Baumgartner Gives Graduates “Four Keys to Success” Sonia Rosado

DULLETIN (UPC VOL. 11, NO. 4 WILLIAM PATERSON COLLEGE FEBRUARY 17, 1997 Baumgartner Gives Graduates “ Four Sonia Rosado Keys to Success” Named Trustee Ice and piercing cold failed to graduates, their families, and his Sonia Rosado, who came to the interfere with the joy and excitement mother Lois Baumgartner, who has United States from of the 649 undergraduates and 81 worked at WPC since 1967, “was Puerto Rico when graduate students who received their carrying the flag in Atlanta in 1996.” she was 12 years degrees at the college’s second winter He urged the graduates to feel pride in old, and became a commencement on January 19. their accomplishment as well. leader in Paterson More than 4,000 parents and Anne Li, president of the Class of educational and visitors jammed the bleachers in the 1997, thanked the faculty for their political circles, Rec Center to cheer, take pictures and dedication to the students, the has been appointed shed tears of happiness as the gradu— Blanchard families for their support and to the Board of B|ll ates walked to the stage to receive unconditonal love for their respective Trustees. Sonia Rosado their diplomas when their names were graduates, and the graduates for their Confirmed by the New Jersey State announced over the loudspeakers. “perseverance, desire, excellence, Senate, she was selected for a six—year Responding to the celebratory intelligence and pride which you will term by Governor Christine Todd atmosphere, Olympic gold medal need to achieve and succeed in today’s Whitman. (Continued on page 3) winner Bruce Baumgartner told the society.” graduates that “success is doing the President Arnold Speert reﬂected best you can do.” The four keys, he n “this rite of passage, this gradua~ Roland Watts Takes Over said, are “to set your goals high, to tion ceremony, (which) marks the Student Development surround yourself with good people, finishing of all degree requirements Roland Watts has been named acting take care of your body, and work hard. and yet is referred to by a word, dean of Student Development. The most tenacious will reach the 'commencement,‘ which relates to the Patricia Whiteman, associate director most success." beginning of the responsibilities of life of residence life for “One of the proudest moments of after college.” my life,” he told the assembled 10 years, has been appointed assistant Two million to the dean. viewers learned about WPC when In a statement Olympic Gold announcing the » Medal Winner §- renaming of 2 9 Bruce Student Services to Ln Baumgartner, who a5‘ received the Student Develop— (J President's Medal ment and Watt’s Roland Watts and gave the promotion, President Arnold Speert commencement and Executive Vice—President and address on January Provost Chernoh Sesay stated that 19, was interviewed on campus by Watts “will oversee the enhancement Madison Square of student services in the context of Garden Network (Continued on page 6) (MSG). Baumgartner was Insi de also interviewed by Focus on Maya Chadda Page 2 The Record and :5a Future Search Conference Page 3 E The Herald and z: a News. "Pioneering" Efforts Page 5 New Scholarships :5 FOCUS ON Maya Chadda: Scholar, Teacher, Researcher —— and Classical Dancer through which he kept up his spirits elimination of her department; in by feeding and talking to a pigeon 1977 she joined the WPC faculty as which visited him daily. “Although I an associate professor. never knew Gandhi and have many “My experience at William Pater‘ questions about the effectiveness of son College has been a rich one. his philosophy in today’s world,” she Intellectually, I have grown, academi— says, “I greatly respect his way of cally, my career has flowered,” she resolving issues and wish more leaders says. Of her teaching style she says: would emulate his vision and will; “My relationship with the students is power.” very intense. I make them work a lot Two of her three brothers died and they accept the challenge.” before Chadda’s birth; she and her Chadda believes she has had some surviving brother grew up in Bombay impact for the better on her students. where they received a Britishastyle She has also learned a lot about education. Chadda earned her BA. American culture from her students. in economics from Bombay University “Their opinions reflect the society." before coming to the United States to she says. Student Thom Brooks, who obtain an M.A. in government from has worked and studied with Chadda New York University and a Ph.D. in for two years, says of his mentor, political science and economics from “Professor Chadda has afforded me the Graduate Faculty, New School for opportunities that have altered Phillips Social Research. tremendously how I View political While studying she also worked for science....when she asked me to be a Craig four years as a consultant to the student researcher working on her Her parents were close friends and United Nations Development book I was stunned with delight; these followers of Mahatma Gandhi who Program and the United Nations are the opportunities that master’s spent time imprisoned by the British Family Planning Association, and also and doctoral students dream of for their support of Gandhi’s nonvio— met her future husband, Vigay having. In my writing and develop; lent campaign to free India from Chadda, now a stockbroker. Her ment, her constant help has been British control. Her father, G.R. travels for the United Nations took critical.” Kulkami, was a writer who edited her to such exotic locations as In 1992, Chadda was selected for a Harijan, a weekly newspaper published Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Nigeria to prestigious Rockefeller Residential by Gandhi; her mother Nalini study and report on UN. projects Scholarship in Bellagio, Italy. In Kulkami was active in the labor underway in these countries. “One 1994, she received a grant from the movement. Her three older brothers project involved ‘retraining’ women American Association of State were born in an ashram (spiritual who had fought alongside the men in Colleges and Universities to partici~ community), from where her parents, a civil war,” she remembers, “and now pate in a summer institute on Asia, along with other Gandhians, mobi’ had no marketable or domestic skills. and in the summer of 1995, was lized the people of India for social The initiative was designed to teach invited to participate in the seventh change through civil disobedience. them ‘feminine’ things like cooking annual International Philosophers No wonder Maya Kulkami Chadda, and sewing so someone would marry Conference on global norms of justice WPC professor of political science, them. It wasn’t too successful,” she and democracy held at the Easthest says “politics is in my blood.” says with a smile, “because the women Center in Hawaii. She returned Although she was a postaindepen’ had become too independent!" prepared to teach a course about dence child, born after the assassinaa Originally, Chadda had planned to China and India as two very different tion of Mohandas Karamchand return to India after finishing her examples of economic growth and Gandhi, Maya Kulkami was strongly education to teach or become actively politics, designed for WPC students inﬂuenced by her parents’ vivid stories involved in politics, but found the lure who would travel to China in the of their travels with the father of of an academic career in the United summer of 1996. “My job was to independent India, including the States irresistable. Her first profes’ teach the students to think critically famous ZOO’mile “march to the sea" to sional post in academe was as an about what they read and familiarize protest the British salt monopoly, and assistant professor in the Department them with the history and politics of her father‘s solitary confinement in of General Education at Brooklyn China,” she says. She also is organiz— the “black cell,” completely dark College. After seven years, a financial ing a major conference on globaliza— except for a small opening in the roof crisis at that institution resulted in the (Continued on page 4) Future Search Conference Plans Finalized “The Future Search Conference will provide a structured process for Titled ”Positioning WPC for the let nate a colleague,” she said. “Each examining these and other issues," said Century,” the Future Search Confer— application was carefully considered Fountoukidis. “Out of this conference ence, to be held from February 27 to by the conference planning commit— will come the framework for a mission March 1 at the Brownstone House in tee." and vision for our university as well as Paterson, will bring together stake— “The outcOmes of the conference a shared sense of direction to guide holders representing a cross’section of will be shared with the entire campus future actions." college constituencies to examine the community and feedback will be important issues facing the college sought and welcomed,” Fountoukidis and set the future direction of the pointed out. Rosado institution. Conference participants will (Continued from page 1) Assisted by two facilitators, sixtyr examine such important issues as: four stakeholders, divided into eight Rosado has been the supervisor of groups of eight people each, will 0 What students should we be the training and assessment unit of the Passaic County Workforce Develop participate in the Visioning process: serving? ment Center, formerly the Private two faculty groups plus one group 0 What campus environment will from the professional and classified Industry Council, for the past 10 years. foster success for these students? She also has served as director of the staffs; students; alumni; area employ' ' What should the balance be Passaic County Center of Aspira Inc., ers representing business, education between undergraduate and graduate and non—profit organizations; WPC and as a special assistant to the education; between teaching, director of the Employment Standard trustees, and WPC administrators.

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