EDUC 601: GUEST SPEAKER BIOS

Dr. Rosalind Latiner Raby

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Bettina Huber, Director, Institutional Research, Academic Resources and Planning, CSUN	Brian G. Thiele, Manager, Student Financial Services CSUDH; Lead Faculty, College of Humanities, University of Phoenix SoCal Campus
Patty Lord: Director, Admissions & Records, CSUN	LeoVanCleave, Director International Education, California State University System
Gary Rhodes, Director Center for Global Education, UCLA

Office of Institutional Research; Cal State Northridge

Northridge, CA 91330-8224

818/677-2125

e-mail: bhuber@csun.edu

Fields of Interest

Sociology of higher education, sociology of knowledge/culture, sociology of the future, gender roles,

social psychology.

Administrative Experience

Director of Institutional Research, California State University - Northridge, 2005-present.

Director of Analytic Studies, California State University - San Marcos, 1999 -2005.

Director of Institutional Studies, California State University - San Marcos, 1998-99.

Director of Research, Modern Language Association, 1988-97.

Deputy Executive Officer, American Sociological Association, 1984-88.

Assistant Executive Officer, American Sociological Association, 1981-83.

Treasurer, California Association for Institutional Research, 2003-2007.

Board Member and CSU Segment Rep., California Association for Institutional Research, 2001-02.

Chair, Committee on Committees, American Sociological Association, 1996-97.

Chair, Subcommittee on the Status of Women, UCSB Academic Senate Committee on Affirmative

Action; 1977-79.

Work Director, Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players; Summer 1962.

Teaching Experience

Affiliated Faculty, Ed.D. Program in Educational Leadership, California State University, Northridge

2008 - present.

Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara; 1973-80.

Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara; 1971-73.

Acting Instructor, Yale University; 1969-70.

Teaching Fellow, Yale University; Spring, 1969.

Education

Ph.D., 1973; Yale University, Sociology.

M.Phil., 1968, Yale University, Sociology.

B.A., 1965, Oberlin College, Sociology

(study at the University of Freiburg, Germany; 1962-63)

Publications - available on request

Brian Thiele currently manages the Student Financial Services Department for California State University Dominguez Hills. In that role he has responsibility for the receipt, reconciliation and processing of all student account activity from tuition fees to collection activity. He is responsible for process and procedure enhancements that will provide quality service for affected students while ensuring that the needs of the university are met.

For 15 years, Brian has facilitated the adult learning process through a variety of business, critical thinking, ethics and introductory courses at the University of Phoenix, a for-profit institution of higher learning. In 2007, he was named a Lead Faculty Area Chair in the School of Humanities. In this role, he provides faculty training and coaching, serves as a mentor for new faculty, and teaches within the College of Humanities. He was recently named by the Southern California Campus to represent the College of Humanities as part of the Campus Academic Council. Brian was named the faculty of the year for the College of Humanities in 2011.

In 2001 he retired as a Vice President from Bank of America after 32 years with the company in a variety of leadership roles in associate volunteer activities, corporate payroll operations, corporate environmental efforts, and investigation of fraud loss activity. Brian taught internal management training classes during a radical corporate culture change within the organization and provided operations management in retail branches.

He holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration degree from Golden Gate University in San Francisco.