WE COUNT!
DOCUMENTING OUR
PROGRESS AND SUCCESS
January 22-23, 2007
Embassy Suites
Mandalay Beach Resort
Oxnard, California
2007 Faculty Retreat
PLEASE REFER TO ONSITE SIGNAGE AND OFFICIAL FACULTY RETREAT
GREETERS FOR DIRECTION OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Monday, January 22, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Registration
Pick-up or purchase shirts
Sign-up for yoga -- space limited to 20 per session
(hotel rooms available after 4:15 p.m.)
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Welcome
Jennifer Matos, Faculty President
Faculty Retreat Committee and Staff Recognized
9:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Keynote Address: Movers and Shakers of
California State University, Northridge
Jolene Koester, University President
10:45 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Achieving Excellence: Honored Faculty Panel
Karin Duran, University Library
Charles Macune, History
Jennifer Romack, Kinesiology
Moderator: Robert Kladifko, Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch: “Count on Us”
Fiesta Taco Bar
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Session I Workshop Presentations
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session II Workshop Presentations
(Monday events continued on next page)
Monday, January 22, 2007 (continued)
RELAX AND REJUVENATE
After 4:15 p.m.
Hotel Check-in
Free-Time: Volleyball, Walk on the Beach
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Yoga Class (Please sign-up – limit 20)
Instructor: Wendy Banks, Kinesiology
(another yoga class is offered on Tuesday
morning, 7:00 am)
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 pm
Mindfulness, Chocolate & Stress Management
Leader: Diane Gehart
Want to learn a quick and fun way to de-stress? This
brief workshop will introduce participants to
mindfulness meditation to help better manage
stress with quick 5-10 minute exercises that can be easily
integrated into schedules. This workshop will include
instruction in the classic breath meditation and an
adaptation to: chocolate meditation.
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Happy Hour: “Bites and Bonding”
Hosted by Embassy Suites
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Dining Together: “We Count!”
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Socialize with Your Colleagues
Music by Ronald Purcell Honors’ Guitar Quartet
Desserts & Snacks; No-host bar
We appreciate your feedback. Be sure to complete retreat and session
evaluation forms and place in the receptacle on the registration desk.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
6:00 a.m.
Walk on the Beach
(meet in the Lobby)
7:00 a.m. – 7:45 a.m.
Yoga Class (Please sign-up – limit 20)
Instructor: Victoria Nichols, Kinesiology
6:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Hosted by Embassy Suites
8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Session III Workshop Presentations
10:00 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Innovations in Assessment: Faculty Panel
Beverly Cabello, Educ. Psychology & Counseling
Michael Spagna, Special Education,
Endowed Chair, Ctr. for Teaching & Learning
Marilynn Filbeck, University Assessment Director
Moderator: Joyce Linden, Special Education
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Session IV Poster Presentations
Book Publisher Displays
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch: “Share Success”
Soup and Salad Bar
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Assessing What Counts – Levels of
Accountability
Harry Hellenbrand, Provost
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Distribute Prizes
This concludes the 2007 Faculty Retreat.
Have a great semester!
Hotel check-out is no later than 12:00 noon.
We appreciate your feedback. Be sure to complete retreat and session
evaluation forms and place in the receptacle on the registration desk.
2007 FACULTY RETREAT
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Session I – Monday, 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Workshop 1 “WASC: When, Where, Who, What, How”
Michael Neubauer, Mathematics
Elizabeth Say, College of Humanities
Cynthia Rawitch, Undergraduate Studies
Workshop 2 “Dealing with University Students in Distress”
Anne Eipe, University Counseling Services
Lideth Ortega-Villalobos, University Counseling Services
Michael Laurent, Educational Psychology & Counseling
Workshop 3 “The Last Measure: Measuring Student Learning Using
Scoring Rubrics for Graduate Culminating Experiences”
Diane Gehart, Educational Psychology & Counseling
Wilda Rodriquez-Laija, Educational Psychology &
Counseling
Merril Simon, Educational Psychology & Counseling
Workshop 4 “CSUN – A Learning-Centered University for ALL of our
Students”
Donna Hardy, Psychology
Jennifer Zvi, Center on Disabilities
Gary Katz, Psychology
Workshop 5 “Value Added and Validated: Successful, Effective,
Hands-on Learning Outside the Classroom”
Louis Rubino, Health Sciences
Linda Reid-Chassiakos, Student Health Center
Floyd Anscombe, Student Health Center
Frankline Augustin, Science & Mathematics
Session II – Monday, 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Workshop 1 “Early Experiences with E-Portfolios: The View from
Geography”
Steve Graves, Geography
Workshop 2 “What the Best College Teachers Do: First Year CSUN
Faculty and the Search for Authenticity”
Greg Knotts, Elementary Education
Ronald Davidson, Geography
Lynette Henderson, Art
John Swain, Theater
Workshop 3 “Balancing Work and Personal Growth”
Christa Metzger, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Workshop 4 “Raising Academic Self Esteem: Tapping the Potential of
CSUN Students”
Mark Stevens, University Counseling Services
Tony Johnson, University Counseling Services
Workshop 5 “Current Successful Efforts to Provide Access to Students
with Disabilities and Future Challenges”
Sue Cullen, Center on Disabilities
Randal Cummings, Online Instruction
Joseph O’Connor, University Web Communication
Session III – Tuesday, 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Workshop 1 “A Hands-on Mentoring Model to Guide Your Research,
Teaching and Community Services”
James Decker, Social Work
Workshop 2 “Degree Completion Planning (DCP) for Graduation”
Eric Forbes, Admissions and Records
Tracy Shields, Admissions and Records
Workshop 3 “Electronic Research Administration (ERA): Navigating
the Electronic Proposal Submission Process”
Scott Perez, Research & Sponsored Projects
Workshop 4 “Current Guidelines and Tools to Help Make Web Pages
Accessible”
Joseph O’Connor, University Web Communications,
University Advancement
Susan Cullen, Center on Disabilities
Workshop 5 “Teaching Race Relations: The Privilege and Racism of
Our College Students”
Jerome Rabow, Sociology
Session IV – Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Poster Presentations
Book Publisher Displays
2007 FACULTY RETREAT
ABSTRACTS OF WORKSHOP SESSIONS
Session I - Monday, 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Workshop 1 “WASC: When, Where, Who, What, How”
Michael Neubauer, Mathematics
Elizabeth Say, College of Humanities
Cynthia Rawitch, Undergraduate Studies
This session will give participants a chance to find out about the WASC
(Western Association of Schools and Colleges) reaccreditation process that
started on campus in fall ‘06 and will take up a lot of our energies over the
next five years. It will also include updates and strategies presented at the
January 2007 WASC Institutional Workshop. An opportunity for questions,
answers and comments will be provided.
Workshop 2 “Dealing with University Students in Distress”
Anne Eipe, University Counseling Services
Lideth Ortega-Villalobos, University Counseling Services
Michael Laurent, Educational Psychology & Counseling
The purpose of this presentation is to provide education, discussion, and
guidelines for faculty who encounter students in distress. This presentation
will highlight the crucial role faculty members can have in being the first, and
at times the only source of contact for a student to receive support, guidance,
and referrals. Specifically, the signs and symptoms to identify a student in
distress will be reviewed and strategies to deal with these students will be
provided. Additionally, the steps for referring a student to University
Counseling Services will be reviewed.
Workshop 3 “The Last Measure: Measuring Student Learning Using
Scoring Rubrics for Graduate Culminating Experiences”
Diane Gehart, Educational Psych. & Counseling
Wilda Rodriquez-Laija, Educational Psych. & Counseling
Merril Simon, Educational Psych. & Counseling
Are you looking for a convienent measure of graduate student learning? In
this presentation, faculty from the Department of Educational Psychology and
Counseling will share scoring rubrics they developed to measure student
learning in a diverse range of graduate programs. Sample rubrics for all three
culminating experiences will be provided: comprehensive exam, thesis, and
graduate project. The rubrics are designed to gather information to comply
with internal university requirments as well as requirements from several
external accrediting bodies. Data management and "digitalizing" options will
be discussed as well as issues related to training faculty to use the rubrics and
introducing the rubrics to students.
Workshop 4 “CSUN – A Learning-Centered University for ALL of our
Students”
Donna Hardy, Psychology
Jennifer Zvi, Center on Disabilities
Gary Katz, Psychology
For many years, CSUN has been aware of the problems that disabled students
face in the academic environment. Indeed, our campus was wheelchair
accessible well before this was mandated by law. And many of us are
rightfully proud that our campus has set the standard for making higher
education accessible to visually impaired students, deaf and hard-of-hearing
students, and students with learning disabilities. CSUN accomplished this
well before other universities recognized that they must comply with the
Americans with Disabilities Act. Section 508 mandates that education is
accessible for everyone, and this now includes Internet as well as physical
access. With this recent interpretation of Section 508, we now face new
challenges: How can we make our own Web pages accessible to all of our
students? Professor Donna Hardy took this challenge to her students last
spring by requiring that the photographs and graphics they include in their
own home pages be accessible to visually-impaired people – and they met this
challenge with enthusiasm! They produced a charming video explaining why
Section 508 compliance is so important to them – and for our university. By
matching their enthusiasm, we can ensure that CSUN remains a leader in
meeting the educational needs of ALL of our students!
Workshop 5 “Value Added and Validated: Successful, Effective,
Hands-on Learning Outside the Classroom”
Louis Rubino, Health Sciences
Linda Reid-Chassiakos, Student Health Center
Floyd Anscombe, Student Health Center
Frankline Augustin, Science & Mathematics
Demonstrating the benefits of synergy, two Colleges combined forces to
integrate their Learning-Centered experiences for Pre-Health Professional
students. Partnering with the Klotz Student Health Center, each was able to
provide their students with a unique out-of-classroom hands-on field
experience in health care and administration funded by a University LearningCentered Mini-grant. A Phase 2 mentoring component was added which
enhanced the students’ learning through peer education. Qualitative and
quantitative evidence of success of the two programs, individually and
collaboratively, will be demonstrated at this session through a presentation by
a student panel and through documented assessment results.
Session II – Monday, 2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Workshop 1 “Early Experiences with E-Portfolios: The View from
Geography”
Steve Graves, Geography
This year geography students became among the first on campus to construct
electronic portfolios. The flexibility and power of this media for assessment
of student competencies will be discussed along with the challenges and
limitations of livetext.com, the online company chosen by the Geography
Department to host the eportfolios. Examples of student work will be
discussed.
Workshop 2 “What the Best College Teachers Do: First Year CSUN
Faculty and the Search for Authenticity”
Greg Knotts, Elementary Education
Ronald Davidson, Geography
Lynette Henderson, Art
John Swain, Theater
This presentation shares self-reflections of the Fall 2006 New Faculty Book
Group, in relation to the writings of Ken Bain in his book: “What the Best
College Teachers Do” (Harvard University Press: 2004). The open dialogue
format of this interdepartmental and learning-centered community of CSU
Northridge allowed us to evaluate strategies offered by Bain, as they relate to
our current and future teaching practice. Our lively discussions have yielded
concrete applications of "what the best college teachers do" as a vehicle for
exploring the meaning of "authenticity" in our own teaching, and our
commitment to excellence in teaching in general.
Workshop 3 “Balancing Work and Personal Growth”
Christa Metzger, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Our progress and our success depend on paying attention to all dimensions of
our lives - professional as well as personal. Busy people often neglect areas
related to their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. This session
will provide you with insights and suggestions for living a more balanced life,
for coping with stress, nurturing your soul, replenishing your spirit, and
finding renewal - so that what you do will count where it matters. Through a
powerpoint presentation and hands-on activities, you will learn how to apply
six research-based strategies which have been published in the presenter's
recent (2006) book on Balancing Leadership Responsibilities and Personal
Growth.
Workshop 4 “Raising Academic Self Esteem: Tapping the Potential of
CSUN Students”
Mark Stevens, University Counseling Services
Tony Johnson, University Counseling Services
Students come to CSUN with differing levels of confidence in their ability to
learn new and perceived difficult material. Lower academic confidence levels
are correlated with difficulty asking for help and ability to sustain studying
behaviors necessary to succeed. This presentation will provide the
participants information about the Academic Mental Health Institute that is
being developed at the University Counseling Services. Programming efforts
are underway to help students overcome some of the internal (psychological)
barriers to academic success. Concepts such as Academic Self-Esteem, Mini
Academic Traumas and Mind Set Flexibility will be discussed.
Workshop 5 “Current Successful Efforts to Provide Access to Students
with Disabilities and Future Challenges”
Sue Cullen, Center on Disabilities
Randal Cummings, Online Instruction
Joseph O’Connor, University Web Communication
As we celebrate our progress in the area of teaching CSUN students it is
important to consider how that success may look in the future. Technology
has become pervasive in the area of education and communication. Can one
occur without the other in 2007? Some students do not have the same
opportunity as the average person to access text materials or information
provided on the web. Where are we successful in providing education and
communication to students with learning, physical or psychological
differences, and where do we need to focus our efforts in order to say we are
successful in the future? Among the topics to be addressed are LMS and web
site access, live e-learning, video conferencing, captioning, and instructional
material conversion.
Session III – Tuesday, 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Workshop 1 “A Hands-on Mentoring Model to Guide Your Research,
Teaching and Community Services”
James Decker, Social Work
This workshop provides a mentoring model for research, teaching, and
community service, which will have a positive outcome for tenure and
promotion. This workshop will provide a model for developing your Annual
Plan and Report. Particular attention must be paid to evaluating the extent to
which you are contributing to the fulillment of the University, College and
Department’s mission. A matrix will guide this discussion, which includes
your: 1) Objectives, 2) Relationship to the University and College Strategic
Agenda, 3) Relationship to the Department’s mission, 4) Activities you are
involved with and 5) Evaluative Statements. The five aforementioned
constructs will guide you in demonstrating effectiveness in teaching,
professional contributions, and in community service.
Workshop 2 “Degree Completion Planning (DCP) for Graduation”
Eric Forbes, Admissions and Records
Tracy Shields, Admissions and Records
This workshop will help you to prepare your students for graduation by using
an interactive tool to plan courses and/or requirements still needed to
graduate. This application [based on our degree audit system] will allow
perspective graduates to determine EXACTLY what needs to be taken in the
next few semesters in order to graduate.
Workshop 3 “Electronic Research Administration (ERA): Navigating
the Electronic Proposal Submission Process”
Scott Perez, Research & Sponsored Projects
So, you have to submit your research proposal electronically. Are you familiar
with the agency's submission system? Do you know their software/hardware
requirements? How much lead-time will the university need to submit your
proposal? As granting agencies transition to “paperless” operation, principal
investigators now have one more issue to grapple with in preparing
submissions.
This presentation reviews electronic proposal submission with particular
emphasis on Grants.gov – the federal government’s new all-encompassing
grants system. We will discuss some of the advantages – and disadvantages –
associated with “e-submission” and provide faculty with information they
need to submit successfully.
Workshop 4 “Current Guidelines and Tools to Help Make Web Pages
Accessible”
Joseph O’Connor, University Web Communications,
University Advancement
Susan Cullen, Center on Disabilities
Web technology has become pervasive in the area of education and
Communication. Universal design principles, when applied to Web page
construction, make it easier for all individuals to access text materials and
information. Guidelines and tools currently being used to check Web page
accessibility will be introduced. These include: automated accessibility
checking software, and spot checking toolbars and plug-ins for Internet
Explorer and Firefox. Techniques will be shared about using these tools to
meet the guidelines of the Chancellor’s Office Accessible Technology
Initiative. For more information see: http://www.csun.edu/accessibility.html.
Workshop 5 “Teaching Race Relations: The Privilege and Racism of
Our College Students”
Jerome Rabow, Sociology
This presentation involves the playing of a 43-minute video “Voices of Pain,
Voices of Hope” (Pyramid Productions) on teaching anti-racism in the
University. The video shows how students can be facilitated to confront their
own stereotypes and racist behavior. It brings personal, interpersonal and
institutional racism closer to the everyday lives of students. It has faces and
voices that should allow for identification by students around the country.
Students understand from this video that their stereotypes, prejudices, racism
and privilege are not unique to themselves or to our campus, but are endemic
to our college campuses.
RESEARCH-A-RAMA
Session IV – Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Poster Presentations
“Accessing and Advancing Diversity on Campus”
Siva Sankaran, Systems and Operations Management
“The Collembola Project”
Catherine Coyle-Thompson, Biology
“Counting on Oviatt Library Services and Resources”
Marcia Henry, University Library
“Identifying, Vetting, and Structuring Open Course Audio “Podcasts” on
the Web”
Wayne Smith, Management
“Improving Interpersonal Communication through Community Service
Work and a Campus Gardening Project: Leave the Cell Phones at Home”
August Hoffman, Psychology
Julie Wallach, Psychology (Teaching Assistant)
“Partnering for Student Success: SOAR/HHD Enrollment Enhancement
Pilot Project”
Veda Ward, Recreation and Tourism
Book Publisher Displays
Sage Publications, Inc.
We sincerely thank all of our
2007 donors and sponsors!
Those not listed will be announced at the Retreat.
Donor
Donation
Website/Contact Information
CSUN President’s
Office
CSUN Provost’s Office
Cash donation
http://www.csun.edu/%7Epresofc/
Support for SignLanguage
Interpreters
http://www.csun.edu/academic.affairs/
CSUN Foundation
Cash donation
(contribution towards
purchase of shirts)
http://www.csun.edu/ua/foundation/
CSUN Music
Department
Music Event Tickets
http://www.csun.edu/~hfmus003/
CSUN Theatre
Department
Theatre Tickets
http://www.csun.edu/theatre/
Center on Disabilities
Miscellaneous
Giveaways
http://www.csun.edu/cod/
California Faculty
Association (CFA)
Cash Donation
http://library.csun.edu/calfac/
Children’s Dental
DVD Player
Coffee Liqueur
Two $25 gift
certificates
http://spaceshipdentist.com/
1555 Simi Valley Town Center Way
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Donna Hardy
(CSUN Professor)
Gift Certificates for
one hour massage
150 gift bags
One piece of photo
artwork
Donna R. PatteeBallard
Two pieces of original
artwork
http://donnapatee-ballard.com
Edward Jones
Investments
(Martha Laff)
Embassy Suites Hotel
Mandalay Beach
Resort
Family & Consumer
Sciences Dept.
Fast Frame
Emergency Kit
9677 Reseda Blvd.
Northridge, CA 91324
Gift Certificate – one
night stay
http://embassysuites.hilton.com
Two 5-a-day aprons
http://fes.csun.edu/
$100 Gift Certificate
www.fastframe.com
Chi’s Chinese Cuisine
Coldwater Creek, The
Spa
9635 Reseda Boulevard
Northridge, CA 91324
http://www.csun.edu/~vcpsy00h/
Donors and Sponsors
(continued)
Donor
Healthy Dining
Donation
Website/Contact Information
http://www.healthy-dining.com
Human Kinetics
16 Healthy Dining
Guides for Los
Angeles
10 Wellness Books
Jamba Juice
4 free smoothies
L.A. Grill
2 free lunches
Lenny Dykstra’s Car
Wash
Linens’N Things
$35 value
Car Wash and Wax
$25 gift certificate
Matador Bookstore
Cash Donation
Gift Basket
Cash donation
19500 Plummer St.
Northridge, CA 91324
9000 Reseda Blvd.,
Northridge, CA
1144 Los Angeles Ave.
Simi Valley, CA 93065
19500 Plummer St.
Northridge, CA 91324
http://www.bkstr.com
CSU, Northridge
http://www.mheducation.com
McGraw-Hill Companies
www.humankinetics.com
The Roland Tseng
College of Extended
Learning
Sage Publications, Inc.
Miscellaneous
Giveaways
http://tsengcollege.csun.edu/
Cash donation
http://sagepub.com
SavOn Drugs
DVD Player
SkinEssence
Two free facials or
microdermabrasion
2 bags of coffee
Gift basket
$25.00 gift card
351-B North Carmen,
Oxnard, CA
13521 Ventura Blvd
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
www.starbucks.com
Starbucks Coffee
Target
Western Bagel
(6) coupons – dozen
bagels each
www.target.com
www.westernbagel.com
2007 Faculty Retreat
Workshop Notes
If you drink, please drink responsibly!
2007 Faculty Retreat Committee
James David Ballard, Sociology
Cecile Bendavid, Computer Science
Barry Cleveland, Theatre
Catherine Coyle-Thompson, Biology
Kiren Dosanjh Zucker, Business Law/Management
Diane Gehart, Educational Psychology and Counseling
Robert Kladifko, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Joyce Linden, Special Education
Terri Lisagor, Family Consumer Sciences
Heidemarie Lundblad, Accounting and IS
Allen Martin (Program Co-Chair), Family Consumer Sciences
Jennifer Matos (Faculty President), Biology
Douglas McLaughlin, Kinesiology
Bronte Reynolds, Educational Leadership & Policy Studies
Michael Rivas, Secondary Education
Mark Sergi (Program Co-Chair), Psychology
David Sannerud, Music
April Taylor, Child and Adolescent Development
Veda Ward (Retreat Co-Chair), Recreation and Tourism
Heidi Wolfbauer (Retreat Coordinator), Faculty Senate Office
Jennifer Zvi (Retreat Co-Chair), Center on Disabilities
Frank Bao, Technology Support Group
Augusto Santos, Technology Support Group
Cover Design, Annie O’ Cleveland