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GUNVOR G. SATRA Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

New York University: Latin American History; M.Phil., June 1980

University of Florida: U.S. History; M.A., February 1959

Oslo Univ., Norway: French, English, History; Cand.Mag., June, 1959

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE PRIOR TO WPC

Montclair State College, Instructor (temp.appointment), spring 1965

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez: Instructor, 1963-64

Inter-American University, San German, P.R., Instructor, 1961-63

University of Oslo Extension Service, Instructor, 1954-57

HONORS AND AWARDS

Merit Award, 1987

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

July 7-15, 1991: Attended Faculty Development Seminar, "Ecuador, A Microcosm of Latin America," in Ecuador.

July 1982: Attended seminar sponsored by the Caribbean Studies Association in Havana, Cuba.

July 1981: Attended seminar sponsored by the Caribbean Studies Association in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

TEACHING/CURRICULUM INNOVATIONS

June 8-14, 1995: Attended International Education Conference, held in Cpenhagen, Denmark, and in Prague, Czeck Republic.

June 13-24, 1994: Participant in the two-week Summer Institute, Year I, of the N.J. Global Education Project for Integrating Changing Perspectives on African, the African Diaspora and Latin America into the Curriculum, with resultant changes in my courses on the Caribbean and Latin America.

Aug.4-20, 1993: Developed a field based course on Ecuador, "Colonial Legacies and Indigenous Communities." In the same connection, I led a group on a study tour to Ecuador ("From the Amazon Rainforest to the Andean Highlands"), organized by the WPC Center for Continuing Education.

1985/86: Participant in the one-year pilot project "Writing Across the Curriculum", a faculty development program with the purpose of integrating writing in my history courses.

July 7-28, 1985: Participant in a three week residential summer institute on "Global Interdependence and New Jersey Education" for Faculty in the Humanities, held at Princeton University under the sponsorship of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the New Jersey Department of Education. Purpose: find ways to internationalize our courses.

May 28-June 10, 1992: Attended the N.J. Project residential summer institute, held at the Continuing Education Center at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Explored and showed ways to integrate race and gender into our respective courses.

June 1988: Participant in the faculty workshop, "Teaching about Race and Gender."

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1986-88: Elected to and served a two-year term on the Executive Committee of the Global Studies Consortium of New Jersey Colleges and Universities. During this time we organized two faculty development workshops: "Human Rights Issues" (April 11-12, 1986) at St. Elizabeth's College and "War and Peace" (Nov. 15, 1986) at St. Peter's College.

COLLEGE ACTIVITIES

International education

1969 to Present: WPC representative to the New Jersey State College Council for International Education, a consortium established for the purpose of facilitating study abroad opportunities and exchange programs for our students.

During the same time, I have been our campus coordinator of the "Semester Abroad" and International Exchange Programs.

Advisement

1984 to present: Participated in the planning stages of our present Advisement Center. Took the Faculty Training Workshop and have been working at the Advisement Center as volunteer Faculty Adviser since its inception.

History Department

1995/96; 1980-93: Member of the History Department Executive Council