In mid-July I made the decision to leave the University. The 2011-2012 year was a very tough one. I started the year with tenure and began working as Clerk of the Academic Senate. Even though budget conditions continued to be bad on campus I thought that I could help to …

Dear Students,

I am writing to those of you who have signed up for my classes in Spring 2012 and those who remain on the waitlists for those classes because as you heave heard registration is closing on December 19th. You have also been told that registration may not reopen …

California cut the California State University budget by another 100 million dollars mid-year, which makes the total budget cut for this fiscal year $750 million or a 27% reduction over last year. This brings the budget for the 23 campus system down to 1997-1998 levels (in non-inflation adjusted dollars) even …

Next semester I’ll be doing a new course in computational simulation. I’m looking forward to the course and hope believe that it will be extremely useful for our physics majors who rarely do any programming. I am a bit apprehensive that it might mean a very heavy workload …