In Berkeley, delighted by the victory over Requirement 14

                                                                               With scholar and author Hans Guth

With Raylyn Moore Memorial Award winner Ben Goodwin

                                                                                                                         With Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky

 With Dr. Idelle Sullens Memorial Award winners

Rishna Gracie and Ted Maryuma

                                                                                                                                          Me 'n My Shuffle

                                                                  On Athabasca glacier

With Steinbeck Award winner Aubrey Bauer           With Steinbeck Award winner Sabrina Russo                        With Sullens Award winner Walt Matteson

                       With Jim Tunney and Sullens Award winner Jose Loza               With Jim Tunney and Sullens Award winner Josef Laredo

                                        With Beth Penney, Jim Tunney, and Sullens Award winner Stephanie Whigham

                 South of Carmel with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott

                                                                                            On the river

Orcas Island Biplane                                                                             With Dr. Idelle Sullens Memorial Award recipient Hans Dobbratz

With Sullens Award winner Christelle Harris and President Carl Ehmann

Being engulfed by papers

                       Angst                                                                                                                             Circa 1975, Fort Ord, signs of the zodiac tie!

2006 Young Rhetoricians Conference Organizing Committee

Lynn Davis, Michael Wilson, Dave Clemens

Lynn Davis, Jamie Burling, Dave Clemens 

2008 Raylyn Moore Award Winner Jessica Bender

2008 Sullens Award Winner Danelle Ragone

email me  dclemens@mpc.edu

Now, let me tell you a little more about myself and what I teach:

Education

 Two years Monterey Peninsula College, one year UC Berkeley, two years Sonoma State College, BA, MA.  About 40 post-MA units at Berkeley, UCLA, BYU, CSU-Pomona.  UCLA Certificate in Online Teaching 1997; WebCT Certificate 2003.

 Publications 

• Monterey Herald (“Bearded Fort Ord Invader” and “Multiculturalism promotes tolerance and diversity at the expense of individualism”)
• San Jose Mercury (“The Freshman Bookshelf” and “The Exploitation of Part-time Teachers”)
• San Francisco Chronicle (“A Teacher Talks Back” and "On Forbidden Roads")
• New Directions in Teaching (“God Bless Captain Vere?”)
• Informal Logic (“Technoethics”)
• Teaching English in the Two Year Colleges (“Stacking Arms”)
• inside english (“Five Myths of Assessment” and "An Unavoidable Pity")
• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Forum (“Kumawar vs. Jane Austen”)
• National Association of Scholars Open Forum (“Sex and the Multiversity”)
• Media and Methods, Contributing Editor 1984-1994, (“MTV”)
• “Exposing the Big Lies About SLOs,” Community College Advocate (2008).

  Professional Activities  

• Co-Presenter, California Teachers’ Association/Community College Association Fall Conference, “Accreditation and Faculty Rights” (2008).
• Moderator:  English Council of the California Two Year Colleges Presentation “Pornography:  The Critical Need for Precise Definition in Critical Thinking” (2008).
• Presenter, Young Rhetoricians’ Conference; paper title, “How to Build a CYA Syllabus (and Why You Need One) (2008). 
• Panel Chair:  Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, "W(h)ither Lit?"; paper title, “W(h)ither Lit?  The Future of Literature Courses in the California Two Year Colleges” (2006).
  • Presenter and Moderator, Community College Association Spring 2008 Council presentation, "SLOs, Accreditation, and Your Contract," paper title "The Lies About SLOs"
  • National Steinbeck Center Day of Writing judge
  • Presenter and Moderator, National Endowment for the Arts and National Steinbeck Center Big Read of Fahrenheit 451, "Technology and the Way We Live Now," paper title "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"
• Panel Moderator and Respondent:  2007 Young Rhetoricians Conference, "The World as Text: Critical Thinking and Pop Culture"  
• Presenter:  2005 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, “Hollywood and the Future of Life”
• Presenter:  2005 Young Rhetoricians Conference, “Sex and the Multiversity”
• Presenter:  2004 Young Rhetoricians Conference, “Hollywood and the Future of Life”
• Presenter:  2003 Young Rhetoricians Conference, “Five Myths of `Assessment’”
• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
• National Association of Scholars (NAS)
• California Association of Scholars (CAS)
• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)
• Futures Studies Association
• Educational/Consulting Advisory Board, Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)

 Recent Conferences

• Modern Language Association (2008).
• English Council of the California Two Year Colleges (2008).
• Young Rhetoricians’ Conference (2006, 2007, 2008).
• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Annual Conference (2006, 2008).
• National Association of Scholars National Conference (2006, 2009).
• Convergence 08 (“the first and only forum dedicated to NBIC (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) technologies”).

Honors and Awards

• Alan Griffin Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006)
• George Faul Academic Excellence Grants (2006, 2007, 2008)

 TV and Film Appearances

• Indoctrinate U (film, 2008).
• Our American Heritage (TV, 2009)

Interviews

• Monterey Herald.
• California Educator.

Community Activities

• Moderator and Presenter, National Endowment for the Arts/National Steinbeck Center Fahrenheit 451 Big Read Panel, “Technology and the Way We Live Now” (2008).
• Judge, National Steinbeck Center Day of Writing (2008).
• Presented photographic exhibitions “TRANSFORMATIONS,” images of Wrangell Island, Alaska, and “Intimate Strangers,” images of the Rem Koolhaas Seattle Public Library (2008)
• Curator for first American showing of the pastels, drawings, and mixed media artwork of Steve Walker, British artist and author (2006).
• Arranged a reading by Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky (2005).
• Arranged a reading by Robert Mezey, poet and translator of Jorge Luis Borges (2006).
• Arranged a reading by Poet Laureate of the United States, National Book Award winner, and Pulitzer Prize recipient Robert Hass (2007).
• Arranged a reading by Poet Laureate of the United States Donald Hall (2009). 
• Presenter, Monterey Kiwanis Club, “Hollywood and the Future of Life” (2007).

Professional Affiliations

• Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
• National Association of Scholars (NAS)
• California Association of Scholars (CAS)
• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC)
• Educational/Consulting Advisory Board, Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF)
• Foresight Network
• Foresight Education and Research Network (FERN)
• Evo-Devo Universe Curriculum Committee
• Academy of American Poets
• San Francisco Bay Area Great Books Council
• The Great Books Foundation
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Second Life Educators   

Personal

Married (Terry), three children (Kate, Amanda, Isaac), two grandchildren (Emily Jade and Harrison Lih-Wen)

Ride

2000 Ford Focus ZX3 Kona Edition, Magnaflow exhaust, AEM Short Ram CAI, Hella lamps, Brembo cross-drilled rotors

2004 Subaru Forester 2.5 XT 

Political Bias

Registered Independent; classic (not contemporary) liberal

Hobbies

Shooting, kayaking, white water rafting, X-Box FPSs

Favorite Films

La Strada, Seven Samurai, The Seventh Seal, Red, Dersu Uzala

 Favorite TV

 Masterpiece Theatre, PBS Newshour, Opera

Truthfully, old movies, football or other live sports

 Teams

 49ers (50 years), Giants (40 years), Warriors (35 years), Sharks, University of California Golden Bears

 Currently Listening To:

 Van Morrison, Sam Cooke, always Sam Cooke

 iPods:

• Shuffle

• Black Nano inscribed "Knock, knock, knockin' on Heaven's door."

• Black 30G video

• Black iPod Touch (death to the click wheel)

 Honors and Awards 

• Allen Griffin Excellence in Teaching Award (2006)
• Monterey County Weekly cover story, "Big Ideas" (2005)
• Named Monterey County Weekly’s “Best Reason to Go Back to School” (2004)
• National Steinbeck Center “Day of Writing” tutor (2004, 2005, 2007)
• George Faul Academic Excellence Grants (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• Future Teachers "Outstanding and Inspirational Teacher Award" 2004
• Title III Grant (Conversion of More, or Less, Than Human? course to online) (2003)
• California Teachers Association WHO (We Honor Ours) Award

Classes Taught

English 1A  Composition

English 1B  Introduction to Literature

English 2  Composition and Critical Thinking

English 38  More, or Less, Than Human?

English 10 Literature By and About Men

"I feel privileged to be in this class, you have prepared an extremely remarkable curriculum."

Also I wanted to tell you I thought this was a great class, very enlightening and I am thrilled I took it.

 It took a lot of work for you to get it started and I wanted to tell you I think it was worth the effort so Well done you!

 Many of the lessons and readings I have shared with my dad, who also really enjoyed them, and we had many

 conversations on class material. Just thanks!

Rebecca