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Helen Thompson, Associate
Professor of Women & Gen-
der Studies, wrote a book
exploring the work of Edna
O’Brien. Jason Vest, Associ-
ate Professor of English,
wrote a book about violence
in cop dramas. A special treat
for the evening was that au-
thor Tina Pablo was able to
offer a sneak peak of her new
book, Enchanted Tails of
Guam.
The College anticipates con-
tinuing the tradition of the
book launch, and is expecting
publications to go to press
soon from Sociologist Kirk
Johnson and Japanese scholar
Yuka Iwata. Many other fac-
ulty have projects in the
works.
College faculty are publish-
ing. It is a national standard
that University Professors
must write articles in academ-
ic journals, have books pub-
lished, and have their creative
works of art shown in a peer-
reviewed venue. In honor of
those faculty who are success-
fully publishing, College
Dean James Sellmann initiat-
ed an annual book launch, so
that faculty can talk about
their work, and show their
colleagues what they have
done.
This year, there were five
published faculty who pre-
sented. David Atienza, As-
sistant Professor of Anthro-
pology, wrote a book about
identity. Randall Johnson,
Professor of Music, show-
cased about a dozen published
musical arrangements.
PK Harmon, Instructor of
English, had a series of poetry
published in a respected liter-
ary journal.
Zohra Andi Baso, a femi-
nist activist and Nobel
Peace Prize Nominee from
South Sulawesi, Indonesia,
spoke to a capacity crowd
in the lecture hall on
Thursday, October 7, 2010.
She spoke on the topic
women’s rights in Indone-
sia and engaged the audi-
ence in interesting conver-
sation afterward. There
were also displays of
Women’s Grassroots Ac-
tivism in Guam, Past Pre-
sent and Future, including
one from the Guam’s
Women’s Club. The event
was sponsored by the
CLASS Academic Affairs
Committee, the Women
and Gender Studies Pro-
gram and Hilton Guam.
2nd Annual Book Launch
I N S I D E
T H I S I S S U E :
Grant Awards 3
New Faculty 4
Local
Conferences
6
Upcoming
Calls
7
Fine Arts
Events
8
Baso Speech Opens Women’s Center
S P R I N G 2 0 1 1 N E W S L E T T E R C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S A N D S O C I A L S C I E N C E S
P A G E 2
From the Dean’s Desk
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome back to the Spring semester and a Happy New Year.
I mentioned in the Fall Newsletter that AY 2010-11 would present a number of challenges
before us. Those challenges are now upon us. The University of Guam will continue to
respond in positive ways to the financial shortfall within the Government of Guam. It is
likely that the financial situation will worsen before it begins to improve. If we work to-
gether to control spending, we will be able to continue to manage the situation. There are
funds available to buy instructional equipment, so no program need suffer.
You are in a unique and important position to educate your students about the importance
of implementing the three R’s (reduce, reuse, and recycle) on campus, at home and in the
workplace. The College is attempting to institute the three R’s of environmental ecology.
Troy McVey with the assistance of UOG Green Interns established recycling islands with-
in the College buildings. Please encourage and teach your students to separate their trash
into the appropriate bin. When your classes host parties, please do ensure that paper and
recycled products are used and that the trash from the party is properly sorted into the recy-
cling bins. Please do accept the challenge and begin to introduce sustainable energy, ecolo-
gy and environmental issues in your classes, especially encouraging the students to engage
in timely research topics. The University and the College cannot accomplish the mission
of the UOG Green initiative without your assistance.
The UOG Distance Education office is encouraging you to put your major online. The Dis-
tance Education office is especially seeking graduate degree and certificate programs to go
online. Keep in mind that once a program offers half of its courses online, then WASC
approval is required. Over the Intersession UOG’s Moodle platform was upgraded to en-
hance services. There is increased support available from the Distance Education Office, if
you need assistance to develop online assignments or courses. There will be more technol-
ogy training available to you that you may want to take advantage of in the near future. If
you are developing hybrid courses that will change the amount of in-class seat time for the
students, then you need to obtain the Dean’s approval to alter the course schedule by sub-
mitting a Variance Form with a detailed syllabus that specifies which class periods are
being conducted online and what specific learning objective is being exercised.
In the spring semester UOG will begin to implement E-Works. The E-Works project will
initiate an online “portal network and interface” for electronic communication, document
sharing, and access to student and financial records. The final result will be a paradigm
shift in the manner in which we do daily business at the University as we move from hard
copy to electronic forms. Some professors from the College have already participated in
the online submission of final grades. You should obtain access to Web-advisor so that you
can participate in the online submission of final grades in the Spring semester.
Wishing you a creative and productive Spring Semester,
Yours,
James Sellmann, Dean
S P R I N G 2 0 1 1 N E W S L E T T E R
Fun and games
were had by many
at the college
picnic in Ypaao
Beach Park this
past October.
Faculty in the News
P A G E 3
Pauline Baird (DEAL) pub-
lished “Making College Writing
Fun for ESL and EFL Learner
Using Kamishibai” in the Inter-
net TESL Journal in November
2010.
Stephen Bednarzyk (CFA)
won a grant from Guam CAHA
to support the Guam Symphony
Society.
Masumi Kai (DH) won a grant
from the Japan Foundation.
Masumi Kai (DH) won a
CLASS grant of $3000 for ob-
taining an OPI Certificate and
for supporting her Katakana
Book.
Troy McVey (DO) and
Michelle Bednarzyk (DEAL)
won a grant from Guam CAHA
to support Summer Theatre
Camp 2011.
Peter Onedera (DH) won three
grants, totaling $20,000. Two
were from Guam CAHA and
GVB to support the CHamorro
Language Competition and one
was from GVB to support their
CH102 and 201 students in cre-
ating a sand sculpture project.
Aristides Pereira (CFA), won a
$1500 CLASS grant for materi-
als and
assis-
tants to
build a
green
screen
for the
Broadcast Studio.
Curtis Rigsby (DH) published
"Nishida on Heidegger," in
Continental Philosophy Review.
Chris Schreiner (DEAL) read
his paper, "Advanced Verbal
Education in Composition Stud-
ies," at Harvard University in
June, 2010, later published in
the International Journal of Arts
and Sciences.
Chris Schreiner (DEAL) was
also invited to give his lecture A
Writer's View of Guam: Liter-
ary and Philosophical Observa-
tions" at Kitakyushu University
in Kokura, Japan on November
25, 2010.
Jason Vest (DEAL), won a
$2000 CLASS grant for re-
search materials relating to In-
side Man: Spike Lee and Ameri-
can Cinema's Untold Stories.
Velma Yamashita (CFA) and
Kirk Johnson (SBS) won a
$5000 grant from GHC to sup-
port programing surrounding
Threads of Life: Textiles from
Bali.
Kirk Johnson (SBS), $1000 to
travel with the Bali Field School
in Ubud, Bali in March 2011.
Masumi Kai (DH), $1500 to
participate in OPI Certification
training in Boston in November
2010.
Peter Onedera (DH), $1000 for
attend the Hawaiian Immersion
Program in Hilo, Hawaii in Oc-
tober 2011.
Kim Skoog (DH), $1500 to
present at the East-West Philos-
ophers Conference at UH
Manoa in May 2011.
Student Travel
Awards
Students Allison Hadley, Myr-
acle Mugol, and Perry Joseph
Guerrero each received $500 to
present at a conference in New
Zealand.
Up to ten students enrolled in
Community Development may
receive up to $500 to attend the
2011 Bali Field School in Ubud.
Michael Bevacqua (DEAL/
DH), $1500 to present at the
NAIS Conference in Sacremen-
to, California, in May 2011.
Yaoxin Chang (DEAL), $1500
to present at the CPFLL Confer-
ence in China in October 2010.
Andrea Hartig (DEAL), $1500
to present at the Women’s
World Conference in Ottawa,
Canada in July 2011.
Anne Hattori (DH), $1500 to
present at the CPIS Conference
in UH Manoa in November
2010.
College Travel Awards
C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S A N D S O C I A L S C I E N C E S
P A G E 4
Rich Olmo, Geography
Van Abiera, Computer Tech
Arun Swamy, Political Science Dr.
Swamy
did his
doctoral
work in
political
science
at the
Univer-
sity of
Califor-
nia,
Berke-
ley, specializing in compar-
ative politics and focusing
on the relationship between
electoral competition and
development policy in In-
dia. In the years since he
has taught comparative pol-
itics and international rela-
tions at numerous liberal
arts colleges in the US, in-
cluding Pomona, Oberlin,
Wagner, Williams and Oc-
cidental. In between, he
spent four years as a re-
search fellow at the East-
West Center Honolulu
where he focused on gov-
ernance and security issues
in the Asia Pacific, with a
focus on ethnic conflict. As
a result of these diverse
experiences today, he has
special interests in democ-
racy, ethnic conflict, politi-
cal economy, state-building
and corruption and popu-
lism. He has published aca-
demic articles, book chap-
ters, special reports and op-
ed articles on these topics
and is currently working on
a book project that would
extend the findings of his
dissertation to Southeast
Asia.
ment. He worked as an
Extension Assistant for
Cooperative Extension Ser-
vice and a mentor for the
4H mentoring program for
several months. He
worked as a Computer Spe-
cialist/Technical Support at
Naval Hospital Guam. He
worked as an IT Specialist
Van is an alum of UOG
with four years of college
education in computer in-
formation systems program
and general education pro-
gram at the University of
Guam. He interned for a
semester as IT Assistant at
Continental Airlines Infor-
mation Technology depart-
for the Ernst and Young
company.
He Currently works as an
extension associate IT sup-
port for the UOG CLASS
department. Offering foun-
dational experience in
working in an IT environ-
ment.
Wollongong, New South
Wales, Australia. He has
taught off and on for a total
of 23 years at several insti-
tutions including Brooklyn
College, the University of
San Diego, Southern Ore-
gon State College, the Uni-
versity of Maryland, Uni-
versity College Asia and the
University of Guam. Mr.
Olmo was a mining geolo-
gist in New Mexico with
United Nuclear Corpora-
tion, and worked as an ex-
ploration geologist in Ari-
zona, Utah, Colorado and
New Mexico with Phillips
Uranium Corporation. He
worked for several years
writing environmental and
planning impact reports in
San Diego and ran a con-
tract archaeology branch
office on Guam from 1992
to 1998.
Richard
Olmo has a
B.S. and an
M.A. in
geology
from the
City Univer-
sity of New
York, an
M.A. in
Anthropology from the Uni-
versity of New Mexico, and
is ABD at the University of
S P R I N G 2 0 1 1 N E W S L E T T E R
Fall Colloquium Series A Success
P A G E 5
There were six presentations
in the series this Fall, with
the lowest attended at 22 and
the most popular at 48.
Michael Bevacqua (DEAL/
DH) presented “The Gift of
Imagination: Solidarity in
the Asia-Pacific Region” on
Oct. 7.
Richard Giardina, Troy
McVey (DO), and Beth
Somera (CFA) presented
“Back to Basics: Nuts and
Bolts of Assessing Student
Learning” on Oct. 20.
Mark Ombrello (DH) pre-
sented “Visions and Perspec-
tives on the Film Matango:
Attack of the Mushroom Peo-
ple” on Oct. 23.
Manuel Raucholz presented
“Adoption in Micronesia:
Understanding Adoption,
Person, & Emotion in Micro-
nesia” on Oct. 28.
Ojeya Cruz Banks present-
ed “Of Water, Spirit
and Sustainability in
the Pacific: Dancing
Te Moana in Aotea-
roa” on
Nov. 4.
Dorcia Tucker pre-
sented “Bio-Feedback
for Gamers” on Dec. 4.
About 80 people were in at-
tendance. The keynote
speaker was Chief Justice
Robert Torres, who gave a
moving personal example in
his remarks. The panelists
this year were Michelle
Sasamoto from Deparment
of Mental Health; James
On September 9th, at 5:30 in
the CLASS Lecture Hall, the
Isa Psychological Services
Center and I’Pinangon Cam-
pus Suicide Prevention Grant
co-sponsored their 7th annual
Suicide Prevention Symposi-
um.
On September 17, 2010, they
gave a presentation to the
University community on
their insights. About 20 fac-
ulty attended, representing
every school and college.
Michelle’s presentation
focused on setting up assign-
ments, forums and the
gradebook.
Pauline’s presentation
focused on using MOODLE
as a classroom management
tool in hybrid and traditional
courses.
Both presentations shared
insights on helpful websites
and integrating material from
other software into MOO-
DLE.
Sponsored by Distance Edu-
cation, two Instructors of
English, Pauline Baird and
Michelle Bednarzyk, partici-
pated in a national confer-
ence on MOODLE and
online education in Boston
this past July.
English Continues to Lead Online
7th Annual Suicide Prevention Symposium
C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S A N D S O C I A L S C I E N C E S
Seymour, Associate Profes-
sor of Theatre; John Moss,
Assistant Professor of Soci-
ology; and Father Mike
Crisostomo of UOG New-
man Center.
The event was organized by
Eunice Joy Perez and
Jacqueline Meno Gouniai
P A G E 6
CLASS Charter Day Activities
Modern Language Festival
National Speaker Headlines LAC Junko Yokota, was the Key-
note Speaker for this year’s
Language Arts Conference,
held on November 5th at
UOG and November 6th at
the Guam Marriott Resort.
Over 250 people attended
the Conference, aimed at
GDOE school teachers.
Dr. Yokota, Professor of
Reading and Language at
the National College of
Education, National-Louis
University in Chicago, Illi-
nois, and Director of the
Center for Teaching
through Children’s Books
is a frequently invited
speaker at professional
conferences throughout the
U.S. and internationally.
She is past president of the
U.S. national section of the
International Board on
Books for Young People,
and is active in IRA and
NCTE. She has served on
the Caldecott, Newbery,
Batchelder Committees,
and the IBBY Hans Chris-
tian Andersen Award jury.
She is a recipient of the
Virginia Hamilton Award
for Contribution to Multi-
cultural Literature, and the
Reading the World Award.
The conference was jointly
sponsored by CLASS and
SOE, and the funding for
Dr. Yokota’s visit came
from the GDOE ESL pro-
gram. Clarisa Quan
(DEAL) has chaired or co-
chaired the LAC committee
for over 18 years.
senting their knowledge of
the languages in such gen-
res as oratory, poetry, sto-
ries, essays, power points,
posters, video clips, skits,
game shows, news ac-
counts, situational scenari-
os, historical narrations and
cultural depictions.
Each language will also
A Modern Language Festival
presented by students en-
rolled in Chinese,
CHamoru, French, Japa-
nese, Spanish and Tagalog
will be held on Saturday,
March 26, 2011 in the HSS
building and CLASS Lecture
Hall.
Students will be pre-
feature a taste of the coun-
tries that are represented
as well as a fashion show
with attire worn in the dif-
ferent regions where the
languages are spoken. The
Competition is organized
by Peter Onedera (DH)
and members of the Mod-
ern Language Faculty.
tween 40 and 50 scholarly
presentations in the HSS
building between 9am and
5pm. The conference will
open the night before on
March 7th with a talk on
community development by
William Ingram, Director of
Threads of Life in Bali. The
conference will conclude
with a concert by UOG
Band and University Signers
in the Fine Arts Theatre.
The Chamorro Lan-
guage Competition will be
held in and around the
Field House this year, the
first time in a centralized
location. 42 schools from
Guam, Tinian, Saipan and
Rota will be participating.
Isla Center will be offer-
ing tours of the exhibit
Thread of Life: Textiles from
Bali given by Balinese artist
Wenten I Ketut.
This coming March 8th, the
College will be supporting
the 59th Annual Charter
Day by hosting the 32nd
Annual Research Confer-
ence, the 8th Annual
Chamorro Language Com-
petition and offering guid-
ed tours of the Isla Center
for the Arts.
The theme of the Con-
ference is “Creative Tradi-
tions” and will feature be-
S P R I N G 2 0 1 1 N E W S L E T T E R
Shown above are eight
students from Dr.
Schreiner's Creative
Writing class , who read
and discussed their poet-
ry at the Conference.
Call for College Grant Applications
P A G E 7
Because the Dean’s Office and the
Academic Affairs Committee
(AAC) are committed to faculty
development, we invite applications
for faculty travel grants up to
$1500.00.
We would like to award five (5)
grants each semester, or ten (10)
grants for the school year. A per-son is only eligible for one College
funded travel grant per academic
year, following the guidelines in the
College Rules and Procedures
Manual (1995, revised 2002)
“Faculty Development Policy”:
1. First priority will be given to
supporting faculty travel to pro-
fessional meetings where they
are presenting a paper.
2. Second priority will be given to
supporting faculty travel for pro-
fessional purposes other than
presenting a paper.
3. Third priority will be given to
other faculty development pro-
jects such as workshops, inter-
disciplinary course preparations,
etc. Projects benefiting more
than one division will be encour-aged.
For faculty travel grants, submit
a cover letter explaining how the
travel will enhance your profession-
al development, an abstract of your
paper, if any, and your itinerary and
cost of the ticket.
Deadlines: 3/3 and 5/5
For Student/Course travel
grants, submit a cover letter ex-
plaining how the travel will enhance
student learning and course objec-
tives, an abstract of the paper, if
any, and the itinerary and cost of
the ticket. Deadlines: 9/16,
11/4, 3/3, 5/5
The AAC also invites applications
for Research, Creative Activi-
ty, and Other Projects of up to
$3000 per project. Again, we would like to award five (5) grants
each semester, or ten (10) grants
for the school year. Faculty are
limited to one open CSR grant at a
time. See the College’s Faculty
Research and Creative Activity
Grant guidelines in the College Rules
and Procedures Manual.
Deadline: 4/14
For all grant awards, the AAC will
review applications and make rec-
ommendations to the Dean.
component of their portfolio or
to “test-drive” a paper presen-
tation before a home-town
audience are especially encour-
aged to present in the colloqui-
um series. Creative people are
encouraged to consider work-
shop-style presentations.
Presentations should be no
more than 90 minutes in length,
Scholars are invited to present
to the University of Guam com-
munity through the 2010-2011
Colloquium Series, sponsored
by the College of Liberal Arts
and Social Sciences. All disci-
plines are welcome.
Faculty members, students
and community members wish-
ing to bolster the research
with time allowed for discus-
sion, questions and answers.
Presenters should also work to
obtain an audience for their
presentation.
Please send an email to the
Acting Associate Dean at
more information, or to sched-
ule your presentation.
Call for Colloquium Presentations
C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S A N D S O C I A L S C I E N C E S
Call for College Excellence Awards standing students at the
Undergraduate and
Graduate level are hon-
ored. One outstanding
staff member is honored.
Please provide all
supporting documenta-
tion and submit it to the
CLASS Dean’s office by
5 p.m. Thursday April 28.
Awards will be presented
at the College Awards
Ceremony on Friday May
13 at 12 noon in CLASS
Lecture Hall.
For further information,
please ask your Division
Chair, or T. McVey.
Nominations are re-
quested for all categories
of Faculty, Student and
Staff Excellence Awards.
Faculty are honored
for Full– and Part-Time
Teaching, Research/
Creative Activity, Service
and Collegiality. Out-
CALL FOR
PAPERS STILL
OPEN
The 32nd Annual
CLASS Research Con-
ference is still accept-
ing proposals for pa-
pers and presenta-
tions until
February 8th.
Go to
www.uog.edu/
CLASSResearch-
Conference
for more infor-
mation.
C O L L E G E O F L I B E R A L A R T S
A N D S O C I A L S C I E N C E S
CLASS DEAN’S OFFICE Phone: 735-2850
HSS Building , 3rd Floor Site: www.uog.edu/class
January 27 - February 12
Isla Center for the Arts presents
Picturing America/ Picturing Guam
February 24 - March 25
Isla Center for the Arts presents
Threads of Life: Textiles from Bali
March 17-19 and 23-26
UOG Island Theatre presents
The Foreigner by Larry Shue
April 1 & 2
University Music presents
Spring Concert
April 7 – 29
Isla Center for the Arts presents
13th Annual Isla Art-A-Thon
April 28-30 and May 4-7
UOG Island Theatre presents
Two Lovers, by James Seymour
May 5 - June 10
Isla Center for the Arts presents
UOG Student Art Exhibition
May 11
University Music presents
A Student Recital
May 13 & 14
University Music presents
Finale Concert
July 14-15
Summer Theatre Camp presents
L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz
CALL FOR PAPERS: Pacific Asia Inquiry: Multidisciplinary Perspectives Occasional Papers in the Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Issue 2, Spring 2011
Sustainability and Change in the Pacific Asia Region
Scholars are invited to submit papers focusing on Sustainability and Change in the Pacific Asia
Region. Submissions should focus on one or more of the following areas: semantics, language arts, fine arts, society and culture, education, energy, the environment, and sustainablity is-sues of Micronesia. Articles, critical essays, and case studies (both applied and theoretical) across the liberal arts and social sciences are welcome. The research emphasis of this occasional series accommo-dates in-depth studies on sustainability and change. Contributors are invited not only to share their in-novative research, but also to challenge extant positions and perspectives. Any theoretical or methodo-logical approach may be employed so long as it is documented in a readable style of writing that is ac-cessible to specialists and non-specialists alike. Authors may submit their writing about problems and issues associated with any ethnic group, national culture, historical period, genre, or media so long as it has some scholarly or intellectual relevance or relation to Pacific Asia. Manuscripts focusing on or includ-ing the Micronesian region of the Pacific are of particular interest.
Deadline for submittal is February 15, 2011 Visit the UOG CLASS Homepage for more information.