Academic Services

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND THE COMMUNITY

WRITERS’ VISITS TO CAMPUS

Writers’ Series. Poet Naín Nomez, writers Cristina Feijóo, Alicia Kozameh, and Roberto Rivera, script-writer Alejandra Naftal and Mother of Plaza de Mayo Nora Cortiñas, San Diego State University, Spring 2004

Writers’ visits to campus, San Diego State University, co-organizer with Joan Lindgren. Poet Francisco Morales Santos. San Diego State University, 2001

Writers’ visits to campus, organizer. Alicia Kozameh. Southern Oregon University 1997

Tour organizer. Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo tour, including Hood College, Trinity College, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American St. (Harvard University), Marymount University, San Diego State University. February-March 1998

COMMITTEES IN WHICH I HAVE SERVED

Department of Spanish and Portuguese:

• Temporary Teaching Staff Peer Review Committee (Fall 2003/Spring 2004): Observation and evaluation of teaching performance of Teaching Associates and lecturers.

• Masters Final Exam Committee (2003–2004): Preparation of reading lists, meeting with students throughout their period of preparation, discussion with students during oral exams, evaluation of students.

Consuelo Linn (May 2004); Cecilia Olaguez (May 2004); Elsa Orozco-Toops (May 2003); Luz Rodriguez (April 2003)

• Curriculum Committee (2002–2003): Matters dealt with included changes in numbers and names of existing courses, screening of proposals for new courses, and curricular problems.

Center for Latin American Studies:
• Executive Committee (2003–2004): Re-evaluation of the Center’s procedures; review of matters such as topics of focus for courses, and comprehensive exams.

• Masters Final Exam Committee: Between 2000 and 2004, I participated as a member in three final comprehensive exams. I was head of examination in the Spring of 2004. Tasks involved preparation of reading lists, meeting with students throughout their period of preparation, discussion with students during oral exams, evaluation of students.

As Head of Comprehensive Exam Committee:
Celia Balistieri (Spring 2004)
April Flak (April 2003); Sonia Trejo (Dec. 2000)