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| Dr. Yolanda Prieto, professor of sociology and recipient of the 1999 Henry Bischoff Award for Excellence in Teaching, shares her knowledge with students enrolled in Sociology of Community. |
Dedication, commitment, and scholarship define the faculty at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Ramapo's faculty leads the way in building a growing national and international reputation for the College. Ninety-four percent hold doctorates or other terminal degrees; some are active lawyers and CPAs; several are Fulbright scholars and Guggenheim fellows. With an overall student/faculty ratio of 17:1 and average class size of twenty-two, faculty members are often leaders, role models, mentors, and friends to the students they teach.
Founders Day Honors Faculty
Founders' Day 1999 celebrated the 30th anniversary of the state charter for Ramapo College of New Jersey. As well as recognizing professors emeriti, founders, pioneers, and retirees, the following faculty were honored with special awards:
Dr. Yolanda Prieto, professor of sociology for twenty-one years at Ramapo, was the recipient of the Henry Bischoff Award for Excellence in Teaching. Prieto co-led the very successful Ramapo Lecture Series, "More Than Half the World: Women at the Millennium." Prieto is an accomplished scholar who has written and presented frequently on women's issues, Cuban immigrants, gender, race, immigration, and labor.
Robert Christopher, a faculty member since 1974, and Susan Eisner, associate professor of management, were co-recipients of the Fred and Florence Thomases Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service.
Christopher has served the College in a variety of teaching, administrative, and governance roles. He contributes to both the literature and law and society programs and has co-taught one of the Master of Liberal Arts courses since the program's inception. A consultant and evaluator of faculty curriculum development here and abroad, Christopher also directs his scholarly efforts toward researching the imaging of the Arctic through photography and cinema.
Eisner is an outstanding teacher in the School of Administration and Business, leading both undergraduates and graduate students in their studies. She is engaged in curriculum development, scholarly research, and presentation in areas ranging from women in business to the role of technology in communication education. Eisner has received numerous awards including seven National Association of Educational Broadcasters Graphics and Design awards for television production.
Faculty Grants Ensure Outstanding Programs
Students at Ramapo College benefit from faculty excellence through involvement in many of the funded projects and research as well as the distinctive spirit evidenced in classroom instruction.
Externally sponsored grants and awards from agencies and foundations supported new curricular and program efforts at the undergraduate and graduate level, faculty enrichment, and fruition of Ramapo's international and intercultural mission. Some highlights for 1999-2000 included:
- A $125,000 grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation for the New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability.
- Angela Cristini, biology professor and director of the Master of Science in Educational Technology program, received a National Science Foundation grant of $1,300,000.
- Carol Frishberg, professor of chemistry, renewed her $950,000 Upward Bound Grant for a summer program that prepares high school students for college. She received an additional $14,000 in funding for a statewide College Bound Phase II Conference.
- Frishberg also continued her $543,000 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Higher Education for "PARADE:Paterson and Ramapo Alliance for Dynamic Education."
- Teacher education received two in-service grants from the State of New Jersey and the U.S. Department of Education. The $226,285 U.S. Department of Education grant, "The Ramapo Consortium: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology," is directed by Joe Fisler, who also oversees the Professional Development School grant of $179,000 from the N.J. Department of Education.
- John Mulhern, director of teacher education, received a grant of $30,064 for a provisional teacher certification program.
- A $270,000 grant from the State of New Jersey created The Governor's School of International Studies, a residential summer program for exceptional rising high school seniors.
- Demetria Royals, professor of media art, received a Mid-Atlantic grant of $15,000 for her film, Mother Courage and Her Children.
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Grants secured for Ramapo College by the Ramapo College Foundation included:
- The Culture of Peace Lecture Series from the Martin Luther King Commission ($5,000) and the Samuel Rubin Foundation ($5,000).
- Two new scholarship endowments were launched with gifts from Century 21 Construction and the Union Foundation. The $40,000 Century 21 Endowment Fund helps minority students study abroad, and the $5,000 Union Foundation Endowment Fund benefits Ramapo students who are from Union County.
- The Berrie Center received $27,000 from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for programming and marketing efforts.
- Students with children in the Child Development Center and nursing students benefited from increased annual scholarship support from the Avon Products Foundation ($1,500) and the Edward and Stella Van Houten Memorial Fund ($15,000). Orange & Rockland ($2,500) provided a new scholarship fund.
- A grant of $5,000 was received from PSE&G toward a youth community development project at Barringer High School in Newark, a collaborative effort between Ramapo and New York City-based Global Kids.
- Duke Habernickel, president of Haband Company in Oakland, committed $420,000 to create the Haband Oaks Endowment, which will provide scholarships for needy upperclassmen majoring in a business-related field. The recipients participate in a yearlong paid cooperative education experience at Haband.
- Medical supplies manufacturer BD and the CIT Group, a commercial and consumer finance leader, helped the College launch a program to recruit and retain a larger number of promising minority students. BD committed $300,000 to the project, and CIT $75,000.
- Bernard Milano committed $10,000 to endow the Sharon G. Pierson Scholarship for fine arts majors concentrating in theater.
- The Daniell Family Foundation created an endowment fund at the College with a gift of $20,000. The fund is used for equipment and supplies in the College's fitness center and pool.
- The Philip M. Anderson Memorial Endowment, funded with gifts totaling $26,000 from Professor Philip Anderson and his wife Ruth Zowader made in honor of his father, recognizes students at the College majoring in physics.
- The Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation gave $10,000 to the College's endowment.
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