CENTERS AND INSTITUTES

Barahona Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents
CRA 4206
Telephone: (760) 750-4070
Fax: (760) 750-4073
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, Cal State San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 92096-0001. Visit our web site at: www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/

Centro Barahona para el Estudio de Libros Infantiles y Juveniles en Español
CRA 4206
Telephone: (760) 750-4070
Fax: (760) 750-4073
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, Cal State San Marcos, San Marcos, CA 92096-0001. Nuestra dirección de Internet es: www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/

Center for Border and Regional Affairs
(760) 750-4142
cbra@csusm.edu

The Center for Border and Regional Affairs (CBRA) is a faculty-coordinated unit at Cal State San Marcos whose aim is to help this public university fulfill its mission of identifying and meeting the needs of the San Diego/Tijuana region, and of North County San Diego in particular, through the facilitation of community-based research, creative activity, teaching and service.

CBRA's main goals are:

to coordinate collaborative research, creative activities, teaching, and service at Cal State Marcos related to the San Diego/Tijuana region and the U.S.-Mexico border;
to link the interests and expertise of the Cal State San Marcos community with funding and policy initiatives;
to provide a vehicle for the Cal State San Marcos community to support sound regional policy; and
to serve as a point for contact for collaboration between Cal State San Marcos and U.S. and Mexican institutions and agencies concerned with regional research, creative activity, teaching and service in the San Diego/Tijuana region.

For further information, please contact:

Aníbal Yáñez-Chávez,
Director Center for Border and Regional Affairs
Cal State San Marcos
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road
San Marcos, CA 92096-0001
(760) 750-4142
cbra@csusm.edu

and economic position and faculty's border and regional expertise, and articulation of the expertise of Cal State 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
www.csusm.edu/nlrc

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
Cal State San Marcos
San Marcos, CA 92096
Telephone: (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 state-of-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 "hands-on/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.