education summit education summit - Eric Rofes

Saturday, 8:30 am – 10:00 am SESSION 4
LEAN THINKING FOR CREATING RESPONSIBLE
PROSPERITY
The session provides a basic introduction to the concept and principles of
lean thinking as developed by Taiichi Ohno and James Womack. Participants
will learn how lean thinking integrates various tools and techniques
to create value and reduce waste. Participants will be introduced to the
basic philosophy, learn how to determine value, and use lean methods to
improve organizational responsiveness while taking part in a guided simulation
of a product/service system.
DR. A. MARK DOGGETT is the chair of the Department of Industrial
Technology at Humboldt State University. He is currently working to revitalize
the study of technology and improve technological literacy in the
local community. His interests are in the area of quality management practices,
lean manufacturing, theory of constraints, and systems thinking. He
has also done research in various decision-making and problem-solving
strategies used by students, managers, and policy makers. His areas of
expertise include leadership, process management, and manufacturing
technology with over 20 years of experience in business and industry. Dr.
Doggett received his doctorate at Colorado State University in Interdisciplinary
Studies and holds BS and MS degrees in industrial technology. He
can be reached at amd49@humboldt.edu.
U Extended Session: 8:30–11:30
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development • Siemens Hall 115
IT’S ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS (AND OTHER
NEED-TO-KNOW ESSENTIALS OF MARKETING)
Marketing can be as simple or as complex as you make it. In this session,
we will explore together some simple yet essential (and effective) aspects
of marketing a small business on a shoestring budget.
NANCY VIZENOR, PHD is a part-time faculty member and teaches marketing
in HSU’s School of Business. Nancy came to Humboldt by way of
Seattle where she co-owned a marketing research firm. Her email address
is ncv2@humboldt.edu.
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development • Siemens Hall 128
CREATING CAMPAIGN STRATEGY
To win a campaign you need to ensure that the right people are feeling
the right pressure at the right times. Campaign research and strategy is
the first step in making sure that your campaign will mobilize folks, pressure
your decision-maker and ultimately win your campaign. We’ll focus
on using tools including research methods that Greenpeace uses on campaigns,
power maps that can outline those who should be influenced in
order to win, and strategy maps so that your group can realistically plan
and meet needed goals. This is highly interactive, focused on universitybased
campaigns, limited to 20 people, and requires that you have an idea
that you’d like to turn into a campaign. Please bring any relevant materials
or research that has already been done.
LINDSEY ALLEN is an organizer for Greenpeace, based out of San Francisco.
For the past few months she has worked with students to pressure
Kimberly-Clark, the makers of Kleenex, to increase their recycled content
and end their role in the destruction of the boreal forest of North America.
As the National Student Organizer for the Greenpeace forest campaign
she specializes in local university campaigns and international corporate
campaigns. She graduated from Humboldt State University in May 2004
with a degree in Anthropology and minors in Women’s Studies and Ethnic
Studies. She began her organizing career with the HSU Women’s Resource
Center in 2002 before moving on to work with the State PIRGs, Environment
California and, now, Greenpeace. Contact her at lindsey.allen@sfo.
greenpeace.org.
Founders Hall 025
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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS:
A FORGOTTEN THEME?
Environmental ethics is an important emerging field that often is not
fully addressed in contemporary classroom curricula. Fulfilling human-based
concerns for the availability and use of natural resources,
concern for the treatment of wildlife and other animals used for food
and recreation, considering the health and well-being of species and
biological communities, as well as desiring to develop more satisfying
personal experiences with nature, all contribute to the highly varied attitudes
our students and citizens hold toward the natural world. A brief
overview of the key distinguishing features between major attitudes
toward nature will be presented, and some current resources available
to students, teachers, and parents will be summarized. Participants
already working with environmental ethics curricula in the classroom
are encouraged to summarize the resources they have used in successfully
addressing this topic, for sharing with the others. Participants
collectively will work in groups to develop some environmental ethics
activities that can be incorporated into the classroom.
RICK BOTZLER is Professor of Wildlife at Humboldt State University
and has co-edited two texts with Susan Armstrong: Environmental
Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (3rd ed.) and The Animal Ethics
Reader. Rick was selected as the 1992 outstanding professor for the
California State University system. He has served as a Fulbright Fellow
to Germany and as the editor for the Journal of Wildlife Diseases.
Rick also has been active on the Human Rights Commission and Independent
Observer Program in Humboldt County. He can be reached
at rgb2@humboldt.edu.
SUSAN ARMSTRONG is Professor of Philosophy at Humboldt State
University and has co-edited two texts with Rick Botzler: Environmental
Ethics: Divergence and Convergence (3rd ed.) and The Animal Ethics
Reader. She was selected as the 2003-2004 outstanding professor
for HSU. Susan served for 10 years on the Editorial Advisory with the
journal, Environmental Ethics. Her many publications and presentations
cover environmental ethics, “naturalness,” theology, animal ethics,
the history of ideas, ethical conflicts, parapsychology, and social
responsibility. Her email address is sja3@humboldt.edu.
Teaching in Higher Education
Founders Hall 118
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THE JOB RACE
Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a dialogue about
white privilege and how it affects people in the job market. This is an interactive
session that uses examples such as attaining a job to visualize
systemic oppression in society. Dialogue and debriefing will focus on the
role of oppression in education.
PIYA BOSE received her BA from Vassar College in science, technology,
& society. She is currently Residence Life Coordinator at HSU and is pursuing
further education to continue a career in Higher Education. Contact
Piya at piya@humboldt.edu.
LETICIA ROMO has a BS from Iowa State University in business management/human
resources and an M.Ed. from University of South Florida
in college student affairs. She is currently Residence Life Coordinator at
HSU and can be reached at leticia@humboldt.edu.
Nelson Hall East 116