Social & Behavioral Sciences Division

Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Office

Proposition M Support

• Both Division Secretary Lani Fawcett-Murders and Dean Mark Vernoy participated in committees and events that supported the passage of Proposition M, the Palomar College General Obligation Bond Measure.

Dean Vernoy

• Mark Vernoy co-presented a talk entitled “There is no “I” in team, but there are two in collegiality:  Psychological and Communication Elements that Influence Effective Teamwork” at the Annual Conference of the Association of California Community College Administrators. 

• Mark Vernoy published a book chapter entitled “Teaching Psychology Can Be Magical.”  In B. Beins, C. Burke, B. Buskist, V. Hevern, J. Irons, & J. Williams (Eds.), The Teaching of Psychology in Autobiography: Perspectives from Psychology's Exemplary Teachers, Volume 2. 

Economics, History & Political Science Department

Political Economy Days (PED)

• Coordinated by Loren Lee and Peter Bowman, this year Political Economy Days attracted more students and more prestigious speakers, including Thomas Patterson, the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University.

Full-Time Faculty Accomplishments

• Teresa Laughlin has taken the leadership role in learning outcomes and has also served on the faculty senate and as a member of the bargaining team for the CCE.  She also presented a seminar for Campus Explorations.

• Linda Dudik has continued to collect interviews, and facilitate the publication of accounts of WW II and the Vietnam War.  She was instrumental in arranging for our Print Services Department to help with the digitization of thousands of accounts of the Pearl Harbor Attack by Perl Harbor survivors.

• Mary Ann Drinan was appointed by the Faculty Senate as the Tenure Evaluation Review Board Coordinator.

• Peter Bowman, in addition to coordinating PED, has completed his 4^th year of probation and will receive tenure in the Fall.  Peter also served as the advisor of the Democratic Club.  He also presented a seminar for Campus Explorations.

• Loren Lee, in addition to coordinating PED, presented a seminar for Campus Explorations.

• Mat Estes and Bill Jahnel also participated in Campus Explorations.

American Indian Studies Department

Full-Time Faculty Accomplishments

• Professor Steven Crouthamel developed a new course for American Studies, AMS 105, Images of the West, which has been approved for Fall 2007. Steve is also compiling a Cultural Resource Guide for Luiseños in general and the Pauma Band of Mission Indians in particular.
  
  
• Professor Linda Locklear and Dr. Gabriel Estrada, former AIS part-time Faculty and now director of Chicano Studies and American Indian Studies at the University of California Long Beach, have co-authored the Teachers’ Manual for Mark Q. Sutton’s Introduction to Native North America, 3^rd edition.
  
  
• Professor Patricia Dixon gave a lecture for a Leadership Class at California State University San Marcos in Spring 2007. Patti is also entering her third year with the California Curriculum Development and Supplemental Material Commission. She has co-authored A Luiseño History with Professor Edward Castillo of California State University Sonoma. She gave a presentation with Bonnie Biggs of California State University San Marcos and Joely De La Torre of California State University San Bernardino to key personnel at the University of San Diego on the successful establishment of an America Indian Studies program with community involvement. In addition, she participated in the Institutional Review Board for the Indian Health Clinic, Inc., on proposals and studies related to health. She still serves as chair on the board of the California Indian Legal Services.
  
  
• Professor Linda Locklear remains active on boards and committees of the National Indian Justice Center Advisory Board, Young Native Scholars, and the Native American Research Center for Health. She is also participating in Tribal Courts Training. She has worked on producing the American Indian Studies major at San Diego State University and helped create and teach a course on Indian identity at SDSU in Spring 2007. Her work for the California Indian Education Network TV channel has produced over 100 programs and 10 hours of programming a day. She has produced a new film about the Pala Reservation Removal Anniversary. She has performed professional evaluations of the Native American Research Center for Health and for American Indian Recruitment. She is currently evaluating sociology texts for several publishers.

Part-Time Faculty Accomplishments

• AIS part-time Professor Dr. Jean Keller was named Mellon Lecture Series in Public History Lecturer at the University of California, Riverside. In April, she spoke at UCR on “Opening the Door: Giving Voice to American Indian Students at Sherman Institute.”
• AIS part-time Professor Joanna Bigfeather was named Director of the Boehm Gallery.
• AIS part-time Professor Jared Aldern received a grant from the Indian Land Tenure Foundation to fund a course (AIS 155), offered in Spring 2007, on Indian Land Tenure and Conservation.
• The Native language classes developed by part-time Professor Dr. Eric Elliott include two new courses, AIS 161 Classical Nahuatl, and AIS 139 Native American Linguistics. We are now cross-listing these classes, as well as the Luiseño and Cupeño language classes, with Foreign Languages. Classical Nahuatl is also cross-listed with Chicano Studies.

• Part-time Professor Darlene Suarez has spent some time at the National Archives and Anthropologist Florence Shipek's Archives at the Kumeyaay College researching the Jamul Indian Village for the book she will write.  She is also documenting oral histories of the Kumeyaay elders for the National Parks Grant that she is  directing and is videotaping each session.  Eventually a DVD will be produced for tribal preservation, with a follow-up report to the National Parks Service.  Professor Suarez has also been invited by the San Luis Rey Luiseno Tribe to participate on a project with Thomas Enterprises, Inc. a huge Developer who is putting in a large Shopping Center in Oceanside.  She, along with the Tribal Liaison for the tribe, a Luiseno sculptor/painter and the Developer is working to place some kind of Luiseno art, sculpture, mural in the Shopping Center in honor of the Luiseno People. 

Departmental Accomplishments

• The department is working on criteria for online instructors, including completion of the Online Checklist developed by Academic Technology. Part-time Professor Dr. Darlene Suarez has completed the semester-length Blackboard training with AT. Linda Locklear is using audio for online class emails.
  
  
• With the help of Joanna Bigfeather and Judy Cater, the AIS Department has donated the books, catalogues, and articles of the late well-known Native American artist Fritz Scholder to the Palomar Library.
  
  
• AIS is partnering with Valley Center High School to teach one AIS course a semester to high school students at VCHS.

 Academic Technology Resource Center

Blackboard

• Blackboard System Upgrade.  Academic Technology (AT) has successfully administered and maintained the Enterprise edition of the Blackboard Learning system which runs on a multi-server, load balanced platform (3 application servers, 1 collaboration server, (ie, the 4 “front end” servers), 1 File Server and 1 Database Server (the two “back-end” servers).   Management and user support for this system occupies 3 Blackboard system administrators more or less full time, and is a very large undertaking.  The Blackboard system continues to be fully integrated (on a 1-hour delay “snapshot” basis with the PeopleSoft Student Information System and Palomar Active Directory System so that login and enrollment control are automatic.  The Blackboard system enjoyed nearly 100% up-time, being down only for scheduled maintenance and during power outages.  Part of our new maintenance policy for the Blackboard system has been to institute a “reboot Wednesday,” where we reboot the system the first Wednesday of each month.  This has resulted in better system performance and solved intermittent memory leak problems.  We also patch the Blackboard servers with fully tested versions of the operating system patches or Blackboard system patches on reboot Wednesday.  A course “shell” is created for each credit course in which it is possible for students to enroll at Palomar College, and in addition to the current semester’s courses, three previous semester’s courses and a future semester’s courses (beginning 90-days prior to the start of the semester) are maintained within the Blackboard system.

• Upgrade of the Blackboard Learning System to the Latest Version of the Software.  AT has been diligent to update the Blackboard Learning System to the latest version of the software via service packs and application packs.  We underwent three major upgrades this year:  an upgrade to version 7.1 in May 2006, where the discussion board was completely redesigned and many new assessment and gradebook features were added; an upgrade to version 7.1 Service Pack 1 in August 2006, where new features and bug fixes were applied; then a major upgrade to version 7.2 in April 2007, where new email, gradebook, discussion board and performance improvements were implemented.

• New Building Blocks.  We implemented an unprecedented number of new building blocks in the Blackboard system this year:  the Wimba Live Classroom, Wimba voice tools, Pronto (a Blackboard specific instant messaging client), TurnItIn (anti-plagiarism service), an open source document unpackager, and and open standards content player.

• New Blackboard Test System.  We have successfully configured and deployed a new Blackboard test system which as closely as possible emulates the production environment with multiple front end servers, multiple back end servers, and a load-balanced environment.  The high rate of up time we have experienced is partially due to the ability we now have to thoroughly test upgrades and additions to the system in the test environment prior to implementation in the production environment.

• Blackboard Sandbox System.  We have successfully deployed a “sandbox” Blackboard system where faculty members can view and test new Blackboard features before they are rolled out to the production system.

• Blackboard Student and Faculty Support.  We continue to field hundreds of support calls from students, and especially from faculty members related to the Blackboard system.  The three Academic Technology System Administrators spend most of their time serving faculty users of the web in general and Blackboard in particular.  In addition to case-specific problem resolution support, we also do one-on-one faculty training for those faculty members not able to attend the planned workshops.  We have deployed a help desk software solution with job ticket tracking, user form input, and knowledge base features to better assist us in supporting Blackboard.  Eventually we will expand the help desk solution to all areas of support.

Web Servers and Services

• District Web Server and Sites.  We continue to administer the District’s primary web server (www.palomar.edu) and author and edit its primary web site, along with many hundreds of subsidiary web sites.  Palomar District web sites enjoy millions of visitors each year.

• Academic Web Sites.  We also maintain the server and server software that hosts nearly all of the academic web sites produced by Palomar faculty members. Our academic web sites also enjoy millions of visitors per year.
  
  
• Server Administration.  We have updated and patched all web servers and services to the latest versions of the Microsoft operating system and ancillary services.  We have had virtually no down time or interruption of web services in the last year except for power failures.

• Streaming Media and Media Servers.  We continue to maintain dedicated Windows media and Real media servers.  After a full year of waiting, we are still waiting for the IS department to configure their “new” SANS so that we can migrate Windows media data to the larger disk array.  Our 500GB Real server disk array is full, and we have made the decision to stop supporting Real media format in the coming year because of the unnecessary expense, since Windows media is supported on all platforms now.  Unfortunately, because of delays in the IS department we have not been able to discontinue the Real server, and will have to continue to support it for the redundancy it provides for older videos.  All new video is encoded in Windows media format only.

• Digital Web Video.  During the course of the last year we have encoded hundreds of new video titles for the web at faculty request.  Almost all are linked through the Blackboard system, in accordance with the TEACH Act of 2002.  We have officially completed our digitization of the entire ETV offering, and link the web videos through Blackboard where appropriate.  This year we deployed a software solution that prevents playing of non-public videos from Palomar Windows media servers from URLs outside the Palomar Blackboard system, thereby saving the District bandwidth resources and avoiding potential copyright liability.

• Web Advertising.  We continue to support a vigorous campaign of web advertisement for classes which are under-enrolled, or miss being placed in the printed class schedule.  We create colorful, eye-catching ads which we place on the main college web page, and link to promotional materials provided by faculty or staff.  We also often include web video as an aid in promoting classes and events.

• PCPDF.  We continue to support PCPDF, a web service which permits faculty and students to submit a document via a web form and receive it back in PDF format as an email attachment.  The service is located at http://www.palomar.edu/pcpdf and requires standard campus login.  With the advent of save as PDF from Word 2007 the need for PCPDF is lessened, but we will continue to support it for legacy and non-Word 2007 users.
  
  
• User Support for Web and Media Services.  We have answered thousands of inquiries related to web connectivity issues and technical issues related to playing media content over the web.  Questions have come from students, faculty and staff.  We have deployed a new help desk solution that will make submitting and answering these questions easier.

• Student Project Server.  We have completely redesigned the use of the student project server and it now works on a self-service basis.  Students and faculty now complete a web form requesting web space on the server.  Their space with correct account permissions is automatically set on the server and they can begin using it within 24 hours without staff intervention.

• ATRC Web Site.  We have relied heavily on the Academic Technology web site this year, continuing support for a weekly podcast and an RSS feed, a how-to and related training section, and a new newsletter.  We  have published 129 news items on the RSS feed, and have produced 64 episodes of the podcast.  For details, see http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/RSS/ATRCNews_Index.htm and http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/Pod/podindex.htm.  Each podcast has an elaborate program notes page associated with it, which is intended to be a valuable technology reference for our user base.  The audience for the podcast is at approximately 5000 listeners per month.  Significant training materials and links have also been added to the web site, along with lots of “what’s new” and r&d information.

• Newsletter.  Beginning in January 2007 we have issued a weekly Academic Technology electronic newsletter which parallels our podcast.  It has been very well received and has generated a lot of local comment.  It is managed by newsletter distribution software that we were able to purchase, install and administer on one of our departmental servers.  The circulation of the newsletter is approximately 3000 readers.  Through the podcast, blogs, web site and newsletter we are fulfilling our mission of bringing the latest in teaching and learning technology to our faculty members, staff and students.

• Respondus/Studymate.  We obtained, installed, and manage the deployment of Repondus and StudyMate for Palomar faculty members.  Respondus is a program that allows professors to create assessments within Word and upload them to their Blackboard courses.  It also allows searching and downloading of pre-created tests from publisher test banks, and importing/exporting assessments between learning management systems.  StudyMate is a simple editor which allows creation of 10 different Flash-based learning objects that can be published to the web or to a Blackboard course.  The web site, with its related training material, can be found at: http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/facultyservices/secure/Respondus/default.asp (login required).

• CPS Software Distribution.  To go along with the RF polling devices we have been circulating to faculty members, we created and maintain a CPS (classroom performance system) software distribution point where the polling software can be installed on any workstation with a Palomar college login.

• PCOnline.  We continue to author/edit the PCOnline web site, the gateway to Blackboard for online students.  We are in the process of redesigning it.  We have placed a great deal of training material there this semester aimed at faculty, including screen videos that we have created, explaining all the basic operations in Blackboard.  Please see the work at:  http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/facultyservices/. 

• Blogs.  We have created two blogs to 1) to demonstrate the educational uses of blogging, and 2) to inform those interested about technology at Palomar.  The traditional Academic Technology blog is at: http://atpalomar.blogspot.com/, and a video blog (or vlog) is at: http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/video_podcast/.  The video blog in particular has achieved national attention.

AT Computer Labs

• Lab Expansion.  We have expanded the large public lab on the ground floor of the San Marcos campus library by twelve computers this year, ten standard student workstations and two DSPS work stations with full ADA compatibility, including adjustable work bench and Kurzweil software.  We also replaced an additional 44 workstations that had gone out of warranty.  This brings the total publicly available workstations on the ground floor to 144.  We continue to schedule the two classroom labs for class meetings and use them as public access areas when not in use for classes.  The computers are occupied continuously and continue to be the only fully equipped, network accessible, continuously available public computers on campus.  A significant change this year has been the availability of the Office 2007 applications on all of our computers.  We continue to support the most current version of all general use software in the lab, such as media players, audio utilities, Microsoft and Adobe products, and academic tutorials.

• Wireless Mobile Lab.  In addition to the public labs and classroom labs, we continue to maintain a 30-computer mobile lab comprised of two carts with wireless access points which we were able to roll to classrooms on a reservation basis.  We maintained the reservation/delivery system for the mobile labs.

• Faculty Technology Center.  We have continued to maintain a faculty technology center, containing 2 specialized workstations with scanners, a video capture workstation, an audio production workstation and mixer board, and a projection control workstation.  Many small group meetings and workshops were held in the faculty technology center in addition to its acting as a resource to faculty.

• Lab Help Desk.  We maintained throughout the year a high quality student help desk in the computer lab, staffed by knowledgeable employees and student workers.  Thousands of individual help requests and calls were answered.

• Wireless Access Points in the Library.  The wireless access points in the library (4 of them, two on the first floor and one on each of the upper floors) were upgraded for greater coverage and more secure computing.

Training

• In-person Workshops.  We successfully completed our training workshops for the Fall and Spring delivering many classroom workshops and also providing TBA one-on-one, small group or departmental training.  Information on our training offerings and schedules can be found at http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/attraining.htm. For the first time we offered a completely online workshop this year on copyright issues.

• Blackboard Training Materials.  Many “Teaching with Blackboard” screen videos were created to assist faculty members with the use of Blackboard.  They may be found at: http://www.palomar.edu/pconline/facultyservices/.

• New Media.  We continue to use the new media to offer the best possible training materials to Palomar faculty members.  As mentioned above, we produce a weekly 1-hour podcast dedicated to technology news, Blackboard features, teaching with technology and general technology how-to information.  We also publish a blog and a vlog and support an email newsletter that does much the same.
  
  
• Training Program.  We have implemented access to lynda.com training videos on two workstations in the faculty technology center, and have subscribed to Lynda.com training for each staff member in our department.  In addition to mastering many new applications (including Windows Vista and Office 2007) we have participated in our own staff training by attending Blackboard World, the National Association of Broadcasters convention, and many focused workshops and seminars.

Hardware

• Digital Voice Recorders.  We have circulated approximately 25 digital voice recorders to faculty members so that they can audio record their lectures and other teaching materials and place them within Blackboard or on the web in general. We have ordered another group of WS-300 recorders, and will continue supporting this program.

• Tablet PCs.  We have a small number of tablet PCs which we have circulated to faculty members this semester so that they can make screen videos and other teaching materials.  We have also provided training on their use to those interested.

• Clickers.  We have circulated to all interested faculty, and provided training for, a set of 64 radio frequency (rf) polling devices this year, commonly known as “clickers.”

• Computing Peripherals.  We continue to evaluate and recommend hardware products related to teaching and learning, and have expanded our page on hardware items at:  http://www.palomar.edu/atrc/athardware.htm. 

 Physical Education

Staffing Additions

• Added new adjunct instructors in Spring 2007 to help instruct a number of added sections, and in anticipation of Teri McFarland’s retirement.

Curriculum Expansion

• Continued to add new sections related to fitness and conditioning for the academic year.  These additions allowed us to grow significantly. 

• First time offerings of the HE 100 Lab concept and separate Health 100 lecture.  This allows additional lecture time to expand our academic material to an ever growing curriculum.  It will also allow students the flexibility to utilize our fitness facilities in a self-paced but structured format.  This new format proved beneficial for the student as well as our WSCH in Health of 798, an all-time high.
  
  
• First time offerings of our new PE 204 Off Season Sports Conditioning, and the renaming of PE 205 from In/Off Season, to reflect In Season Sports Conditioning.
  
  
• Reactivation of the PE 103, Evaluative Fitness, to be offered in Spring 2008.
  
  
• Approved to offer Health 100 as an online class.  This will allow even more flexibility for our students.  Online instruction will commence Fall 2007 semester.

Faculty Accomplishments

• This year many of our faculty members were honored with awards:  Joe Early, Mission Conference Co-Coach of the Year for Football; Ronnie Mancao, Pacific Coast Conference Coach of the Year for Tennis; Scia Maumausolo, Pacific Coast Conference Coach of the Year for Softball; and Carlos Hernandez, Pacific Coast Conference Coach of the Year for Soccer.
   
• Mike Burgener is the Instructor of our strength/conditioning courses PE 204 and PE 205.  In Fall 2006, Mr. Burgener served as the World Games Head Coach of the United States Weight Training Team.  He is also a member of the USA Olympic Weight Training Team Staff.
  
  
• A team of Health 100 instructors worked with book publisher, McGraw-Hill in the creation of the textbook, “Core Concepts in Health” customization, to be implemented for the first time in Fall 2007.  This customization will provide Palomar College specific details, as well as generate revenue for the department.
  
  
• Spring 2007 saw 5 adjunct faculty members become qualified to teach in all areas in Physical Education and Health Education, due to their accomplishments in completing their Master’s Degree in Physical Education.
  
  
• In May 2007, retired Head Baseball Coach Bob Vetter was inducted into the California Community Colleges Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame for 24 years of dedication and services to student athletes.

Facility Accomplishments

• Strength Facility- Continued to upgrade and improve the weight training facility.  Purchased and approved the replacement of acrylic mirrors to extend the product life span within this facility.
  
  
• Wellness Fitness Center- Continued to improve and upgrade this facility.  With the financial assistance of Instruction funds, we were able to add 3 new treadmills, 2 stationary bikes, 2 rowing machines and 6 new weight machines.  These new additions were vital in keeping up the growing need of this facility because of the significant increase in use due to the new Health 100/100L format.  We are constantly trying to upgrade and maintain current trends in fitness equipment.
  
  
• For the first time, classes were held on the new synthetic turf soccer field.  The new field showed 2 positive findings:  1.  PE class enrollment numbers increased due to high quality facility.  2.  Ability to offer more sections of soccer-related classes due to the fact that this field is now a stand-alone facility.
  
  
• Approval and purchase of testing apparatus for the new PE 103, Evaluative Fitness.  In addition to fulfilling some of the supply needs for this reactivated class, these items will also help develop the foundation of a fitness testing lab for our Health labs and projected Pre-Kinesiology program. 
  
  
• Continue with required field maintenance.  This year included laser leveling of both the softball and baseball fields, and resurfacing of the Dome flooring.
  
  
• Approval of and moving forward in the first phase to re-locate baseball field, after 10 years of planning. 
  
  

Child Development Center

• In our annual parent survey of all parents at both Centers, 99+% of were satisfied and very satisfied with the quality of service we provide for their children.

• Again this coming year, we did not need to implement a parent fee increase.

• The Center increased fiscal stability by providing & preparing breakfast and snack foods ourselves.

• With grants, the interior of the Escondido Child Development Center is being repainted.

• With grants, we replaced a lawn area at the Escondido Child Development Center with artificial turf, eliminating lawn care and watering.

• With grants and the expertise of Facilities, we replaced an aging 3-sink counter that required children to use stools, with 2 stainless 4-faucet sinks that the children can reach without stools.

• With the help of Keenan & Associates, our playgrounds were inspected by a Certified Playground Inspector and a plan has been developed for some changes.

Behavioral Sciences Department

Faculty Awards/Recognition

• Dr. Zachary Seech, Professor of Philosophy, taught in the Spring 2007 Study Abroad program in Salamanca, Spain.
   
• Dr. Roger Morrissette, Associate Professor of Psychology, gave the 2007 Commencement address. 
  
• Jim Eighmey, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, will begin as a new full-time professor, August, 2007.
  
• Dr. Craig Forney, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, will begin as a new full-time professor, August, 2007.

 Faculty Publications/Presentations

• Dr. Kathy Grove, Assistant Professor of Sociology, wrote a successful NCHEA mini-grant to bring together scholars from Palomar, CSUSM, and Mira Costa to discuss "Developing a Service Learning Program at Palomar College.” At the 2006 Faculty Plenary she presented a workshop on "Teaching Social Class" at the Campus Explorations series on Work and Poverty, she presented “Is Inequality Bad For Your Health?” and for Political Economy Days she presented “What’s in it for me? Charity, Activism and Social Justice.” She has also reviewed for the Sociology of Teaching Journal and Pine Forge Press.
  
  
• Ryan Emerick, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, presented “Contradictions of a Rational Society” and “What’s In It For Me? Charity, Activism and Social Justice” for Political Economy Days.
  
  
• Dr. Susan Miller, Associate Professor of Sociology, presented a workshop on “Teaching Social Class” at the 2006 Faculty Plenary.
  
  
• Judy Wilson, Assistant Professor of Psychology, presented at the Campus Explorations series on Work and Poverty, “Gendered Career Paths: How Traditional Gender Roles Influence Career Planning.”
  
  
• William Leslie, Part-time Professor of Philosophy, presented at the Campus Explorations series on Work and Poverty, “Introduction to the film, “The Girl in the Café.”
  
  
• Jackie Winter and Time Cain, Part-time Professors of Religious Studies, presented at the Campus Explorations series on Work & Poverty on “Themes in Religious Studies.”
  
  
• Karen Huffman, Professor of Psychology, has authored the 8^th edition of her introductory Psychology textbook, Psychology in Action.
  
  
• Stephanie Empey, Part-time Professor of Philosophy, presented at the Campus Explorations series on Work & Poverty on “Motherhood & Poverty: Reflections on the Good Life.”
  
  
• Marilyn Johnson-Kozlow, Part-time Professor of Psychology, presented the results of her research in Princeton, NJ and Orlando, FL concerning the effect of acculturation among Latinos on health disparities under her grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  She had a manuscript published in the American Journal of Health Behavior concerning the measurement of physical activity among women diagnosed with breast cancer.
  
  
• Dr. Philip deBarros, Professor of Anthropology, presented a paper on the Palomar College Archaeology Program at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. He also presented for Political Economy Days on “Redistributive Societies: You Get What You Pay For: Are You Willing to Pay the Price?  He plans to conduct archaeological research in Togo, West Africa, in the Spring of 2008, with funds from a Wenner-Gren Anthropology Foundation Grant.
  
  

Archaeology Program Student Success Stories

• Adolph Muniz (1996) successfully defended his Ph.D. in Anthropology/Archaeology at UCSD.
• Jessica Beckett (1998) just completed her Ph.D. in Osteology at Cambridge University
• Trisha Drennan (1999), after obtaining her M.A. in GIS and Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton, England, successfully landed a Principal Investigator job in archaeology in Hawaii.
• Shannon Davis (1999) completed her M.A. in Historic Preservation and will soon be hired as Director of a Science and Archaeology Education Program for an Indian Reservation in the mid-West
• Shelby Gunderman has been successfully admitted to the M.A. Program in Archaeology at San Diego State University
• Lucas Piek (2004) works full-time for Gallegos and Associates in Carlsbad, a cultural resource management firm.
• Koji Tsunoda (2004) has completed his M.A. in Archaeology at San Diego State University
• Jeff Sahagun (2004) has completed his B.A. in Anthropology/Archaeology at California State San Bernardino and now working on his M.A. Degree
• Mark Boyle (2004) has completed his B.A. in Anthropology/Archaeology at the University of New Mexico
• Briana Caldwell (2004) obtained an A.A. Degree in Archaeology at Palomar and now works full-time for SWCA in cultural resource management while she works on her B.A. Degree in Anthropology at Arizona State University.
• Andrea Mitchell and Deborah Farris (2004) have both completed their B.A. degrees in Anthropology/Archaeology at San Diego State University
• Nick Doose (2005), after completing Certificates in Archaeology and GIS, works full-time for Gallegos and Associates in Carlsbad, and is their chief GIS person.
• Kathleen Dickey (2006) has done a very important research study of the San Pasqual Valley in the vicinity of the battlefield and Indian cemetery, and her work has been recommended to be converted into a Master’s Thesis.
• Tim Wolfe (2006) obtained a year-long internship with the Cleveland National Forest in archaeology/cultural resource management
• Shelby Gunderman and Tanya Duer (2006) have both successfully obtained 3-5 month paid internships in Historical Archaeology at George Washington’s childhood home at Ferris Farm, Virginia.
• Rob’yn Johnston (2006), after completing courses for certificate programs in Archaeology and GIS at Palomar College has been hired by the City of San Marcos to work in its GIS department

Tutorial Services

During the fiscal year 2006/2007 Tutorial Services continued restructuring to integrate services into instructional programs in a wide range of disciplines and levels. The long-term practical objective of Tutorial Services is to develop a fully staffed Tutoring Center that provides a wide range of formal and informal educational opportunities for learners, including one-on-one tutoring, group tutoring, study skills seminars, supplemental instruction, and internet tutoring

Reflecting Palomar’s strength in cross-disciplinary participation, several intercollegiate educational partnerships are in place and continue to thrive. We provide services to the following departments: EOPS, TRIO, VATEA, and Athletics. Development of new programs of this type is clearly of considerable interest to the academic units on campus. Critical factors in the success of such programs are the availability of committed tutors and sufficient student interest.  Barriers to initiating such programs seem to be only modest.  Palomar not only encourages these educational ventures, but also strategic planning proposals are forming for the upcoming years. The continuing attention of existing academic units seems sufficient to identify opportunities.

Number of tutors: 21

3 students took advantage of our Tutor Training Class

 

Proctoring Services

Multicultural Studies Department

• John Valdez was reelected Chair of MCS in 2007. John's leadership is vital to the success and accomplishments of our Department.

• MCS is offering a record number of online courses: seven classes are taught online.

• A set of new courses have been approved and are now being offered: Latino Films, Latina Influence in the US, Middle Eastern Cultures, and the Asian-American Experience.

• Professor Valdez and Part-time Professor von Son will be Key Note Speakers for the Encuentros Summer Academy 2007.

• Valdez presented a paper for the second time at the prestigious Oxford Roundtable in Oxford England.

• Professor von Son was a panelist at the conference Unity in Diversity: Work and Poverty on April 19, 2007.   In addition Professor von Son published a play in an anthology of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, presented a paper on Barbara Colio at the Book Fair in Tijuana, BCN in June 2007, and collaborated with world known artist David Avalos in the exhibition My Hidden Heart at the Museum of the Center for the Arts in Escondido.  Also Professor von Son presented  (a motivational speech) for the Encuentro's Academy in June.

• Silverio Haro has done vital work through the partnership with CSUSM (Summer Bridge) for student recruitment.

• Part-time Professor von Son was awarded Palomar College’s 2007 Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching.

• MCS established a Community Partnership with UCSD through Dr. Olga Vasquez. The partnership will serve underserved ethnic students from elementary schools.

• MCS consolidated and expanded its partnership with the Latino Film Festival of San Diego.

• MCS continues the work of Retired Professor José Rangel on the Día de los Muertos. MCS hosted a month-long exhibition at the Library and created a website that received over 2,000 hits since Fall 2006.

• MCS Department collaborated with the ASSIST program in a fund raising event this past August in Vista. The program raised money to help under-represented students from the CAMP program to help with scholarships and the purchase of academic books.

• he Forum on Immigration organized by MCS through Sharon Allen and Carlos von Son was very successful and opened the doors for dialogue in September 2006.

• Professor Sharon Allen presented Encuentro's Academy summer session where she presented to the summer class a topic on the need for ethnic tolerance in our society

• A Cuernavaca Study Abroad Program through MCS was approved. 

• MEChA Toys Drive continued the yearly tradition and again delivered hundreds of toys to families in need.

• MCS organized a very successful Multilingual Multiethnic Poetry Festival.

• MCS hosted the World Premier of Border Peace / Pieza Fronteriza.

• MCS and MEChA organized a Multicultural Carnival, the Cesar Chavez Celebration and the 5 de Mayo celebrations.

• The Multicultural Studies Department at Palomar College and Alta Vista High School in Vista have developed a partnership to recruit and retain high school students at Palomar College.  The idea is to help students learn how to apply, enroll, and succeed in class while they still have a network of support at the high school.  This last spring semester, several students in Alta’s ELD level 1-2 class enrolled in Carlos von Son’s classes and successfully completed them.  These classes included contemporary Mexican Literature and advanced Spanish.  Part-time Professor von Son has become a mentor and advocate for our continuation high school students, and he has also visited our campus to speak to the students and motivate them to enroll at Palomar.  These students have never typically considered attending college, and most of them are the first in their families to ste