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PEACE CORPS | Farewell LITTLE THEATRE | YOUTH AND FAMILY MINISTRY | CLU TO NFL WINTER 2009 Sustainability CLU Goes Green Inside and Out CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY CLUMAGAZINE CLU MAGAZINE Editor CONTENTS Carol Keochekian ’81 Managing Editor Lynda Paige Fulford, M.P.A. ’97 FEATURE STORIES Associate Editor Peggy L. Johnson Art Director Michael L. Adams ’72 Designer Cary Hanson Contributing Editors Scott Chisholm Karin Grennan Mitzi Ward Photographers Erik Hagen ’04 12 16 20 Art Miller ’01 Brian Stethem ’84 ARNE HOEL ’81 12 The Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love DEPARTMENTS Editorial Board Members Helping people around the globe to learn new skills and become self- Kristine Calara Bryan Card ’01 sufficient has made alumni Peace Corps volunteers stronger, more 4 Letters to the Randall Donohue, Ph.D. confident and committed to making the world a better place. Editor R. Guy Erwin, Ph.D. Rachel Ronning ’99 Lindgren 16 The Greening of CLU 4 Campus Highlights Robert Meadows, Ph.D. To students, faculty, administrators and staff, sustainability is not just Angela (Moller ’96) Naginey, M.S. ’03 8 Sports News WINTER 2009 Michaela (Crawford ’79) Reaves, Ph.D. a buzzword but an integral part of the learning process. From class Jean Kelso ’84 Sandlin, M.P.A. ’90 projects to construction materials, CLU is working to reduce its 38 Faculty Viewpoint Dennis Sheridan, Ed.D., Ph.D. carbon footprint. Bruce Stevenson ’80, Ph.D. 39 Calendar Jeanette Villanueva-Walker 20 A Final Goodbye to the Little Theatre CLU MAGAZINE WINTER 2009, Memories were shared and tears were shed when alumni and faculty Volume 16, Number 2. © Copyright gathered to bid a fond farewell to their beloved Little Theatre. ALUMNI NEWS 2009. Published by CLU for alumni, parents and friends. The views 22 Cutting Edge Ministry 26 Homecoming 2008 expressed in this magazine do not CLU has developed a new Youth and Family Ministry Program in necessarily reflect CLU policies. response to the Church’s need for trained leaders. 28 Class Notes Address CLU Magazine 32 Milestones California Lutheran University 24 Lessons from Mt. Clef Stadium 60 West Olsen Road Four former CLU gridiron players have taken what they learned at Cal Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-2787 Lutheran and gone on to coach football at the highest professional level. Phone: (805) 493-3151 [email protected] www.callutheran.edu CLU’s Seven Strategic Goals To unsubscribe - If you would like your name removed from the CLU Recruit and retain... a distinguished and Invest in facilities... and infrastructure that Magazine distribution list, please e-mail diverse faculty and staff who will support support and enhance the academic program. or write to the above address. Please include your name and address as they the mission and be dedicated to the highest Generate the resources... necessary to appear on the label. professional standards and service. support quality improvement initiatives. Recruit and graduate... a well-prepared COVER PHOTOGRAPH Articulate the identity... and enhance the by Brian Stethem ’84 and diverse student body that is academically reputation of the University. accomplished and reflective of CLU’s mission. Chemistry professor Grady Develop leadership capacity... as well as Hanrahan (second from right) and Enhance learning... through the ongoing governance structures that foster institutional students collect a water sample assessment and improvement of curricular and from the Ventura River to test for and program excellence. pollutants. (Story on page 12) co-curricular programs. CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY CLU Administration CAMPUS HIGHLIGHTS Chris Kimball, Ph.D. President Leanne Neilson, Psy.D. CLU Ranks High In ‘U.S. News’ Learning the Act of Good Teaching Helping Students Succeed Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Forbes.com Ratings You Got Served he U.S. Department of Education awarded a $999,000 grant to Prestigious award notes CLU track record Karen Davis, M.B.A. Moorpark Unified School District to work with California Lutheran alifornia Lutheran University received high ratings in two T he Council of Independent Colleges has selected California Vice President for Administration University to create a model program where teachers utilize drama and Finance reports on the nation’s universities. Lutheran University to receive a $100,000 Wal-Mart College C techniques as a teaching strategy in all subject areas. T William Rosser, M.S. CLU is ranked 16th on the 2009 U.S. News & World Success Award to help CLU build on its success in enrolling, retaining Over the four years of the Project ACT (Active, Collaborative Vice President for Student Affairs Report list of top schools in the West offering quality and graduating first-generation college students. and Dean of Students Teaching) grant, CLU education professors Michael McCambridge bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Last year, it was ranked The University was one of only 20 institutions selected to receive Matthew Ward, Ph.D. and Michael Cosenza will provide individualized coaching in active, 20th. The University has placed among the top 20 Western the grant, which is intended to help universities that are already deeply Vice President for Enrollment collaborative instruction to teachers, who in turn will become trainers Regional Universities for 14 years. committed to the education of first-generation students. CLU is the Management for their colleagues in the district. R. Stephen Wheatly ’77, J.D. The new rankings were featured in the Sept. 1 edition of only California recipient out of more than 200 colleges that applied for The program is designed to help teachers 1) incorporate drama Vice President for University U.S. News & World Report magazine and the 2009 America’s BRIAN STETHEM ’84 the grants. into their lesson plans throughout all curriculum areas with the goal Advancement Best Colleges guidebook. The colleges selected have developed programs that result in About 500 California of increasing teacher effectiveness and student achievement in math Carol Bartell, Ed.D. In Forbes.com’s first report on America’s Best Colleges higher percentages of graduates among their first-generation college Dean of the School of Education Lutheran University stu- and language arts, and 2) create a practical, replicable model of quality released during the summer, CLU ranked 251st among students than the national average, and many graduate first-generation dents helped the City of arts integration. CLU students preparing to become teachers will Joan L. Griffin, Ph.D. all private and public undergraduate institutions in the students at the same rate as all other students. Dean of the Ventura clean trash from intern with Moorpark instructors to help them incorporate arts-based United States. The Forbes report was compiled as an According to the U.S. Department of Education, only 24 percent College of Arts and Sciences the Ventura River bottom instruction in their lesson plans. alternative to the U.S. News rankings in conjunction with of first-generation college students nationwide succeed in earning a Charles Maxey, Ph.D. in the fall. In coopera- The grant also covers bringing live theater to all elementary Dean of the School of Business an Ohio University economist and the Center for College bachelor’s degree compared with 68 percent of students whose 4 tion with waste disposal, students in Moorpark Unified. CLU theatre arts professor Michael 8 Affordability and Productivity. It uses different criteria, ’ parents have a bachelor’s degree. Each year, between 35 and 40 Arndt and the professional Kingsmen Shakespeare Company will take Board of Regents including student evaluations and alumni achievement, and environmental and public percent of the new students at CLU are first-generation. Of those Karen Bornemann ’70 Spies, Chair safety personnel, the vol- their Shakespeare Educational Tour to the schools each year. James D. Power IV, Vice Chair doesn’t break the rankings into subcategories. first-generation college students who entered CLU in 2002, 75 percent In another professional development collaboration, the U.S. GayLyn Talbot, Secretary unteers began work along In the U.S. News report, CLU maintained its spot among BRIAN STETHEM graduated within five years. Department of Education provided Moorpark Unified with a $938,000 Kristine Butcher, Ph.D. the top institutions in the West based on high scores in the beach at the Ventura Cal Lutheran is the only institution that plans to specifically target Teaching American History grant to work in partnership with CLU and Andrew Brown ’09 several categories. The percent of freshmen in the top 25 River mouth. The students’ effort helped reduce the transfer students with the Wal-Mart grant. The initiative will strengthen Dennis Erickson, Ph.D. waste washed into the ocean during the wet winter the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. Randall Foster percent of their high school graduating class increased from efforts to improve academic preparation and transition, integration Yale Gieszl 55 percent in the 2008 rankings to 68 percent. CLU also months while raising awareness of people’s impact into the University community, and exploration of career and graduate Rod Gilbert showed improvement in its assessment by the country’s top on the natural environment. school options. Shawn Howie ’78 Office for Student Research Created Ted Jensen academics, graduation rate and percent of classes with fewer William J. Kane than 20 students. Scholarly journal also launched Chris Kimball, Ph.D. William Krantz alifornia Lutheran University has created an Office for Tune in to a Stronger The Rev. Raymond LeBlanc Undergraduate Research (OUR) to coordinate, highlight and Susan Lundeen-Smuck ’88 C Letter to the Editor increase student investigations. Ron McDaniel Signal on KCLU Kate McLean, M.B.A. ’77 Directed by Michele LeBlanc, Ph.D., the new office is working Let me express my compliments on CLU Magazine. It’s The Rev. Frank Nausin ’70 to provide additional project funding, disseminate results and place The Rev.

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