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NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 EDUCATION IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE By Marjorie C. Caserio Reflections Disappearing Innovations A dvances in technology have had an Chalkboards and whiteboards are still around, but undeniable impact on education and there are now many newer communication tools, research, but my sense is that it has been often more powerful but supplementary at best. less so for education than for research. In almost all Some have already come-‐and gone (slide projectors, fields, research has kept pace with technology, one overhead projectors, film projectors, cassette driving the other. Not so with education. The tools players and VCR’s for audio and video tapes). we have developed to gain new knowledge have Classrooms were outfitted to utilize these outpaced the development of tools we use to technological innovations but they must now link communicate knowledge. with digital formats to utilize the power of computers and the Internet. The computer is well Some say education is no different today than it entrenched as the primary tool to facilitate and was 300 years ago. While this is an overstatement, enhance the learning process using a combination it has a grain of truth. When active as a UC faculty of text, graphics, sound and video. Notwithstanding member, I routinely retired old computers, Apples’ Steve Jobs’ distaste of PowerPoint, few of us instrumentation, books, and any technical aids have not used it to supplement our lectures. More made obsolete by updated versions. The one generally, few of us have not used CDs and DVDs as indispensable teaching tool that I never abandoned learning tools. Yet they too are on the was a piece of fat chalk, way out. white or yellow, that made thick, easily erasable marks The Challenge for Textbooks clearly visible to everyone in large lecture halls – an Textbooks are age-‐old learning tools, essential tool in classes but they also need to change with the with enrollments times. Print versions of basic texts are frequently in the hundreds. too costly, too heavy, too loaded with It was messy – chalk dust content, and impossible to update in a timely manner. The solution to these everywhere – but it was effective, and the advent of drawbacks may be the e-‐book, made whiteboards and brightly colored marker pens was all the more feasible with the advent of the iPad no improvement. and similar tablets. Like the music industry, CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 newspapers and magazines have had to reformat Online instruction is not new to higher education. their products into digital editions. Textbook The University of Phoenix has offered fee-‐based publishers have yet to do so on the same scale. online courses for many years. But how widely has Steve Jobs had his sights set on textbooks as it penetrated elsewhere? The answer the next business he wanted to transform Some say depends on the educational system and (see Walter Isaacson’s biography of Jobs, education is the educational objectives. The reality of Simon & Schuster 2011, p.509). He believed major universities offering high quality no different it was an $8 billion a year industry ripe for courses online to anyone, anywhere, for today than digital destruction. free, would seem to be a miracle for the it was 300 future. Yet it is happening now. A In the sciences, e-‐texts have had little impact years ago. consortium of Stanford, Princeton, on upper division and graduate level Michigan and Pennsylvania universities, courses. Textbooks for lower division developed a venture-‐capital funded program courses are usually published in print and whereby university faculty design and teach electronic versions, although the latter account for courses for a world-‐wide audience. Harvard, MIT a small percent of overall sales (about 5% in the and UC Berkeley have created a similar online joint sciences). Perhaps this will change as e-‐texts venture with a $60 million endowment from EdX become more interactive and inclusive of video (http://www.edx.org/). These and other major supplements. Whatever the format, production universities now operate through Coursera, which costs are considerable, and the perception that is a company that partners with top universities to somehow it costs less to produce an e-‐book is offer courses online for anyone to take, for free incorrect. Another point is that e-‐book versions are (http://www.coursera.org/). The objective is to usually sold on a lease basis as opposed to the bring quality education to thousands, if not millions outright purchase of the printed version. of students, through technology that enables the Unfortunately this does not stop download thievery faculty to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of that plagues the industry. students per course—summarized by the acronym MOOC meaning massive open Online Instruction Online Instruction: It online courses. These and related projects are experimental While e-‐textbooks may be slow to gain has the potential to at present, and whether they will popularity, digital aids or supplements overcome the succeed remains to be to printed textbooks are ubiquitous. The boundaries of demonstrated. Even with top term computer-‐aided-‐instruction aptly describes the technology of geography, time and instructors and quality content, the challenge of incorporating supplementing or assisting instruction. money. In principle, interactivity, graded tests, lab It is not a substitute for or a the World is the simulations, Q&A sessions, replacement of the instructor or classroom, unlimited instant feedback, text materials, teaching assistants. But it could be. The integrity and assessment, into a computer’s greatest impact on in size or reach. diverse spectrum of courses with education now and in the future is mega enrollments requires through technology that already exists constantly evolving research and development. to provide instruction online to students physically Another reality is that few if any of the Coursera separated from their instructors and other students. offerings earn college credit. Neither do the They no longer need meet in real time, or multitude of courses available through iTunes communicate in a face-‐to-‐face environment. University (see iTunes U at Remote or distance education offers the student http://www.apple.com/education/ ). At best, the flexibility in: when to study, where to study, the student may receive a certificate of achievement. In pace of learning, even enrollment options. It is the event that select courses will eventually earn empowering for the physically disabled. There are college credit, it is unlikely that they will remain no physical restraints on class size. It has the free. potential to overcome the boundaries of geography, time and money. In principle, the World is the classroom, unlimited in size or reach. 2 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 online format. The authority to approve degree programs and their component courses rests with California Higher Education Online the Academic Senate, and it uses this authority to maintain hallmark high standards of excellence in At UC campuses, online courses, whether graduate and undergraduate programs on all traditional-‐online hybrids or exclusively online, campuses. But, like many regulatory agencies, its have become important components of University gatekeeping mandate frequently stifles innovation Extension, Continuing Education, Professional through safeguards that raise more obstacles and Schools and, increasingly, Summer Sessions. Both hurdles than guidance. That said, continuing budget UCLA and UCB offer a Master’s degree program in shortfalls have prompted UC to take a closer look at Engineering in a totally online format. Also, UCI, online education. An Academic Senate Special Task UCB, and maybe other campuses participate in a Force on Online Instruction and Distance Education valuable program called OpenCourseWare that made a study of the topic and wrote a most offers quality university-‐level course materials objective report in 2007 with recommendations online to anyone, free of charge (see that clearly called on the campus senates to move OpenCourseWare at http://en.wikipedia.org/). forward with it. This is happening, but it takes time to implement change in the absence of an existing As yet, however, UC has not adopted online infrastructure. Meanwhile, the UC Office of the education to any significant extent in its President did a remarkable thing. It established UC undergraduate degree programs. This is in striking Education Online contrast to the California Community Colleges and, http://onlineeducation.universityofcalifornia.edu to a lesser extent, the California State Universities. starting with the Online Instruction Pilot Project Without exaggeration, at most CCC campuses, at (OIPP). In its current plan, OIPP will offer 25 online least one in four high-‐demand credit courses are lower-‐division credit courses across all nine offered online. The CCC system has invested undergraduate campuses, the first courses to start significantly in commercial enterprises such as in 2012. My initial reaction was astonishment that Blackboard, Etudes, and other companies that UCOP was involving itself in instruction rather that create online course management systems for administration, possibly pre-‐empting campus-‐ higher education. The software provides the based initiatives. instructor with flexibility in course design, and As yet, however, UC However, this is not the many attributes important to learning, particularly first time UCOP has student-‐instructor interaction, student-‐student has not adopted attempted to create interaction, group discussion, feed-‐back, office online education to purely online programs. hours, e-‐materials, and course integrity for testing any significant An earlier project, The (quizzes and exams). Faculty receive training in extent in its California Virtual online instruction and support in developing new University, did not courses, but they are not required to use an online undergraduate survive beyond 1999. format if they prefer to teach by traditional degree programs. This time around, the methods. Unlike the Coursera experiment, Academic Senate gave its enrollments are limited, and courses are not free. It blessing to the 2010 OIPP is not certain that there is any cost advantage to plan provided that funding for it would not come at online instruction, yet student demand for this type the expense of existing programs and would not of instruction is high and increasing. For the CCC circumvent course approval by campus senates. system, online learning is not an experiment but an indispensible mode of instruction. A glitch surfaced recently when the project was revised in 2011 to extend enrollments to non-‐UC Will UC Get Wired? students. Revenues from this source would be used to pay down a STIP loan needed to launch the UC’s slow introduction of online instruction in its project. This was not well received by the campus undergraduate curriculum is almost entirely the senates or the Academic Council for numerous result of the campus Academic Senates’ reluctance reasons, but the latest project announcement to concede that quality and integrity of a UC continues to include non-‐UC students as paying education is not necessarily compromised by an 3 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 customers. The inaugural announcement and course catalogue is online at www.uconline.edu. It is hard to argue against this when there are no Letter From The Chair other revenue sources available, either from within UC or the State. The project also promotes itself as W. Douglas Morgan, UC Santa Barbara having the dual capacity to provide high-‐demand A high-‐quality courses online while researching the s I write, this best way to do it. Let’s hope that the project will classes have just not re-‐invent the wheel should it choose to ignore started at many the wealth of experience other systems have campuses, the UC already accumulated in delivering education online. Faculty Welfare A recent insightful article by Stanley Chodorow (UCFW) committee has (UCSD) formerly the Director of the California not yet met (first Virtual University is mindful of the benefits and meeting 12 October), pitfalls of “distance education” (see February 2012 and the final budget issue of Chronicles at situation for the http://emeriti.ucsd.edu/chronicles). He clearly University will not be favors the traditional approach to education but in known until after his words “if distance education is done right – that November 6th. is, if it arises from research and is designed to On a positive note, I want to thank all create and maintain interaction between teacher emeriti/retiree associations for completing the and student – then it is education as we understand complex paperwork to obtain insurance coverage the idea.” as a result of our organizations recognition by the Regents as "Affiliated Organizations" (see Letter Maybe I won’t discard my fat chalk quite yet. from the Chair, April 2012 issue of this Newsletter). Two months ago I learned about the acceptance of ________ insurance coverage by the University and their insurance carriers. Cheryl Lloyd, Director of Risk [Postscript: The Chronicle of Higher Education has a Management Services, UC Office of the President, relevant article on UCOnline in the October 1 2012 issue] will present an update at the CUCEA meeting at UC Santa Cruz, November 1st 2012. Marjorie Caserio is Professor Emeritus, Chemistry & The most direct and effective way to represent Biochemistry, UC San Diego. A former Vice CUCEA’s interests in health and welfare benefits is Chancellor of Academic Affairs, 1990-1996, and by the presence of the CUCEA Chair at the monthly Interim Chancellor, 1996- UCFW committee meetings. UCFW is also 1997 at UCSD, she is concerned about such things as administrative currently CUCEA Newsletter burdens to faculty, the “disaggregation” of UC, the Editor and website manager. micro managing of UC by the legislature and control of on-‐line course content. At our April meeting we heard (very little) about the newly formed UCOP Health Care Task Force chaired by Michael Baptista, Executive Director of Benefits, Programs and Strategy. When CUCEA meets on November 1, we plan to set aside sufficient time to finally hear some of the things being discussed by the Baptista group. This is important! As a preview for upcoming information, the Regents held a retreat on September 12, 2012, to discuss business and finance strategies for the next 4 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 fiscal year and their budget alternatives. From the The Golden Goose Award does the opposite. It retreat's PowerPoint presentation on potential recognizes that a valuable federal-funded research changes in Health and Welfare Benefits we read the project may sound funny, but its purpose is no following options: laughing matter.” 1. Introduce self-‐insured health plan options through UC medical centers The first Golden Goose awards were announced in 2. Reduce employer contributions for September 2012. Two of the inaugural awards spouses/partners and/or part time employees went to two UC researchers, Professor Emeritus 3. Reduce employer contributions to health Charles Townes (UCB) and Professor Roger premiums (All told-‐-‐may generate over $100M Tsien (UCSD). Townes was recognized for his once fully implemented) research that began nearly 60 years ago with US 4. Revisit UCRP and annuitant health reforms to Navy funds for work to develop an intense source further reduce employer contribution costs of short wavelength radiation. Its impact at the time was unclear, but it led to the invention of the laser for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics I hope that there will be more to say about these important topics before the end of the year. in 1964. ********* Charles Townes NEWS ITEMS T his is a new feature of the Newsletter, starting with the current issue. The objective is to highlight news of relevance and broad interest to emeriti. Suggestions and comments for inclusion in this section are most welcome. Please forward them to the Editor ([email protected]). Roger The Golden Goose Awards Tsien You may have Roger Tsien’s research on “glowing jellyfish” may heard of the Golden sound ridiculous but has had impressive medical Fleece Award, applications for which he shared the 2008 Nobel contrived in 1975 Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The essence of his by the late US work is the development of green fluorescent Senator William proteins (GFP) and their use as molecular tracers Proxmire. He once (or spies) to reveal the biochemistry within a living routinely gave out these awards to expose public cell. For example, animal studies show that injected funds for research he considered a waste of fluorescent proteins can highlight peripheral taxpayers money. Science and medicine nerves that are normally hard to see, allowing communities were deeply rankled by his scorn for surgeons to avoid them when removing or research he judged had no obvious practical value. repairing other tissues. Now, at last, we have an antidote – The Golden Goose Award, conceived by US Representative Jim Professor Newbrun Completes two-year Cooper (D-‐Tenn) and Dr. Alan Leshner, CEO of the term as Chair of CUCEA AAAS, and sponsored by major professional societies and universities. To quote Rep. Cooper, Dr. Ernest Newbrun, Professor Emeritus of Oral Biology at UCSF, served as CUCEA Chair from “We’ve all seen reports that ridicule odd-sounding September 2010 through June 30, 2012. The Chair research projects as examples of government waste. is an ex officio member of the UC Faculty Welfare 5 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 Committee and of the UC Retirement System meeting at UC Irvine. The full minutes of the CUCEA Advisory Board. On the occasion of his completion meeting and the joint CUCEA/CUCRA meeting are of his term of office, Dr. Newbrun received a posted on the CUCEA website certificate of appreciation and a letter from (http://cucea.ucsd.edu/meetings/minutes.shtml). President Yudof thanking him for “invaluable service over the past two years” and for providing “ an important perspective to the Board’s Jack Langson discussions, especially during a time when Library, UC significant retirement benefit changes were Irvine reviewed. “Retirement” is hardly the word to A notable feature of the meeting was a short but describe Dr. Newbrun, informative talk by Dr. Frank LaFerla on the subject who became emeritus of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. in 1994, but has Dr. LaFerla is the Director of the UCI Institute for continued to serve Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders the University of (UCIMIND). The Institute is both a clinic and a California in many research facility investigating the causes and capacities. He treatment of dementia. The statistics he presented on the risks of developing Alzheimer’s were directed a training Dr. Ernest Newbrun receiving sobering. It is well understood that risk increases a Certificate of Appreciation grant for students in with age, but the probability is higher than most of from Dr. Shane White (UCLA), professional schools realize. By age 65 the risk is 1 in 20, but by age 80-‐ Vice-Chair University of from 1980 to 2005, 85 it is 1 in 3. A healthy diet, physical and mental California Retirement System which offered activity offer neuroprotection against dementia but Advisory Board. mentored research there is no cure as yet. Ongoing cell-‐based research opportunities to over at the Institute using neural stem cells shows 300 dental students, some of whom went on to encouraging result in animals, but treatment pursue academic careers. This was the longest strategies with human patients are a long way off. continually NIH funded grant in the School of Dentistry at UCSF. From 1994 to 1997 he served on Another highlight of the meeting was a tour of the the committee of UC Education Abroad Program. Beall Center for Art and Technology. Words alone From 2006 to 2010 he was President of UCSF cannot describe the nature of the “collections” at Emeriti faculty Association. the Art Center. They have to be experienced. The exhibits change seasonally, but those we saw were Announcement of the Next Biobibliographic interactive, entertaining, visually interesting, and Survey highly creative. The art was extraordinary! Recent biobibliographic surveys of UC Emeriti An Extraordinary Measure of Philanthropy professional activities have covered two-‐year periods, the last being 2007-‐2009. Henceforth, the Professor Emeritus Duncan Mellichamp and his surveys will cover three-‐year periods, the next wife Suzanne have endowed 13 Faculty Chairs at being 2009-‐2012. An official announcement will be UC Santa Barbara totaling $6 million in support for forthcoming shortly from survey editor Charles outstanding mid-‐career faculty. (See 9/28/2012 Berst with information and guidelines on news item at http://www.independent.com/). Not completing the survey forms and submitting the only is this an extraordinary act of generosity but information. See also the CUCEA website also creates a thoughtfully conceived cluster of http://cucea.ucsd.edu. chairs in support of faculty in widely different campus disciplines at a pivotal time in their April 2012 CUCEA Meeting at UC Irvine academic careers. Mellichamp’s insight in building a great university is evident in his comments on the CUCEA wishes to thank the organizers and centrality of faculty to its mission. Top faculty sponsors of the very successful 2012 spring 6 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 attract the best students, who in turn are provided after an extended period of ill health. John was a unparalleled research opportunities, often leading distinguished member of the School of Pharmacy, to discoveries and advancements that launch UCSF and an officer and loyal supporter of CUCEA products, accelerate careers, and bolster the for many years having served as CUCEA Chair and university (state and nation). CUCEA Historian. A tribute to him will be forthcoming in a later issue of the newsletter. Proposition 30 Loss of a Loved One. The November 2012 election is imminent and, with it, the fate of Proposition 30. If Proposition 30 does We know this is inevitable yet we find it hard to not pass, public education will be exposed to plan for. Nevertheless, it is a good idea to put affairs significant automatic “trigger-‐cuts” in state support. in order before a passing. In this context, a helpful The University’s share is estimated to be as much resource is available through the USC emeriti as $525 M. UC has made heroic efforts to maintain website (see http://emeriti.usc.edu/ and search for access and affordability in the face of four years of “after the death of a loved one.” draconian budget cuts, but quality and access It is a source of information and advice for those cannot be sustained if further huge cuts are faced with the loss of a loved one. imposed. Another resource is the information contained in a note from Adrian Harris (JBC Chair) that lists The UC faculty voted overwhelmingly (93%) for a important personal items (birth certificates, bank memorial calling on the Regents to support accounts etc.) and where they are located. The measures for the state to increase and prioritize information is to help those who need to know funds for higher education. The Regents in turn following an accident, disablement or passing. The endorsed Proposition 30 at their July 2012 meeting. list can be viewed on the CUCEA website At a September 12 retreat, the Regents discussed http://cucea.ucsd.edu under reports/other-‐reports. (without acting) possible differential tuition between UC campuses and programs; different academic delivery models including ways to cut AWARDS time-‐to-‐degree – essentially what might happen if Proposition 30 does not pass in November 2012. The 2012 Constantine Panunzio The Administrative position in that event is that a Distinguished Emeriti Award midyear tuition increase would be required. These are many of the same issues and possible solutions raised by former UCLA Chancellor W. G. Young in The Constantine Panunzio Award honors the April 1012 issue of the CUCEA Newsletter outstanding scholarship in the humanities or (http://cucea.ucsd.edu/reports/newsletters.shtml). social sciences or educational service performed See also the February 2012 issue of Chronicles at post-‐retirement by a University of California http://emeriti.ucsd.edu/chronicles). emeritus or emerita. The award bears the name of its founder, Dr. Panunzio, who was a professor of Emeriti, as long-‐time UC faculty, understand better sociology at UCLA for many years. In retirement, than anyone the challenges of keeping the he worked actively to improve pensions and University the top public institution in the world stipends for his fellow emeriti, and he is widely (see for example the Mellichamp endowment in the held as the architect of the University of California previous news item). We all have a stake in the Retirement System (UCRS). success of Proposition 30. Passage will not immediately restore the University to fiscal health but it will avoid immediate disaster (Editorial The two recipients of the 2012 Panunzio Award opinion). are: Thomas Scheff, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara, and R. Duncan Passing of John Craig Luce, Distinguished Research Professor of With great regret we report that Professor Cognitive Science and Economics at UC Irvine. Emeritus John Craig (UCSF) died September 26 7 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 Professor Scheff has made, and continues to make, retirement in 2006, his accomplishments have been seminal contributions to the social/behavioral extensive. His prize-‐winning book German Histories understanding of mental illness, in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650 (Cambridge, emotion, and social conflict. He 2009) is described by reviewers as “one of those has been called one of the most few books which can truly be termed a creative figures of his generation, masterpiece.” In his current role as Professor of the having contributed to the fields of Graduate School, he continues to teach and psychology, psychiatry, public supervise graduate students, serving on many health, and literary studies, dissertation committees. He is beloved by students, including studies of Goethe, colleagues and staff alike for his immense and George Eliot, Proust, and Virginia unfailing contributions. Woolf. In last 4 years he has made four 60-‐minute films that can be viewed on UCTV UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Rural and YouTube. One of them, “A Wake on the Pier,” Sociologist, 2012 was featured at the 2007 Santa Barbara Film The Rural Sociological Festival, and has been played hundreds of times on Association has named UCTV. William H. Friedland, Professor Luce is widely considered a dominant Professor Emeritus of figure in mathematical Community Studies and psychology. Since Sociology at UC Santa retirement in 1994, he Cruz Distinguished Rural has maintained an Sociologist. Friedland is extraordinarily rich lauded for his role as career of research and mentor and inspiration to service at UC Irvine. many rural sociologists There are over who study the social seventy articles and a impacts of changing structures of agriculture. A book, Utility of Gains recent symposium at the 13th World Congress of and Losses: Rural Sociology in Lisbon was in honor of Bill Measurement- Friedland for his many years of research on Theoretic and alternative agrifood movements. Experimental Approaches, in which he provides a penetrating analysis of axioms of decision-‐making in the face of uncertainty. The impact of his 2012 Edward A. Dickson Emeriti research has been recognized through numerous Professorship Awards awards, and he continues to be an influential figure in major professional organizations. To date, he is the only member of the UC faculty to be honored with a National Medal of Science in the social and behavioral sciences. The Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award is normally given annually to one Distinguished Emeriti Awards – UC or more emeriti professors to recognize Berkeley continuing scholarship, teaching and The UC Berkeley Emeriti service since retirement. The late Association has named Edward A. Dickson, Regent of the historian Thomas Brady University of California from 1913 to the 2012 Emeritus 1946, made the original gift that Professor of 2012 for his supports these awards at each of the UC luminary work in the field campuses. of German Reformation Studies. Since his 8 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 UCLA Names Four Dickson Awardees UC San Diego Names Two Dickson Awardees Ronald M. Andersen, Wasserman Professor Marjorie Caserio, Professor Emeritus, Department Emeritus, Department of Human Services and of Chemistry & Biochemistry, for exemplary service Sociology. One of the leading sociologists in the to the UCSD Emeriti Association and to CUCEA world, Andersen is recognized as having created since retiring in 1997, including recall duties in the field of scholarship addressing accessibility of 2008 as UCSD Senior Vice Chancellor – Academic health care. Affairs. She helped found and oversee the American Chemical Society’s first Office of Graduate Wesley S. Moore, Professor Emeritus, Division of Education. Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery. Moore made many of the seminal contributions that M. Lee Rudee, Professor Emeritus, Electrical and identified vascular surgery as a unique specialty. Computer Engineering, for valuable service to UC Hartmut E. F. Scharfe, Professor Emeritus of and the San Diego community since retirement in Sanskrit, Pali, and Indic, Department of Asian 1995. His service includes 5 years as coordinator of Languages and Cultures. Scharfe is recognized for the UCSD Graduate Program in Materials Science, his groundbreaking studies of ancient Indian Interim Dean of Engineering at UC Riverside, and history. memberships on Boards of four community organizations. Melvin (“Mel”) Seeman, Professor Emeritus, UC Riverside Names Two Dickson Awardees Department of Sociology, has had a remarkably long and distinguished record of service to UCLA George Slusser, Professor Emeritus of since his retirement in 1988. For 25 years, he Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, has served as a special assistant to the vice chancellor become one of America’s most knowledgeable for academic personnel. scholars of science fiction. Since retiring in 2004, he has extended his research by completing a new UC Santa Cruz named two Dickson book “The Other Shore. The Science Fiction of awardees. Continental Rationalism.” The “other shore” refers to literary shores other than Anglo-‐Saxon that focus Bruce Bridgeman, Professor Emeritus, on literature developed from 17th century thinkers Department of Psychology and Psychobiology, (Descartes, Pascal) who acted as mediators retired last year after a 38-‐year career at UCSC. He between scientific thought and literature and the continues to teach and supervise research in his arts. chosen field of problems of spatial orientation in vision. Ben Stoltzfus, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, is a widely Jonathan Beecher, Professor Emeritus, respected member of the UCR faculty since 1960 Department of History, continues his interests in and has continued active scholarship and the history of utopian thinking in Europe since publication since retirement in 1993. In his latest Thomas More, in the history of French Christian book, “Rene Magritte Elective Affinities and socialism, and more generally in French intellectual Literary Titles,” promises to add new and history in the years running from the French important information to inter-‐arts convergence – Revolution to 1848. He is the author of biographies in this case the analysis of works of literature and of two notable figures in French political thought, paintings of the same title, or the rhetoric of the Charles Fourier and Victor Considéran. In recent image. years his research interests have broadened to include both Russia and the United States. UC Davis Names Four Dickson Awardees, as reported in the April 2012 issue of the CUCEA Newsletter. 9 CUCEA NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 2012 MENTORING flexible with regard to rules. Matching each mentee with a mentor is made in September by the Chair A s we know from the Biobibliographic and Co-‐chair of the Mentor Committee of the EA. If Surveys, many UC Emeriti remain active for any reason either partner wants a change, this contributors to the University through is done without questions. The frequency of teaching, research and professional activities. Their meetings is determined by mutual consent years of experience as active faculty also make throughout the academic year, but a minimum of them potentially valuable as mentors to current once per quarter is students at all levels, and to junior faculty. Many expected. The mentors participate by individual arrangement, but relationships last for some campus emeriti associations have established one year with a second mentoring programs, or are considering them. To year optional. They may our knowledge, three campuses (UCSD, UCB. and last a lifetime. UCLA) have mentoring programs. The UCSD program is well established and widely recognized. In addition to the one-‐ We are pleased to briefly describe the UCB and on-‐one meetings, the UCLA programs and to include an article by EMP was expanded to Professor Mel Green whose ideas on mentoring include a public formed the basis of the UCSD program. speaking component for Telemachus and Mentor the benefit of all the ___________ http://www.timelessmyths. Chancellor’s Scholars. com/classical/odyssey.html To implement this, EMP The UCSD Emeritus Mentor Program has partnered with the Communication and Leadership arm of the Center for Student By Professor Emeritus Melvin H. Green, Biology, Involvement (CSI). The C&L Director, Grace UCSD Bagunu, coordinates the Chancellor’s Scholars Program (CSP) and directs meetings held monthly T he Emeritus Mentor Program (EMP) at UCSD at the Retirement Resource Center with the goals of was launched in 2007 following on the lines enhancing the students’ communication skills and of an earlier program I started in 2005-‐2006. knowledge about important university resources. The initial program began with five emeriti Mentors are invited to attend these sessions, volunteers as the first mentors and student thereby enabling the students to become mentees selected from the Academic Enrichment acquainted with other mentors and to get feedback Programs’ first generation low-‐income students. on their oral presentations. Every year, students When the campus Emeriti Association created their involved in the program demonstrate remarkable mentoring program in 2007, the concept really improvement in their public speaking skills as a gained speed, benefiting from the leadership of result of the training provided. Plans for CSP in the Professor Jack Fisher as President of the Emeritus coming year include extension to writing skills and Association (EA) and program leader the following academic and social etiquette. year. Under his leadership and with the backing of Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, and the invaluable Currently 28 emeriti are serving as mentors for 45 administrative support of Suzan Cioffi, Director of Chancellor’s Scholars, including 29 first year, 9 the Retirement Resource Center, the program second year, and 7 third year students (4 of which flourished. are transfer students). At least twice per quarter, the EMPcoordinator, Katie Palumbo, contacts each By fall 2007, there were 12 volunteer emeriti mentee and mentor by phone or email for their mentors and 25 mentees from a pool of feedback and to resolve any issues or questions. A approximately 53 first-‐year Chancellor’s Scholars monthly mentor luncheon at the Faculty Club, who chose to participate in the program. These optional of course, also provides an opportunity to students are from low income families in which discuss issues that can arise in mentoring students. neither parent completed an American university Mentors and mentees submit stories about the degree. From its onset, the EMP was always very mentoring experience anonymously. They provide 10
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