CSUB FAST FACTS

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

California State University, Bakersfield
Fast Facts

The School of Arts and Sciences at California State University, Bakersfield has been reorganized as two schools in anticipation of a new engineering degree program. President Tomas A. Arciniega announced that the new schools will be named the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the School of Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering.
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.
Longtime philosophy professor, Jacquelyn Ann Kegley, was selected as one of five recipients of the 2000 Wang Family Excellence Award given each year to recognize outstanding teaching in the CSU. This is the second year that the awards have been given and the second year that a CSUB professor has won one of the awards. English professor Michael Flachmann won in 1999.
“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.”
Veteran California State University, Bakersfield faculty member, Jacquelyn Kegley, was recently elected chair of the Academic Senate of The California State University. As chair of the statewide Academic Senate, Kegley will lead faculty of the 23 campuses of the CSU.
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.
Two California State University, Bakersfield students earned plaudits at the 14th annual statewide student research competition sponsored by The California State University.
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:
- Jason Anthony studied risk assessment and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
- Kaye Lynn Falconer examined contrasting definitions of modern depression and melancholy in the 18th century
- Gale Grasse studied cave art in the San Emigdio Mountains. She examined local roc art that appears to illustrate solar alignments
- Victoria Harvey studied social status in a prehistoric community in the Mojave Desert. She examined brutal goods and artifacts to determine differences in status and rank in the community.
- Misty Hendricks examined the physiology of exercise, specifically how certain muscle adaptation occurs.
- Christopher Hinton presented quantum mechanical calculations to show the difference between C-H bon dissociation enthalpies in methane, ethane, and toluene.
- Irma Morales Waugh examined some of the obstacles, including domestic violence, that women face that make permanent employment difficult
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges has reaccredited California State University, Bakersfield for another 10 years. The reaccreditation was the culmination of an innovative two-year self-study that CSUB conducted and a campus visit on October 11-14, 1999, by an accrediting team.
“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.”
Written, produced, and directed by California State University, Bakersfield communications professor Elizabeth Jackson, Surviving Abyssinia was named best documentary at the Hollywood Black Film Festival 2000. The film documents her two years living in Ethiopia.
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.
With a gift of $100,000, Virginia Church established an endowment that will benefit students at California State University, Bakersfield for years to come — and her generous gift will ensure her husband’s enduring legacy, the California Well Sample Repository.
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.
Greg Bruce was named the CSUB’s first-ever women’s basketball coach. Bruce has coached at the University of Northern Colorado for the past three seasons, where he led the Bears to a 20-9 record and an NCAA regional semifinal appearance this season. For his efforts, he was named the North Central Conference coach of the year.
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.
The tenth annual Student Research Competition was held at California State University, Bakersfield. Winners were Jason Anthony, Victoria Harvey, Gale Grasse, and Misty Hendricks.
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:
- Kaye Lynn Falconer examined contrasting definitions of modern depression and melancholy in the 18th century.
- Christopher Hinton presented quantum mechanical calculations to show the difference between C-H bond dissociation enthalpies in methane, ethane, and toluene.
- Dustine Rojas-Kraft investigated the acculturation pressures that Mexican-American women face from Mexican culture and American society.
- Ruth Veinote presented her research into a key enzyme activity of common horehound.
- Irma Morales Waugh examined some of the obstacles, including domestic violence, that women face that make permanent employment difficult.
The rapid, dramatic developments in telecommunications technology have had significant impact upon our distant learning program, which has been critical to our efforts to serve the more remote communities or our service region.
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.
We broke ground for the new CSUB Business Development Center, which will include the School of Business and Public Administration, the Extended University and the Leadership Development Center. The building for the School of Business and Public Administration will be the largest of the four buildings forming the Business Development Center, providing much needed classroom space in addition to faculty offices. A focal point of the CSUB Business Center is construction of a privately funded Leadership Development Center. The Center will be used by business groups for training and to augment the learning experiences of their employees. Private funds will be used to enhance the building in areas where state funds are unavailable, and for the construction of the Leadership Development Center.
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.
Gregory D. Bynum, Virginia Church and Helen Hawk Windes were presented the President’s Medal, given each year by California State University, Bakersfield. The award is presented to individuals who have given exceptional service to the university.
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.