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Registration and Breakfast: 8:00 - 8:50 a.m.

Welcoming Remarks: 8:50 - 9:00 a.m.

Sharon V. Salinger arrived at UC Irvine as Dean of the Division of Undergraduate Education in July 2005. She came to Irvine from UC Riverside, where she held a number of administrative positions—associate dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, interim director of the Center for Ideas and Society, and chair of the Department of History. At UC Riverside, she received the campuses distinguished teaching award. Salinger holds a professorship in the history department. Her research and teaching specialties focus on early American cultural and social history. In addition to an edited volume and numerous articles, she has authored two books, To Serve Well and Faithfully (Cambridge University Press) and Taverns and Drinking in Early America (Johns Hopkins University Press).  Currently, she is working with Cornelia Dayton on a book-length study of warning out in eighteenth-century Boston, a colonial legal practice designed to identify non residents of New England towns.

Frances Leslie is a Professor of Pharmacology and Anatomy & Neurobiology at UCI. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1977 after participating in landmark studies on the identification and mechanism of action of enkephalin, the first endorphin to be discovered. Since coming to UCI in 1981, Leslie has expanded her research focus to other addictive drugs and is particularly interested in their effects on the developing brain. As Associate Dean for the Graduate Division, Leslie will help plan a new graduate student and postdoctoral scholars center, assist in developing implementation strategies for the campus plan for the growth and enhancement of graduate programs on the UCI campus, and work to provide greater support for postdoctoral fellows.

Civic Engagement in Graduate Education: 9:00 - 10:30 A.M.

Judy Bauerlein is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at California State San Marcos where she teaches classes in Solo Performance, Acting technique, Theatre History and Literary Criticism. She has a deep dedication to innovative and imaginative theater practice as well as community activism. She was the founding director of Nuestra Voz, a creative writing and performance outreach program that partners UCSB undergraduates with local teenagers. She is a Woodrow Wilson Humanities Fellow and is the recipient of numerous awards including: a California State University Professional Development Grant (2007), an Interdisciplinary Humanities Grant (2006), a University of California Research in the Arts Grant (2005), the UCSB Women¹s Center Abrams Prize (2003-2005), and a Santa Barbara Independent Award for her solo performance Swimmer.

Oiyan A. Poon is a Ph.D. Candidate at UCLA in Race & Ethnic Studies in Education with a concentration in Asian American Studies. She is a Graduate Assistant to the UC AAPI Policy Multi-campus Research Program, which serves as a bridge linking UC researchers to community organizations, the media, and elected officials and their staff. Most recently she served as President of the UC Student Association, which represents all UC students to the UC Regents and State government. Her research interests include Critical Race Theory, Asian American Education and Policy, and Critical Pedagogy in Asian American communities.

Margie Brown-Coronel was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. After completing high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Margie attended the University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, she majored in History with an emphasis in Ethnic Studies and dedicated her time to student organizing and serving the Chicana/Latina community. After graduating, she worked as a college counselor and case manager in social and educational non-profits in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Margie entered the PhD program in History at UC Irvine to work with historian, Vicki Ruiz, and to study Chicana/Latina history. Margie worked for two years with the Humanities Out There Program and contributed thematic and topical entries to Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (ed. Vicki Ruiz and Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, published by Indiana University Press). Margie is a Ford Foundation fellow and is currently working on her dissertation “Beyond the Rancho: the del Valle family, gender, intimacies, and culture in Southern California, 1840-1940.”

Jesse Díaz is currently a PhD Student in Sociology at the University of California, Riverside, with interests in race and class inequality, immigration and crime, and the immigrant rights movement. He has presented at many conferences on issues of mental health among day laborers and Chicano gang members, and is a firm advocate of the union between engagement and academic study. He is one of the founders of the March 25th Coalition, a Los Angeles-based Immigrant Rights Organization and originator of the “Gran Paro Americano 2006.” Currently he is the political action advisor for La Hermandad Mexicana Transnacional, and is organizing a national mobilization to Washington DC while working on his dissertation, an analysis of the immigrant rights movement from 1968 to the present.

James is the Coordinator for UCI's Student Affairs Graduate Student First Year Initiative a new program designed to help provide transitional support for new Ph.D.'s and MFA's. James has worked in student affairs administration for 11 years in the area of developing and evaluating academic living-learning programs. The last four years his interest and work has begun to focus around the moral and civic development of college students, most recently looking at graduate student civic engagement and community-based scholarship. He received his Masters in Higher Education Administration from the University of Kansas.

Engaged Scholarship and Faculty Development: 10:45 - 12:15 PM

Jose Zapata Calderon is a Professor in Sociology and Chicano Studies at Pitzer College. The California Campus Compact has honored him with the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education. Between 2004 and 2006, he was the inaugural holder of the Michi and Walter Weglyn Chair in Multicultural Studies at Cal Poly University, Pomona. The United Farm Worker's Union has honored him with their "Si Se Puede" award for his life-long contributions to the farm worker movement. Recent publications include an edited book: Race, Poverty, and Social Justice: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Through Service Learning, Stylus Publishing, 2007; an article in the edited book, "Linking Critical Democratic Pedagogy, Multiculturalism, and Service Learning to a Project-Based Approach" (co-authored with Gilbert Cadena; Organizing Immigrant Workers: Action Research and Strategies in the Pomona Day Labor Center" (with Suzanne Foster and Silvia Rodriguez), in Latino Los Angeles, (edited by Enrique C. Ochoa and Gilda Laura Ochoa), 2006; Lessons From an Activist Intellectual: Participatory Research, Teaching, and Learning For Social Change," in Latin American Perspectives, January, 2004; "Inclusion or Exclusion: One Immigrant's Experience and Perspective of a Multicultural Society," in Minority Voices, edited by John Meyers, Allyn and Bacon, 2004; "Partnership in Teaching and Learning: Combining the Practice of Critical Pedagogy With Civic Engagement and Diversity," in Peer Review, American Association of Colleges and Universities, Spring, 2003.

Dr. Dawn R. Person's professional career has centered on preparing reflective scholar practitioners to be effective educators, counselors, and administrators in college and university settings. Her teaching, research, and professional association efforts focus on student success and engaging in program evaluation to improve programs and services for student engagement at the post-secondary level, especially educational issues specific to underrepresented populations. Prior to joining the faculty at CSUF, Dr. Person taught at California State University, Long Beach. She has also worked as a college administrator specializing in student affairs and academic support services. Dr. Person has published in the areas of student retention issues, the application of theory to practice in designing programs and services to support student success, and student cultures in higher educational settings. She serves as a consultant on organizational change, mid-level managers in higher educational settings, and data-driven program improvement through program evaluation.

Professor Douglas Haynes is a historian of modern Britain with a research specialty in the history of medicine and allied sciences. His extensive published scholarship and on-going research is chiefly concerned with the development of the modern medical profession in relation to racial and gender politics, the origins and persistence of bio-medical disparities in the developing world, and the meaning and representation of disease and illness in the mass media. Since 2006 he has directed the UCI ADVANCE Program for Faculty Diversity and Equity. In this role he also oversees the five UC campus Partnership for Equity and Diversity that is funded through a National Science Foundation grant awarded to UCI and co-investigators at Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego and Santa Barbara.

Paul Ong is a professor at UCLA's School of Public Affairs and Asian American Studies. He has a professional degree in urban planning and a doctorate in economics. His research focuses on the economic status of disadvantaged populations, and he has been engaged in community-oriented courses for over two decades.

Professor Woods earned his PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA and has taught at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Maryland His research focuses on the regional construction of poverty, power, race, and culture in the United States. His first book, Development Arrested examined these relationships in the rural Mississippi Delta and his upcoming study will address the role these social forces played in the construction of Black Los Angeles, from 1781 to the present. He is also engaged in a variety of projects associated with the reconstruction of New Orleans. Another research area focuses on the philosophical and analytic contributions of Blues, Jazz, and Hip Hop. As part of this work, he recently co-edited Black Geographies and the Politics of Place.

Dr. Linda Trinh Vo is Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC San Diego and is a UCI Chancellor's Fellow (2006-2009). Dr. Võ is the author of a book, Mobilizing an Asian American Community and the co-editor of three books. She is also a board member of the Southeast Asian Archive at UC Irvine; the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance; the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival; Project Motivate, a mentoring program for academically at-risk Vietnamese Americans; and an Advisory Member of the Demographic Research Project for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center.

Institutionalizing Civic Engagement: 1:45 - 3:15 P.M.

Tim Stanton is Visiting Senior Fellow at the John Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities in the School of Education at Stanford University, where he is establishing a research program focused on university-assisted community development initiatives in the US and South Africa. Prior to joining the Gardner Center he founded and directed the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service at Stanford’s School of Medicine, which involves medical students in community health-focused service-learning and community partnership research. He helped found and served as Associate Director and Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford from 1985-1999. In 2006 Stanton designed and served as faculty leader of the first Stanford Overseas Studies academic program in Cape Town, South Africa, which featured service-learning and participatory community health assessment research in three townships. Tim leads a national project on community engagement and research universities as Engaged Scholar for Campus Compact, a national coalition of 1,000 college and university presidents dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education. As Special Consultant for California Campus Compact (CACC) he leads a state-wide project focused on graduate study and civic engagement. He has published numerous articles on service-learning and engaged scholarship, and a book, Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future. For CACC he and Jon Wagner (UC Davis) authored Educating for Democratic Citizenship: Renewing the Civic Mission of Graduate and Professional Education at Research Universities.

Alexis Moreno is Assistant Director at the Center for Community Based Learning (CCBL) at Occidental College, a highly selective liberal arts college located in Northeast Los Angeles. Prior to joining CCBL, Alexis was program director at the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research where she directed a multi-year community history project in South Los Angeles. While at the Library, Alexis also co-created a research project for students in Professor Regina Freer's Los Angeles Politics course, one of Occidental's first community-based learning classes. A lifelong resident of Los Angeles, Alexis holds an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA and served as President of the East Los Angeles Area Planning Commission. She contributes the skills she honed working on community development in a variety of educational, professional and community settings to CCBL's community organizing model of civic engagement. Alexis' capacity to work effectively within and across different cultures is a result of her diverse professional experience, and is informed by her perspective as a first-generation college student (at Occidental) and long-time community member in Northeast Los Angeles.

Kathy O'Byrne is the Director of the UCLA Center for Community Learning, the undergraduate curricular arm of the Chancellor's "UCLA in LA" Initiative. Dr. O'Byrne chairs the Faculty Advisory Committee for the undergraduate minor in Civic Engagement. She provides ongoing training and consultation for faculty and students; she also creates and maintains community partnerships for service learning courses, internships and community based research. Her recent publications include a co-authored chapter on engaged departments and she is co-editor of a recent special issue of Metropolitan Universities on "Civic Engagement and Research Universities". In 2004, California Campus Compact presented her with the Richard E. Cone Award for Excellence and Leadership in Cultivating Community Partnerships in Higher Education. She earned her bachelor's degree from Vassar College, a master's degree from Arizona State and her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Pescador is a founding Research Associate of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies’ Paulo Freire Institute. Over the last decade, Dr. Pescador has taught social science and service learning courses in domestic and international institutions. A strong immigrant advocate since the early 1990s, Dr. Pescador has served as academic advisor for multiple organizations including Academia Semillas del Pueblo, Chicano Youth Leadership Conferences, Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California, Larchmont Charter School, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Jeannie Kim-Han is Director of the Center for Internships & Service-Learning (CISL), and brings a successful record of working to build an infrastructure that supports both the curriculum development and community partnerships necessary to infuse experiential learning into the academic experience of students through both service-learning pedagogy and internships. Ms. Kim-Han has over 21 years experience in building and developing programs and recruiting and managing volunteers as well as training faculty members in service-learning pedagogy, particularly in relation to connecting with and meeting community identified needs.

Kristen Day is Professor in the Department of Planning, Policy, and Design. Her research and teaching interests explore diverse populations and equity issues in urban environments. Kristen is Executive Director of the UCI Community Outreach Partnership Center, and has a special interest in community partnerships. Kristen is also a 2007-08 American Council on Education fellow.

Community Collaborations, Curricular Innovations and Policy-Based Research: 3:30 - 5:00 P.M.

Dr. Stephanie Reyes-Tuccio is the Director of UCI’s Center for Educational Partnerships. From 2001-2006 she was the Director of the UCI History Project, partnering the UCI History Department with local K-12 districts in numerous state, federal and private grants. Prior to her tenure as site director, Dr. Reyes Tuccio taught History, Women’s Studies, and Chicano Latino Studies at UCI. She is an Executive Board Member of the California Council for History Education.

Since 2000, Elaine K. Ikeda has served as the Executive Director of California Campus Compact (a statewide coalition of 57 college and university presidents committed to helping students develop the values and skills of civic participation through involvement in service). After receiving her doctorate in higher education from UCLA in 1999, Elaine served as the Director of the UCLA Service Learning Clearinghouse Project. Elaine has worked in higher education for more than 18 years. She has co-authored several journal articles and book chapters on service-learning and student development. Elaine has organized numerous conferences and forums addressing the civic mission of education (for higher education and K-12), service learning and civic engagement. Recently, Elaine was awarded the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Service Learning and Experiential Education Award (2004) – for work and research in the area of Service Learning and Experiential Education. She hold’s a Master’s degree in Public Health and has worked for public and not-for-profit community health agencies.

J.D. Hokoyama is the President & CEO and a founding board member of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP). A former Peace Corps volunteer serving in Ethiopia, he has been a high school English teacher and department chair, a K-8 elementary school principal, an executive vice president for fund development and public affairs, the acting national director of the Japanese American Citizens League and the director of the Office of Asian Pacific American Students Services at the University of Southern California. He speaks and trains nationally in all sectors on topics such as becoming a 21st century leader, understanding cultural values, risk taking and breaking the glass ceiling. Mr. Hokoyama holds a BA in English, a secondary teaching credential and a M.Ed. in Educational Administration from Loyola Marymount University. He serves on the boards of both Asian American and Pacific Islander and mainstream organizations locally and nationally.

Leah Ersoylu, Ph.D., is a past Director of Policy at Latino Health Access and founder of Ersoylu Consulting, an independent consulting agency dedicated to advocacy planning and policy research. Leah holds a B.S. in Resource Economics from University of New Hampshire and a Ph.D. in Political Science, with a focus on public policy, from University of California Irvine. Her dissertation research examined the extent to which government-created mechanisms hinder or foster low-income and minority participation in various levels of public policymaking. She is a policy analyst and researcher by training with experience in grassroots advocacy in an array of social policy issues.

Victor Becerra is the Director of the Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) at the University of California, Irvine. Located in the School of Social Ecology, COPC builds bridges between UCI and communities in Orange County by leveraging the resources at UCI to develop effective partnerships which advance the community building capacities of local organizations. Victor has worked in higher education administration for over 25 years. His current interests and work include increasing civic engagement work into graduate education, and learning more about how to strengthen and sustain university/community partnerships. He did his undergraduate work at UC Santa Barbara where he majored in Sociology and received his Master of Arts degree from UCLA in Urban and Regional Planning with an emphasis in Social Policy and Community Development.