CSUF Faculty Day 2001

 Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Titan Student Union Pavilions

“Recent Research on Students, Leadership, and Institutional
Change: Implications for Faculty”

Allan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, Dr. Alexander W. Astin, will attempt to synthesize recent research findings concerning changes in students entering higher education, effective pedagogical practices, educational leadership, and institutional change and transformation.  The implications of these findings for university faculty will be stressed.

Agenda

8:00 am	Continental breakfast, Titan Pavilion AB
8:30 am	Welcome Remarks Dr. Milton A. Gordon, President Dr. Ephraim Smith, Vice President Academic Affairs
8:45 am	Keynote Address Dr. Alexander Astin, University of California at Los Angeles “Recent Research on Students, Leadership, and Institutional Change: Implications for Faculty”
9:30 am	Q&A
10:15 am	Break
10:25 am	Morning Breakout Sessions Exploring Different Modes of Student Learning: Distance Learning,  Cooperative Learning and More, TSU Gabrielino Students and Academic Integrity Issues, TSU Alavardo AB Student Responsibilities: The Syllabus as a Contract, TSU Hetebrink AB Special Open Poster Session: Showcasing CSUF Faculty Research & Creative Activity    Dr. Andy Gill, FDC Research/Creative Activity Coordinator, Titan    Pavilion C
11:30 pm	LUNCH
12:15 pm	Luncheon Keynote Dr. Jack Schuster, Claremont Graduate University “The Academic Profession in Transformation: Transition or Turmoil?  And What Does It Mean for CSU?” Dr. Schuster will describe the changing faculty landscape and suggest implications, proximate and longer-term, for institutions similar to Fullerton and more generally for American higher education.
1:00 pm	Q&A
1:30 pm	Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks by the Vice President

  

KEYNOTE BIOGRAPHIES

 

Dr. Alexander W. Astin is Allan M. Cartter Professor of Higher Education at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. He has served as Director of Research for both the American Council on Education and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He is the Founding Director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, an ongoing national study of some ten million students, 250,000 faculty and staff, and 1,500 higher education institutions.

Dr. Astin has authored 18 books and some 300 other publications in the field of higher education, and has been a recipient of awards for outstanding research from more than a dozen national associations and professional societies. He has also been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and a recipient of ten honorary degrees.

A 1990 study in the Journal of Higher Education identified Dr. Astin as the most frequently-cited author in the field of higher education. In 1985 readers of Change magazine selected Dr. Astin as the person "most admired for creative, insightful thinking" in the field of higher education. His latest book is What Matters in College? Four Critical Years Revisited (Jossey-Bass).

Dr. Jack H. Schuster is Professor of Education and Public Policy at the Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California.  His Bachelor’s degree (in History) is from Tulane University, and he holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Schuster is co-author with Howard R. Bowen of American Professors: A National Resource Imperiled, published by Oxford University Press in 1986, for which they received the Association of American Colleges’ Frederic Ness Book Award.  He wrote with Martin J. Finkelstein and Robert K. Seal The New Academic Generation: A Profession in Transformation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) and New Entrants to the Full-Time Faculty of Higher Education Institutions (U.S. Department of Education, 1998).

Dr. Schuster currently co-directs with Martin Finkelstein a research project on the Future of the American Faculty, an activity supported by the Andrew W. Mellon, Alfred P. Sloan and Spencer Foundations and TIAA-CREF.

 

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 10.