUDENTS’ ART DISPLAYED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE L.A. ART SHOW

laremont Graduate University art students were the stars of the CL.A. art show. Their work made a big impression on alumni, stu- dents, and friends who attended the 12th annual Los Angeles Art Show in Santa Monica, California. MFA students displayed a range of their work, celebrating the first time college or university students have appeared in the show. The students enjoyed the university-sponsored breakfast, mingling with alumni and friends. Later, Marianne Elder, university gallery manager, recognized the students’ accomplishments during a private tour. Following the tour, participants enjoyed a lively panel moderated 1 by David Pagel, professor of art at Claremont Graduate University and art critic for the Los Angeles Times. During the event, M.C. Sungaila and Jennifer Diener, members of the board of advisors of the School of Arts and Humanities, welcomed the group to the show. Michael Brewster, professor of art at Claremont Graduate University, also delivered a special greeting. Everyone enjoyed the camaraderie that art and artists inspire.

1. Claremont Graduate University art students represented at the show were: (L-R) Bianca Kolonusz-Partee, Quinton Bemiller, Chuck Feesago, Anita Bunn, and Sayon Syprasoeuth. Seann Brackin, Brad Eberhard, and Anna Marie Franceso are not shown.

2. A sampling of the students’ artwork 2

provides policy analysis and strategic recognized in Who’s Who in the West RELIGION planning direction in the areas of and Who’s Who in America in 1993 and IN MEMORIAM community schools, juvenile crime 2002. James Brenneman, MA, Religion, 1991, prevention, homeless and runaway was inaugurated as the 16th president Mary E. Clements, MA, youth, and cultural competency. Siew Mun Tang, MA, International of Goshen College, a Mennonite Education, 1932 DeGruy-Bell will represent the agency Studies, 1998, is living in Malaysia, institution in Indiana. The inaugural on Oregon’s Child Welfare Advisory and is on the faculty at the National ceremony was centered on the theme Robert-John Garigue, MS, Committee. University of Malaysia teaching in the “Growing Wisdom and Wonder.” Information Science, 1992 social sciences and humanities. Matthew E. Moore, MA, Politics and Leslie Anthony Muray, PhD, Religion, P. Gail Mahoney, PhD, Psychology, Policy, 1989, was named administrator Darius Udrys, MA, Politics, 2000; PhD, 1982, taught a class on environmental 1997 of the Division of Planning and Politics and Policy, 2006, accepted a ethics in Hungary. It was the first time Programming for the Idaho position as program manager for a course on the subject was taught in Paul T. Monk, MA, International Department of Transportation. Eurasia and development with the that country. Muray is currently a Relations, 1957; PhD, International Moore’s new responsibilities include Center for Civic Education in Los professor of philosophy and religion Relations, 1964 managing a staff of 45, a budget of Angeles. Udrys continues to work as a at Curry College in Milton, $6 million, and the data collections freelance journalist and media train- Massachusetts. Abbie L. Prentice, PhD, systems used throughout the state. er, and is chairman of the Lithuanian Education, 1986 Moore is an active member of several Community of Los Angeles. professional organizations, and was

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The Nativist’s Daughter, A Novel Cities in the Technology Economy alumni Xlibris, 2006 M.E. Sharpe, 2006 booknotes Nicholas Aharon Boggioni Darrene L. Hackler EMBA, 1984 MA, Public Policy, 1996; PhD, Political Science in Economics, 2000 A contemporary novel with a sense of history, this book touches on issues Filled with fresh information and Alumni, of love, family, and the attendant practical advice, Hackler’s book recognizes the pivotal role that local to submit a conflicts of politics and religion. A passionate chronicle of ambition, governments play in the high-tech booknote, e-mail discovery, loss, and renewal, the story economy. The book examines the [email protected] with converts from youthful adventure to effect of technology industries and your name, publisher, edgy suspense, its essential tragedy derailing absolutes and infrastructures on cities, and the local policy actions required publication year, a corresponding intolerance. Like an impressionist painting, for effective response to these challenges. Hackler utilizes national level data, nationwide surveys of local officials, brief summary of your the larger issues and broad images come alive only by way of the dots and dashes of daily life. and case studies to examine what cities are doing in the book, and a high- technology economy, describe the barriers to participation resolution photo of the in the technology economy, and detail entrepreneurial book’s cover. Books Gay Conservatives: Group actions to traverse these hurdles. must have been Consciousness and Assimilation published no earlier Hayworth Press, 2006 ‘‘Friends in Peace and War”: than 2006. Kenneth W. Cimino MA, Public Policy, 2003; PhD, The Russian Navy’s Landmark Submissions may Political Science, 2004 Visit to Civil War San Francisco be edited. Potomac Books, 2007 C. Douglas Kroll Recent studies show that the vast PhD, History, 2000 majority of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community Great friendship existed between considers itself politically liberal. Yet the United States and Imperial Russia nearly 25 percent of all LGBT voters helped reelect George during the nineteenth century. W. Bush in 2004. Cimino’s book examines why conservative Viewing the new world democracy as LGBTs join political groups and support candidates whose a bulwark against British ambitions in policies are in opposition to the interests of the LGBT Asia and the North Pacific, Russia was alone among the great community. This thought-provoking book looks at the impact European powers in providing no aid to the seceding states of group consciousness on conservative LGBTs and how it during the Civil War. Using Russian and US documents, Kroll affects political power and social construction. investigates the Russian Pacific Squadron’s 1863 visit to San Francisco, thoroughly examining its social, diplomatic, and military impact. Whether actively supporting the Union or Taka: A Bio-Terror Thriller training and refitting its forces, the Russian officers and Echo Park Press, 2006 sailors endeared themselves to San Francisco’s citizens and Terry Fritts helped the city overlook the many differences they had with MA, Music, 1984 their visitors. Taka is the first novel in a three-part series of bio-terror thrillers set in the Handbook of the Psychology of Hawaiian Islands. Two grisly murders Religion and Spirituality point to Hawaii as the new home of Guilford Press, 2005 the Red Summit terrorist organization. Edited by Raymond F. Paloutzian, MA, The FBI’s new counter-terror team Psychology, 1970; PhD, Psychology, 1972 is assigned to stop an ex-convict with and Crystal L. Park expertise in Mad Cow Disease and anthrax. The team features an out-of-shape bureaucrat, a gun-slinging Texas cowboy, and a beautiful Japanese National Police investigator. Panoramic in scope, this book provides a unique and unparalleled survey of a fast-developing field. From the discipline’s foremost authorities, the handbook synthesizes the breadth of current knowledge on the psychological processes underlying spirituality, religious behavior, and religious experience. Seamlessly

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edited, it provides a definitive portrait of the current state of the science, fosters the development of integrative theory, and identifies vital directions for DAVID GORDON future research. HAS A BIG JOB IN SMALL America at the Brink of Empire: BUSINESS Rusk, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War Louisiana State University Press, avid Gordon is a busy 2007 Dman. He’s the size Lawrence Serewicz program manager for the US MA, Public Policy, 1997 Small Business Administration This book offers a revealing (SBA) in the Midwest. It’s a big David poses with a Tibetan monk he met at the Palubuk look at the parts played by job: only those with honed Monastery on vacation in Lhasa, Tibet. David also met his Secretaries of State Dean Rusk research and evaluation skills future wife Renee on this trip. and Henry Kissinger and need apply. President Lyndon Johnson in bringing the nation to, “My job is to decide whether certain companies that have bid on federal government and averting it from, the brink of empire in the years 1963 through 1975. Serewicz argues that during the contracts are ‘small businesses’ within the meaning of the law. Tens of millions of Vietnam conflict, the United States experienced an dollars can ride on any particular contract, and the formal determinations I issue can identity crisis whereby America’s world-order role – be appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court,” Gordon said. assumed to be an imperial one – stretched the country Gordon earned his PhD in American constitutional history in 1983 at Claremont to the limits of its identity as a republic. With a Graduate University under the direction of the late Professor Leonard W. Levy. “I was heightened relevance brought on by the conflict in Iraq, Serewicz explores the threshold moment when exceptionally lucky to study with Len,” he said. “I never had a better teacher. He taught the possibilities and limitations of American power me how to write and how to think.” are put to the test. While at the university, he served as assistant “Knowing how to editor of the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, to which he contributed more than uncover facts and Three Strikes Laws 200 articles. After earning his law degree at the Greenwood Press, 2007 how to evaluate them Jennifer E. Walsh University of Wisconsin Law School, Gordon MA, Politics, 1998; PhD, practiced corporate and securities as well as is a tremendous skill, Political Science, 2000 international law. and it’s one I got at In 1991, the SBA appointed Gordon assistant Fourteen years after the regional counsel for the Midwest; he also served as abduction and murder of Claremont Graduate 12-year-old Polly Klaas led special assistant US attorney for over a decade. to the passing of California’s In 2005, SBA appointed him manager of the Size University.” law imposing life sentences Determination Program in Chicago, his current on repeat offenders, the public position, with jurisdiction over a dozen midwestern states. remains sharply divided over Gordon has had some interesting assignments during his career. the issue. Do the laws really prevent crime, or do they In 1998, SBA sent him to Egypt on a mission cosponsored by the US Agency unfairly punish some nonviolent offenders? Walsh examines these provocative questions by analyzing for International Development to evaluate the legal and regulatory environment the historical development of the Three Strikes for small- and medium-sized businesses. “SBA is viewed as a model for countries movement and providing an in-depth examination in transition,” he said. “Most businesses in developing countries are small.” of its rationale and consequences. The book helps The following year, the Romanian government and the American Bar Association readers to understand one of the most controversial called on him. “In Romania, I gave several addresses and led workshops on government criminal justice developments of our time. regulation of small business,” he said. A prolific writer, Gordon has also published widely in a number of professional journals, including Law and Policy in International Business and American Journal of Legal History. Gordon’s education is a big part of his success. “Knowing how to uncover facts and how to evaluate them is a tremendous skill, and it’s one I got at Claremont Graduate University.”

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DIGITAL ART EXHIBITION CELEBRATED ALUMNI AND STUDENT ART

either rain, sleet, nor snow stopped guests from Nseeing this important art show. More than 100 people signed up for the event, but the snowstorm that stranded Jet Blue passengers for as long as 10 hours that weekend also made it impossible for many to attend. The 47 guests who braved the snow and cold enjoyed a unique reception and digital art exhibition at the Asian Fusion Gallery, Asian Cultural Center in midtown Manhattan. Held in conjunction with the College Art (L-R) Claremont Graduate University people included Larry Glenn, trustee, his wife Anne Glenn, and alumni Christina Sultan and Frank Souder. Association’s annual conference, the event featured digital images of the recent work of Claremont Graduate University alumni and students in a slideshow projected on a Professors Michael Brewster and David Amico. The event, held to highlight gallery wall. the university’s art program and Arts and Cultural Management (MAACM) Visitors included Larry Glenn, trustee; Bruce Cash (School of Politics program, was a fitting tribute to the university’s art alumni. and Economics, Board of Visitors); and Claremont Graduate University

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“With my background student as a refugee, and spotlight degrees in economics, political science, and international trade, as well as working with a nascent SOVATHANA SOKHOM: national government, Student, Teacher, the university’s focus Inspiration on transdisciplinary EDUARDO mentoring, which helped him regain When she was eight years old, experience was very OCHOA: his focus on education. Ochoa said he empowers his Sovathana Sokhom was toiling on a attractive.” Teacher of the work farm operated by the Khmer students to speak up and voice their Rouge in Cambodia. She was Year in San Diego opinions in class. He tells them to separated from her family, denied dream big, be creative, and believe Soon afterward she began schooling, and lived in constant When teenagers get to junior in themselves. volunteering for the Cambodian- fear for her life. Now she is a PhD high school, they often make Beyond his role as teacher, American National Development student in economic and political decisions that can set them on a Ochoa also donates extra time at Organization (CANDO). She was science. course for the rest of their lives. Marston, where he is the sent to Cambodia in 1994, shortly While researching her Students at San Diego, California’s Associated Student Body advisor after the national election—the first dissertation—which will explore the Marston Middle School have an and Si Se Puede Club advisor. attempt to implement democracy in effect women have on international ally who is passionate Cambodia. trade—Sokhom plans to continue about sending the kids “Claremont Graduate “I began teaching English and her work in Cambodia. She’s on their way with an business to the first generation of University … made me grow returning this summer to teach a acquired sense of self. Cambodian students who could new course she designed to empower Eduardo Ochoa, complete higher education without into a much better teacher.” Cambodian women. currently finishing his paying bribes,” Sokhom noted. “Traditionally, in Cambodian dissertation in After the elections, she also culture, a good woman is one who Claremont Graduate University’s His time at Claremont Graduate began tutoring assembly members— stays at home and cooks,” she says. School of Educational Studies, was University (which shares the PhD of both parties—on issues of trade “In America I’ve learned a woman named the San Diego Unified program with San Diego State and international business. Shortly can have a family and a career. I’m School District’s 2006-07 Middle University) has been extremely after the 1998 election, Sokhom living proof. I want to go back and School Teacher of the Year. His valuable in shaping his career. moved back to the United States. show these women all the oppor- philosophy includes teaching life Ochoa said the faculty and students After settling in Los Angeles, she got tunities they have.” lessons and painting a bigger have pushed him to learn more than married, started a family, and began Despite being deprived of an picture of the world for his he ever thought he would. teaching. Last year Sokhom enrolled education in Cambodia, and only students. “I was blown away by how much at Claremont Graduate University to learning rudimentary English at the “I tell my kids that it’s not just insight they have,” he said. “My pursue her PhD. refugee camps, Sokhom excelled in about themselves, it’s also about first class alone really humbled me. “Maybe it’s because I didn’t high school and went on to earn a how the past affects us and that It was a completely different level start my education until seventh bachelor’s degree in political science what we do not only impacts us, but from anything I thought it would grade that I haven’t gotten tired of from St. Olaf College in Minnesota. other people as well,” Ochoa said. be, and it’s made me grow into a learning yet,” Sokhom noted. “I’ve Later she would earn a master’s Ochoa was born in Rosarito, much better teacher.” only been here a short time, but so degree in international trade from Mexico and attended San Diego- far it’s been a tremendous Texas A & M International area schools. At a critical time experience.” University. toward the end of his high school career, he received some solid

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carrying the flame

“Daryl is a tireless champion of excellence and scholarship. She is truly a shining light.”

—PHIL DREYER, PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY; DEAN, SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

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“I am compelled to do research that matters … that helps facilitate institutional change and improvement.”

matters and informs policy and practice. Her most recent research Daryl Smith focuses on diversity issues in higher education and organizational change. A series of research projects on diversifying the faculty has been central to her work. The results of that research debunk the Walk through the Tenth Street entrance of iconic Harper myths of faculty hiring, make clear why this is essential for higher Hall, the oldest building on campus. Stop a moment to view education, illuminate the important role of graduate education, the painting of Jacob Chandler Harper, the building’s namesake. and suggest strategies for making progress. Continue down the hall to the Victor Atkins Lobby and notice For the past six years, Smith has also served as one of the three its warm wooden paneling, elegant furniture, and intellectual principals responsible for the evaluation of the Campus Diversity ambiance. Linger awhile to view the splendid paintings and Initiative for the James Irvine Foundation in collaboration with artwork. Then, take the staircase to the left, and enter the the Association of American Colleges and Universities. This office of Daryl G. Smith, professor of education and psychology, project was a $29 million effort involving 28 private colleges and tireless researcher, and kind human being. universities in California to develop their capacity to sustain and Once there, you’ll find Smith at her desk surrounded by a monitor the progress on institutional diversity. That project tornado of books and papers. She is in her environment— resulted in a monograph, a report, and three research briefs (more welcoming and friendly, but at the same time, intensely serious. information on Smith’s research can be found on her website at Smith is well placed in Harper Hall, the symbol of the www.cgu.edu/pages/4689.asp). university. As a faculty member, former administrator, and friend, Smith, whose passion is apparent when she speaks on the wshe represents the mission and ideals of the university as well as, subject of diversity in higher education, said: “The success of our or better than, anyone. campuses to build capacity for deeply engaging the diversity of Born in Long Beach, New York, an island off of Long Island, the society will have significant implications for our democracy, Smith is the daughter of an interior decorator and a traveling and for all levels of education.” salesman. She grew up with the ocean as a companion, but at 16 While this and other research have made her nationally known she left Long Beach to go to Cornell University to study math. It in her field, she is reluctant to speak highly of herself. But her was the early 1960s, and she immediately noticed the segregation colleagues and students are not so reticent. Jack Schuster, professor and discrimination in sororities and fraternities. Smith got of education and public policy said: “My Roget’s isn’t adequate to involved. “It captured me,” she said. “I wanted to change the describe Daryl. ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ comes close, institution.” but doesn’t suffice to describe her commitment to her powerful, It captured her and never let her go. groundbreaking scholarship or her extraordinary dedication to Smith earned her BA in math, then switched fields. Her interest students.” was now in student affairs and higher education policy. An experienced teacher, she brings her passion for scholarship She went to Stanford University and earned an MA in student to the classroom. “Claremont Graduate University is different personnel and counseling. She received another MA in psychology than other graduate schools, where students often are asked to and a PhD in social psychology and higher education from participate in a faculty member’s work. Here, the students pursue Claremont Graduate University. For 21 years, she served as a their own passions with our guidance,” Smith said. college administrator in planning and evaluation, institutional Student Hugo Garcia considers her an incredible asset: “She has research, and student affairs. been a wonderful professor and mentor.” Student Jocelyn Chong After two decades of working in administration and teaching, said, “Daryl’s ability to blend practice and research has prompted Smith found that research was becoming more and more impor- me to explore new ways to contribute to higher education.” tant to her. In 1987 she came to Claremont Graduate University to On top of her busy schedule of research and teaching at the stay. She found her values and ambitions aligned perfectly with the university, she consults and lectures at other colleges and universi- university’s mission. “It was as if the university had written the job ties, bringing her message beyond the borders of the campus. description just for me. I did not have to choose between teaching Smith’s office window overlooks Harper Courtyard. The words and research. It was the perfect blend of both,” she said. of James A. Blaisdell, founder of Claremont Graduate University, At Claremont Graduate University, Smith’s research and writing are set in stone around its graceful fountain: “A college binds the interests have included diversity in higher education, evaluation centuries into its dominion; it shares lives; it fashions generations; and organizational change, college governance issues, women in it makes history.” Daryl G. Smith, professor and extraordinary academe, women’s colleges, institutional research, student affairs, individual, is a living example of these immortal words. and classroom teaching. She cares about doing research that

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