Please join us in supporting the Cal Poly Pomona
Academy for Literacy Through the Arts
July 25 – Smooth Touch
70’s, 80’s, & 90’s Dance Music
August 8th – The Answer
Classic Rock & Roll
100% of the Ticket Sales will Benefit the Academy
The Academy for Literacy through the Arts provides an extensive four-week summer arts program for children and youth at the Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center as well as free monthly Family Fun Days. The Academy uses the arts as a vehicle to improve students’ writing abilities, cognitive thinking and communication skills.
Tickets
Tickets are $55, which includes a Catered Dinner by Walter’s of Claremont,
Concert & Parking at the Estate of Herb and Kay Hafif
The festivities start at 5:30 pm
$35 of your ticket price is tax deductible
The College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences is launching a new series of videos featuring short profile videos on Faculty members. We kick off the series with Dr. Anne B. Simpson. Take a look!
Higher Resolution Download Available: Quicktime Movie (.MOV)
To Download: Right Click the link and select “Save Link As” [or something similar depending on your computer system]
Additional Notes: This is the first of many videos to be released by C.L.A.S.S… and there are some obvious yet minor video quality issues that will be resolved very soon. Thank you.
A Message From Afghanistan, Dr. Liam Corley
Dr. Liam Corley, a Faculty Member at Cal Poly – Pomona and a Lieutenant in the Navy reserves, serving with ISAF forces, welcomes new service members to his school.
Call for Nominations – 2009 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning
Call for Nominations
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 CLASS Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching and Learning. The purpose of the award is to honor the activities of tenure and tenure track faculty in the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences (CLASS) that foster student learning and thus advance the mission of the college and university.
Nominations may be made by CLASS students, or faculty using the on-line submission form available below and must be received no later than Friday, May 22, 2009.
The CLASS Learning & Teaching Committee will coordinate the formation of the Selection Committee, consisting of one faculty member from the arts, humanities and social sciences, respectively and at least one student. Nominees will be asked to provide follow-up information. The committee will review and evaluate all nominations and provide a ranked list of the top three candidates with written justification to the Dean by June 5, 2009.
The recipient of this award will be will be presented during the 2009 Fall Conference and will include an honorarium.
Nomination Criteria & Evidence
A broad array of teaching and learning activities may be recognized and may involve all aspects of teaching and learning, including, but not limited to:
Classroom teaching
Curriculum development and course design
Use of technology in teaching and learning
Incorporation of service learning
Integration of research into the learning process
Scholarship of teaching
Leadership in the promotion of educational excellence.
Once the nomination is received, the nominee will be asked to provide:
A current curriculum vitae
A letter of support from the department chair
Copies of the summaries of student evaluation forms for all courses taught during the last academic year.
If you have questions or comments please contact the CLASS Deans office at 909-869-3500. Thank you.
Free Master Class with Grammy Award Winner Daniel Ho
Grammy Award winning musician, song writer and producer, Daniel Ho, to present a master class for Cal Poly Pomona’s Music Industry Studies program on Thursday, April 30, 2009 from 1:00-3:00pm in the Music Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
You are cordially invited to meet Dr. Carol Richardson, Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at a special reception for members of
C.L.A.S.S. Council. Welcome and meet the new Dean of your college!
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009, 4:30-6:00 p.m
CLASS Dean’s Conference Room (Building #5-143B)
(Hosted by the Dean’s Office and CLASS Council)
Each year, the Center for Community Service-Learning recognizes and honors one Cal Poly Pomona faculty for contributing to the integration of community service-learning into the curriculum, for developing meaningful interactive civic engagement opportunities, and for his/her efforts to institutionalize community service-learning at Cal Poly Pomona. This year, Professor Bernardo Solano of the Theatre department has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Faculty Award for Excellence in Community Engagement.
Professor Solano has sustained a six-year partnership with the Pomona Unified School District through his Pomona Peer Theatre program. He has had a lasting impact on both the youth of Pomona and the students of the Cal Poly Pomona campus. This program is a three-quarter course sequence that creates the opportunity for CPP students and Pomona high school students to co-create plays that deal with secondary school student issues. Professor Solano meets with both groups twice a week, providing guidance on acting, directing and story development. Professor Solano has formalized this partnership through the creation of the TH 425 Community Based Theatre course. Students enrolled in his class are connected to various community organizations and create performances based on their experiences. Solano also spearheaded the Theatre for Education and Community option in the department which is unique in the California State University System.
Solano is a nationally recognized leader in Community Based Theatre, and an associate artist with the award-winning Cornerstone Theatre Company. Community Based synthesizes community voice and theatre by engaging communities in dialogue which then becomes the content for the performance. The interactions between the members of the theatre company and the community residents build transformative relationships.
With an international reputation to add to his repertoire, Professor Solano has authored and directed a play series with the University of Zimbabwe’s Theatre department. Through Community Based Theatre techniques, Professor Solano gathered the interviews of Pomona bus riders and their knowledge of Zimbabwe. The production was entitled “The Bus Stop Journals, Pomona.”
You are invited…
Professor Solano is being honored at the 4th Annual Campus-Community Mixer on Tuesday, April 21st from 4pm to 6pm in the Ursa Major Room of the Bronco Student Center. The event is free and all are invited to attend open to all. Please RSVP to (909) 869-4269 or clgonzalez@csupomona.edu.
FREE & FUN Monday Movie Night
Join the MUSIC Department for a FREE and FUN event every Monday night at the movies!
This month is the MUSIC ON FILM SERIES. All showings are FREE at 8:00pm in the Music Recital Hall (tickets not needed)
Calendar of Showings:
Monday, April 13, 2009 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Directed by Jacques Demy
Music by Michel Legrand
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Academy Awards nominated for Best Foriegn Language Film.
The doomed love story of Genevieve (Catherine Deneuve) and Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), told entirely in song.
Monday, April 20, 2009 Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Written and directed by Woody Allen
The story of Emmett Ray (Sean Penn), the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world.
With Uma Thurman, Anthony LaPaglia and Samantha Morton.
Monday, April 27, 2009 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Directed by Joel Coen
Written by Ethan Coen
The story of three escaped convicts
(George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) from a chain-gang in the Depression-era South.
Loosely based on Homer’s “Odyssey.” The soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
2009 CLASS Alumni Chapter Endowed Scholarship
$1000.00 AWARD!
$ 500.00 AWARD!
To be presented to two undergraduate students currently enrolled in the COLLEGE OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The purpose of these awards is to assist an outstanding student to complete her/his degree. The requirements are as follows:
Must have attained sophomore status by the end of the winter quarter, 2009
Must be a full time undergraduate student.
Must be anticipating graduation by June 2010.
Must have a minimum 3.00 GPA overall.
DEADLINE FOR TYPED APPLICATION TO DEPARTMENT OFFICES: April 10, 2009
or
DEADLINE TO LISA NASHUA, C.L.A.S.S. DEAN’S OFFICE: April 17, 2009
Finalists may be interviewed
Application available in all CLASS Department Offices or download online:
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 Outstanding Advisor of CLASS. Nominations may be made by CLASS students, faculty and staff using the nomination form provided or by letter. An on-line submission form is available below.
The College’s Outstanding Advisor carries the mace at graduation, is recognized during the ceremony, and will receive a $500 honorarium.
Nominations should be submitted to the Dean’s Office by Friday, March 13, 2009. The College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences Advisory Committee will review and evaluate all nominations and submit its candidate to Academic Programs by March 20, 2009.
Outstanding Advisor Nomination Criteria
The Advisory Committee will evaluate nominations on the evidence of effective advising qualities and practices that distinguish the nominee as an outstanding academic advisor. Such evidence may include, but is not limited to, the following:
Demonstration of a caring attitude toward advisees
Advisee evaluations (summary data encouraged)
Effective interpersonal skills
Availability to advisees
Frequency of contact with advisees
Seeking out advisees in informal settings
Exhibits behavior designed to build a strong relationship with advisees
Monitoring of student progress toward academic and career goals
Mastery of institutional regulations, policies, and procedures
Use of appropriate information resources
Appropriate referral activity
Ability to engage in developmental advising (career and life planning) versus simply course scheduling
Attendance at, and support of, advisor development program
Perception by colleagues of nominee’s advising skills
Evidence of student success rate
Institutional recognition of nominee for outstanding advising
