1. MISSION

The 1994-95 academic year for MAS was characterized by loss and continued achievement. The department temporarily lost its secretary, Laurel Dyke, to a life-threatening illness. During the Spring semester we experienced the loss of spouses of two faculty members. Both, Robert Butler and Mary Ann Griswold, were friends and supporters of MAS. Their presence and support will be missed in the years to come.

In spite of these tragedies, MAS, during the 1994-95 academic year, continued to pursue its mission. The mission of MAS is threefold:

1) to provide comprehensive, well-balanced, high-quality education for undergraduate and graduate students and the community at large regarding the diverse Chicano/Latino population and the dynamic U.S.-Mexico border region;

2) to contribute to the development of the disciplines of Chicano Studies and Border Studies through contributions of original scholarship and pedagogical and curricular innovations; and,

3) to promote the socio-economic, political, and intellectual development of the Chicano/Latino population through instruction, service, advocacy, and scholarship.

The department remained an asset to the university and the community. Among other things, its existence enabled the university to advance its mission and link itself and directly serve the segment of the California population that will become the majority of the state's population by the year 2040 - the Chicano/Latino population. MAS also enabled the university to offer students from diverse background opportunities to acquire knowledge, cross-cultural understanding, skills, and experiences indispensable to living in an increasingly multicultural society, as well as to achieve recognition for their academic achievements. The department's existence afforded diverse sectors of the larger community the opportunity to access expertise for projects and programs largely unavailable at other institutions of higher education in the San Diego region. For example, the San Diego Unified School District was able to implement an institute for eighth grade and eleventh grade teachers of humanities as a result of the participation of the departmental faculty.

The department retained its unique status as the only department of its kind in the geographic area south of Long Beach. The department contributed to the General Education (GE) program of the university through its curricular offerings. During the 1994-95 academic year, 17 MAS courses were part of the GE program. The department remains committed to continuing its contribution to GE. At the same time it will endeavor to serve the growing number of students majoring or minoring in MAS. By the end of the current academic year approximately 60 students had chosen MAS as a major or minor, an increase from the 1993-94 academic year. The department continued to take its curricular and advising obligations to these students seriously; the clearest demonstration of our commitment was the systematic inclusion of MAS courses required for the major or minor on a regular basis in the Fall and Spring schedules, and the continued designation of a tenured faculty member, Professor Joe Rodriguez, as undergraduate adviser. Nevertheless, as in previous years, the department found it necessary to find a balance between courses that fulfill major or minor requirements and that reflect new scholarly work by the faculty.

During the 1994-95 academic year the department's contribution to the university included the offering of a new interdisciplinary minor in Border Studies. At least one student declared the minor during its inaugural year. We anticipate that the minor will continue to attract additional students and require the regular offering of selected Border Studies courses and additional faculty in this area. As noted before, the minor is unprecedented in the CSU or UC systems and unique in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

As noted in the 1993-94 annual report, in order to move towards fulfillment of the first part of the MAS mission, the department will ultimately require two additional positions. As noted in the departmental inventory submitted to the Vice President of Academic Affairs during the Fall 1993 semester, one position would be in Border Economics; This area is becoming increasingly important given the enactment of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Its enactment has increased the number of requests to our department for information and assistance on border economic development. The development of courses in this area would fill a void in our curriculum and also redound to the benefit of other campus programs such as the International Business Economics major. The other position would be in the area of sociology; this person would teach MAS GE courses in high demand, such as MAS 320: Chicano Lifestyles, and further elaborate the MAS Chicana Studies curriculum. The area of Chicana Studies is one of the most rapidly developing areas in the discipline of Chicano Studies. To stay abreast of curricular and scholarly development the department will find it necessary to recruit in this area.

The presence of tenure-track faculty in these areas would facilitate the fulfillment of the first part of the department's mission. The recruitment of additional tenure-track faculty would also enable the department to elaborate a Mexican American Studies emphasis as part of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts (MALA) program, similar to the emphasis developed by the Department of Women's Studies. MAS has received inquiries regarding graduate work in MAS; we expect that the interest in such study will grow. Discussions with Howard Kushner, director of MALA, have continued during this past year. Additionally, Professor Joe Rodriguez developed a new course MAS 503, The Border Ethnicity and Immigration, as a second step towards the elaboration of the program. This course will complement the MALA course offered annually by Professors Rodriguez and Griswold entitled "Latino Biography and Autobiography." However, the emphasis will require additional courses in other areas.

2. COMMUNICATION

During the '93-94 academic year the department continued to communicate its mission and value through diverse outreach activities and service. One major activity was the publication of a departmental newsletter. This newsletter was edited by one of our undergraduate majors, Diana Carrillo. Departmental faculty contributed items for inclusion. Entitled "MAS Noticias," the newsletter was disseminated throughout the university, to majors and minors, MAS alumni and selected Chicano and non-Chicano elites in the San Diego area, and other Chicano Studies programs and departments in California. The newsletter reported recent faculty scholarly, instructional and service accomplishments, developments beneficial to students and the Chicano community, and MAS alumni achievements.

A second outreach activity was the dissemination of a departmental information packet. It was provided to current and prospective students as well as teachers and counselors. Developed during the 1993-94 academic year the packet consists of

1) a department brochure identifying the department's mission and programmatic offerings, selected faculty publications and achievements;

2) a copy of the university catalog description of MAS;

3) a copy of an article on the selection of Richard Griswold del Castillo as Outstanding Professor by the SDSU Alumni Association; and,

4) a letter from a former student and soon to be Ph.D. attesting to the department's role in his academic development. The information packet was distributed at invited public school events and conferences such as the first SDSU "open house" held in February, where the department also provided a book exhibit of scholarly works in Chicano Studies.

The department's outreach activities also included invited presentations at educational conferences or for campus programs. The presentations reflected the departmental faculty's expertise and offered a distinctive Chicano/a and Border Studies perspective. The department's value to researchers and others was also demonstrated through solicitation of MAS faculty for assistance. For example, the expertise of the faculty was solicited for the development of a Latino Studies Program at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. The solicitation reflected the growing recognition of the high quality of MAS, a quality acknowledged formally in 1991 by an external academic review team.

The department's utility to the Chicano community, in particular, was communicated via the employment of at least two prominent community scholar-activists as instructors. We also invited community elites to lecture in classes, enabling them to inform students of their projects as well as recruit student volunteers for community projects.

On campus the department's value was often demonstrated through faculty service on committees. MAS also contributed to campus intellectual life through the sponsorship of visiting lecturers. During the Spring semester, for example, the department co-sponsored a lecture by nationally recognized novelist Antonio Villareal, the author of Pocho, The First Chicano Novel. The department also sponsored a lecture by Chicano Studies scholar Mario Garcia and internationally known activist Bert Corona based on their recent book, Memories of Chicano History. In addition MAS sponsored a special screening of the NEH funded landmark film "Y No Se lo Trago La Tierra" hosted by its producer Paul Espinoza. Moreover, MAS provided logistical and fiscal support for the lecture series sponsored by the Built Environment and Comparative Urban Research Institute conceived by MAS faculty Lawrence Herzog.

3. ASSESSMENT OF SELECTED ISSUES

The department of MAS continued to represent a sound investment of university resources. The department retained the highest student/faculty ratio in the College of Arts and Letters. This ratio reflected the department's commitment to the CSU teaching mission. The ratio was made possible by:

1) tenure-track faculty assuming responsibility for larger classes;

2) the employment of part-time faculty for the teaching of courses in high demand from students seeking to fulfill GE requirements; and,

3) the teaching of MAS courses by selected members of university staff on assignment from their departments or programs. Carrying a heavy teaching load allowed the departmental faculty to fulfill student needs, however, it also continued to generate the challenges identified in the 1993-94 annual report. One challenge involved finding a way by which the department fulfills its mission without becoming an exclusively service department. A second challenge is how to promote equality of opportunity in access to excellence in instruction and service to students. This challenge, we believe, can be met through a decreasing use of part-time faculty and the recruitment of additional tenure-track faculty as recommended by the external review team in 1991.

The recruitment of additional faculty would also promote diversity and affirmative action in the department at a time when the latter is under attack. The department continued to have only one female tenure-track faculty. The absence of other tenure-track female faculty continued to impose a high burden on Professor Adelaida del Castillo on the part of students seeking academic guidance, role models, and expertise for extracurricular projects focused on the Chicana/Mexicana experience. New recruitment would alleviate the burden. It would also perhaps enable us to retain Professor del Castillo on our faculty. Professor del Castillo is an exceptional individual. As the Spring semester came to a close she was invited to apply for a position at the University of Southern California. Given her talents, her receipt of an invitation was anticipated. We remain committed to retaining her for her loss would be significant. Thus, we have requested authorization to recruit during the 1995-96 academic year. In the meantime, however, we will need the same levels of support for part-time hiring as received during the 1993-94 academic year.

4. PROGRAM PLANNING

As noted in last year's report, during 1993-94 we initiated a curricular planning process that involved the development of a five year projection of desired curricular offerings. The projection incorporated the department's service functions and obligations to majors and minors. Initial evaluation of the effectiveness of this approach and the department's curricular and programmatic trajectory had been planned to occur during the 1994-95 academic year. However, due to a number of developments it was postponed. In 1995-96 an instructional and curriculum evaluation committee will be established and charged with the task of evaluating teaching and curricular innovations and trajectory. The committee will consist of two departmental faculty and one faculty familiar with on-going trends and developments in Chicano and Border Studies. The committee will be asked to provide an annual assessment. The initial focus will be the Border Studies minor.

Our priorities for meeting departmental objectives in the immediate future continue to be:

1) the retention of current tenure-track faculty and positions, in particular Professor Adelaida del Castillo, who will undergo a review for promotion and tenure during the 1995-96 academic year;

2) to maintain the conditions vital to continued faculty scholarly productivity, service and instructional quality through the provision of support, such as readers and research assistants, the establishment of viable work loads, the acquisition of external resources such as affirmative action and research and creativity grants, and the selective use of assigned time for research and instructional activities; and,

3) to acquire additional tenure-track positions. The Dean's decentralization of budget management to the departmental levels during the Spring semester provided the opportunity to address the second priority in an unprecedented manner. We remain hopeful that we will be able to move toward the fulfillment of the other priorities as expeditiously.

5. STUDENT AFFAIRS

During the 1994-95 academic year demand for our curricular offerings on the part of students continued to remain high, as attested by enrollment in the department's courses. During the Fall 1994 semester 1422.35 students enrolled in the department's courses. This enrollment translated into 284.47 FTES. Our student/ faculty ratio (SFR) was the highest in the College of Arts and Letters - 36.66.

During the Spring 1995 semester 1318 students enrolled in our courses for a total of 263.33 FTES. As was the case in the Fall 1994 semester, the students in our courses were drawn from throughout the university and exhibited diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. Their enrollment in our courses enabled them to fulfill requirements in their majors and General Education. As occurred last year one of the most satisfying recent trends has been a steady increase in the number of students majoring and minoring in MAS. At the end of this academic year, as noted above, approximately sixty students were majoring or minoring in MAS; Also the department graduated its largest class of MAS majors, reflecting the commitment of students to MAS.

The department also remained actively involved in campus student recruitment and retention efforts. To promote student recruitment to San Diego State departmental faculty accepted invitations to speak before classes in public schools in the area, honored requests for selected classroom visitations, and met with and addressed groups of students visiting the university. Departmental faculty also participated in the 25th Annual MEChA high school conference. This event has brought thousands of Chicano students to the campus for the purpose of orienting them to the college experience.

As part of its efforts to promote the retention of students, the department continued the administration of the Faculty/Student Mentoring program for the College of Arts and Letters. This year the program served 70 students. These students included individuals of African American, American Indian, Chicano/ Latino, Filipino, and Vietnamese descent as well as white students; it was directed by Isidro D. Ortiz. Ortiz also served as a collaborating instructor in the Intensive Learning Experience Program. This program is designed to promote the academic development of first year underprepared students. The success of the contribution led to an invitation to offer two sections under the program during the 1995-96 academic year.

During the 1994-95 academic year the department's participation in the retention endeavors was complemented by participation in the University Seminar Program. Ortiz served as instructor for one section of this course which is designed to promote the success of first year students. During the 1995-96 academic year the participation will continue.

As in the past, the department also sought to promote retention by providing logistical and moral support and employment to students and student organizations, in particular the Association of Chicana Activists (ACHA) and Mexican American Studies Student Organization (MASSO). In December, 1994 the department awarded the second Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Book Scholarship to three undergraduate students who have excelled academically and demonstrated a commitment to service to the Chicano community. The scholarships, in honor of the former president of the United Farm Workers of America, were funded through contributions primarily by departmental faculty and staff. The awards were presented to: Silvia Bustamante, Benjamin Madera, and Guadalupe R. Corona.

MAS also supported students by employing several undergraduate and graduate students. The students served as clerical assistants, readers, and graduate teaching assistants. The department contributed to the ACHA annual conference by offering publicity, encouragement and logistical support. It facilitated MASSO'S projects through advising of its officers, provision of information and formal sponsorship of the organization in order to enable the organization to acquire resources necessary for its operation. In conjunction with MASSO, MAS also sponsored the second annual international student film festival, CINE ESTUDIANTIL. This event brought students from the U.S. and Mexico for discussions, networking and collaboration. It also brought SDSU visibility and recognition. It is a unique event in the U.S.

To further promote retention the departmental faculty also continued individual advising and mentoring of students. A tenured faculty member, Joe Rodriguez, continued to serve as undergraduate adviser. During the '94-95 academic year the consequences of these activities included: the selection of Silvia Bustamante as the recipient of a Vice Presidential Student Service Award under the Quest for the Best program and her admission into the master's program in counseling psychology at the University of San Diego, the admission of Evelyn Cruz, a departmental sponsored student in the CSU predoctoral program, into UCLA's Master in Fine Arts Program, and the selection of Paula Timmerman, the outstanding graduate in MAS in 1992, as an instructor for the department of Sociology at SDSU.

In addition to promoting the academic recognition and achievement of these students, the department also promoted the artistic development of eleven students through its offering of MAS 314B: Rondalla. Through their enrollment in the course the students honed their musical skills and organized a musical entourage that performed at least two commencement ceremonies. The rondalla will continue to perform, serving as cultural ambassadors on behalf of the department and the university.

Lastly, the department promoted the continued academic achievement of students through service by members of the department as Masters thesis committees for several graduate students in other departments. The departments included English, Psychology, and History. The faculty provided expertise unavailable in those departments.

As the department looks towards next year, it continues to face the major challenge in the area of student affairs of the increasing demand for its advising services and participation in motivational and role-model recruitment activities. This year the number of requests continued to grow. As Latinos increasingly move toward becoming the majority of the state's population, and the composition of the SDSU student body continues to change, the demand will grow.

A second major challenge will be the need to find resources to meet the growing demand from students for co-sponsorship of student conceived projects such as CINE ESTUDIANTIL. These projects serve students from diverse disciplines. They offer opportunities for students to acquire valuable experience and networking conducive to their professional and academic growth. Our budget cannot provide support for all of the projects, however.

6. BUDGET

The department will require at least the same level of operating budget as it received this academic year. During this year it was allocated $1281 for supplies and services, $470. for long-distance telephone and $276. for postage; Operation on this allocation became difficult during the second semester due to the fact that all of the tenure-track faculty were on board. Although fund expenditure was closely monitored, we necessitated an augmentation to meet the faculty's needs. The augmentation enabled us to complete the year. We require an increased budget in this area for next year. The department will require allocation for student assistance for the months of June and July when our department secretary, Laurel Dyke, a ten month employee, is unavailable. This year the department received an allocation of $1,200 for work study students. This year's experience suggested that an allocation of $1,500 is more realistic to meet our student assistant needs. The principal non-monetary need is space for a work area and for storage. The need for both has been increasing. We continue to remain the only department without such space. The department had such space; however, the space, AH 3164, was converted into the Risograph room for Adams Humanities. The absence of such space impedes the processing of departmental course work.

7. DEVELOPMENT

As noted in the 1993-94 report the department does not have a formal program for generating non-state support at the present time. Priority has been placed on establishing the conditions that would enable the department to be competitive for state and non-state support. The conditions included stability for and recognition of the department as a strong academic unit. Due to the hard work of departmental faculty we have succeeded in establishing these conditions.

Although we have not developed a formal fund-raising program, our department has received contributions from individuals via the SDSU Foundation. This year the contributions were about $400. We have acknowledged the contributions via a letter from the department chair to donors. The letters express our appreciation and indicate the kinds of departmental endeavors made possible by the contributions.

We propose to move into external fund-raising on a more systematic basis in the next two years. Last year we began to lay the foundation for the development of a fund-raising program by identifying potential services of funding for research and service projects consistent with the department's mission. We utilized the SDSU Foundation to acquire information on various funding sources.

We also acquired a list of our MAS alumni for fund-raising purposes. Our alumni ranks are not as large as those of larger departments, however, we believe that they can be a source of funding. The fund-raising activity we propose to elaborate next year would involve the submission of proposals to foundations and corporations for funding of projects and solicitation of alumni for small contributions in support of the department's awards to undergraduates for academic achievement.

We also propose to ultimately develop a fund-raising campaign that would focus generating funds for Mexican American business. The San Diego area has an extensive number of businesses owned and operated by Mexican Americans. It is our belief that these businesses would contribute to concrete projects focusing on some aspect of the Chicano/Latino experiences and/or Border Studies. The goal of our fund-raising from these various sources would be to provide funding to undertake the following activities:

1) annual awarding of two departmental awards to undergraduates for academic achievement - the Magdalena Mora Award and the Border Studies Award;

2) the establishment of a mentoring program for students at Gompers Secondary School, where a need has been articulated by the college counselor;

3) the establishment of an annual institute for teachers on integrating Chicana/o Studies into the public school curriculum and improving instruction in the public schools on the Chicana/o experience;

4) annual media briefing on developments on Border issues;

5) the elaboration of a MAS emphasis as part of the Master of Arts in Liberal Arts (MALA) program.

The principal challenge in elaborating this fund-raising program is finding the time on the part of faculty for such an undertaking. As noted in section 3 of this report, the departmental faculty faces heavy work loads that make the allocation of time to fund-raising difficult. The faculty cannot run the risk of becoming over-extended. To do so, would risk the scholarly achievements of the department. We are exploring the feasibility of utilizing the talents of one of the part-time faculty, Dr. Alfredo Velasco, to undertake a more systematic extramural funding campaign. Dr. Velasco has extensive experience in grantsmanship. He is enthusiastic about facilitating the department's efforts and will be devoting part of his time during the Summer and Fall of 1995 to grant activity on behalf of the department.

8. FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

As in the past MAS faculty remained productive on and off-campus. The following reflects their accomplishments during the 1994-95 academic year.

ADELAIDA R. DEL CASTILLO

University and Community Service:

Associate Graduate Faculty, Master's Degree in Women's Studies, Department of Women's Studies.

Associate Graduate Faculty, Master of Science in Child Development, Child and Family Development.

Outside member, Mary Sue Heilermann, "Interculturations, Ethnic Identify and Reproductive Health Among Mexican American Women," University of California, San Francisco, Program in Nursing, doctoral thesis in progress.

Third member, Miriam D. Lucero, "Remnants/Recuerdos," Applied Design in Metals, San Diego State University, Master of Fine Arts, 1994.

Third member, Juanita Purner, "Contemporary Latin Artists: Cultural Divergent Imagery," San Diego State University, Art History, master's in progress.

Third member, Graciela Rodriguez, Master's Degree in Spanish, San Diego State University, master's in progress.

Expert Witness as Cultural Anthropologist, Osvaldo Contreras vs. State of California, San Diego Federal Defender's Office, September 1994.

Organized "Chicana Authors and Artists," in one-day opening session of the Fourth Annual Chicana/Latina Conference at SDSU. Participants included independent artist Cecelia Alvarez whose work has been exhibited at UCLA's Wright Gallery, Dr. Jeanette Rodriguez from the Institute for Theological Studies at Seattle University and Dr. Alicia M. Gonzalez from the Smithsonian Institution. 11/11/94.

Meeting with Mexican leaders from La Fundaci¢n Nacional de Solidaridad organized by the Chicano Federation of San Diego, Inc. Letter of appreciation dated 11/1/94.

Teaching:

MAS 340: Chicana History, a course which has been accepted by the Department of Women's Studies as satisfying requirements for the major and minor in Women's Studies.

Taught a new course, MAS 100: Mexican American Heritage, developed by the Department of Mexican American Studies. This particular section introduced new readings.

Granted Release Time in Fall 1995 to revise and develop MAS 100: Mexican American Heritage.

Professional Growth:

Wrote the article "Gender and Its Discontinuities in Male/Female Domestic Relations: Mexicans in Cross Cultural Context," to be published in the outside reviewed anthology At Century's End: Chicanos in the Contemporary Era, edited by Isidro D. Ortiz and David Maciel.

Completing the introductory and concluding chapters of book, Displacing Gender Identity: The Negotiation of Male/Female Gender Roles in Mexico City's Domestic Space.

Finished and revised "Female Finances, Male Rage and Gender Accommodation in Mexico City" to be submitted to the referred journal Gender & Society.

Have started the article "Experimental Ethnography: Conceptual Notions and Textual Productions."

RICHARD GRISWOLD DEL CASTILLO

University and Community Service:

Member, Board of Directors Centro Cultural de la Raza
Member, SDSU Foundation Board
Speaker, USD Phi Alpha Theta Cinco de Mayo Banquet May 5, 1995
Speaker, SDSU-MEChA 16 September Celebration
Speaker, CSU Northridge Whitsett Lecture
Speaker, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Dia de la Raza
Member, Program Committee AHA Pacific Coast Branch
Judge/Reviewer, Estados Unido desde America Latina: Sociedad, Politica, y Cultura Instituto Mora, Mexico DF
Consultant, video project "The Mexican War," KERA Dallas
Consultant, video project "Cesar Chavez," Image Productions, San Francisco

Teaching:

Team taught MALA 600 with Joe Rodriguez, Spring 1995
Computer conferencing with MAS 350A and 375

Professional Growth:

Review: "Mexican Workers and American Dreams" for Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 1995.

Comentarista, Panel "Ciudades, Regiones y Corredores de la Frontera" IX Reunion de Historiadores, Mexico DF, 28 October 1995.

"Cesar Chavez: A Life of Courage, Struggle and Commitment," with Richard Garcia Journal of San Jose Studies, XX, no. 2 (Spring 1994), pp. 15-31.

"Historiografia Chicana," in Tres aproximaciones a la cultura Chicana (Mexico DF: Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, 1995).

LAWRENCE HERZOG

University and Community Service:

Member of Academic Advisory Board, New School of Architecture, San Diego.
Member of 1995 American Planning Association, Community Planning Awards Committee, City of San Diego.
Member of Citizens Coordinator for Century III, Permanent Paradise sub-committee.
CAL Research and Professional Leave Committee, 1994-95.
Director, BECUR, Institute for Built Environment and Comparative User Group
-- organized SDSU Built Environment Spring Lecture Series
-- submitted 4 grant applications Member IISCO (International Security Conflict Resolution) Executive Committee, SDSU.
Member/presenter, California's in Transition Seminar, SDSU.
Member, Urban Studies program review and Advisory Committee, SDSU, 1994-95

Teaching:

Taught new class for Geography Department, Geography 556: Location and Spatial Structure.
Taught new field research-oriented 500-level MAS course, MAS 597: Urban/Regional Development and U.S.-Mexico Border.
Organized ongoing slide library/lectures for courses on U.S.-Mexico border/with grants from CAL (micro-grant program)

Professional Growth:

Presented formal papers at following conferences:

PROFMEX, Puerto Vallerta, Mexico - November 1994.
EDRA (Environmental Design Research Association), Boston, March 1995.
UAA (Urban Affairs Association), Portland, Oregon, April 1995.

Presented invited lectures/colloquia at following universities:

CUNY Graduate School, March 1995
University of Texas, Austin, April 1995
Cal State, San Marcos, April 1995
UCLA, May 1995
Colegio de La Frontera North, November 1994
Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexicali, October 1994

Published:

"Urban Design Across the Borders," Mass, Fall 1994

"Civic plazos of Spain," Werk, Baven, and Wohen (Swiss Journal of Architect), Spring 1995.

Review of "Urban Leviathon" in Urban Studies, Summer 1995.

In progress:

Awarded SDSU Faculty Research Grant-in-Aid ($4000) for study of Mexican Public Space, December 1994.

Submitted grant proposals for research to: U.S. Department of History and Urban Development; Ford Foundation; National Endowment for Humanities.

ISIDRO D. ORTIZ

University and Community Service:

Consultant, Humanities Department, San Diego Unified Schools, August 1994 and January 1995 for Humanities Institute.

Committee member, College of Arts and Letters Selection Committee for SDSU Alumni Outstanding Faculty Award.

Committee member, College of Arts and Letters. Instructional Related Assistance (IRA) Committee.

Member of Master's Thesis Committee for Kathy Rossi, Department of Psychology, SDSU.

Member, College of Arts and Letters, Assistant Dean of Students Review Committee.

Director, College of Arts and Letters Faculty/Student Mentoring Program.

Chair, Department of Mexican American Studies.

Member of subcommittee on Intensive Learning Experience Program Students for Freshman Success Program.

Adviser, Association of Chicana Activist's Mexican American Studies Student Organization

Teaching:

University Seminar class, Fall 1994 as part of the Freshman Success Programs.

Professional Growth:

Completed editing and submitted book-length manuscript for anthology At Century's End: Chicanos in the Contemporary Era, in press, University of Arizona Press.

Submitted final edited manuscript "Latino Elites and the Rearguarder's Thesis," accepted for publication in the refereed journal, Mexican American Perspectives, published in Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Arizona Press.

Co-authored, presented "Latino Responses to Proposition 187: The Case of San Diego," annual meetings of Western Social Science Association, Oakland, CA., April 29, 1995; also presented at annual Department of Sociology Research Symposium: "Sites of Dominance and Resistance," April 21, 1995.

Recipient of Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award for study of Chicanos in San Diego in the post-World War II era.

JOE RODRIGUEZ

University and Community Service:

CAL Representative, SDSU Faculty Senate.
Third Member, Master's Thesis Committees in the following Departments: English, Spanish and Speech Communication.

Teaching:

MAS 504: Immigration, Ethnicity and the Border. New course which will be offered in 1995-96.

MAS 335: Chicano Literature. Two new section offerings: 1) "The Border to the Bay: The Impact of Region on the Chicano Imagination," complements the Departments emphasis on regional studies and the U.S. Mexico border. 2) Immigration, the Border and Ethnicity, offered over the academic year which fulfills the same upper division cross cultural requirements listed above.

Co-taught course in the master's level MALA curriculum 600 on Chicano Autobiography and Biography. An overload in order to serve the MALA Program and benefit the College of Arts and Letters. Mentored a graduate student in this course, a visiting Fullbright International student from Italy, Teresa Fiore, on a successful paper presentation proposal for a juried conference on Chicano literature in San Antonio for July 1995.

Professional Growth:

Submitted a novel manuscript entitled "Words Unspoken Things Unseen" to the Chicano Literary Contest at the University of California at UC Irvine, the premiere writing context for Chicano letters.

Solicited essay on the famous Chicano author Richard VÊsquez who wrote the well-known novel Chicano (1970) for The Dictionary of Literary Biography; essay is forthcoming in 1996.

Continued research in the San Francisco Bay area for my course "From the Border to the Bay: The Impact of Region on the Chicano Imagination," focused on the writing of the Chicano writers Lucha CorpÁ and Richard Rodriguez in terms of their references to the San Francisco Bay area; also did continued research for this course in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara in terms of the Chumash Indians and the settlement patterns of early California families.

Conducted research at several research facilities for next proposed novel tentatively entitled "In the Unlikely Event," a novel which will explore families who trace their roots to two adobe haciendas in San Francisco and San Diego.

JOSE R. VILLARINO

University and Community Service:

CAL Personnel Committee
Premedical Interview Committee
Park View Elementary School Inservice, Cantando se aprende
Cesar ChÊvez Anniversary and State Holiday Dinner Committee, Barrio Station

Professional Growth:

La Rondalla Mexicana, twenty five Mexican and Latin American Romantic Songs in progress.

El Sol de San Diego, Corridos/Ballads:

"Cesar Chavez defensor del pueblo," March 1995.
"Laura RodrÁguez, Luz del barrio," April 1995.
"Memorias de Bert Corona," May 1995.