
Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center
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B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
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B.A., San Francisco College for Women; M.S., San Francisco State University |
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B.A.(Political Science and German), M.A. and Ph.D. (German literature specializing in the Weimar period): University of California, Berkeley |
Ms. Pahl taught German at CCSF from 1991-2003, and in 2001 began non-instructional work in the Language Center, where she provides student services in the Language Center, assisting students and instructors in using language-learning technology and various multi-media resources.
Blogs? Yes! Ms. Pahl keeps two blogs updated for the German Language Program (http://ccsfdeutschnaklar.blogspot.com/) and for the Foreign Language Department (http://ccsflanguagecenter.blogspot.com/). She also serves as the webmeisterin for the Foreign Language Department website.
Since German is perceived as a "difficult to learn" language (what with 4 declension cases, primary and secondary adjective endings, and, um Himmels willen!, 10-syllable compound words), Ms. Pahl has evolved her teaching philosophy to include some salesmanship, much encouragement ("If can learn German, you can too!") and a class-by-class refutation of T.L. Peacock's quote that "Life is too short to learn German." In the Language Center, Ms. Pahl is able to extend her encouragement and support to a wider group of students in their quest to learn any one (or more!) of the credit languages taught at CCSF.
Ms. Pahl served as committee chair of the International Education Advisory Committee from 2005-2009.
When she is not working in the Language Center, Ms. Pahl keeps up with political events and commentary, listens to NPR, and plans at least one new meal per week taken from her extensive cookbook and recipe collection.
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B.A. UC Davis, French and Italian. M.A. Humboldt State University, Education/TESOL emphasis. B.T.S. (B. of Theological Studies) Episcopal School for Deacons. Ordained Deacon, Episcopal Church. |
Prof. Pennekamp has been teaching at CCSF since 2001. Prior to that she worked at College of the Redwoods for many years teaching French and ESL, and as Assessment Coordinator.
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B.A., University of Arkansas, M.A., University of Texas, Austin |
Mr. Rappaport has been a member of the facutly at CCSF since 1998
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B.A., National Taiwan Normal University; M.A., San Francisco State University |
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B.A., University of Iowa; M.A., San Francisco State University |
Ms. Heard has taught at CCSF since 1982..
Since 1986, Ms. Heard has been working for CCSF's TRIO project, the Writing Success Project, serving low-income and first-generation college students.
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In her leisure time, Ms. Heard enjoys playing latin jazz piano and browsing in thrift stores
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Professor Loo has taught at CCSF since 1992.
Professor Loo "wants students to feel that I am supportive of their goals and dreams of education. Being educated about the resources available at CCSF is very important - that is why I got actively involved with the all-day .5 unit new student orientations. Students should feel that they have some friendly faces and contacts on campus. I encourage all students to take their time at CCSF to learn about themselves and other students in our diverse student population."
She is involved in Enhanced Self-Study, which brings Mission High School Law Academy and Health Pathway students to CCSF to be concurrently enrolled, and has also provided outreach support to the Biotech program.
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Chair, Learning Assistance Center Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library |
Professor Rosenthal has taught at CCSF for the past eighteen years. She has been involved in the Mentoring Students and Technology Committees and is a Learning Assistance Center Coordinator.
She believes students succeed best when they work with others to achieve their goals. Academic support services, in the form of tutoring, small groups and college success classes, provide students with the structure necessary for success.
Professor Rosenthal has published "Speaking of Reading", "Teach Some One to Read", and "Career Readers."
In her spare time, Professor Rosenthal enjoys reading historical novels, stained glass, quilting, working-out and hiking.
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Dr. Rowley has been an academic counselor, career counselor, and student development instructor since 1999. Currently, Dr. Rowley is a college success instructor and coordinator.
He states: "It is my responsibility as a community college instructor and counselor to continually work towards providing students with the experiences and tools needed to pursue, realize and achieve their goals - both educationally and personally."
Dr. Rowley has completed his dissertation entitled "The Internal Worlds of First Generation Community College Students: Students' Critical Reflections on the Role of Resilience in their Academic Success."
In his leisure time, Dr. Rowley enjoys cycling and spending time with his family.
Instructor Stewart has taught at CCSF since 1999. She has taught in the classroom, through telecourse and online. Currently she teaches College Success (LERN 50) online and Successful online Learning (LERN 55), a course to help new or previously unsuccessful online learners. For more information about these courses, visit her instructor website:
https://sites.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/elizabeth-stewart/
Instructor Stewart also implemented the Mobile Learning Assistance Center through the Learning Assistance Department. This enables her to take online learning and tutoring to incarcerated youth in the San Francisco Juvenile Justice System and later refer them to CCSF's 2nd Chance Program when possible.
Instructor Stewart states: "my reason for teaching online is so that I can reach students who may otherwise be unable to attend college or who do not have time to come to campus for all their classes. This includes a range of students such as those with demanding family and work commitments and those who are institutionalized."
Her highest goal is to serve her students and to address their needs - mental, emotional and spiritual. She identifies with her students who struggle to juggle work, family and other compelling issues with getting an education, as she has. She also enjoys sharing her love of learning and encourages students to overcome obstacles which hinder their success.
Other hats Instructor Stewart wears include hosting and tutoring international students. She has been an international home-stay host for over twenty years. She loves reading multicultural literature and traveling, when she can, especially to the U.K. and The Gambia in West Africa where she has friends and family. She also enjoys writing and intellectual inquiry. She is currently exploring the ongoing discussion and debate about the connection between quantum physics and consciousness.
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Bachelor's Degree in English, Swarthmore College, Master's in Education, San Francisco State University. |
Professor Straus has been teaching at CCSF since 2001
Ms. Straus believes every student has the ability to identify and achieve his or her goals and dreams. She encourages students to get connected to the many wonderful resources City College offers (find links on her website).
Hobbies: Yoga and art making.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center MLIS San Jose State University |
Prof. Alaniz has been teaching at CCSF since 2011
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., M.A., California State University, Hayward; M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center BS, Florida State University |
Professor Brown has been teaching at CCSF since 1998.
Professor Brown is a member of the Academic Senate, Mentor Program, Concert and Lecture, and AFT2121. She is also a Student Association Advisor.
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Chair, Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center MLIS San José State University |
I have been a librarian at CCSF since 2004 and an instructor in the Library Information Technology Department since 2007.
I aim to teach students the skills necessary to ascertain the validity and reliability of the information they are overwhelmed with on a daily basis. The truth shall make you free, but only when you can separate it from the chaff.
Past President of Information Technology Section of the California Library Association.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., San Francisco State University |
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Professor D'Souza is dedicated to public service, assisting students in all capacities.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., M.L.S., University of Texas, Austin |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., M.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.L.S., San Jose State University; |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center MLIS, San Jose State University |
Prof. Hutchings has been teaching at CCSF since 2009
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center A.B., M.L.S., University of California, Berkeley |
Mr. Lim has taught at CCSF for the past 5 years.
He is a member of the Asian Coalition.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., M.A., University of California, Berkeley |
Ms. Lo has taught at CCSF for the past two years.
She is committed to "make a difference" in the student's academic success similar to the "little boy" in the "Starfish Story".
Ms. Lo is on the Scholarship Committee and CalWorks Committee Asian Coalition. She is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), California Library Association (CLA), College & Academic Research Libraries (CARL), Chinese American Librarian Association(CALA).
Ms. Lo has been a contributor to the following: Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, "Our Family, Our Friends, Our World", New Providence, NJ: Bowker, 1992; Hayden, Carla, "Venture into Cultures", Chicago: American Library Association, 1992; Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, "Global Voices, Global Visions", New Providence, NJ: Bowker, 1995; Keller, Shelly, "Harmony In Diversity: Recommendations For Effective Library Service to Asian Language Speakers", Sacramento: California State Library, 1998. She is cited in "Who's Who Among Asian Americans" , 1994/95, Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1994.
Ms. Lo is a former dancer with San Francisco Folk Dance Association. She also enjoys fine dining, wine-tasting, folk art & handicrafts, and playing tennis.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Paul Valery, Montpellier, France; M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley |
Mr. Monajami states: "Community colleges serve as an educational stepping-stone for life transformations. I am proud to contribute to the success of our students by strengthening our library resources and helping to make them accessible."
He is a member of the American Library Association, North American Serials Interest Group, and Middle East Librarians Association. He has written the following theses: "Italian Cinema and the Work of Marco Bellochio" and "Iranian Cinema".
In his leisure time, Mr. Monajami enjoys film, languages, travel, reading, tennis.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B. A. Sociology, San Francisco State University |
Prof. Belle-Thomas Moss has been teaching full time at CCSF since 1977
Serve on Guardian Scholars Advisory Committee,
Currently Publications Editor, Western Region Council on Black American Affairs, Co- Vice President of Public Relations, National Council on Black American Affairs, member of local chapter of the Council on Black American Affairs.
Travel, theater and exploring museums
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington; M.L.I.S., University of California, Los Angeles |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville; M.L.I.S., University of California, Berkeley |
Ms. Saginor has been a librarian at CCSF since 1991. From 1995 to 2005 she also taught in the Library and Information Technology program. She is proud to be numbered among the lesbian faculty of CCSF.
She believes CCSF has the best students in the world. "They are very motivated and bring so many different life experiences into our academic culture."
Ms. Saginor is honored to have been elected President of the Academic Senate and serves on many committees. After her term on the Academic Senate Executive Council is over, she will, like all faculty, continue to be a member of the Academic Senate.
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center A.B., Morehouse College; M.L.S., Atlanta University |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center B.A., M.A., San Francisco State University; M.L.S., University of California, Berkeley |
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Louise & Claude Rosenberg, Jr. Library & Learning Resource Center A.A., S.D. Bishop State Junior College; B.S., Alabama State University; M.L.S., University of California, Berkeley |
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Library Information Technology B.A., San Francisco State University; M.F.A., University of San Francisco; M.L.I.S., San Jose State University |
Mr. Dear has been teaching at CCSF since 2007.
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Library Information Technology B.A., M.L.S., University of Hawaii |
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Chair, Library Information Technology A.B., Brown University; M.S., Columbia University; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley |
I believe in the college experience, which is sometimes hard to gain, but can be found in the community college. This said, I also believe in finding the most expeditious path through schooling so to save the student time and the public its resources. The net result is that our department is lean, it does not venture to duplicate its own classes nor those offered in so many CCSF departments. It means that we will use alternative delivery to supplement instruction, but will not replace the classroom and lab as a place to meet and network with future colleagues. It means I am flexible with program requirements, accepting transfer or waiving requriements and advising accordingly. My door is open, when you enter my office you become for that moment the most important matter in the universe.
Advisor to Alpha Gamma Sigma California Community College Honors Society, Omega Chapter at CCSF (since 1999).
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