Minutes of the University Assembly

Wednesday October 18, 2000

 

 

CALL TO ORDER

 

President Dave Frohnmayer called the regular fall term meeting of the University Assembly for academic year 2000-01 to order at 3:07 p.m. in 123 Pacific.

 

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

 

Minutes of the May 31, 2000 meeting were approved as distributed.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMARKS

 

Faculty Personnel Committee Annual Report. The secretary acknowledged receipt of the annual report from the Faculty Personnel Committee.  The committee reviewed 52 cases involving promotion and/or tenure recommendations.  Of particular note were the severe limitations of interpretation of z-scores of students’ teaching evaluations due to inconsistencies across departments, especially in identifying and reporting comparator groups.  Several recommendations were made to improve the situation. (See attachment A for full text of the FPC Annual Report.)

 

Welcome remarks from University Senate President James Earl.  Senate President Earl spoke briefly regarding the “health” of faculty governance on campus, saying that it was in “critical condition”.  He stated that he will do his best to awaken the faculty’s sense of its own power and right to govern.  Suggesting that the senate needs to be a place where we can confront the many issues and problems facing higher education head-on, he indicated that this year’s senate will include forums where conflicting issues can be debated openly and  where problems can be researched and reported.  President Earl reminded everyone that the senate meetings are open and he invited faculty attendance and participation.  (See attachment B for full text of the remarks.).

 

STATE OF THE UNIVESITY

 

President Frohnmayer spoke about diversity and community as the theme to his welcoming remarks.  He noted that this year’s freshman class has better test scores and higher GPAs than ever before – and it is the most diverse class ever.  The president emphasized the campus’ commitment to diversity by stressing that it is important because a diverse campus prepares students for a diverse world. 

 

The president listed a number of significant advances where progress toward increasing diversity and diversity awareness has been made, such as improving scholarship opportunities, adding staff in the multicultural affairs office, increasing efforts to recruit faculty of color, and emphasizing diversity issues during faculty orientation programs. 

 

Still, there is much to be done and additional efforts made.  The president noted that work is progressing on establishing a Center for the Study of Social Change, which will concentrate on diversity issues especially regarding research, training, conflict resolution, and community outreach directed toward fostering mutual trust and respect.  He noted one of the challenges the campus faces is to maintain our sense of community as the diversity of the campus increases.  One step in this direction, which the president fully supports, was the senate’s recent resolution regarding the University of Oregon Affirmation of Community Standards statement.  The president concluded his remarks by reminding everyone that the work they do at this university is noble work, and he thanked the assembled group for all that they do.  (See attachment C for full text of the president’s comments.)

 

NEW BUSINESS

 

Provost John Moseley also welcomed the faculty, and especially the new faculty, lauding their excellent credentials and expertise.  He invited each dean to briefly introduce the new faculty members in their respective schools and colleges.  (For a listing of the new tenured and tenure-related faculty members, see attachment D.)

 

ADJOURNMENT

 

With the conclusion of the introductions, the meeting was adjourned at 4:10 p.m.

 

 

Gwen Steigelman

Secretary of the Faculty

 

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ATTACHMENT A

 

Faculty Personnel Committee

1999-2000

 

Report to the Senate

 

           

            The Faculty Personnel Committee (FPC) has just completed its work for the 1999-2000 academic year.  Members of this year’s committee were:  Patrick Bartlein (Geography), Stephen Durrant (East Asian Languages and Literature), Patricia Gwartney (Sociology), David Herrick (Chemistry), Heath Hutto (Student member--English), Edward Kame’enui (Education), Lisa Kloppenberg (Law), Terry O’Keefe (Business), Leslie Steeves (Journalism and Communication), Kent Stevens (Computer Science), Jenny Young (Architecture).  One of our two student members did not attend after the second meeting.

 

            The FPC work load is heavy.  This year we advised the Provost on fifty-two cases involving tenure and/or promotion.  These are broken down as follows:

           

            Internal Cases (48)

                        Promotion to Professor                                                  17

                        Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure              29

                        Tenure Only                                                                    2

           

            External Cases (4)

                        Professor with Tenure                                                     4

 

            Total                                                                                           52

 

            We held twenty-two meetings during the current academic year, each for approximately two hours. In addition to this time in meetings, we estimate that we spent an average of three to six hours each week during winter and spring quarters reading files.  Moreover, one member of the committee is assigned to report each case and prepare a written report to the committee and then subsequently to the Provost.  The member reporting a case, and each of us has reported five cases during the year, typically spends a full work-day in preparation.

 

            We believe that the present mission and structure of FPC serves the University well.  Careful peer review at each level of the institution (department, college, and university) is an essential part of our University’s tenure and promotion process.  The current system provides for checks and balances and, we hope, assures fairness.

           

            Service this year on FPC has reinforced our belief in the high quality of our faculty.  The vast majority of the cases we have examined were much more than merely adequate--they were impressively strong.  Moreover, the committees and department leaders who prepared the cases generally did so with commendable professionalism.  We do, however, have one major concern and a number of other suggestions.  Several of these concerns are addressed clearly in the Faculty Handbook or other material disseminated from the Provost’s Office.  We strongly recommend strict adherence to those materials.

 

            Our major concern centers upon our current student teaching evaluations.  FPC finds that the interpretability of UO’s quantitative teaching evaluations is severely limited because departments (1) omit key comparative information in their candidates’ teaching summaries, (2) misinterpret z-scores, and (3) do not explain their summaries of quantitative evaluations.

 

            To compare a promotion and/or tenure candidate’s teaching to other instructors’ teaching, departments need to report the comparator group.  Many departments do not report the group of instructors or courses that define departmental means, standard deviations, and z-scores.  Are the comparators all instructors and all courses, or are evaluations stratified into sub-categories by course level or type?  Are courses taught by graduate students and adjuncts separated into their own category or included with those of the tenure-related faculty?  Without these facts, the magnitudes of means, and the signs and sizes of z-scores, necessary for comparative analysis, are uninformative.

 

            Many departments also misinterpret z-scores.  “Significant” z-scores are only those greater than +2.0 or less than -2.0 (if departments define comparator groups and if certain statistical assumptions are met).  Many departments assert “significant” deviations from means when no z-scores exceed the +/-2.0 criterion.  Other departments overlook obvious z-score patterns (such as all-negative or all-positive values, or over-time trends) in favor of simple counts of z-scores with large values.

 

            When creating summary tables of quantitative course evaluations, departments should explain their choices and copy the data carefully.  It is often illustrative to report certain course types separately (e.g., graduate vs. undergraduate, specialty area vs. non-specialty area, mass classes vs. small classes).  When less than half of enrolled students complete course evaluations, the results should be treated as unreliable.  Courses with very few students and that involve substantial independent study (such as internship, dissertation, reading and conference) are not appropriate to evaluate.  Some departments do not make such distinctions, some exclude certain courses from summary reports for no obvious reason and some make transcription errors when creating summary tables.  Such problems potentially mislead peer reviewers and unnecessarily burden FPC.

 

            If quantitative teaching evaluations are to be useful in promotion and tenure evaluations, departments must, at a minimum, identify and report comparator groups, accurately report and interpret z-scores, and explain their summary tables.  Better, UO should (1) consider adopting new, improved methods for quantitative teaching evaluation than enables departments to more easily avoid problems like those described above, and (2) consider creating a template summary table for quantitative evaluations to standardize the reporting process.  Either improvement will reduce burdens in the peer review process.

 

            Our further suggestions and comments follow:

 

            1.  Candidates should prepare their vitas with great care, and vitas should be reviewed at the department level before submission of the case.  The department should work with the candidate to assure that the vita is neither over- nor understated (we have seen examples of both).  It is important that candidates list publications with full citation, indicate which journal articles have been refereed, provide full employment history, and list all relevant internal and external service.

 

            2.  The personal statement should be relatively brief (the Faculty Handbook recommends five pages) and should be addressed primarily to a non-specialist readership.  This year some statements were too long, and others were filled with language we found impenetrable.  The committee realizes that these letters are sent out to external referees who are specialists in the candidate’s field of expertise.  In cases where there is concern that oversimplification might offend specialist reviewers, two statements could be prepared, one for specialist reviewers and one for those of us require some demystification!

 

            3.  Departments and colleges should take care to indicate the relative importance of journals and presses in their field.  It is helpful when presses and journals are ranked and when a distinction is made between specialty journals or presses and those of a more general nature.

 

            4.  Units should explain the disciplinary conventions governing order of authorship (i.e., what does being listed first or second mean, if it means anything).  We are particularly concerned about this issue when junior authors appear to be working with more senior mentors.

 

            5.  Peer evaluations of teaching is sometimes inadequate and only completed under the pressure of preparing a promotion case.

 

            6.  In submitting files to external referees, we advise strict adherence to the standardized letter in the Handbook.  In a few cases this year evaluators were not asked several of the key questions that FPC and others use to assess the relative strength of candidates (compare the candidate with others of comparable rank in the field, indicate whether the candidate would receive tenure at your institution, etc.).

 

            7.  We did not have a tenure and promotion statement from every unit submitting cases this year.  We also noted several striking differences in expectations for promotion and tenure from one unit to another even when units seem to represent comparable disciplines.   

 

            8.  There is irregularity between units as to who votes on tenure and promotion cases.  While some inconsistency might be acceptable, it would help if votes were parsed by rank.  We also encourage units to explain abstentions (present and abstained, conflicted, absent, etc.).

 

            Finally, the committee would like to acknowledge the help and support of the Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs.  We especially want to thank Carol White for her excellent and efficient help.  Without her, our work would have been vastly more difficult.   We also would like to commend our outstanding student member, Heath Hutto.  Heath was always well-prepared, intelligent, and courageous.  If any of us ever have doubted the value of student participation in such committees, Heath has removed those doubts!

 

ATTACHMENT B

 

Remarks from the University Senate President

James Earl

 

This year I just happen to be the president of the Senate, so I have the privilege of preceding President Frohnmayer on today's agenda.  He'll give his annual "State of the University" message; but first I get to give a short "State of the Senate" message. 

 

        I said, I just happen to be president of the Senate.  The truth is, I was tricked into it, and no one's more surprised than I am that I'm a president.  The story of how I was tricked into it doesn't reflect very well on those who did it, so I won't go into details.  But it says something about the state of the Senate that trickery was necessary. Because I haven't use trickery I had the darndest time finding someone to take the job next year.  Which is a shame, because this job is extremely rewarding.  For the first time in thirty years as a professor I'm getting opportunities like this one to voice publically the professor's point of view on university issues.

 

        The state of the Senate?  To put it medically, I think it's "critical."  I remember Assembly meetings where the auditorium was packed.  The debate was vigorous to the point of chaotic.  Today's Assembly and Senate meetings are sparsely attended, and dreary. The last Assembly meeting was held in a room larger than this, and the president addressed a crowd of six faculty.  Few faculty want to be on the Senate anymore, or on its committees, and no one wants to lead it.  So although shared governance is alive and functional on campus, I wouldn't say it's well. 

 

        I'll do what I can to change that this year, but what's really required is a reawakening of the faculty's sense of its own power (and right) to govern.  I think the faculty's fading interest in the Senate is due to the recent sea-change in university governance, not only here but across the country.  If professors are less interested in their governance today, it's because we're uncertain how to respond to this transformation of the university--uncertain, and resentful too. 

 

        Now as the joke goes, we Ph.D.'s are doctors, but not real doctors; but real doctors are in a similar pickle.  Even as medical technology becomes more and more sophisticated, and medicine approaches the miraculous, doctors and patients complain constantly that medicine has become more and more impersonal, and medical decisions are being influenced, if not made, by  hospital administrators, HMOs and insurance companies, rather than by physicians.  Similarly, professors and students have a right to feel that in spite of all our wonderful new technology, higher education is quickly becoming a business instead of a profession--much less a calling.

 

        I think of the University Senate as the canary in the coal mine, whose unhealth indicates a larger looming disaster.  My eyes tell me we're a very talented faculty, doing good work under bad circumstances.  Like faculties at many big state schools these days we're burdened by absurdly large undergraduate classes, and a huge proportion of temporary, non-tenure-track appointments.  And we breathe an academic atmosphere more and more polluted by marketing rhetoric, an endless search for money, and a gigantic, insatiable sports industry.

 

        We need a Senate where we can confront these problems head-on, where the demand for cleaner air can be heard loud and clear.  There is no university where professors aren't in firm control of the academic atmosphere.  This year's Senate will be a forum where the sometimes conflicting interests of students, faculty and administrators, as well as alumni, boosters and fans, can be debated openly; where the problems of large classes and temporary faculty can be researched and reported; where the influence of fund-raising on university governance can be openly discussed; and where the influence of big-time sports on academics can be exposed.  That's my agenda.  It will go nowhere, of course, if the faculty isn't interested.  I invite everyone to attend our Senate meetings.  Thank you.

 

 

ATTACHMENT C

 

 

 

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY

October 18, 2000

 

Dave Frohnmayer, President

University of Oregon

 

 

“DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY”

 

 

Thank you.

 

Particular thanks to those of you who took part in some of the many events we held to welcome students this year.  Many here, along with other faculty, staff, and administrators, worked hundreds of extra hours during orientation and our Week of Welcome.  These efforts really made a positive difference this year.

 

This is but one example of the many things that everyone here does every day that matters, sometimes in ways we don’t fully appreciate. 

 

At each State of the University address, I try to talk about two or three things that I think are particularly vital to the coming year.  A university consists of thousands of ideas and actions produced by thousands of people.  It is a constantly changing mix.  It reminds me of a passage from Mark Twain, when he wrote about learning to be a riverboat pilot:  “two things seemed pretty apparent to me.  One was, that in order to be a pilot, a man had got to learn more than any other man ought to be allowed to know; and the other was, that he must learn it all over again in a different way every twenty-four hours.”  That’s the way this year has already seemed to me, and I suspect to each of you.

 

In the midst of all this learning, I want to talk about two things today, two values that must combine to strengthen our work as educators and our mission as a university—community and diversity.

 

As you might have heard, enrollment is up strongly, especially in our freshman class. This is good news, especially when added to the fact that our students are arriving better prepared, with better test scores and higher GPAs than ever before.

 

Add to this the fact that our freshman class is more diverse than ever, and you have a truly notable achievement.  About one student in seven at the UO this year is a student of color and one in fourteen is an international student.

 

We emphasize diversity, we work for diversity, and we believe in diversity.  But we have to ask ourselves:  Why is diversity important?  What does it have to do with our mission as a university?

 

Put simply, a diverse campus prepares students for a diverse world.

 

It is difficult to prepare students for full, successful lives in a nation and a region that is growing ever more diverse ethnically, racially, in every way if our campus does not reflect that diversity.

 

Recent studies from the University of Michigan support that idea.  Researchers there found that five years after graduation, those students who were exposed to a diverse student body in college were more likely to work in integrated settings, live in integrated neighborhoods, and have friends of another race.  Students from the most diverse campuses experienced the greatest growth in active thinking processes, in motivation to achieve and in intellectual self-confidence.

 

This is simply another indication, if any were needed, that working for diversity is the right thing to do.

 

However it is not easy—especially in a state like Oregon, which has not always had a history of welcoming minorities. 

 

This unfortunate part of our state’s history, coupled with the overwhelmingly white demographic of our region, has made it frankly very difficult to recruit faculty and students of color.

 

But none of us can afford to use that as an excuse.

 

In fact, the demography of our state is changing. And, through concentrated effort, the University of Oregon is not only changing with it— but also leading in that change.

 

Efforts toward diversity are happening all across campus. Here are a few of the most significant advances made recently:

 

  We have initiated a Bias Response Team to respond constructively as a community to the type of gender friction we saw erupt in an e-mail exchange among students in the spring of l999.

 

  We have added an additional staff member to the Teaching Effectiveness Program with the specific responsibility to work with diversity issues in effective teaching.

 

  We added staffing support in the Office of Multicultural Affairs,  including a position specifically to maintain our Diversity Web Site—incidentally a good place to look for ongoing information on diversity initiatives.

 

  We are devoting more than $1 million for student scholarships specifically designed to enhance diversity.

 

  We spent $500,000 in recruiting and retention activities for faculty of color, and we are seeing good success in this critical area.

 

  I established the "President's Advisory Council for the UO’s Native American Initiative."  This Council is comprised of the nine chairs of the federally recognized tribes of Oregon as well as national native leaders and experts on sovereignty and tribal issues.

 

  We spent three days of our new faculty orientation this year focusing on working with an increasingly diverse student population.

 

  Our Academic Deans devoted a major block of time at this year’s retreat to reviewing diversity issues, with Carla Gary, Dean Robert Melnick, Dean Anne McLucas and Dean Tim Gleason taking leadership roles.

 

  We recently called all department heads together for a half-day meeting devoted almost entirely to discussions of opportunities and progress in enhancing and supporting diversity.  The range of activities taking place at the departmental level is amazing.

 

These are indications of where we have made progress.

 

These efforts will be ongoing: these and other indicators of progress form a base for our next steps.  I would like to highlight one important indicator of what the future will bring.

 

We are actively working toward establishing a Center for Study of Social Change at the University of Oregon.  This new Center will focus on diversity issues, especially research, scholarship, training, conflict resolution and community outreach directed toward fostering mutual trust and respect, open and informed dialogue, and innovative leadership for citizenship in a diverse, cosmopolitan world.

 

We must muster the courage to penetrate any cultural barriers to communication among ourselves.  Otherwise we reinforce fears or misunderstandings born of stereotypes.  In so doing, we inhibit the human potential to grow through interaction.

 

Much remains to be accomplished as we take these decisive steps toward building and maintaining a more diverse campus.

 

A more diverse campus is a worthy goal.  But there is a flip side to the process.  As we grow more diverse, we also face new challenges in maintaining our sense of community. 

 

The University of Oregon has always been a special place.

 

Those of you who are joining us for your first year of teaching and scholarship will find, I hope, more than simply a place to do a job.  I hope that you will discover a university in which environment, attitude and aspiration meld into something unusual in today’s world: A workplace that combines human scale (by that I mean a university that is not so huge it dwarfs the individual) and extraordinary achievement.

 

Among your colleagues, I hope you will find support, encouragement and intellectual fire.

 

            Among your students, I hope you will find true learners.

 

Among your neighbors, true friends.

 

Amidst the serenity of trees and bricks, classrooms and laboratories of this campus, a true and lifelong home.

 

We have an uncommon university here, and one that asks the uncommon of its faculty.  Uncommonly fine teaching.  Uncommonly productive research.  Uncommonly selfless community service.

 

How do we foster both diversity and community?

 

At first, these might seem like contradictory goals.

 

But I do not believe that they are.

 

The reasons why are outlined in a statement that was recently forwarded to me by our University Senate. I reviewed it and give it my full support.

 

It is titled the “University of Oregon Affirmation of Community Standards.”

 

Its purpose is to set forth and affirm a clear and cogent statement of common community standards.

 

It reads as follows:

 

“The University of Oregon community is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the development of integrity.  In order to thrive and excel, this community must preserve the freedom of thought and expression of all its members.  The University of Oregon has a long and illustrious history in the area of academic freedom and freedom of speech.  A culture of respect that honors the rights, safety, dignity and worth of every individual is essential to preserve such freedom.  We affirm our respect for the rights and well-being of all members. We further affirm our commitment to:

 

            Respect the dignity and essential worth of all individuals.

 

           Promote a culture of respect throughout the University community.

 

            Respect the privacy, property, and freedom of others.

 

           Reject bigotry, discrimination, violence, or intimidation of any kind.

 

           Practice personal and academic integrity and expect it from others.

 

           Promote the diversity of opinions, ideas and backgrounds which is the lifeblood of the university.”

 

So ends the statement.

 

And so begins our work together.

 

Diversity is not something you can achieve overnight.  It is a long, slow process energized by the commitment of many teachers, students, and staff members.

 

Community is not something that can be built with slogans and committees.  It relies on deep roots and on hard work and bringing our best selves to the forefront in all our interactions with each other.

 

Despite the difficulty, make no mistake: We are intent on achieving diversity, for the good of our students, and for the good of our community.

 

Diversity is a core value of our university, strongly linked to our academic mission, as well as an essential attribute for learning.

 

For all these reasons, we will continue to work toward greater diversity and stronger community.  We will do it across the length and breadth of our university.  This is not an issue that can be handled with a speech or a program.  It is the responsibility of each of us, individually, to live up to the values in the statement I have just read.

 

We will do it, and we must do it, with civility, with respect and with understanding.

 

The Nobel Prize-wining poet Seamus Heaney recently said:  “Getting started, keeping going, getting started again—in art and in life—is the essential rhythm, not only of achievement but of survival … the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.”  That’s not unlike what Mark Twain had to say—starting over again every 24 hours—determined to do our best—committed to the necessary learning and the necessary work. 

 

As we start this year—and as we restart each day—let us as a university and as individuals within that university commit ourselves to that ideal.  And let us also remind ourselves with pride that this work in this place is noble work.  For all that you do, I thank you. 

 

 

 

ATTACHMENT D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Oregon

2000 New Tenured and Tenure-related Faculty

Name

Hiring Department

Year / Highest Degree

Institution  Degree Earned

School of Architecture & Allied Arts

 

James Gordon Harper

Art History

1998 Ph.D., History of Art

Univ of Pennsylvania

Justin Novak

Art

1996 M.F.A.

SUNY at New Paltz

 Kevin H Nute

Architecture

1993 Ph.D., Architectural History and Theory

University of Cambridge

College of Arts & Sciences

 

 

 

Michael Baskett

East Asian Languages & Literatures

2000 Ph.D., East Asian Languages/Cultures

UCLA

Judith R Baskin

Religious Studies

1976 Ph.D., Medieval Studies

Yale

Arkady D Berenstein

Mathematics

1996 Ph.D., Mathematics

Northeastern Univ

Jayna Jennifer Brown

English

Ph.D., African American Studies/American Studies - expected

Yale

Li-Shan Chou

Exercise & Movement Science

1995 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

U of Illinois at Chicago

Miriam Deutsch

Physics

1996 Ph.D., Physics

Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem

Jesus Diaz-Caballero

Romance Languages

Ph.D., Hispanic Languages - expected

Univ of Pittsburgh

Andre Djiffack

Romance Languages

1998 Ph.D. in French

Univ. of Cape Town

Lynn H Fujiwara

Women's Studies

1999 Ph.D.

U of Calif., Santa Cruz

 Matt J Garcia

Ethnic Studies

1997 Ph.D., U.S. History

Claremont Graduate School

Lawrence Owen (Spike) Gildea

Linguistics

1992 Ph.D., Linguistics

Oregon

 Warren Ginsberg

English

1975 Ph.D. Medieval Studies

Yale

 Julie Haack

Chemistry

1991 Ph.D., Biology

Univ of Utah

Tetsuo Harada

East Asian Languages & Literatures

1999 Ph.D., Applied Linguistics

UCLA

Susan W Hardwick

Geography

1986 Ph.D. Geography

UC Davis

College of Arts & Sciences

(Continued)

 

 

Elke Heckner

German

2000 Ph.D., German

Johns Hopkins Univ

C Kenneth Hudson

Sociology

Ph.D., Sociology; degree requirements completed for December 2000 degree

North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Christine A Kearney

Political Science

Ph.D., Political Science, degree requirements completed for May 2001 degree

Brown University

 Richard W Linton

Chemistry

1977 Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry

Univ of Illinois

Ulrich Mayr

Psychology

1992 Ph.D., Psychology, summa cum laude

Free University Berlin

 Martin G Miller

Geological Sciences

1992 Ph.D.

Univ of Washington, Seattle

Christopher T Minson

Exercise & Movement Science

1997 Ph.D., Kinesiology

Pennsylvania State U

 Fabienne Moore

Romance Languages

Ph.D., Comparative Literature - expected

New York University

 Lise K Nelson

Geography

Ph.D., Geography - expected

Univ of Washington, Seattle

 Patrick C Phillips

Biology

1991 Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology

Univ of Texas, Arlington

Claudia Polini

Mathematics

1995 Ph.D., Mathematics

Rutgers University

Anand Prahlad

English

1991 Ph.D., Folklore and Mythology

UCLA

Daniel Blake Rosenberg

Honors College

1996 Ph.D., History

U Calif Berkeley

Benjamin D Saunders

English

2000 Ph.D.

Duke University

Stephen J Shoemaker

Religious Studies

1997 Ph.D., Religion

Duke University

Martin Anthony Summers

History

1997 Ph.D., History

Rutgers University

 Mark Ty Unno

Religious Studies

1994 Ph.D., Religious Studies

Stanford University

Arkady Vaintrob

Mathematics

1987 Ph.D., Mathematics

Moscow St U (MGU)

Hao Wang

Mathematics

1992 Ph.D., Probability & Statistics

Carleton U, Ontario

Lisa Wolverton

History

1997 Ph.D., Medieval History

Univ of Notre Dame, Medieval Instute

Lundquist College of Business

 

Joel J Sneed

Accounting

Ph.D., Accounting - expected

Univ of Arizona

College of Education

 

 

 

David J Chard

Special Education

1995 Ph.D., Special Education

Univ of Oregon

School of Journalism and Communication

 

Scott R Maier

Journalism & Communication

2000 Ph.D., Journalism & Mass Communication

U of North Carolina

Julianne Newton

Journalism & Communication

1991 Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

James K Van Leuven

Journalism & Communication

1977 Ph.D., Sociology

Washington State U

School of Law

 

 Barbara Bader Aldave

Law

1966 Juris Doctor

U Calif, Berkeley

Suzanne E Rowe

Law

1989 Juris Doctor

Columbia Univ School of Law

School of Music

 

 Walter Kennedy

Dance

1999 MFA Choreography and Performance

U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sharon J Paul

Music

1984, D.M.A., Choral Conducting

Stanford University

Steven Vacchi

Music

1997 DMA in Performance

Louisiana State U

 

 

Late Arrival as of Winter or Spring 2001 or 2001-2002

 

 

School of Architecture & Allied Arts

 

Hansjoachim Neis

Architecture

1989 Ph.D., Architecture

U Calif, Berkeley

 

College of Arts & Sciences

 

 

 

 Joseph P Masco

Anthropology

1999 Ph.D., Anthropology

Univ of California, San Diego

Joshua J. Roering

Geological Sciences

2000 Ph.D., Geology

U Calif Berkeley

Barbara A Roy

Biology

1992 Ph.D.

Claremont Graduate School

Eric C. Torrence

Physics

1997 Ph.D., Physics

Massachusetts Inst of Technology