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The Inclusive Excellence Award for Staff/Faculty is awarded to a current SCU staff or faculty member or a department that demonstrates dedication to innovative teaching and/or program development beyond his/her job responsibilities (or the department's mission) to encourage excellence through inclusion in the SCU community. For nomination information click here. 2010 Award WinnerAlma GarciaSociology
2009 Award WinnerGerdenio "Sonny" Manuel, S.J.Psychology
2008 WinnerFrancisco JimenezModern Languages and Literatures
Francisco is the author of three books – The Circuit (1999), Breaking Through (2001), and his newest book, Reaching Out (2008), that are used in classrooms across the country to educate students about the struggles and triumphs of farm workers and to deepen their commitment to social justice. To quote from one of his reviewers, “His personal stories are universal stories.” |
Alma Garcia served on the first President’s Diversity Committee, and directed both the Women’s Studies and the Ethnic Studies Program, introducing into the curriculum some of the first courses on women of color, pioneering the development of a Women’s Studies minor, and reaching out to faculty across campus to create an interdisciplinary group of teaching scholars. She enriched the curriculum not only by introducing new courses and scholarship, but also by her significant work in faculty development—leading Women’s Studies Summer Curriculum Transformation Workshops and similar summer workshops for Ethnic Studies. She recently pioneered a minor in Latin American Studies and has been an important mentor to younger faculty and to students of color. Alumni of many backgrounds cite her influence as they go on to complete Ph.D.s and enter the professoriate. Alma is a nationally recognized speaker on curricular reform in Sociology, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Ethnic Studies. Her scholarship addresses goals consistent with her teaching and service, including a book of oral histories of Mexican American undergraduate women at Santa Clara, and another (coauthored with Francisco Jiménez), on ethnic community builders, which won the National Oral History Association’s award for outstanding use of oral history.
Sonny was a co-founder of the Eastside Project, which became the Arrupe Partnerships, now a major part of the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education. The project brought the concern for social justice firmly within the University’s curriculum, giving students a chance to learn from and develop relationships with people most in need. The project also resulted in many community-based learning sites at schools, parishes, and agencies across Silicon Valley. Through the Building Partnerships for Diversity and Leaders for a Just World grants from the Irvine Foundation, Sonny structured programs to promote, coordinate, and advance campus-wide multicultural initiatives. He was the founding director of the Center for Multicultural Learning, now the Office for Multicultural Learning, which works closely with the Provost and the University Council on Inclusive Excellence to promote diversity through partnerships across the campus community. He established a scholarship fund for undocumented students as well as a comprehensive support program for their success, The Hurtado Scholars, who are among our finest students.
Among his many accomplishments, Francisco designed a path-breaking course on Mexican-American literature in the early 1970s, at a time when very few universities supported scholarship in this field. In 1985, he organized a University-wide, quarter-long, Symposium on Poverty and Conscience and brought to campus a number of national figures, including Cesar Chavez, Michael Harrington, and Julian Bond.|
Faculty Development Program Eileen Razzari Elrod Anne Riconosciuto |
