CENTERS AND INSTITUTES
Barahona Center for the Study of
Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
CRA 4206
Phone: (760) 750-4070
Fax:
(760) 750-4073.
http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/
Established in 1989, the
Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and
Adolescents/Centro para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Español is
an academic center that promotes literacy in English and Spanish. The Center
endeavors to inform current and future educational decision-makers (e.g.,
university faculty and students, school administrators, curriculum specialists,
teachers) about books centered around Latino people and culture and about books
in Spanish and their value in the education of English-speaking and
Spanish-speaking children and adolescents. The purposes of the center are:
• to serve as a resource
center of books in Spanish and books in English about Hispanics/Latinos for
children and adolescents;
• to assist librarians,
teachers, parents, and other adults in the selection, acquisition, and use of
books in Spanish for children and adolescents, and to provide information about
the book publishing industry;
• to encourage/support
research on books in Spanish for young readers;
• to assist in the
development of programs to encourage Spanish-speaking children and adolescents
to read for enjoyment, education, and/or information;
• to inform and guide
educational and community institutions in providing authoritative and useful
courses on books in Spanish for young readers; and
• to assist in improving the
effectiveness of seminars, forums, and/or workshops on books in Spanish for
children and adolescents.
Further information about the
Barahona Center may be obtained by writing to:
Isabel Schon, Ph.D.,
Director, CSUSM, San Marcos, CA 92096-0001.
Visit our Web site at: http://www.csusm.edu/campus_
centers/csb/
Centro
Barahona para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Español
CRA 4206
Phone:
(760) 750-4070
Fax:
(760) 750-4073
http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/
Establecido
en 1989, el Centro Barahona para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles es
un centro académico de la California State University San Marcos, que promueve el
aprendizaje de la lectura en inglés y en español. El Centro tiene como interés
principal informar a los educadores, actuales y futuros, sobre los libros que
tratan sobre los latinos y su cultura, así como los libros en español y su
valor en la educación de los niños y adolescentes de habla inglesa y española.
• servir como un centro de investigación de
libros infantiles y juveniles en español y de libros para niños y adolescentes
sobre temas hispanos/latinoamericanos en inglés;
•
guiar a bibliotecarios, maestros, padres y otros adultos en la selección, adquisición
y empleo de libros infantiles y juveniles en español y proporcionar información
sobre la industria editorial;
•
promover la investigación sobre libros en español para lectores jóvenes;
•
contribuir en el desarrollo de programas que promuevan la lectura recreativa, educativa
e informativa en el niño y adolescente hispano/latinoamericano;
•
informar y guiar a instituciones educativas y de la comunidad proporcionando cursos
útiles sobre libros en español para lectores jóvenes; y
•
mejorar la eficiencia de seminarios, conferencias y/o talleres sobre libros para
niños y adolescentes en español. Para recibir más información acerca de este
centro, por favor diríjase a: Dra. Isabel Schon, Directora, CSUSM, San Marcos,
CA 92096-0001. Nuestra dirección de Internet es: http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/
csb/
Center for Border and Regional
Affairs
(760) 750-4142
The Center for Border and
Regional Affairs (CBRA) is an organized research and training unit that aims to
impact policy regarding border and regional issues, such as immigration, health
care, labor, urban growth, and the environment, through the facilitation of
community-based research and teaching activities. The CBRA is a faculty coordinated
academic organization that articulates the expertise of CSU San Marcos
personnel with local, state, national, and international funding and policy
initiatives. In the context of the geographic, social, political, and economic
environment in which our university is uniquely positioned, the CBRA provides a
voice with which CSU San Marcos can shape and influence regional policy in
collaboration with Mexican and U.S. institutions and agencies in the border
region. The CBRA creates a forum, an institutional framework, and a supportive
infrastructure in which the coordination of collaborative teaching, research and
creative activities related to U.S.- Mexico border and regional affairs can
take place. The CBRA envisions several ways to provide opportunities for
collaborative research and teaching activities.
The goals of the CBRA are to:
• impact border and regional
issues, such as immigration, health, labor, urban growth, and the environment,
through community-based research and teaching activities;
• articulate teams made up of
CSU San Marcos border and regional specialist and our students with local,
state, national, and international policy/funding initiatives;
• collaborate with Mexican
and U.S. institutions and agencies in the border region, and
• provide a vehicle through
which CSU San Marcos can shape and influence regional policy.
To accomplish these goals,
the CBRA's activities include:
• assessment of funding
opportunities as they relate to the University's geographic, social, political,
historical and economic position and faculty's border and regional expertise,
and articulation of the expertise of CSU San Marcos personnel with local,
state, national, and international RFP's;
• organization of faculty and
student workshops, roundtables, seminars and conferences on border and regional
affairs, and to discuss complementary or collaborative work;
• dissemination of CBRA work
through a web page, curriculum innovations, syllabi, conferences, and
interdisciplinary and community workshops;
• connecting research and
teaching with public policy and private initiatives in the local and regional
community;
• development of a
documentation center for border and regional materials, in collaboration with
Library and Information Services;
• evaluation of public policy
programs in the San Diego/Tijuana border region in the fields of health,
education, the environment, housing, urban growth, immigration, and labor.
Faculty Center
CRA 1257
(760) 750-4019
The primary mission of the
Faculty Center is to support faculty members in their multiple roles as
teachers, researchers, scholars, artists, intellectuals, and as members of the
University and wider community. Critical to such support is the enhancement of
faculty vitality at any career stage and the promotion of collegiality.
The Faculty Center’s
services, resources, and activities are available to all University faculty —
full- and part-time. The Center seeks to promote effective teaching, successful
scholarly and creative activity, professional fulfillment, and sound
leadership. It offers a variety of activities to advance these four broad goals
designed to serve the needs of our University’s diverse faculty and student
body.
Faculty Resource
Room
CRA 1257-A
The Faculty Resource Room is
reserved for faculty working on collaborative projects. The room provides a
work area for up to 12 faculty who are involved in instructional, curriculum,
grants, research, or service projects. It is conveniently located next to a
pedagogy and grants “library.”
Goals of the
Faculty Center
Effective Teaching:
• to advance innovative,
effective teaching and learning strategies throughout the University, further
developing what is already quality teaching and extending the expertise on
teaching and learning to the benefit of each student;
• to assist professors
(instructors, teaching fellows) in their efforts to improve teaching by
exploring the nature of the teaching/learning relationship;
• to provide workshops,
seminars, one-to- one assistance, video feedback, and other activities that
inspire reflection and action concerning teaching and learning that are based
on the assumption that the teaching-learning relationship is complex and varies
from situation to situation and from individual to individual;
• to serve as a teaching and
learning resource center via the acquisition of materials aimed at furthering
teaching/ learning relationships; • to enhance the teaching/learning relationship
via outreach to faculty members using a variety of means including workshops,
newsletters, announcements, and individual consultation; and
• to be a forum, sharing
aspects of teaching/learning with colleagues.
Successful Research and Creative
Activities:
• to promote individual and
collaborative creative activities;
• to assist faculty in
defining their research and creative activity goals and to encourage and help
them seek funding to support these goals;
• to increase faculty writing
productivity by providing workshops and courses on scholarly and professional
writing aimed at achieving such goals as publication, presentation at scholarly
or other professional meetings, and other media;
• to help faculty polish
professional presentation skills;
• to facilitate faculty
networking with scholars and artists who share similar research and creative
activity goals and interests; and
• to help locate funding
sources and assist the writing of successful proposals for grants, fellowships,
and awards, including assistance in drafting budgets.
Successful and Effective
Professional and Leadership Activities:
• to offer individually tailored support for
faculty members to prepare personal professional development plans;
• to promote faculty
leadership and to assist faculty in managing their service to the University
and wider community;
• to provide workshops in
leadership skills; and
• to help faculty succeed in
the retention, tenure, and promotion process through workshops and individual
consultation on topics such as setting professional goals, time management,
understanding and improving student evaluations, and documenting and presenting
contributions to teaching, research and creative activity, and service.
Enhance Collegiality:
• to create opportunities for
faculty to meet and discover shared interest across disciplinary lines;
•to develop a center for
faculty to meet, talk, read, and write; • to build a sense of community among
the faculty;
• to facilitate a better
understanding regarding performance expectations; and
• to provide a friendly
environment where faculty can come and share expertise and concerns with
colleagues.
National Latino Research Center
(NLRC)
(760) 750-3500
The mission of the NLRC is to
promote, at the national level, scientific research, training, and the exchange
of information related to Latino populations in the United States.
The Center’s organizational
structure and activities are guided by the following major objectives, which
also represent center departments:
Research:
• To promote the awareness,
expansion and enhancement of culturally sensitive, culturally relevant and
scientifically focused research on Latino populations.
Clearinghouse:
• To offer training,
specialized workshops and to facilitate and organize conferences on substantive
topics of critical importance to researchers, students, community organizations
and government agencies involved with Latino populations.
Training:
• To serve as a repository
for empirically based publications, databases and reports pertaining to
substantive issues for Latino populations.
Services:
• Data collection,
translation and our other services increase our understanding of this
numerically significant population.
• The Center is building a
library of outcomes from methodological studies conducted through our services
to others.
• Providing services has a
larger purpose. What we learn as we provide our services will be shared with
others in the field through reports and publications.
DATA COLLECTION
The National Latino Research
Center provides up-to-date data collection services regarding diverse Latino
and non- Latino populations throughout the United States.
TRANSLATION
Spanish translation of data
collection instruments and other research materials is critical for valid and
reliable information.
NLRC methods take into
account diverse cultural backgrounds and literacy levels of Latino populations
– be they of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban or of “other” Latino group origin.
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
We conduct state-of-the-art
needs assessments which consider the social and cultural context of targeted
populations, especially diverse Latino populations throughout the United
States.
PROGRAM EVALUATION
NLRC specializes in
theory-driven program evaluations focused on programs serving Latino
populations and tailored to fit diverse client needs.
SURVEYS
Specialists conduct moderate
to large studies using optional sampling strategies.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND DATA ANALYSIS
Data analysis and
interpretation of findings are two critical services the NLRC supplies. The
NLRC can clarify research designs and offer options when results call for new
approaches. Data analysis can range from simple descriptive analysis to
multivariate analyses.
WEBPAGE CREATION FOR CONFERENCES
The NLRC can create and
maintain webpages for conferences and seminars.
If you are interested in any
of the Center’s services, please contact us at the:
National Latino Research
Center
CSU San
Marcos
San
Marcos, CA 92096
Phone: (760) 750-3500
Fax: (760) 750-3510
Social and Behavioral Research
Institute
(760) 750-3288
Established in 1993, the
Social and Behavioral Research Institute (SBRI) is a multi-disciplinary and
multicultural instructional and research environment designed to provide
students with stateof- the-art knowledge of the social scientific enterprise.
The SBRI is organized as a resource for projects that respond to
community-based questions and/or faculty sponsored initiatives. In the research
lab, students have “handson/ real-world” experiences in how research is
conducted. Central to this process is the use of technology for the access and
retrieval of information, data collection, and analysis.
The institute views issues of
diversity within our communities as a fundamental element in obtaining quality
data. Therefore, students learn to consider issues of culture and language as
part of the puzzle that must be addressed within the research design.
Students involved with the
SBRI:
• learn to use the Internet
to gain access to information and data;
• learn to work with the
institute’s computer assisted telephone interviewing system to collect social
scientific data with the latest methods of sampling and questionnaire design;
• are exposed to
multidisciplinary quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques using the
latest software to model social theory by using
— video, voice, and digital qualitative data
— statistical analysis
techniques; and
• gain the knowledge and skills
necessary to make a contribution to the
quality of life of our
rapidly changing environment and community.