Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
California State University, Bakersfield
9001 Stockdale Highway
Bakersfield, California 93311-1099
Phone: (661)-664-2249 FAX: (661)-665-6904
E-Mail: JKEGLEY@CSUBAK.EDU.
EDUCATION
1971 Ph.D. Philosophy. Columbia University
1964 MA summa cum laude, Philosophy. Rice University
1960 BA cum laude, English & History, Allegheny College.
TEACHING
1981- Professor of Philosophy, California State University,
Bakersfield
1977-1981 Associate Professor of Philosophy, California State University,
Bakersfield
1973-1977 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University,
Bakersfield
1969-1973 Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy, California State University
Bakersfield
1966-1968 Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of the Philippines
AREAS OF SPECIALITY
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology, Bioethics,
Philosophy of Medicine, Neuroethics, American Philosophy, Critical
Thinking, Philosophy of Mind.
Awards
2015 California State University, Bakersfield President’s Medal for Academic Leadership and Philanthropy
2006 Herbert W. Schneider award from the Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy- this award is for making “career-long outstanding contributions to American philosophy.”
2000 California State University Wang Family Excellence award for excellence in Teaching, Research and Service
2000 Elected President, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
1997 California State University Faculty Leadership and Service Award
1987 California State University Outstanding Professor Award
1987 CSU, Bakersfield Outstanding Professor of Award
RESEARCH, PUBLICATION AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Books and Text Materials
Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy, New York: Lexington Press, 2013.
Josiah Royce in Focus, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Informed Consent in an International Perspective: Case Studies, with A. Carmi, J. Arboledo-Flores, & T. LeBlang, UNESCO, 2003.
Genetic Knowledge, Human Values, and Responsibility, (Editor).
New York: Paragon, 1999.
Genuine Individuals and Genuine Communities: A Roycean Public Philosophy. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press. 1997.
Paul Tillich on Creativity, (Editor) Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 1989.
Reasoning with Analogy: The King Returns, CAI Software Package for Critical Thinking. New York: McGraw Hill. 1984.
Introduction to Logic, (with Charles W. Kegley), Lanham, Maryland, University Press of America. 1982.
The Humanistic Delivery of Services to Families in a Changing and Technological Age, (Editor) Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 1982.
A New Challenge to the Educational Dream: The Handicapped, (Editor), Bakersfield, California: California State University of Bakersfield Press. 1980.
The Doctrine of Interpretation: Building Community Out of Conflict, (Ed.) Hayward, California: California State University, Hayward Press. 1978.
Introduction to Logic, (with Charles W. Kegley), Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Company. 1978.
Instructors’ Manual to Introduction to Logic, (with Charles W. Kegley), Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Co. 1978.
Cassette Tapes for Introduction to Logic, (with Charles W. Kegley), Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Co. 1978.
Articles and Chapters.
“Kant as Public Intellectual and Political Theorist,” to be published in Pragmatist Kant, Edited by C. Skowroński,, Brill, 2018.
“Royce on Self and Relationships: Speaking to the Digital and Texting Self of Today,”
to be published in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2018..
“A return to humility and common sense: Santayana’s message to our current age,” Limbo. Boletin sobre los estudios sobre Santayana, Spain, August 2017.
Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable into Constituent Actions of Human Beings?” in John Lachs’s Practical Philosophy, ed. by C. Skowroński, to be published by Brill, 2017.
“Santayana in Relation to Remembering and Forgetting History, in The Life of Reason in an Age of Terrorism, ed. by C. Padrón and C. Skowroński to be published by Brill in January 2018.
Not Black or White but Chocolate Brown: Reframing the Issues, Cosmopolitanism and Place, Edited by Jessica Wahman, Jośe M. Medina, & John Stuhr, Indiana University Press August, 2017.
C.I. Lewis? A Significant Figure in American Pragmatism: Tracing Lines of Influence and Affinities of Themes and Ideas, in Carl Sachs and Peter Olen, editors, Pragmatism in Transition: Contemporary Perspectives on C. I. Lewis (Palgrave Macmillan), 2016.
“Josiah Royce and C.I. Lewis: Teacher and Student with Many Shared Affinities, “The Transactions of the Charles Sanders Pierce Society, 2016.
“Royce on Self and Relationships: Speaking to the Digital and Texting Self of Today,”
to be published in a forthcoming issue of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2016.
“Lost Individuals & Lost Communities: How Do We Restore Relationships? Insights from Josiah Royce,” to be published in a forthcoming issue of The Pluralist, May 2016.
“Practical Philosophy: Guiding the Art of Living Ethically,” in John Lachs: The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, edited by Krzystof Skowronski, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2016.
“Do Not Block Inquiry: Philosophy in America- Peirce and Socrates,” The Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society, Summer 2016, Volume 52, No. 3, 353-265..
“Introduction” to The Sources of Religious Insight, by Josiah Royce, a Critical Edition, IUPUI, 2015.
“Practicing Philosophy: Dewey, Royce, Addams and Dubois,” Chapter in Practicing Philosophy: Essays on American Pragmatism, edited by Krysztof Pitor Skowroski, Brill- Rodopi, 2015.
“Do Not Block Inquiry: Philosophy in America- Peirce and Socrates,” to be published in The Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society, February, 2016.
“Democratic Theory, Chapter 5, in Bloomsburg Companion to Political Philosophy, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
“Classical American Pragmatism: Practicing philosophy as experiencing life,” Human Affairs, Vol. 24, Issue 1, January 2014.
“Racism, Race and Josiah Royce: Exactly What Shall We Say? The Relevance of Royce,
edited by Kelly Parker & Jason Bell, New York:” Fordham University Press, 2014
“Mary Mahowald: Removing Blinders and Crossing Boundaries, “The Pluralist 8:3, Fall 2013.
“Can We Answer the Many Contemporary Challenges to our Notion of the ‘Human Self,” Southwest Philosophy Journal, Vol. 29, Number 1, January 2013, 233-240.
“The Self as Naturally and Socially Embedded but Also as So Much More,” in George Herbert Mead in the 21st Century, edited by Tom Burke and Krzystof Piotr Skowronski, New York: Lexington, 2013.
“Mining the Past, acting in the Present, and Enriching the Future, The Pluralist, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2012, 7-24.
“Mind as Personal and Social Narrative of an Embodied Self,” in Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century: Historical, Ethical and Religious Interpretations, edited by Kelly Parker and Krzystof Piotr Skowronski, New York: Lexington, 2012
“The Ethical Subject as “Rational Individual but So Much More,” but So Much, More,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2011, 116-149.
“John E. Smith: A Frontiersman, a Humble Interpreter and Advocate for Community,” in
Experience, Interpretation, and Community: Themes in John’s Smith’s Reconstruction
of Philosophy edited Vincent Colapietro, New York: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
“The Ethical Subject as “Rational Individual but So Much More,” but So Much, More,” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2011, 116-149.
“Josiah Royce,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, May, 2011, http://www.iep.utm.edu/roycejo
“Rorty as a Critic but not Critical Enough,” International Journal of Cultural Research, 116-119, www.culturalresearch.ru,
“Peirce and Royce and the Betrayal of Science: Scientific Fraud and Misconduct,” The Pluralist 5:2. September, 2010, 1-26.
“John Dewey and Josiah Royce in Dialogue on the Individual and Community,” in John Dewey at 150: Art, Culture and Society, edited by Krzystof Piotr Skowronski and Matthew C. Flamm, Rodolpi, 2010.
“False Dichotomies and Missed Metaphors: Genuine Individuals need Genuine Communities,” The Philosophy of Richard Rorty, Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court, 2010, 107-135.
“Josiah Royce on Race: Issues in Context,” The Pluralist, Volume 4, Number 4, fall, 2009.
“Idealism: Moral,” in John Lachs, & Robert Talisee, Editors, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2008, 375-377.
“Josiah Royce: Evil,” in John Lachs, & Robert Talisee, Editors, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, 2008, 67-680.
“Community: The Context of Creative Action,” in William James and Josiah Royce a Century Later: Pragmatism and Idealism in Dialogue, edited by David Lamberth, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, 2009.
“Living Creatively While Terminal,” in Experience as Philosophy: on the Work of John J. McDermott, James Campbell & Richard E. Hart (Editors), New York: Fordham University Press, 2008, 58-83.
“Is A Coherent Racial Identity Essential to Genuine Individuals and Communities? Josiah Royce on Race,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2005.
“Informed Consent: A Doctrine in need of Replacement?” International Journal of Molecular Biology, September, 2004.
“Grace, the Moral Gap, and Royce’s Beloved Community,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 18:3. 2004, 170-182.
“A New Bioethics Framework for Facilitating Better Decision-Making about Genetic Information,” in M. Boylan (Editor), Public Health Policy and Ethics, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 91-101.
“Community, Autonomy, and Managed Care,” in Pragmatic Bioethics. G. McGee (Editor), Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999 and 2004.
“An Ethical Imperative: Genetics Education for Physicians and Patients,” Medicine and Law Journal, 22:2, June, 2003.
“The Contextual Human Person: Reflections on the Philosophy of Marjorie Grene,” in Lewis E. Hahn & Randall E. Auxier(Editors), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, Volume XXIX, The Library of Living Philosophers, Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court. May, 2002.
” Confused Legal and Medical Policy: The Misconceptions of Genetic Screening,” The Journal of Medicine and Law, 19:2, April, 2000.
“Josiah Royce: A Vision for Our Time,” in John Stuhr (Editor), Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy, 2nd Edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
“Community, Autonomy, and Managed Care,” in Pragmatic Bioethics. G. McGee (Editor), Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999 and 2004.
“Walking in Another’s Shoes: Technology and Ethics in Situ,” Teaching Excellence, Michael Flachmann (Editor), Long Beach: California State University Institute. 1998.
“Genetic Information and Genetic Essentialism: Will We Betray Science, the Individual, and the Community?” J. Kegley, (Editor), Genetics and Human Values. New York: Paragon. 1998.
“Using Genetic Information: The Need for a New Policy Plan and Ethical Framework,” in Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access and Control,” Proceedings, International Conference, University of Lancashire, December 1997. New York: Plenum. 1998.
“Using Genetic Information: A Radical Problematic for an Individualistic Framework,” Medicine and Law. 15:4, December 1996.
“Science, Technology, Human Values and Choices,” International Journal of Science and Technology 9:2 spring, 1996.
“The Real Question: A New Paradigm for Higher Education,” Bernard Goldstein, (Editor), California’s Master Plan for Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century, Proceedings of the Pacific Division, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Long Beach and San Francisco: The California State University Press. 1996.
“Is Adventurous Humility Possible?” The Philosophy of Paul Weiss, Lewis Hahn Editor), Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court. 1995.
” Science as Tradition and Tradition Shattering: Thomas Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science,” Anna Omery, Christine E. Kasper, & Gayle G. Page, (Editors), In Search of Nursing Practice, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications. 1995.
“Medicine as a Mediating Practice,” Proceedings of the First World Congress of Medicine and Philosophy, The Hague: D. Reidel Company. 1995.
“Peirce and Royce on Person: New Directions for Ethical Theory,” in Herman Parret, (Editor), Peirce and Value Theory, Philadelphia: John Benjamin Publishing Company. 1994.
“Technology as Creativity and Embodiment: A New Critical View,” in Mark H. Shale and George W. Shields, (Editors), Science, Technology and Religious Ideas. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. 1994.
“Today’s’ Moral Imperative: Building Self and Community.” The Maine Scholar, Vol. 6, 1993.
“Josiah Royce,” Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993.
“Loyalty to Loyalty: A Plan for American Today.” Frontiers in American Philosophy, Vol. I, Robert W. Burch and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr., (Editors), College Station: Texas A&M University Press. 1992. 337-345.
“Ethical Issues in the Care of the Handicapped,” International Journal of Chinese Medical Ethics. 1991. 67-78.
“The Patient-Centered Ethic and Physician Marketing: No Irresolvable Conflict.” Proceedings: Royal Hawaiian Eye Meeting. 1991.
“The Problem of Self and Technology,” Proceedings: Charles Sanders Peirce Sesquicentennial International Congress, Harvard University Press, 1991.
“The Beloved Community: Royce and Hartshorne.” in Lewis E. Hahn (Editor), The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne. Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court, 1991.
“History and Philosophy of Science: Necessary Partners or Merely Roommates? “T.Z. Lavine and V. Tejera, (Editors), History and Anti-History in Philosophy, New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1989. 237-255.
“Josiah Royce: Anticipator of European Existentialism and Phenomenology, Vincent Potter, (Editor), Doctrine and Experience, New York: Fordham University Press. 1988. 174-189.
“Technology and the Good Life,” Journal for the International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, I: 2, 1988.
“Josiah Royce: A Vision for Our Time, John Stuhr (Editor), Classical American Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. 1987.
“J.L. Austin.” Twentieth Century Thinkers, Elmer Borklund (Editor), London: St. James Press. 1984.
“Individual and Community in American Philosophy, “Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 11; 3, 1984, 203-16.
“Genetics and Mental Retardation,” in Laura & Ashman (Editors), Moral Issues in Mental Retardation, London: Croon Helm Ltd, 1984.
“John Barth’s End of the Road: The Death of Individualism,” in A. Philipps-Griffiths, (Editor), Philosophy and Literature, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 16. Supplement to Philosophy. 1983, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 115-134.
“Josiah Royce: A Source of New Religious Insight Today,” Religious Studies, 18: 99, 1983, 211-224.
“The Family Crisis and the Dilemma of Delivery of Services to Them,” Jacquelyn A.K. Kegley (Editor), The Humanistic Delivery of Services to Families in a Changing and Technological Age, Lanham: University Press of America. 1982. 9-25.
“Education for the Handicapped: A Challenge and an Adventure of Ideas. “Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley. (Ed.) A New Challenge to the American Dream: The Handicapped. Baskersfield: California State University, Bakersfield Press. 1980. 1-19.
“Josiah Royce on Self and Community,” Rice University Studies, 66:5, 1980.
“Why the Sciences and the Humanities Need Each Other,” Proceedings. NEXA Conference, Asilomar, California, San Francisco: San Francisco State University Press. 1979.
“Royce and Husserl: Some Parallels and Food for Thought,” Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society, 14, 184-199, summer, 1978.
“Josiah Royce: An Intellectual Biography.” Review Article. Transactions of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society, 14, Summer. 1978.
“Is Western Philosophy Male Chauvinistic?” Intellect, April. 1975.
“Josiah Royce’s Theory of Knowledge,” Dissertation Abstracts International, XXXIII, No. 1, 1972.
“Spinoza’s God & LaPlace’s World Formula,” Leibniz Gesellshaft. 1973.
“Reflections on the Ethical Theory of Alfred North Whitehead,” The Dillman Review, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press, 1968-69.
“Comedy as Social Criticism,” Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Aesthetics, Uppsala, Sweden, 1972.
“Truth and Art,” General Education Journal, No. 15, Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press. 1968-1969
Items to be Published
“C.I. Lewis: Another Misunderstood and Mislabeled Pragmatist,” This was an invited paper and will be published as part of a forthcoming book, Neglected American Pragmatists, edited by Carl Sachs, New York: Palgrave Press, 2016.
“Not Black or White but Chocolate Brown: Reframing the Issues of Cosmopolitanism” a chapter in a book on Cosmopolitanism edited by Cynthia Gayman to be published by Emory University Press, 2016.
Invited or Referred Presentations
“Pragmatism and the ‘Other Kant,” Kant as Public Intellectual and Political
Theorist” for “Pragmatist Kant:” An International Conference within the American and European Values-Berlin Edition series, July 11-13, 2017, Berlin, Germany
“Teaching Philosophy to First-Generation College Students,” Philosophy Bakes Bread, Radio show, April 27, 2017.
“Celebrating Royce,” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Birmingham, Alabama, March 6, 2017.
“Doing Philosophy Today: Lessons from Royce’s The Spirit of Modern Philosophy,” Panel presentation at Central Division, American Philosophical Association, Kansas City, Missouri, March 3, 2017.
“Santayana in Relation to Remembering and Forgetting History,” Invited paper, Practical Philosophy Conference, Berlin Practical Philosophy Forum, Berlin, Germany, July, 2016.
“Are acts of institutions really fully analyzable into the constituent actions of human beings?" Invited paper, Practical Philosophy Conference, Berlin Practical Philosophy Forum, Berlin, Germany, August 11-13, 2015.
“Ignoring History: Free Will as a Non-Problem, a Debate Based on False Assumptions,” The Charles Sanders Peirce Centennial International Congress, University of Massachusetts, July, 2014.
“Frank M. Oppenheim, S.J. A Model for Interpretation, Loyalty, and Community,” Royce's Legacy: A Conference in Honor of Rev. Frank Oppenheim, SJ, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH, 2014.
“A Neglected Topic: A Needed Task,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, University of Colorado at Denver, 2014.
“From Grass Valley to Great Community- Grass Roots Democracy,” Banquet Address, Royce, California, and the World , Conference, Grass Valley, California, August 15, 2013-
“Royce- The Value of History and Royce as a Historian,” Royce, California, and the World , Conference, Grass Valley, California, August 15, 2013.
“Royce as Psychologist; A forgotten aspect of his thought: Royce, California, and the World , Conference, Grass Valley, California, August 15, 2013.
“The Psychological Influence of Place on Ideas: Royce and California,” “Geographies of Ideas,” Fifth Annual U.S. Intellectual History Conference, Irvine, California, 2013.
“Not Neo-Pragmatism but Critical Pragmatism: There are Times When the Private must Become Public,” American and European Values IX: Richard Rorty and Beyond (July 30-August 2, 2013, Opole, Poland.
“Mining the Past, acting in the Present, and Enriching the Future” Presidential Address, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, New York City, 2012.
“Josiah Royce: Classical American Philosopher; Pragmatist, Phenomenologist, Process Thinker and Advocate for Community,” International Conference on Pragmatism, Rome, Italy, 2012.
“Re-assessing Compulsion and Persuasion in Democracy via a new Framework,” American and European Values VIII: Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy Conference in Opole, Poland, 2012.
“Justice Begins at Home: From Family, Community, Nation, to World,” American Philosophies Forum: The Nature of Justice: Poverty, Development, and the Environment, 2012.
“Pink Smoke over the Vatican: Philosophers, Civility, Religion and Public Policy Issues,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, December 28, 2012
“The Self as Naturally and Socially Embedded but Also as So Much More,” American and European Values VII: International Conference on George Herbert Mead at 80 Anniversary of His Death, Opole, Poland, 2011
“Not Black or White but Chocolate Brown: Reframing the issues of Cosmopolitanism,” International Conference on Cosmopolitanism and Place, June 2-4, 2011; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
“John E. Smith Advocate for Community, Experience, and Religion,” Invited address, Memorial Session for John E. Smith, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Spokane, Washington, 2011.
“Mary Mahowald: Removing Blinders and Crossing Boundaries,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Spokane, Washington, 2011.
Betrayal within the Scientific Community: Scientific Misconduct- What would Charles S. Peirce and Josiah Royce Probably Say? Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Texas A & M, College Station, Texas, 2010.
“The “Ethical Subject/Agent” as rational but also as so much more!” The American Philosophies Forum: The Future of Ethics, Emory University, 2010.
Leon Peters Ethics Lecture: “Are We Our Brains: Reflections on Neuroscience and Morality,” The Ethics Center, California State University Fresno, March 23, 2010.
“Why Study Philosophy?” invited presentation, in Introduction to Philosophy, California State University, Fresno, March 24, 2010.
“John Dewey and Josiah Royce in Dialogue,” invited paper for an International Symposium on “John Dewey at 150: Art, Culture and Society, Opole, Poland, June, 2009.
“The Concept of Mind as an Individual and Communal Notion,” invited talk for an International Symposium on Themes in American Philosophy: Josiah Royce, Opole, Poland, June, 2008.
“Race as a Contextual Matter,” this is an invited address for the Central Division, American Philosophical Association meetings, Chicago, April, 2008.
“Loyalty, A Principle and Process for Reconciliation and Ethical Action,” this is an invited address, for the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Lansing, Michigan, 2008.
“Josiah Royce: Representative American Philosopher,” this was an invited lecture, Fulbright Institute on American Thought, San Francisco State University, 2007.
“Science and Philosophy: The Unspoken Quest for Certainty,” this was an invited lecture, Texas A & M University, November, 2007.
Community: The Context of Creative Action,” invited address for a symposium, William James and Josiah Royce a Century Later: Pragmatism and Idealism in Dialogue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, 2007.
“Peirce and Royce and the Betrayal of Science: Scientific Fraud and Misconduct,” Refereed paper given at meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Columbia, South Carolina, 2007.
“The Morality of Stem Cell Research,” Panel Discussion, Kegley Institute of Ethics, January 2007.
Panelist, First Annual Faculty Symposium, CSUB, May 18, 2007.
“Royce, Bergson, and Time,” invited address, Bergson/Royce Symposium, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 2006.
“Personhood in Process,” an invited address for the International Personalist Symposium, Warsaw, Poland, 2006.
Is A Coherent Racial Identity Essential to Genuine Individuals and Communities?” invited address, International Conference on Josiah Royce, Vanderbilt University, 2005.
“A New framework for Facilitating Decisions on Death and Dying,” 15th
Congress on Medical Law, Sydney, Australia, August, 2004.
“Josiah Royce: Public Philosopher,” Summer Institute on American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, July, 2004.
“Spirituality and Aging,” radio presentation, 60+ Club, September, 2004.
“Genetic Decision-Making: A Template for Problems of Informed Consent,” 14th World Congress on Medical Law, Helsinki, Finland, August, 20003.
“An Ethical Imperative: Genetic Education for Physicians,” National Congress on Medicine and Law, Madrid, Spain, October 17-19, 2002.
“Genetic Rights,” Ninth Session, International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO, Montreal, Canada, November, 2002.
“Teaching Ethics Across the Curriculum: An Ethical Responsibility We
Cannot Avoid,” 9th Annual Southern Utah Faculty Development Conference, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, August, 2001.
“Exciting Classroom Techniques in the Humanities Classroom,” workshop at the Summer Teacher-Scholar Institute, CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning, Cal Poly, SLO, June, 2001.
“Genetics, Informed Consent and Informed Physicians,” keynote address at XVII International Conference on “realities and New Frontiers in Pediatrics and Neonatology,” in Ancona, Italy, May 17-19th, 2001.
“Gratitude, Love, Happiness, Life,” Alpha Chi initiation, April 22, 2001.
“Why Animals Matter,” presented at the Psi Chi Research Conference, CSUB, April, 2001.
“The Changing Roles of the Profession,” presented at the APA, Central Division, Minneapolis, April, 2001.
“Community Service Learning: A Challenge to Philosophy,” presented at workshop on Community Service Learning, sponsored by the Campus Compact and the APAS, Central Division, Minneapolis, April, 2001.
“Charles Sanders Peirce on Names and Reference,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Las Vegas, March 12, 2001.
“Dewey’s Myopic Aesthetic,” presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Las Vegas, March 12, 2001.
“Genetics: Real Dangers and Unreal Expectations,” presented to the 60+ Club, CSUB, January 11, 2001.
“Is Teaching Central to Philosophy,” presented at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York City, December, 2000.
“Participant in panel, “Genetic Engineering,” Sponsored by the Kegley Institute of Ethics, November, 2000.
“Ethics Across the Curriculum,” a workshop at the Summer Scholars Institute of the CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning, Long Beach, June, 2000.
“Genetic Decisions: A Template for Problems with Informed Consent.” Presented at the 13th World Congress on Medical Law, Helsinki, Finland, August 7-10, 2000.
“Informed Consent in an Information Age,” Presented at the International Conference on “Ethics Education in Medical Schools,” February 14, 2000 in Eilat, Israel.
Genetics for Medical Education, a chapter and teaching module to be presented at an International Conference on “Ethics Education in Medical Schools,” February 13-16, 2000 in Eilat, Israel.
“Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Issues,” presented as part of a panel discussion at CSU, Bakersfield, May 11, 1999.
“Student Learning Outcomes Assessment: A New Venture,” American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C, December, 1998.
“Pragmatic Bioethics: Facilitating Better Genetic Decision-Making.”
Presented at national meeting of the American Philosophical Association,
Washington, D.C., December, 1998.
“Confused Legal and Medical Policy: The Misconceptions of Genetic
Screening,” presented at the World Congress of Medicine and Law,
Siofok, Hungary, August 3, 1998.
“A New Framework for the Use of Genetic Information,” Plenary Address at an International Conference: “Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access and Control,” The University of Central Lancashire, Preston, England, December 5, 1997.
“Is There Justice in American Health Care?” III World Congress of Bioethics, San Francisco, November 26, 1996.
“Preparing Entry Level Nurses to Address Complex Ethical Issues,” with
Peggy Leapley, Ethics in Nursing”: Discovery, Controversy and Actualization, Loyola University Chicago, November 15, 1996.
“The New Genetics: The Sexual Brain & Genetic Essentialism: Dangers for
the Future.” Philosophy Club, November 13, 1996.
“Choices, Changes, Challenges: Ethics in Managed Care.” CEWAER (California Elected Women’s Association for Education and Research) Conference. November 1, 1996.
“Ethics and Public Service,” The Public Service Speakers Series, The Public Service Institute, CSUB School of Business & Public Administration, October 29, 1996.
“Infusing Ethical, Political and Economic Knowledge and Skills in the Nursing Curriculum,” The Third Kern County Nursing Research Conference, October 26, 1996.
“Business Ethics and the Kegley Institute,” Presented to the Council of 100 in May, 1996.
“Is Liberty and Justice for All Possible in American Health Care?” Medical Ethics: Making Moral Distinctions. 26th Annual Philosophy Symposium, California State University, Fullerton, March 13-15, 1996.
“Ethics in Public Life: The Individual and the Community.” Elderhostel,
CSUB, October 16-20, 1995.
“Women’s Studies at CSUB: From Quiet Community to Public Community,” Women’s Day, CSUB, February 28, 1995.
“Has the University Community Betrayed Educating the Self?” 25th Anniversary Faculty Lecture Series. January 6, 1995.
“Twenty-Five Years of University and Community Partnerships.”
Bakersfield Rotary, September, 1994.
“It’s Great to Be Silver,” Video program on 25 years at CSUB. Directed,
Helped edit, presented September, 1994.
“A memory overview,” Retrospective: 25 Years at CSUB. September, 1994, CSUB Press.
“Good People for Bad Times,” with Robert Woods, Mel Rubin, Milt Clift, CSUB 60+ Club. TV Program, June, 1994
“The Importance of Pluralism in Building Bridges to the Future,” Panel Talk, CSUB Faculty Day, September, 1992.
“Personhood: Many Views and Many Varieties.” Kern Regional Center, February 10, 1992.
“Ethical Leadership: The New Edge in the 21st Century,” Rotary Club Business Leadership and Ethics Conference, March 10, 1992.
“Technology and Person,” Faculty Seminar, San Jose State University, January, 1990.
“Teaching, Research and Scholarship: Natural Partners.” Seminar on Teaching, Research and Scholarship, CSU, Los Angeles, May 10, 1989.
“Teaching and Self-Empowerment.” given at Conference, “Building an Agenda for Intersegmental Cooperation,” Westin Hotel, Millbrae, California. May 12-13, 1988.
“Ethical Issues: Work and Chemical Warfare.” 60+ Club, January, 1988.
“Women’s Perspectives on Business Ethics,” Gate Honors Program Conference, East High School, November, 1987.
“Bioethical Issues in Medicine,” 60+ Club, November, 1987.
“Ethical Issues in Genetic Screening,” College Day Program. CSUB, April
1987.
“The New Reproductive Technologies,” NEXA Seminar, October, 1986.
“The Law and Genetic Screening,” Women’s Club Program. September, 1986.
“The Pursuit of Excellence,” Honors Convocation, CSUB, June, 1986.
“Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. Women’s Literary Club. March, 1986.
“To Foster Soaring Achievement,” Honors Banquet, June, 1985.
“Women’s Issues Today,” Women’s Medical Association. October, 1985.
“Women Artists and Philosophers,” Women’s Day. April, 1984.
“To Live or Let Die.” Focus on Issues for 1984. KERO-TV, Channel 23,
May, 1984.
“Women and New Theological Perspectives,” Community Church,
September, 1984.
“Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid., “Humanities in Medicine Conference, May,
1984.
“Philosophy and Greek Civilization,” GATE Conference, East High School,
September, 1983.
“Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus,” Women’s Literary group, March, 1982.
“Integration: The Issues.” Problems and Possibilities in the 80’s. KBAK-
TV, Channel 29, November, 1980.
“Genetic Engineering,” Are There Any Limits To? KERO-TV, Channel
23, May, 1979.
“Euthanasia,” Are There Any Limits To? KERO-TV, Channel 23,
March, 1979.
“The Arts in America,” The Making of the American Mind. CBS, Channel 17, April, 1978.
GRANTS
Principal Writer and Director, Three Year Grant, “Infusing Ethical Political and Economic Knowledge and Skills into the Nursing Curriculum,” Fund for Improving Post Secondary Education (FIPSE), Department of Education. September 1994.
Principal Writer and Director, “Sharing Stories and Building Bridges,” California Council for the Humanities, January 1992.
Principal Writer and Director, “Ethical and Legal Issues in Psychotechnology,” University Research Council, California State University, Bakersfield, 1991.
Principal Writer and Director, “Nursing Research and Philosophy of Science Lectures,” Lottery Funds, California State University, Bakersfield, 1987-88.
Principal Writer and Director, “Justice in Health Care for the Elderly Lectureship,” Lottery Funds, California State University, Bakersfield, 1986-87.
Principal Writer and Director, “Delivery of Services to Families in Technological Age,” California Council for the Humanities, 1980-1982.
Principal Writer and Director, “A Challenge to the Educational Dream: The Handicapped,” California Council for the Humanities, 1980.
Principal Writer and Director, “Research on Self and Mind,” University Research Council, California State University, Bakersfield, 1978-1979.
Principal Writer and Director, “Building Community Out of Context,” California Council for the Humanities, 1977-1978.
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Principal Writer and Director, “Process Studies Research,”
University Research Council, California State University, Bakersfield, 1977-78.
BOOK REVIEWS
Infrahumanisms: science, culture, and the making of modern non-personhood by Megan Glick. Duke, 2018. Choice June 2019.,
Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience, ed. and introduction by Fernandes Botts, Lexington Books, 2016. Choice, September 2016, Vol. 54, No. 1.
Debating race, ethnicity, and Latino Identity: Jorge Garcia and his critics, edited by Iáan Jaksić. Columbia, 2015. Choice, November 1, 2015.
Transformative Experience by L.A. Paul. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, Choice, July 2015.
Social Media and the Value of Truth by Berrin Beasley and Mitchell R. Haney. (New York: Lexington Books, 2013. Choice. September, 2014.
Speed limits: where time went and why we have so little left, by Mark C. Taylor, Yale, 2014, Choice, April 1, 2015.
Understanding death: An Introduction to ideas of self and the afterlife in world religions, by Angela Sumegi, NY: Wiley, Blackwell, 2013.Choice.
The Metaphysics and ethics of death: new essays edited by James Stacy Taylor, 2013, Choice,
On the Intrinsic Value of Everything by Scott A. Davison, Continuum International Publishers, 2012, Choice, February 2013.
The Philosophical Foundations of Modern Medicine by Lee Keekok, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, Choice, June 2012.
The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity by Michael J. Monahan, New York, Fordham, 2011, Choice, April 2012.
The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality and the History of Philosophy, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011, Choice, January 2012.
The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise to Heal. By M. Gregg Bloche. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Choice, October 2011.
The Fetal Position: A Rational Approach to the Abortion Issue. By Chris Meyers. New York: Prometheus Books, 2010. Choice, March 2011.
Choosing Tomorrow’s Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction by Stephen Wilkinson, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Choice, October 2010.
The Philosophy of Death by Steven Luper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, Choice, January 2010.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, edited by John Bickle, New York: Oxford University, 2009, Choice, March 2010.
Dorsality: thinking back through technology and politics by David Willis, Minnesota University Press, 2008, Choice, December, 2008.
Choosing to Die: elective death and multiculturalism by C.G. Prado, Cambridge University Press, 2008, Choice, August, 2008.
Reverences for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce’s Interactions with Peirce, James and Dewey, Frank Oppenheim, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, Review of Metaphysics, 59:4:236, June, 2006. This was an invited review article.
Enhancing Evolution: the ethical case for making better people, John Harris, Princeton University, 2007, Choice, February, 2008.
The Situated Self, J.T. Ismael, Oxford University, 2007, Choice, June, 2007.
Global Bioethics: the collapse of consensus, edited by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., M & M Scrivener, 2006, Choice, March 2007.
Struck with virtue: The American individual and our biotechnological future, by Peter Augustine Lawler, ISI Books, 2005, Choice, June 2006.
Bioethics beyond the headlines: who lives? Who dies? Albert Jonsen, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, Choice, February 2006.
Ethical dilemmas at the end of life, Edited by Kenneth J. Douka, Bruce Jennings, and Charles Corr. Hospice Foundation of America, 2005, Choice, July 2005.
Posthumanity: thinking philosophically about the future, Brian Cooney, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, Choice, March 2005.
Power Failure: Christianity in the Culture of technology, by Albert Borgmann, Brazos, 2003, Choice, January, 2004, 41:5.
More humane medicine: a liberal Catholic bioethics, James F. Drane, Edinboro University Press, Edinboro Pa., 2004, Choice, 41:07, March 2004.
Philosophy and revolutions in genetics: deep science and deep technology, Lee Keekok, Plagrave, 2003, Choice, September 2003.
Autonomy and trust in bioethics, O’Neill, Onora, Cambridge. 2002, Choice, 40:8, April 2003.
Claiming power over life: religion and biotechnology policy, Mark J. Hanson, (Editor), Georgetown University Press, 2001, Choice, July, 2002.
Technology and the Spirit, Ignacio Gotz, Praeger, 2001, Choice, 39:9, May 2002.
Slow cures and bas philosophers: essays on Wittgenstein, medicine and Bioethics, Carl Elliott, Duke University, 2001, Choice, 39:04, December, 2001.
The call of conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, rhetoric and the euthanasia debate, Michael J. Hyde, South Carolina, 2001, Choice, 38:11, July, 2001.
Philosophical and ethical problems in mental handicap, by Peter Byrne, St. Martin, 2000, Choice, 38:3, February, 2001.
Persons and their bodies: rights, responsibilities, relationships, Mark J. Cherry, (Editor), Kluwer Academic, 1999, Choice, 37:3, May, 2000.
A Brief, Liberal, Catholic Defense of Abortion, Daniel A. Dombrowski & Robert Deltete, Illinois, 2000, Choice, July/August 2000, 37:11/12.
Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates, Georgia Warnke, University of California Press, 1999, Choice, 37:5, January 2000.
Ethical Know-How: Action, Wisdom and Cognition, Francisco J. Varela, Stanford, 1999, Choice, 37:4, April 2000.
History of Suicide: Voluntary death in Western Culture, George Minois, Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane, John Hopkins, 1999, Choice, July/August 36:11/12, 1999.
The Virtual Embodied, John Wood, Routledge. 1998, Choice, 36:8, April, 1999.
The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency, by William A. Rottschaefer, Cambridge, 1998, Choice, 36:1, July/August/1998.
What is a Person? An Ethical Exploration, James W. Walters, Illinois University Press, 1997, Choice, 34:11/12, July/August/ 1997.
Care, Autonomy, and Justice: Feminism and the Ethic of Care, Grace Clement, Westview Press, 1996, Choice, January 1997.
Beyond Pro-Life and Pro-Choice: Moral Diversity in the Abortion Debate, Kathy Rudy, Beacon Press, 1996, Choice, November 1996.
Women as Wombs: Reproductive Technologies and the Battle over Women’s Freedom, Janice G. Raymond, Harper & Row. 1993, Choice, April 1994.
Euthanasia: The Good of the Patient, The Good of Society, Robert Misbin, University Publishing, 1992, Choice, July/August 1993.
The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend: Objectivity without Illusions, Philip Kitcher, Oxford University Press, 1993, Choice, November 1993.
Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People, David Heyd, University of California Press, 1992, Choice, April 1992.
Biology, Ethics and Animals, Rosemary Rudd, Oxford University Press, 1990, Choice, April 1991.
Adam, Eve, and Pinocchio, Willard Gaylin, Viking Press, 1990, Choice, June 1991.
Centrifugal Science, Gerald Radnisky, Association for Integrative Studies Journal, June 1989. Review Article.
Royce’s Mature Philosophy of Religion, Frank M. Oppenheim, Review Article, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, II: 3, 1988.
Self, Society and Personal Choice, Diana T. Meyers, Columbia University Press, Choice, April 1990.
Women and Evil, Nel Noddings, University of California Press, 1989, Choice, February 1990.
Texts Without Referents, Reconciling Science and Narrative by Joseph Margolis, Basil Blackwell, 1989, Choice, January 1990.
Philosophy of Biology Today, Michael Ruse, State University of New York Press, 1988, Choice, April 1988.
Contemporary Science and Natural Explanation, Daniel J. Hilton, New York University Press, 1988, Choice, July, August 1988.
The Nature of Disease, Lawrie Reznek, Rutledge & Kegan Paul, 1988, Choice, September 1988.
Why Preserve Natural Variety? Bryan G. Norton, Princeton University Press, 1988, Choice, June 1988.
Science, Philosophy and Human Behavior, Loren R. Graham, Columbia University Press, 1987, Choice, April 1988.
Philosophy, Science and Social Inquiry, by D.C. Phillips, Pergamon Press, 1987, Choice, September 1987.
From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self, Catherine Keller, Beacon Press, 1987, Choice, June 1987.
Images of Science, Paul M. Churchland & Clifford A. Hooker (Editors), University of Chicago Press, 1986, Choice, April 1986.
Scientific Knowledge and Philosophic Thought, Harold Hinsworth, John Hopkins Press, 1986, Choice, September 1986.
Ethical Issues in Psychosurgery, John Kleining, Allen and Unwin, 1985, Choice, June 1986.
The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce, John Clendenning, University of Wisconsin Press, 1986, Choice, May 1986.
Upon the Shoulders of Giants: The Shaping of the Industrial West, Richard Hardison, University Press of America, 1985, Choice, October, 1985.
On Nature, Leron S. Roudner (Editor), Notre Dame University Press, 1984, Choice, April 1985.
Abortion Freedom: A World-Wide Movement, Francome Colin, Allen and Unwin, 1984, Choice, May 1984.
Machina Ex Deus: Feminist Perspectives on Technology, Joan Rothschild
Editor), (Pergamon Press, 1983, Choice, April 1984.
Lamarck: The Mythical Precursor, Madeleine Barthelemy, Translated by H. Shank, MIT Press, 1982. Choice, May 1983.
The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology of Man. by Stephen E. Toulmin, University of California Press. 1983. Choice. September 1983.
Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Sandra Hardin and Merrill B. Hintikka (Editors), D. Reidel, 1983, Choice, September 1983.
Test-Tube Babies, William A.W. Walters and Peter Singer (Editors),
Oxford University Press, 1982, Choice, March 1983.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL & UNIVERSITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Administrative
Professional: National and International
President, Board, Royce Foundation, 2012-present
President, The Josiah Royce Society, 2014- present
Vice President, The Josiah Royce Society, 2012-2014
Member of the Executive Committee, SOPHIA (Society for Philosophers in America) - 2010-present
President, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2010-2012
Member of the Executive Committee, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2004-2006; 2008-2010.
Vice President for the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 2008-2010.
Host for Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March, 2005, at CSU, Bakersfield.
Chair, Advisory Board for the Royce Critical Edition, 2006- present.
Member of the Editorial Board, The Library of Living Philosophers, 1996- present time.
Member of the International Center for Health, Law and Ethics, University of Haifa, Israel, 1986- present
Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel, 1986-present.
Chair, Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, 1999-2002.
Chair, Pacific Division, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 1979-84 and 1988-1992, 200, 2014.
Chair, Pacific Division, Josiah Royce Society, 2006-2008.
Service of Academic Governance- California State University
Coordinator, Philosophy, Lower Division Transfer Program, CSU, 2006-2010.
Chair, Fiscal & Government Affairs Committee, CSU Academic Senate, 2006-7.
Member, Executive Committee, CSU Academic Senate, 2003-2004
Chair, CSU Academic Senate, 2000-2003
Chair, Academic Technology Advisory Committee, CSU, 2000-2002, and member of this committee, 2004-2008.
Senator, Academic Senate, California State University, 1989-2008.
Vice Chair, Academic Senate, California State University, Bakersfield, 1999-2000.
Member, Intersegmental Council of Academic Senates, 1999-2002.
Member, CSU Commission on the Extended University, 1999-2001.
Member, CSU Commission on Community Service Learning, 1999-2000.
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, CSU, 1994-1996.
Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Teaching and Learning, CSU, 1994-1997.
Member, Task Force on Incentives Systems, CSU, 1997
Faculty Co-Chair, CSU Institute for Teaching and Learning Advisory Board, 1989-1993.
Service, California State University, Bakersfield
Member, University Program Review Committee, 2015-2018
Member, Humanities Building Design and Oversight Committee 2014-present
Member, University Research Council, 2014-present
Member, University Council, 2013-present
Member, A & H Curriculum Committee, 2015-present
Member, Curriculum Conversion Committee, 2014-2016
Chair, Academic Senate, CSUB, 2012-present
Member of the Master Plan Committee 2012-present
Member of the University Budget Advisory and Strategic Planning Committee
Member of the Budget and Planning Committee, CSUB Academic Senate 2012-present
Member of the Stiern Library Advisory Board, 2011- Present
Director, Hawk Honors Program, 2014-present
Sponsor, Iota Chapter, Alpha Chi National Honors Society, 2013-present
Advisor, California Sigma Chapter, Phi Sigma Tau Philosophy Honors Society
Member of the CSU Honors Consortium
Member of the National Honors College Western Regional Advisory Committee
Member, CSUB Foundation Board, 2012-2015.
Chair, Search Committee, Dean for the School of Arts & the Humanities
Chair and Member, Search Committee for Associate Vice President for Academic Programs- 2014- 2015
Member, Search Committee for Director of Athletics, 2011-2012 and 2014-2015
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Libraries- 2015
Member, Search Committee for Director of 2012 and 2015
Member, Search Committee for Vice President for Student Affairs, 2012
Member, Search Committee for Associate VP for Grants and Contracts- 2014
Member, Board, Kegley Institute of Ethics, 2015-present
Chair, Board, Kegley Institute of Ethics, 2012-2015
Faculty Athletics Representative, 2006-2011.
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, CSUB, 2010-11; 2012-2014.
Member of the Academic Senate, CSUB, 2010
Member, Budget and Planning Committee, Academic Senate, CSUB, 2007-2010; 2011-2014.
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, 2004-2013.
Chair, Committee for 10th Anniversary Celebration of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2009-2010.
Chair, Committee on Academic Requirements on Standards, 2007-2009, Member of this
Committee 2009-2012.
Chair, Theme II Committee, 2006-2009.
Chair, Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Committee, 2007-2013.
Chair, Compliance Sub-Committee, NCAA Self-Certification, 2008-2010.
Member, Steering Committee, NCAA Self-Certification, 2008-2010.
Member, Budget and Planning Committee, 2008-2010.
University Day facilitator for session, “Acculturating Our Students to the University Environment,” September, 2008.
Chair, Diversity Committee for the Foundations for Excellence, 2007-2008.
Chair, Task Force on General Education, 2006-2007.
Member, Steering Committee for WASC, CSUB, 2006-2008.
Member, Search Committee for Interim Associate Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean of Undergraduate Studies, 2005-2006.
Co-Chair, WASC Steering Committee, CSUB 1997-1999.
Chair, Academic Senate, Academic Support & Student Services Committee, 2004-2006.
Member, Academic Senate, CSUB 1986 to 2008. I was elected for two-year term again in 2010.
Member, Executive Committee, CSU Academic Senate, 2003-2008.
Chair, Academic Senate, CSUB 1996-1997 and 1997-1998; 1998-2001.
Member, Foundation Board, California State University, Bakersfield, 1995-2000.
Chair, Faculty Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, CSUB, 1994-1996.
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, CSUB, 1993-1995; 2009-2011.
Chair, Academic Affairs Committee, Academic Senate, CSU, 1994-1996.
Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Teaching and Learning, CSU, 1994-1997.
Member, Task Force on Incentives Systems, CSU, 1997
Chair, Intercollegiate Athletics Advisory Board, CSUB, 1995-2000.
Co-Chair, 25th Anniversary Celebration for CSUB, 1994-1995.
Chair, Academic Senate, CSUB, 1996-1997; 1992-1993; 1984-86; and founding Chair, 1982-1983.
Chair, University Program Review Committee, CSUB, 1994-1997.
Chair, Evaluation Committee for Vice President for Academic Affairs, 1989-90.
Chair, University Review Committee, CSUB, 1994-1995 and 1984-1986.
Chair, Educational Policies Committee, 1987-88, 1989-90.
Chair, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, CSUB, 1985-1992.
Chair, College Council, CSUB, 1977-1981.
Vice Chair, College Council, CSUB, 1981-83
Chair, Curricular Policy Committee, College Council, CSUB, 1980-1981.
Chair, Long Range Planning Committee, College Council, California State
University, Bakersfield, 1980-81.
Chair, Budget and Planning Committee, Academic Senate, CSUB, 1983-4. During this time, we developed the University’s first Mission Statement.
Chair, Presidential Search Committee, California State University, Bakersfield,
Chair, Women’s Studies Committee, CSUB, 1980-84.
Chair, NEXA Sciences and Humanities Convergence Program, CSUB, 1979-1988.
Community Service
Member, Board, Institute of Religion, Education and Public Policy- 2012- present
Chair, Lifetime Associate, Kegley Institute of Ethics Board- 2011-present
Member, Dorian Board for the Support of the Arts, 1988-1992.
Member, Board of Directors, Kern County Mental Health Association, 1982-84.
Member, Grant Advisory Committee, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Board, 1985-1992.
Member, Board of Directors, Jason’s Retreat and CBCC Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center, 1987-1995, 1999- 2000.
Chair, Board of Directors, Musica DA Camera Musical Group, 1988-1995.
Member, Board of Directors, Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 1992-1997.
Member, Board of Directors, Meridian Ranch Group Home, 2000.