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Table of Contents2 Changes to CLASS

3 Letter from the Dean

4 Alumni - Andrew F. Puzder

5 Anthropology’s 2009 Field School

6 Modern Languages Going Global & Cleveland Composer’s Recording Institute

7 Summer Stages

8 Donations & 24/7 Advising

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College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Dean

Gregory Sadlek

Creative DirectorLesley Lang

EditorJody Milkie

ContributorsPaul Aspelin

Tama EngelkingMichelle KnapikJames KosmatkaWilliam Morgan

Andrew F. Puzder 75’

Photographer William Rieter

Changes to CLassRonald M. Berkman - New President

Elizabeth Lehfeldt – History Department Chair

Joyce Mastboom – Liberal Studies Program Director

Mary Ellen Waithe – Women Studies Program Director

Sucharita Adluri – Religious Studies Department

Elizabeth Babin – School of Communication

Miyuki Fukushima – Department of Sociology and Criminology

Lily Hirsch – Music Department

Stephen Taysom – Religious Studies Department

Dawn Aliberti – Department of Sociology and Criminology,

visiting instructor

John Brentar – English Department, term instructor

Brian Bailey – Music Department, visiting assistant professor

John Ban – School of Communication, term instructor

Michael Dover – School of Social Work, term assistant professor

Calvin Moore – Department of Sociology and Criminology,

term assistant professor

Aravindhan Natarajan – School of Social Work, visiting instructor

Aaron Benson – Dramatic Arts Scene Shop Supervisor

William Breeze – Director of First-Year Writing, English Department

Jane McCrone – CLASS Development Associate

Teresa Peritz – Dramatic Arts Costume Shop Supervisor

Michelle Chinoda – 2009 Advisor of the Year Award

Murali D. Nair – 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award

Sheila Schwartz – English Department

Mareyjoyce Green – Department of Sociology and Criminology

and The Women’s Comprehensive Center

Nicholas Moutafakis – Philosophy Department

Diana Orendi – Modern Languages Department

Nelson Pole – Philosophy Department

Howie Smith – Music Department

A Master of Arts in Global Interactions (MAGI), started

this year in the Political Science Department. For more

information visit www.csuohio.edu/class/politicalscience.

The Sociology Department was renamed the

Department of Sociology and Criminology.

Faculty Changes

tenure-track Faculty hires

Visiting/term Faculty

staff

awards

Retirements

new Program

name Change

Passing

CsU President

Check out the CsU 2009 arts Calendarat www.csuohio.edu/class – Click on 2009 Arts Calendar

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Letter from the DeanTh is, the fourth edition of � e Innerlink, comes with a new creative director and a new look. Th e new creative director is Lesley Lang, our new college Communications Coordinator. Lesley came to us from the Cuyahoga County Public Library, and joined our staff late last spring. She established herself quickly, and has already made a big diff erence in the quality of our college’s print and web communications. Under her leadership, � e Innerlink will now be published several times a year and, we hope, will be even more visually attractive and engaging.

While CSU did suff er a major budget cut last spring, the more recent news is very good. CSU has record enrollments this fall. CSU is now a university of 16,445 students and is enjoying a 16.4% increase in new enrollments over last fall. In addition, our new recruits are stronger academically; the new fi rst-year students have an average GPA of 3.0+. CLASS alone now enrolls 3,420 majors, which is higher than anything I have seen since becoming dean in 2005. Moreover, we are keeping more of the students that we recruit. Fall-to-fall retention of fi rst-year students is up an impressive 10% over last year. Finally, although the CSU Trustees held the line on tuition increases again this fall, larger enrollments mean increased tuition income, and this will help the university weather any additional budget cuts that the state may be forced to make.

We are pleased to welcome a new President to CSU. Dr. Ronald Berkman arrived on campus in July, and he has quickly moved to connect himself to Cleveland-area leadership, to study the university deeply, and to personally assess every aspect of plans to move the university forward. According to his introductory letter—available on the CSU website—his goal is for the university to have a “transformational eff ect on the social, economic, cultural, and political life of the city, region, and state” as well as on the lives of its students. He also wants CSU to be a “major player driving the renewal of the city’s urban core.” In addition, when the President speaks, he always emphasizes the central role of a liberal education in the future success of university graduates. It seems, then, that the university is in for a very exciting future under Dr. Berkman’s leadership, and one in which CLASS will play a vital role.

Over the past several years, readers of � e Innerlink have met interesting representatives of our college’s faculty and programs. Th is year you will be introduced to more of them: enterprising archaeologists, mentors to new music composers, globe-trotting language professors, and a troupe of talented and entertaining theater artists. Th ese refl ect the diverse experiences of faculty and students in our three major divisions—fi ne arts, humanities, and social sciences. In addition, you will learn about one of our most successful alumni, Mr. Andrew Puzder, a History major who became the head of a large restaurant corporation. Finally, you will learn about special honors received by our faculty and staff . I would like to highlight the work two such people. In October, Dr. Murali Nair, professor in our School of Social Work, will receive CSU’s 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Nair, whose work in India was featured last year, is one of our most energetic faculty members, and he is constantly thinking of ways to improve the academic experience of his students. Second, Dr. Michelle Chinoda, a wise and dedicated student mentor, was awarded CSU’s Distinguished Advisor Award for 2009. Both of these awards are the result of Dr. Nair’s and Dr. Chinoda’s exceptional commitment to CSU students, but they also refl ect the more general orientation of CLASS faculty and staff to student success. We are very proud of their work.

Best wishes,Gregory SadlekDean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

alumni

alumni

Featured AlumnusAndrew F. Puzder

Where you are at now...When did you graduate and what is your degree in? Bachelor of Arts of History in 1975

What is your current occupation? CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc (Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr.)

What do you enjoy most about your job? When I took over CKE, the Company was in survival mode. It has been extremely rewarding for me to watch our team turn this company around and then to see it grow even in a very challenging economy. I particularly enjoy visiting our restaurants, meeting with our employees and customers and chatting with the people who fi ll the jobs we’ve saved as well as the new ones we’ve created. We try to instill an entrepreneurial spirit in our employees and particularly in our managers. This is a company tradition dating back to our founder Carl N. Karcher. There is nothing more rewarding than giving people the opportunity to succeed on their own merit and then watching them take advantage of that opportunity.

What was your fi rst job? When I was 10 I started cutting lawns on a small tractor our family owned in the Cleveland suburb where I lived (Russell or Novelty). I also made a little extra money ($5 a week) taking care of our neighbors horses. My fi rst salaried job was working in a Baskin Robbins Ice Cream Shop in Chagrin Falls when I was 16.

What are your interests? I enjoy jogging and working out. I am an avid reader, particularly of history (my major at CSU). Right now I’m reading scholarly biographies of each of the Roman Emperors starting with Julius Caesar (although technically speaking he never actually became an emperor). I am on the biography of Hadrian at the moment. I am also rereading Ayn Rand’s books, which I fi rst read some 40 years ago when I was 19. They had a major infl uence on me back then but actually seem even timelier now. My wife and I are big Lakers’ basketball fans (although we would love to see the Cavaliers win a championship). We have some Lakers’ fl oor seats and we go to as many basketball games as we can each year. We also enjoy getting away and traveling and take a couple of trips each year. Two of my younger children (17 and 11) are musicians and we share that

interest. My non-musician son (14) and I enjoy fi shing, which is something we just started doing together recently but something that I did a lot as a kid growing up in Ohio. We also love it when my daughter (30) visits and my two older sons (37 and 34) visit with their wives and our 4 (soon to be 5) grandchildren.

What is your most valuable possession? The thing I value most in my life is my wife, but I don’t believe that I possess her. I’m just grateful that she sticks around (or that she let’s me stick around). My faith is something of inestimable value that I do possess. My ability to think rationally is also something I feel is of inestimable value.

What do you value most in others? Independent thought, reason and courage.

What is a little known fact about you? I voted for George McGovern. I was young.

Back to your college days...What was your favorite class? Constitutional History with Professor Cary (along with a couple of other American History courses I took with him). I also enjoyed my Philosophy courses with Professor Fox, my Oriental History courses with Professor Mandelker and my Medieval History courses with Professor Runyon. I enjoyed Latin but can’t remember the professor’s name. In spite of that memory lapse on my part, I do remember that he was a terrifi c instructor.

What is the importance of CsU in your life? CSU provided me with the opportunity to get a high quality education at a cost I could afford. Without CSU, I’m not sure what I would have done. I was accepted at Case Western Reserve but couldn’t afford the tuition. My parents were unable to help me and I was unqualifi ed for assistance based on my sex or race so I had to work

my way through school while supporting the wife and two sons I had by the time I graduated. With the education I received at CSU, I was able to get into

Washington University School of Law, make Law Review and proceed with my career.

What advice do you have for students? First: Finish. It really is worth it. Second: Remember that while an education is important, it is a stepping stone. An

education does not entitle you to success. Rather, an education makes it easier for you to succeed. It is ultimately your level of determination and ambition that will lead to your success or failure. Finally, whether you agree or disagree with your professors, listen to them, particularly with respect to political issues. Question what you hear and then make up your own mind.

What was the best thing about Cleveland for you? I grew up on the East Side in what was then still rural Ohio. We could see cows grazing outside our classroom windows at West Geauga High. But I always felt like I was close to a major city where I could support professional sports teams (the Indians and Browns when I was a kid) and take advantage of the world class cultural benefi ts (such as the Symphony and the Art Museum). We really had all the benefi ts of a big city combined with the benefi ts of growing up in a rural environment. Because of Cleveland’s vibrant Rock and Roll scene, I also had the opportunity to make a living and pay for college playing in bar bands and working in Dick Lurie’s Guitar Studio at the corner of Cedar and Lee. That was a really fascinating time and I got to know and play with a number of amazing musicians.

Up till now and into the future...What are your proudest achievements? I wrote the Missouri law the Supreme Court upheld in the case of Webster vs. Reproductive Health Services which states that human life begins at conception. I have always been very proud of that.

As an attorney, I managed to keep Carl N. Karcher (the Founder of CKR Restaurants and the Carl’s Jr. brand) from having to fi le for bankruptcy despite 26 obligations and claims against him, any one of which could have forced him into bankruptcy. Carl was a very proud man and did not want to end his career in bankruptcy.

I am also very proud of the job our team did in saving CKE Restaurants from bankruptcy, preventing the Hardee’s brand from slipping into extinction and building a strong, profi table company.

What are your goals? I want to see CKR Restaurants continue to grow while serving as an example of what people in a free economy, providing a superior product and better service, and who are willing to work harder, longer and smarter than their competitors can achieve without government protection or assistance.

“ An education does not entitle you to success. Rather, an education

makes it easier for you to succeed.”

Andrew F. Puzder is the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ 2009 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient. Mr. Puzder graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and became CEO of a large restaurant corporation.

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The CSU Department of Anthropology’s

Because of its rich ecology, the Cuyahoga River has attracted residents to its banks for a long time, including many Native Americans whose traditions are not fully understood as yet, and many of which cannot be directly related to known historic cultures which later occupied the same areas. This, plus its degree of relative preservation in the midst of so much industrial development around it, means the sites of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park offer exceptional research opportunities for archaeologists such as Department of Anthropology alumnus and part-time instructor Dr. Phil Wanyerka, who has directed CSU’s Summer Field School in Archaeology there with the park’s permission for the last two years.

Each year, the Summer Field School fi rst starts its students digging in the cloverleaf of the Innerbelt, right across Chester Avenue from the new CSU Recreation Center, where they learn proper survey and excavation methods (although, sad to say, not much of interest has been found there yet). At the same time, classroom and lab instruction takes place in CSU’s Archaeology and Curation Labs in the Chester Building, where students learn about the cultures they may possibly encounter while digging in the Park, the history of the area, and archaeological theory and methodology.

The days of excavation in the Park itself start off at 8:00 am sharp, when the crew assembles at the Park and hikes out, often for quite a distance, to whatever site is being excavated at the time. To discourage looting, the exact locations of all sites are only known to the Park and the archaeologists, especially since modern archaeology usually leaves a large part of every site untouched for future archaeologists to revisit. No roads or trails can be cut and all the equipment has to be carried in and then back out on the backs of the excavators. When it rains, this can be quite a chore. Acres and acres of poison ivy have also taken their toll, and a lot of blistered hands and feet have resulted from carrying and using the equipment in the heat and humidity of the river’s edge.

This year’s dig revealed two distinct occupation zones at the site chosen for excavation, one about 30 cm below the surface and an earlier one ranging between 60 to 88 cm deep, separated by a band of thick river silt indicating many years of fl ooding and deposition, during which the site, or at least that part of it, was presumably not occupied, or perhaps the occupation debris from that period had been eroded away before being replaced by new silt cover. To fi nd these materials, “shovel-test” pits are dug at predetermined intervals. These are carefully recorded and analyzed to allow an overview of the site’s possibilities. Then, in accordance with their research goals and plans, the archaeologists dig 1-meter-square pits, slowly and with attention to every detail and nuance of soil color, texture, and composition, and every piece of anything of signifi cance is recorded as it is found.

This year, the crew was really excited to fi nd prehistoric pottery that may represent some of the oldest known pottery found in the state of Ohio! Charcoal samples from an early fi re-pit are awaiting Carbon-14 analysis in order to determine the actual age of this deposit. Carbon-14 testing usually costs about $300-$400 per sample and it is desirable to test several samples from the same level to cross-check the dates, so the costs for this can can add up quickly.

CSU offers the Summer Archaeological Field School every year, as Anthropology 435, usually starting in early July. Although so far all of its participants have been CSU students, it is open to students from any college or university, from any major. Please call it to the attention of any students you know who may be interested. There are still lots of holes left to dig.

This year, the crew was really excited to fi nd prehistoric pottery that may represent

actual age of this deposit. Carbon-14 testing usually costs about $300-$400 per sample and it is desirable to test several samples from the same level to cross-check the dates, so the costs for this can

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2009 Field School in Archaeology

The Department of Modern Languages is expanding its global reach using interactive distance learning to offer classes in more languages, including the critical languages of Chinese and Arabic. A new partnership with University of Akron, Kent State University and Youngstown State University is allowing us to pool our resources with the goal of offering new majors and minors and languages that traditionally only enroll a small number of students.

This year we are able to offer beginning Polish, Ancient Greek and Swahili, upper-level Chinese Conversation and Advanced Arabic, by joining classes through technology. Eihab Abousena, a full-time Arabic instructor at the University of Akron, for example, is able to link his fi ve advanced Arabic students on the Akron campus with four students from Cleveland State to create a single class. Without the aid of technology, many of these small classes would have to be cancelled.

The CLASS Dean’s offi ce has helped support this initiative by providing funding for student language assistants to work directly with CSU students when the course originates from a different campus. Mary Mtuy, a doctoral student at CSU and a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania, is delighted to be working with the Swahili students. Chi Ma and Wenjing Wang, Chinese students who are in the TESOL Masters Program at CSU, are using their language skills to help the students who are learning Chinese.

The partnership, offi cially called the Northeast Ohio Universities Modern and Classical Languages Consortium, is also working to expand study abroad collaborations. This summer the Department of Modern Languages at Cleveland State is planning to offer study abroad program in China, Costa Rica, France and Mexico that we expect to attract students from our partner schools. Akron will do the same with a summer program in Egypt that will draw participants from all four universities.

Language study, and particularly study abroad, offer terrifi c opportunities for engaged learning for those globally-minded students. Thanks to the new consortium and modern technology, we are now able to reach even farther around the globe.

Modern Languages Going Global!the Modern Languages Department

College of Liberal Arts & Social SciencesRhodes Tower, Room 1619

1860 East 22nd Streetphone: 216.687.4645

fax: 216.687.4650email: modlang@csuohio.edu

Music Department Cleveland Composer’s Recording Institute

Cleveland State University Music Professor, Andrew Rindfl eisch presented for the fi rst time the Cleveland

Composer’s Recording Institute. This workshop unfolded this past summer and took place here in the music

department at Cleveland State University. This intense weeklong workshop was dedicated to the studio recording

production of new works.

Three renowned professional instrumentalists (Rolf Schulte on violin, David Russell on cello, and Geoffrey

Burleson on piano) prepared, rehearsed and recorded the works of eight young composers who participated

in the Institute. They are three of the most experienced and virtuosic performers in the country dedicated to

contemporary music.

The eight composer participants came from all over, several were CSU students and others came from as far

away as New York, Boston and Hawaii. Each composer sat in on his or her recording session in the studio. There

they studied the process and challenges of commercial level recording production. Each participant also actively

assisted in the recording production of his or her own composition.

Professor Andrew Rindfl eisch is an international active composer, conductor, pianist, and is currently head of

Music Composition Studies at Cleveland State University. He has founded several contemporary music ensembles

and is currently the Music Director of both the Cleveland Contemporary Players and the Utah Arts Festival

Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble – all committed to performing, presenting, and commissioning new works.

If you are interested in participating please contact the CSU Music Department at www.csuohio.edu/class/music

or email Vickie Peters at v.l.peters@csuohio.edu.

The CLASS Dean’s offi ce has helped support this initiative by providing funding for student language assistants to work directly with CSU students when the course originates from a different campus. Mary Mtuy, a doctoral student at CSU and a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania, is delighted to be working with the Swahili students. Chi Ma and Wenjing Wang, Chinese students who are in the TESOL Masters Program at CSU, are using their language skills to help the students who are learning Chinese.

The partnership, offi cially called the Northeast Ohio Universities Modern and Classical Languages Consortium, is also working to expand study abroad collaborations. This summer the Department of Modern Languages at Cleveland State is planning to offer study abroad program in China, Costa Rica, France and Mexico that we expect to attract students from our partner

Language study, and particularly study abroad, offer terrifi c opportunities for engaged learning A past Cleveland State University trip to France

Music Department Music Department Cleveland State University Music Professor, Andrew Rindfl eisch presented for the fi rst time the Cleveland

Composer’s Recording Institute. This workshop unfolded this past summer and took place here in the music

department at Cleveland State University. This intense weeklong workshop was dedicated to the studio recording

production of new works.

Three renowned professional instrumentalists (Rolf Schulte on violin, David Russell on cello, and Geoffrey

Burleson on piano) prepared, rehearsed and recorded the works of eight young composers who participated

in the Institute. They are three of the most experienced and virtuosic performers in the country dedicated to

contemporary music.

The eight composer participants came from all over, several were CSU students and others came from as far

away as New York, Boston and Hawaii. Each composer sat in on his or her recording session in the studio. There

they studied the process and challenges of commercial level recording production. Each participant also actively

assisted in the recording production of his or her own composition.

Professor Andrew Rindfl eisch is an international active composer, conductor, pianist, and is currently head of

Music Composition Studies at Cleveland State University. He has founded several contemporary music ensembles

and is currently the Music Director of both the Cleveland Contemporary Players and the Utah Arts Festival

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Summer Stages

Now in its third and strongest season, the mixed professional-student company succeeds best at its two extremes, the heart-rending death-drama The Shadow Box and the farcical outer-space musical Return to the Forbidden Planet.- Tony Brown/Plain Dealer Theater Critic

CSU Summer Stages professional repertory theatre company wrapped up its wildly successful third season, pushing the envelope of summer stock theatre despite economic hardships.

Its ambitious season was received well by every major critic in Cleveland. Said the Cleveland Scene of Chekhov in Yalta, “The production itself was like watching alchemy happen.” Regarding Return to the Forbidden Planet, Roy Berko wrote “This is a zany hoot... The cast is universally excellent.” And the Cleveland Plain Dealer said that CSU Summer Stages “is best when going to extremes,” raining praise on the entire cast of The Shadow Box.

This summer was CSU Summer Stages’ most home-grown company; New York legend and founding member of Summer Stages Everett Quinton, who directed The Shadow Box was the only non-Clevelander. He was joined by directors Michael L. Mauldin, director of the CSU Dramatic Arts Program and Summer Stages mastermind (Forbidden Planet), and Cleveland Play House Education Director

Cathy Hartenstein (Chekhov), along with a company of CSU students complemented by local actors, designers and technicians.

Despite these tough economic times, CSU Summer Stages reached out to the community, hosting five benefit performances of The Shadow Box, wherein they donated half of each evening’s proceeds to local hospices, including the Hospices of the Western Reserve and the Cleveland Clinic, and Malachi House.

The Shadow Box

Chekhov in Yalta

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advising CenterThe College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Advising Center implemented a scheduling

system in March 2009 that allows CLASS

students to schedule online an in-person

advising appointment with their general

education advisor. The scheduling system can

be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a

week, from the CLASS Advising Center’s web

site www.csuohio.edu/class/advising.

This system allows students to select a

convenient time within their own schedule to

visit the Advising Center. Students are sent a

confirmation reminder email 24 hours prior to

their scheduled appointment. Students can

also cancel an upcoming appointment and

reschedule for a later time if their personal

schedule necessitates a change. This helpful

system also includes information on the home

page about important dates and upcoming

deadlines for the current semester.

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add an accomplishment We want to know how our CLASS graduates are doing. Are you getting new jobs or promotions? Are you having your own art show, performing live or receiving awards? We would also like to know who is continuing their education. Let us know what Masters or Doctorate programs you have been accepted into.

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