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C A L I F O R N I A S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y B A K E R S F I E L D
2001-2003 Catalog |
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences is comprised of the art, communications, criminal justice, economics, English, history, liberal studies, modern languages and literature, performing arts, philosophy and religious studies, political science, psychology, social work, and the sociology and anthropology departments.
The School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering is comprised of the biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, nursing, and the physics and geology departments. An engineering department is expected to be added within two to three years.
“The awards honor faculty who have made remarkable contributions to students, the advancement of their respective campuses, and to the CSU,” Wang said in announcing the awards. “It gives me great pleasure to honor these outstanding faculty.”
Kegley has taught philosophy at CSUB since 1973. She chaired the Academic Senate at CSUB, was named Trustees’ Outstanding Faculty, and recently earned the Wang Family Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dustine Rojas-Kraft won first place in the graduate division, behavioral and social sciences, and Ruth Veinote earned a second place in the undergraduate division, biological and agricultural sciences. Rojas-Kraft investigated the acculturation pressures that Mexican-American women face from Mexican culture and American society; Luis Vega was faculty mentor. Veinote presented her research into a key enzyme activity of common horehound; Roy LaFever was faculty mentor.
Other original research was presented by the following CSUB students:
“The commission commends the university for its development of an innovative self study that enabled it to reflect on the ways in which it is using assessment and technology to enhance student learning,” the commission’s report cited. “The self study builds upon the idea of CSU, Bakersfield as a student learning centered university. The commission applauds the university for its vision and for the development of that vision.”
Jackson spent two years in Addis Ababa, teaching English, developing programs for the Ethiopian Educational Media Agency, and producing English radio programs. Her visit was sponsored by Teachers for Africa, a program of the International Foundation for Education and Self Help.
More than 200 films were entered from around the world and the judges narrowed the competition to 10 feature films, 27 short films, five student films, and six documentaries. Jackson has taught communications at CSUB since 1989.
Victor Church was instrumental in establishing the repository in 1976 and served as a director from its founding. The repository serves as a geologic library of drilling cores from oil wells in major California oil producing formations, many of them in Kern County. Scholars and investigators visit the repository and use the archives, both for scholarly research and industrial purposes. Our undergraduates use it as a resource for geology classes.
Bruce brings 257 career wins and seven NCAA Division II tournament appearances to a Roadrunner athletics program steeped in victories with a heritage of NCAA postseason success that includes 26 NCAA team championships.
Anthony earned first prize with his research into risk assessment and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. Harvey studied social status in a prehistoric community in the Mojave Desert. She examined burial goods and artifacts to determine differences in status and rank in the community. Grasse and Hendricks shared third prize. Grasse studied cave art in the San Emigdio Mountains. She examined local rock art that appears to illustrate solar alignments. Hendricks examined the physiology of exercise, specifically how certain muscle adaptation occurs.
Other original research was presented by the following CSUB students:
The Computing/Telecommunications Center plays an essential role in our academic and instructional programs. Using technology in the classroom and to support instruction and learning are integral to the curriculum. Computer technology and telecommunications are integral to the administrative function of the university as well. The relocation of the Computing/Telecommunications Center will enable the campus to have the infrastructure to provide state of the art technology to meet the needs of today and the future. This project will enhance the Telecommunications Infrastructure Project and facilitate better access to technology throughout our campus community.
As a campus that is continuing to grow in enrollment, we recently reorganized the School of Arts and Sciences into the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering, to provide better service to our region. We are committed to developing a first class engineering program. We are responding to a widely recognized regional need to prepare and provide professional engineers as we grow from an economy based upon agriculture and petroleum to a more diversified economy that will depend on rapidly developing technology and telecommunications.
Our future capital projects include an Engineering Building to house our engineering program. A decades long effort to develop an engineering degree program at Bakersfield is coming to fruition. The general engineering program will enroll its first students next year and by 2005, we will award our first degrees in engineering, with full accreditation sought by 2007. The renovation of Science I and II will address the functional obsolescence of these two buildings, consolidate related functions and reconfigure space to meet instructional needs as we await construction of a new facility dedicated to the engineering program.
Our newly designed bookstore is complete and is adjacent to the existing Student Union. This project provides a 10,500-asf building. The old bookstore vacated a wing of the cafeteria building, releasing additional space for grant funded activities. The Cal State Bakersfield Foundation has provided the funding for this project.
Mrs. Church gave $100,000 for an endowment fund to support the California Well Sample Repository on the CSUB campus. Mrs. Windes gave $1 million to the university honors program, the largest gift to a CSUB academic program in the university’s history. A CSUB alumnus, Bynum chairs the $11 million Cornerstone Campaign. He is a director of the Cal State Bakersfield Foundation. He served on the President’s Advisory Council, Alumni Association Board of Directors, and currently is a director of the Roadrunner Club.