CLU opens year with formal procession
Faculty to welcome new students at convocation
Education professor Michael McCambridge, who received the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award in May, will deliver the keynote address.
(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Aug. 28, 2008) California Lutheran University will hold its Opening Academic Convocation for the 2008-2009 year at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, in Samuelson Chapel.
Faculty and administrators will assemble in full academic attire to welcome a new dean, 14 new faculty members and about 665 new freshmen and transfer students. The university will recognize the Presidential Scholars, Scholastic Honor Society members, students named to the Provost’s Honor List for spring semester, and Honors at Entrance recipients. Faculty who have received tenure or advanced in rank will also be honored.
Carol A. Bartell will be introduced as the new Dean of the School of Education. The following new faculty members also will be presented: Chris Brown, Mathematics; Michael Gend, Theatre Arts; Michael Gerson, Graduate Psychology; Louise Kelly, Exercise Science & Sports Medicine; Don Kobabe and Sharyn Slavin Miller, Education; Jodie Kocur, Psychology; Schannae Lucas, Criminal Justice; John Noll, Computer Science; Terry Spehar-Fahey, Art; Bryan Rasmussen and Allison Wee, English; Bob Rumer, Physics; and John Tannaci, Chemistry.
The CLU Alumni Association will present the 2008 Young Alumna Award to Christin Farrell, a 2000 graduate who provides counseling to more than 150 inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary.
Education professor Michael McCambridge, a Sherman Oaks resident who received the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award in May, will deliver the keynote address.
The fall semester for undergraduate students begins on Wednesday, Sept. 3.