The College of SSIS Spring 2012 Commencement ceremony will be held on Friday, May 18th at 12:00pm at Power Balance Pavilion. Click here for more information and to sign up to participate.

Text of Professor Ellen Berg’s commencement remarks delivered December 16, 2011.

 

Continuing a tradition of academic excellence, Mariel Garcia, a member of the Government Department’s Model United Nations delegation representing Sweden, earned a “Best Delegation” award at this year’s American Model United Nations Conference in Chicago.

Announcements:

 

Associate Dean and Acting Director of the Center for California Studies,
Ted Lascher, recently published an op-ed piece in the Sacramento Bee based on work done by Public Policy & Administration faculty members Rob Wassmer and Su Jin Jez. The article can be read here.

SSIS alumnus Mark Iwasa (BA in Economics, MPPA in Public Policy and Administration) has been named the new Chief of Police at Sacramento State; for more details see the University’s press release.

What's New

Dean
Dr. Charles Gossett (vita)

SSIS Departments and Programs in the News

Kim Nalder was recently quoted in an article on the DISCOVERY NEWS website (associated with the DISCOVERY CHANNEL) on politicians changing their minds. Read the article here.

Sac State alumnus Brian Berry, History & Asian Studies, helped war veteran Minoru Ohye travel to Japan to reunite with his brother after almost 60 years. Read more here.

Jeffrey Dym, Ph.D., History Department, created a film on Propaganda Kamishibai (Japanese paper theater). View the film here.

Suzanne Anderson, Gerontology Special Master's student, co-authored and was principal researcher of Innovation, Resourcefulness, Persistence: How California’s Senior Centers are Meeting Today’s Challenge. Suzanne has made volunteer work and social justice her priorities: read more about her here.

Pattaratorn Chirapravati Ph.D., Director of the Asian Studies Program, had her book Divination au royaume de Siam: Le corps, la guerre, le destin (The Thai Bodmer Divination Manuscript: War, Wealth, and Destiny) published by Presses universitaires de France.  Read the review in the Nov/Dec issue of Le Point References.

Dr. Su Jin Jez’s (Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration) paper, “The Role of For-Profit Colleges in Increasing Postsecondary Completions”, was quoted in the article "Higher Ed Research Roundup" on Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 21, 2011 (insidehighered.com).

Robert Stanley Oden, Department of Government, is editor of California Politics: Shifting Majorities, Emerging Minorities, offered by Cognella Academic Publishing.

Dr. Nancy Shulock, Director of the Instituted for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, and Dr. Su Jin Jez, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration, were quoted extensively in the recent story "The College Bubble" which appeared in the October 6, 2011 edition of the Sacramento News and Review.

Patrick Cannon, Department of Government, wrote an op-ed about control of Congo's minerals that is featured on the website of the Institute for Policy Studies.

Julie Figueroa, Department of Ethnic Studies, has co-edited and was a contributing author on a book that has been included on the list of books for the 2011 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). The book is titled Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present.