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Faculty Day 2002
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“EDUCATION IN THE 21st
CENTURY”
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Titan Pavilion AB
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Agenda
| 8:00 a.m. |
Continental breakfast,
Titan Pavilion AB |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Welcome Remarks
- Dr. Milton A. Gordon, President
- Dr. Ephraim Smith, Vice President Academic Affairs |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Keynote Address - Dr. Kevin Starr, State
Librarian of California
“High Tech, Humane Learning, and the 21st Century
University”
This lecture will focus upon the intensification-not weakening,
as is commonly believed-that high technology is having on
the humanities. Also: the process and structure of the college/university
are being profoundly affected by this high-tech/humanities
introduction.
Video
is available online in Windows Media Format |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Q&A |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
| 10:30 a.m. |
Morning Breakout Sessions |
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Chair Workshop,
TSU Gabrielino and other workshops-titles forthcoming. |
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Open Poster Session: Showcasing CSUF
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Titan Pavilion C, Dr. Andy Gill, FDC Research/Creative Activity
Coordinator |
| 11:30 a.m. |
LUNCH |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Keynote Speaker - Dr. Debra S. Farar,
Chair, CSU Trustees Secretariat
“Keeping the Promise: The California State University
in the New Century”
The mission of the California State University is to provide
access to a high-quality education for all eligible California
students. The topic of the address will be a Trustee’s
perspective of the challenge of “keeping the promise”
of quality while at the same time also providing both opportunity
and affordability for all students.
Video
is available online in Windows Media Format |
| 1:15 p.m. |
Q&A |
| 1:45 p.m. |
Discussion and Concluding Remarks |
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Keynote Biographical
Information
Dr. Kevin Starr, the seventh State Librarian of California
since the turn of the century, was born in San Francisco in 1940.
After graduation from the University of San Francisco in 1962, Dr.
Starr served two years as a lieutenant in a tank battalion in Germany.
Upon release from the service, he entered Harvard University where
he took his MA degree in 1965 and his PhD in 1969 in American Literature.
He also holds the Master of Library Science degree from UC Berkeley
and has done post-doctoral work at the Graduate Theological Union.
Dr. Starr has served as Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Eliot House
at Harvard, executive assistant to the Mayor of San Francisco, the
City Librarian of San Francisco, a daily columnist for the San Francisco
Examiner, and a contributing editor to the Opinion section of the
Los Angeles Times. He currently holds the rank of University Professor
at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The author
of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, Starr has written nine
books, six of which are part of his American and the California
Dream series. His writing has won him a Guggenheim Fellowship, membership
in the Society of American Historians, and the Gold Medal of the
Commonwealth Club of California.
Dr. Debra Farar is Chair of the California State University
Board of Trustees. She holds a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Education
from California State University, Northridge, and an Ed.D. in Education
from Pepperdine University. Dr. Farar has served as senior advisor
in Education Policy for the Office of the Lieutenant Governor for
the State of California, board member of the Funds for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education and Grant Advisory Committee for the California
Student Aid Commission and member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Expanding
Information Dissemination and Outreach, Intersegmental Coordinating
Committee. Dr. Farar taught elementary school at Sierra Canyon School
in Chatsworth and is a private practice educational consultant. A
longtime California resident, Debra Farar and her husband, Sim, have
two sons, Justin and Joel. |
Presented by
The Office of the President,
Vice President for Academic Affairs and
The Faculty Development Center
RSVP to Jenny Amaro-Bussey at X4722 or
gamaro@fullerton.edu
by Friday, August 16. |
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