Chunyan Song: Curriculum Vitae Page 9 of 16

Chunyan Song: Curriculum Vitae Page 9 of 16

Chunyan Song

Sociology Department,

California State University, Chico

Tel: 530-898-4980 (O)

530-891-1037 (H)

Email:

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2005. Sociology, Arizona State University.

Dissertation: Achievement in Education and Income Among Young Asian and Hispanic Americans.

(Chair: Jennifer Glick; Off–campus Mentor: Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania)

M.A. 2001. Sociology, Arizona State University.

B.A. 1997. English & Literature, Beijing Language & Cultural University

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Immigration; Demography; Sociology of Education; Asian American Experience; Interethnic Contacts; International Education; Sociology of Family; Women, Work and Family; Social Research Methods; Social Statistics;

INSTRUCTION

Courses Taught at Chico State

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology, California State University, Chico: Fall 2006 – Present

SOCI100 Principles of Sociology (Spring 2008).

SOCI/AAST 152 Introduction to the Asian American Experience (Spring and Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Spring and Fall 2009, Spring 2010)

SOCI 310 Social Science Research Method[1] (Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009)

SOCI 315 Social Statistics, SOCI100 Principles of Sociology (Spring 2007, and Spring 2008)

SOCI 354 Interethnic Contacts[2] (Spring 2009, and Spring 2010);

Soci489 Internship in Sociology (Spring 2008)

Lecturer

Department of Sociology, California State University, Chico: Fall 2005~Spring 2006

SOCI/AAST 152 Introduction to the Asian American Experience (Fall 2005, Spring 2006)

SOCI 354 Interethnic Contacts (Spring 2006)

Other Teaching Experience Before Chico State

Fall 2002 Teaching Assistant, SOC 394 Baby Boom, Generation X and Beyond

Sociology Department, Arizona State University

Summer 2000 Teaching Assistant, SOC 391 Sociological Research

Sociology Department, Arizona State University

1997-1999 Lecturer, teaching English to 1st and 2nd year college students

Beijing Union University, Beijing, China

Awards

October 2009 Exemplary Online Instruction Award for SOCI 354 Interethnic Contacts Spring 2009, California State University, Chico. One of four awardees on campus that year.

March 2010 Represented Chico State and won Wimba Classroom Hall of Fame Excellence in Collaboration Award for SOCI 354 Interethnic Contacts Spring 2009, Wimba Inc.Orlando, FL. One of five schools awarded nationwide.

April 2010. Wimba Distinguished Guest Lecture Series. "Bringing In Local and Global Guest Speakers through Wimba Classroom".

Spring 2006 SOCI 354 Interethnic Contacts. Nominated by student on the National Dean’s List as “Outstanding Teacher”.

Workshops & Conferences Attended to Improve Teaching & Research

Summer 2010 ~ now. Subscriber of “Trails Digital Teaching Library” which is an online teaching resources offered by the American Sociological Association”.

July 2010. Attended the 2010 Annual Meeting of Society of Nutrition Education: Child Nutrition to gather ideas and expand network on the food and children research project. Reno, NV.

April, 2010. Session #156 “Teaching Statistics to Undergraduates” at Pacific Sociology Association’s Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA.

April, 2010. Session #80 “Curriculum Content for a Two-semester Research Methods Course with an Applied Emphasis” at Pacific Sociology Association’s Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA.

Spring 2010, CELT Book Club “What the Best College Teachers Do”. Meeting held once a month. California State University, Chico.

Spring 2009. Writers Group with four other faculties on campus (LaDona Knigge, Vincent Ornelas, Julie Schneider, Keiko Goto). Meeting held once a week. California State University, Chico.

December 2009~ now. Subscriber of “The Teaching Professor” which is an online newsletter for teaching.

April, 2009. Session #206 “Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict” at Pacific Sociology Association’s Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

April, 2009. Session #224 “Teaching Assignments that Highlight Inequality” at Pacific Sociology Association’s Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

2008~now. Subscriber of Newsweek which I have used many articles as reading materials for several courses.

July 2008. Workshop “Accessible Technology Initiative course Makeover Summer Camp” (Two Full Days). California State University, Chico.

April, 2008. Teaching Sessions on “Teaching Undergraduate Research Methods”, “Online Teaching”, and “Teaching Principles of Sociology” at Pacific Sociology Association’s Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.

March 8th 2007. Workshop “Handling the paper Load: Strategies for Responding to & Evaluating Writing”. California State University, Chico.

2006~now. Subscriber of Teaching Sociology which is a journal associated with American Sociological Association.

Oct 12th 2006. Session “New technologies for large-Enrollment Courses”. Cultivating Excellence in Education, California State University, Chico.

Oct 11th 2006. Session “Online Discussions to Teach Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking (with Vista)”. Cultivating Excellence in Education, California State University, Chico.

Oct 13th 2006. Session “A Showcase of Exemplary Online Instruction”. Cultivating Excellence in Education, California State University, Chico.

Oct 13th 2006. Session “International Experiences for Faculty”. Cultivating Excellence in Education, California State University, Chico.

September 29th 2006. Workshop “Effective Classroom Discussion Strategies and Effective Interactive Lecture Strategies”. First-Year Experience Program, California State University, Chico.

September 19th 2006. Faculty Luncheon/Workshop sponsored by the New York Times,

September 2006. California State University, Chico Grant Writing Café sponsored by Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at CSU Chico.

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH & ACHIEVEMENT

Publications (* denotes peer-reviewed)

*Chunyan Song. “Promoting Student Service Learning with Web Guest Speakers”. September 2010. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning.

*Chunyan Song, Mary Benin, and Jennifer Glick. Forthcoming Summer 2011. “Dropping out of High School: the Effects of Family Structure and Family Transitions”. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage. Issue 52(05) or (06) 2011.

*Chunyan Song. Forthcoming Summer 2011. “Research Project on Qualitative Data Coding and Analysis---Christmas Wishes”. In B. Skott and M. Ward (Ed.), Research Methods through Active Learning. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage/Pine Forge Press.

*Christine L. Sylvia, Chunyan Song, and Tony Waters. 2010. “Challenges in Calculating Two-Year College Student Transfer Rates to Four-Year Colleges.” Community College Journal of Research and Practice. 34: 561-575. 2010.

* Stephen Sills, and Chunyan Song. 2009. “The Application of Web Surveys on College Campuses.” Sociology[3]. Issue 4. Page 52~59. Fall 2009.

*Chunyan Song. 2010. “Book Review: Not My Turn to Die: Memoirs of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia.” Teaching Sociology. Vol. 38:66~67.

*Chunyan Song and Jennifer E. Glick. 2004. “College Attendance and Choice of College Majors among Asian American Students.” Social Science Quarterly. Vol 85: 1401-21.

*Stephen Sills and Chunyan Song. 2002. “Innovations in Survey Research”. Social Science Computer Review. Vol 20: 22-30.

***Rank #12 on the list of “Top 50 Most Cited Articles” of Social Science Computer Review as for September 2010.

Richard Nagasawa, Yujun Mei, and Chunyan Song. 2001. "Arizona Middle and High School Student Survey: Substance Use Prevention Needs Assessment." Report submitted to Arizona Prevention Resource Center. Funded by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.

Publications in Review & In PROGRESS (* denotes peer-reviewed)

* Christie Batson and Chunyan Song. Review and Resubmit. “What Matters to Immigrant Children’s Education? Findings from The New Immigrant Survey”. Sociological Perspectives.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (* denotes peer-reviewed)

Chunyan Song. Forthcoming. “Promoting Student Service Learning with Web Guest Speakers”. Southwest Technology Showcase. Henderson, NV. November 3rd~5th 2010. Regional.

* Yoko Yoshikawa, Keiko Goto, Chunyan Song, Nadine Hoser, Annel Pineda, and Julie Schneider. May 2010. "Factors Associated with Perspectives on Child Feeding Among Mothers with Preschool-age Children.” College of Natural Sciences Annual Poster Session. California State University, Chico. May 2010. Local.

*Chunyan Song, Julie Schnieder, Keiko Goto, Nadine Hoser, and Yoko Yoshikawa. 2010. "Food & Children in Four Different Cultures” The Impact of Globalization, Culture, & Family on Food Consumption among Preschool-Age Children". Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociology Association, Oakland CA. April 2010. Regional.

Chunyan Song. Invited Talk. April. 2010. "Bringing In Local and Global Guest Speakers through the Web". Technology in Learning and Teaching. California State University, Chico. April 2010. Local.

*Chunyan Song. "Bringing In Local and Global Guest Speakers through the Web". 2010. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociology Association, Oakland CA. April 2010. Regional.

*Chunyan Song, Ann Steckel, and Laura Sederberg. 2010. "Bringing In Local and Global Guest Speakers through Wimba Classroom". Wimba Connect 2010- Third Annual User Conference. Orlando, Fl. March 20 - 24, 2010. National.

Chunyan Song. June 2009. “An Outsider’s View of the U.S. Society ---A Chinese American Sociologist Shares Her Perspective” Talk at invitation of College of Social Development, Linyi Normal University, Linyi, Shandong, China. June, 2009. International

*Chunyan Song. “Choice of College Majors with Higher Earning Potentials among Asian American Students.” Annual Meeting of International Association of Sociology, Beijing, China. May 2009. International

Chunyan Song. “Bringing in Local and Global Guest Speakers through the Web”. Annul Meeting of CELT. California State University, Chico. October 2009. Local.

*Christie Batson, Chunyan Song, and Allison C. Heard. “What Matters to Immigrant Children’s Education? Findings from The New Immigrant Survey”. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociology Association, San Diego, CA. April 2009. Regional.

Susan Place, Katherine Puney, Chunyan Song, and Hsuying Ward. Oct. 2008. “New Internationalization Research Findings: Where do we go from here?” Annul Meeting of CELT. California State University, Chico. October 9th 2008. Local.

Christie Batson, Chunyan Song, and Allison C. Heard. Oct 2008. “Educational Performance among New Immigrant Children: Findings from The New Immigrant Survey”. Presented to Women’s Research Institute of Nevada (WRIN). Las Vegas, NV. September 2008. Local.

*Chunyan Song, Stephen Sills. 2008. “Methods & Results from the 2007 International Students’ Survey: A Multi-Method Project Involving Undergraduate Research Method Students”. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR. April 10-April 13, 2008. Regional.

*Christine L Sylvia, Chunyan Song & Tony Waters. 2008. “Challenges in Calculating Two-Year College Transfer Rates”. Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, Portland, OR. April 10-April 13, 2008.[4] Regional.

*Chunyan Song, Stephen Sills, and Petia Petrova. 2007. “Report on Findings from the 2006 International Student Survey”. Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association, New York. August 12th, 2007. National.

*Chunyan Song, and Megan Williams. 2007. “Microsoft Access and Inexpensive Survey Research”. 34th Annual Western Departments of Anthropology and Sociology Undergraduate Reserach Conference, Santa Clara. August 21st, 2007. Regional.

*Chunyan Song. 2007. “Labor Market Experience of Young Asian Americans Eight Years after High School”. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New York. Upcoming. March 28~April 1st, 2007. Paper accepted, but I was not able to attend due to family emergency. National..

*Chunyan Song. 2006. “A Comparative Study of the Social Security System between China and Mexico.” International Symposium on Social Security, Shanghai. December 2006. Paper accepted. I was not able to attend. International

*Chunyan Song. 2006. “The Impact of Parental Divorce and Entering into Stepfamilies on High School Students.” California Sociology Association Annual Meeting, Riverside. November, 2006. Paper accepted. I was not able to attend. Regional.

*Chunyan Song. 2004. “Economic Return on Education among Asian and Hispanic Immigrant Youth” Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association, San Francisco. August, 2004. National.

*Chunyan Song and Jennifer E. Glick. 2004. “Educational Attainment among Immigrant Youth Eight Years after High School” Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston. April, 2004. National.

*Chunyan Song and Mary Benin. 2004. “Dropping Out of High School: the Effects of Living in Non-traditional Families.” Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston. April, 2004. National.

*Chunyan Song and Jennifer E. Glick. 2002. “Heckman’s Selection Model Predicating Choice of High-Earning Potential College Majors” Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association, Chicago. August, 2002. National.

*Chunyan Song. 2002. “Social Factors Affecting Self-esteem Among America’s 12th Graders.” Annual Meeting of the American Sociology Association, Chicago. August, 2002. National.

*Chunyan Song and Stephen Sills. 2001. “Sociological Methods--the Asian Students Survey at Arizona State University.” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA. March 29-April 1, 2001. Regional.

EXTERNAL GRANT PROPOSAL

In Review

Chunyan Song. Summer Research Scholarship at Peking University, China. Wang Family Scholarship Faculty Stipends. $10,000. In Review.

Chunyan Song (Principle Investigator), with Keiko Goto, Julie Schneider. “Food and Children in A Different Society---Feeding China’s Little Emperors in the Age of Globalization”. September 2010. American Sociological Association: Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline. $6,690. In Review.

Chunyan Song, with Keiko Goto (Principal Investigator), Stephanie Biano-Simeral, Cindy Wolff, Karen Goodwin, Mary Godinez, Bow Lee. “Connecting Communities and Families through Locally Grown Cultural Foods for Childhood Obesity Prevention”. Summer 2010. National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). $149,970. In Review.

Chunyan Song, with Keiko Goto (Principal Investigator), Julie Schneider. “Food and Children in Three Cultures.” July 2010. Allen Foundation. $107,776. In Review.

Not Funded

Chunyan Song, with Julie Schneider (Principal Investigator), Keiko Goto. “Why are our kids fatter? A global and cross-cultural examination of social and cultural factors associated with child feeding and obesity prevention among preschool-aged children”. August 2010. Aetna Foundation. $45,499. Not Funded.

Chunyan Song (Co-Investigator), with Xueli Zou (Principal Investigator), Leslie Atkins (Co-Investigator), Neil Schwartz (Co-Investigator). “Creating a Cognitive Apprenticeship Learning Community in Modern Physics to Better Prepare Future Scientists”. Summer 2009. National Science Foundation. $581,409. Not Funded.

INTERNAL GRANT PROPOSAL

Chunyan Song, Director. “Food and Children in Different Cultures---- Feeding China’s Little Emperors”. California State University Faculty Development Grant. Spring 2010. $1,000. Funded.

Chunyan Song (Principal Investigator), Keiko Goto, Julie Schnieder. “Food and Children in Different Cultures----the Impact of Globalization, Culture, and Family on Food Consumption among Preschool-Age Children”. Graduate and International Incentive Funds for Grant Writing. California State University, Chico. Spring 2010. $5,000. Funded.

Kui Hee Song, and Chunyan Song. “Internationalizing the Health and Human Services Undergraduate Curriculum”. CELT Impact Grant, California State University Chico. Not Funded.

Chunyan Song, Director. “Designing a Culturally Competent Program on Mental Health Issues among Hmong Men.” California State University Research Grant. Spring 2009. $1,769. Funded.

Chunyan Song, Director. “Chico State Internationalization Awareness Survey.” Chico State Faculty Development Grant. Spring 2008. $2,805. Funded.

Chunyan Song, Director. Spring 2007. “Chico State International Students Survey.” Chico State Faculty Development Grant. Spring 2007. $2,290. Funded.

Chunyan Song and Stephen Sills, “Asian Students Survey at Arizona State University.” Graduate Research Support Program, Arizona State University. 2000. $1,000. Funded.

In-service Workshops, Training Sessions, & Consultations.

Chunyan Song. April 28th 2010. “Bringing Guest Speakers into Your Class with Wimba” . Invited Talk to Technology and Learning Program Faculty Workshop. California State University, Chico. Spring 2010.