Scott G. McNall, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
PLEASE NOTE THAT MY RECENT PUBLICATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE ARE LISTED IN MY STATEMENT OF INTEREST
Scott G. McNall, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae
2010
1. Academic Training
2.Positions Held
3.Research Experience
4.Major Administrative Initiatives
5.Honors and Awards
6.Membership and Activities in Scientific Societies
7.Participation in Scientific Meetings
8.Publications
9.Areas of Major Interest
10.Biographical Listings
11.Other Professional Activities
12.Community Activities
Scott Grant McNallTelephone:
520 Crestwood DriveWork: (530) 898-3333
Paradise, California95969Home: (530) 877-8141
1.ACADEMIC TRAINING
B.A. PortlandStateUniversity
Ph.D.University of Oregon
2.POSITIONS HELD
Instructor, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, MinneapolisMinnesota
Fulbright Lecturer to Greece
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, ArizonaStateUniversity
Professor, Department of Sociology, ArizonaStateUniversity
Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
Fulbright Research/Travel Grant to New Zealand and
Visiting Professor,University of Waikato
Professor and Chair, American Studies Department, University of Kansas
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Toledo
1994 to 2007
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico
2002-2003
Interim President, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico
2007 to 2009
Executive Director, Institute for Sustainable Development
CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico
2009 to Present
Senior Advisor to the President for Sustainability
CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico
3.RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND GRANTS
Most recent.
- ASA 2010 Awardee for the Carla Howery Teaching Enhancement Grant, “Understanding Rapid Climate Change: Causes, Consequences and Solutions.”
- SAP, 2009-2010 “Real-time Metering and Behavior Change”
Over 20 grants awarded from diverse sources.
- Available upon request.
4.MAJOR ADMINISTRATIVE INITIATIVES
A. AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO:
Developed and implemented a Strategic Plan for the College.
Initiated a program of assessment.
Worked to improve teaching and learning by:
a.establishing a program to improve the quality of undergraduate
instruction.
b.establishing interdisciplinary teaching fellowships.
c.establishing a Master Teacher’s program.
d.building learning communities.
e.developing a Freshman Interest Group program.
f.producing a College newsletter on innovations in teaching.
Initiated and chaired a campus-wide committee to develop a new Center for Teaching Excellence. I developed a report and recommendation for the campus, President, and Trustees, presented the plan, and chaired the search for the new director.
Established a College Committee on Racism and Sexism, for a long-term College-wide educational and transformational effort.
Worked with College Committee on Racism and Sexism to develop a campus- wide survey of gender attitudes. (In conjunction with the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, released the results to the campus community.)
Helped to initiate and implement a program in Women’s Studies.
Established a Multicultural Studies Committee to implement a Multicultural Studies program, and submitted proposal for the program to the Ohio Board of Regents for approval.
B.AT CALIFORNIASTATEUNIVERSITY, CHICO:
As Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at CaliforniaStateUniversity,Chico, I served as the institution’s chief academic officer and, in theabsence of the president, served as the president. I worked closely with other academic vice presidents in the CaliforniaStateUniversity system, and worked closely with members of the Chancellor’s Office staff and the other vice presidents to create and implement an intellectual agenda for the system. I served as President of the CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico Research Foundation, and had the same responsibilities as would a Vice President for Research, GraduateStudies, and Economic Development.
Working with members of my staff, the academic deans, the academic senate and other key individuals, I initiated and was responsible for the following major activities:
Played a key role in developing and implementing a strategic planfor the University.
Initiated a system of Performance-Based Budgeting to link budget allocations to the strategic planning process.
Created a Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching which:
a.developed a Master Teacher Program.
b.funded a program for interdisciplinary teaching.
c.provided awards for the improvement of undergraduate instruction.
d.funded Intra-University Professorships, which allow faculty from one department to teach or study in another.
e.developed and sponsored an annual Conference on Excellence in Learning and Teaching.
f.awarded small grants to attend pedagogical workshops and organize faculty study groups.
Began a major initiative relating to the entire undergraduate experience, which included reform of the current general education curriculum, and a shift in focus to student learning. The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching was created in part, to provide support for faculty development linked to the learning of new pedagogical styles and learning how to use the new educational technologies to improve student learning.
Funded and staffed, through strategic allocations, The Technology Learning Program (now Academic Technology Program), as part of the University’s effort our effort to help faculty use the new educational technologies.
Worked with the Vice Provost for Information Resources (library, computer support and telephone services) to develop, fund, and implement a technology plan for the campus.
Hired a new Vice Provost for Enrollment Management in 1996 to oversee all of our recruitment efforts, as part of an effort to stabilize enrollment and shape the character of our student body.
Helped establish and implement a Presidential Scholars Program designed to attract high achieving students to campus and to strengthen the Honors Program.
Created an Undergraduate Research Awards Program, which provided students with a funded opportunity to work closely with their professors on research projects during the summer.
Lead campus efforts to deepen our commitment to sustainability, developed a new strategic priority focused on sustainability, and created The Institute for Sustainable Development in 2007. (
5.HONORS and AWARDS
1962Sigma Xi
1968-1969Fulbright Lecturer to Greece
1978Visiting Fellow at the East-WestCenter (short term)
1982-1983President, Midwest Sociological Society
1982-1983Mid-American State University Association (MASUA)
Visiting Lecturer
1983-1984Fulbright Research/Travel Grant to New Zealand
1986-1987Intra-University Visiting Professorship, University of Kansas
1994Phi Beta Delta Honorary
2007Paul Maslin Award for Leadership in Sustainability, CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico
2009Excellence in Sustainability, City of Chico, California
6.MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
NASULGC, “Commission on the Arts and Sciences,” 1991-1993
Council of Arts and Sciences in Urban Universities, 1990-2007.
Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, 1990-1994
CASE
AASCU (American Association of StateColleges and Universities)
Associate Editor for the American Sociologist, 1975-1978
Associate Editor for the Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 1980-1990
Advisory Editor for Sociological Quarterly, 1969-1972
Council Member of the ASA section on The Political Economy of World Systems, 1977-1978
Editorial Board of TELOS, 1976-1978
Editor, with Jill S. Quadagno, of Studies in Historical Social Change, University Press of Kansas, 1985-1990
Editor, with Charles Tilly, of Studies in Sociology, a series for Westview Press.
Midwest Sociological Society
Pacific Sociological Association
Outside reader for: American Studies, American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Pacific Sociological Review (now, Sociological Perspectives) Sociological Quarterly, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Fast Capitalism, YaleUniversity Press, etc.
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1995-1998
7.PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS AND INVITED PAPERS
- Over eighty entries including invited presentations (available upon request).
Recent presentations as Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development.
“Mobilizing Today’s Generation of Students: Sustainability, Resistance and Social Change.” American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2006.
“Institutionalizing Sustainability: The CaliforniaStateUniversity, Chico Story.” UC/CSU/CCC Annual Conference on Sustainability, Santa Barbara, 2007.
“Visioning the Future: The American Democracy Project, Sustainability, and our Partnership with ButteCommunity College.” ButteCollege, GreenBuilding Conference, August 2007.
“Making Sustainability Part of Everyone’s Job.” Annual UC/CSU/CCC Sustainability Conference, August 2008, San Luis, Obispo.
“Preparing Our Students for a Sustainable Future: Barriers and Opportunities.” ShastaCollege (Redding, California), Keynote Address. Sustainability Conference, April 2009.
“Institutionalizing Sustainability: Barriers and Opportunities.” Annual UC/CSU/CCC Conference on Sustainability, Santa Barbara, June 2009.
“Looking at Sociology from Across the Fence: What Makes a Good Department.” American Sociological Association Workshop, August 2009.
“The Missing Link in Energy Programs: Human Behavior.” Utility Energy Forum, Lake Tahoe, California, May 2010.
Selected presentations as an administrator.
“The Diversity Dilemma, Recruiting and Hiring.” Council of Urban Colleges of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, April 1991.
“Deans’ Clinic.” Council of College of Arts and Sciences, November, 1991.
“The Role of the Arts and Sciences Dean in Fund Raising.” Council of Urban Colleges of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, April, 1992.
“The New Focus on Teaching.” Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, November, 1993.
“Free Speech and Campus Codes of Conduct.” Panel presentation, Council of Colleges of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, 1993.
“Responding to New Forms of Accountability.” Council of Urban Colleges of Arts, Letters, and Sciences, April, 1994.
“The Dean in the MetropolitanComprehensiveUniversity: A Focus on General Education.” Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, November, 1994.
“Strategic Planning and Strategic Budgeting: Examining the Links.” Council of Arts and Sciences in Urban Universities, April, 1997.
“Technology and Student Learning.” CaliforniaState Student Association, Transition Conference, June, 1997.
Invited participant, “The Transformation of Higher Education in the Digital Age.” Coopers and Lybrand series of CEO round tables on Leadership in the 21st Century, July, 1997.
“Projects to Enhance Quality and Productivity in Learning and Teaching,” with Wm. Post, Kathy Fernandes, and Marilyn Winzenz. Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching-West. March, 1998.
“Reaching Faculty through Chico’s Learning Productivity Projects,” with Marilyn Winzenz. CSU Conference for Academic Technology Staff, April 14-16, 1998.
“Scholarship Unbound: Reframing Faculty Evaluation and Rewards.” Discussion leader at OregonStateUniversity, Scholarship Unbound Conference, October 3, 1998.
“University Collaboration to Design, Deliver, and Evaluate a Faculty Technology Training Program,” with Marilyn Winzenz. Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education. October 15-18, 1998.
“The Other Side of the Desk: Administrators Look at Higher Education and Sociology.” Organizer, presider, and panelist. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 22-24, 1998.
“Collaboration to Enhance Productivity in Learning and Teaching,” with Marilyn Winzenz. AAHE (American Association for Higher Education), January 21-24, 1999.
“Building Electronic Communities.” CASUU, Santa Fe, April, 1999.
“Building Communities of Scholars: An Impossible Dream?” with Marilyn Winzenz. Paper delivered at AAHE, New Orleans, February, 2000.
“Higher Education in the New Millennium.” Presenter and panelist at the annual meetings of the California Sociological Association, October 19-21, 2000. Riverside, CA.
"Dealing with Enrollment Growth with Fewer Resources." CASUU, Santa Barbara, 2002.
"Working Effectively with Academic Administration." Disciplinary workshop leader and presenter for the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C., 2002.
"Best Practices in Technology: System-Wide Planning." CASUU, Del Mar, California, 2003.
"The Freshman Year Experience: Linking Diversity, Student Success and Civic Engagement." CASUU. Sedona, Arizona, 2005.
"The Sociological Perspective Applied." Disciplinary workshop leader andpresenter for the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 2005.
"The Sociological Imagination: Creating Your Own Future." Commencement speech to the sociology department, University of Oregon, 2005.
"ComprehensiveUniversities and the Humanities," invited participant, American Council of Learned Societies, New York, 2005.
"Toward a Sustainable Future." Keynote speaker, This Way to Sustainability Conference, Chico, California, 2007.
"American Democracy Project: Partnering with Community Colleges for Civic Engagement." Organizer and presenter for the American Democracy Project, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, the New York Times, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Snowbird, Utah, 2006.
"Mobilizing Today's Generation of Students: Sustainability, Resistance and Social Change." American Sociological Association, Montreal, 2006.
"From the Other Side of the Desk," panelist and organizer for the PacificSociological Association, Oakland, March 2007.
8.PUBLICATIONS
A. Books, Articles and Chapters:
“The Sect Movement,” Pacific Sociological Review, 6 (Fall, 1963).
“Marital Trends by Sex in the Pacific Northwest States, 1890-1960.”
The Family Life Coordinator, 18 (July, 1964).
“Make the Scientific Study of Religion Defensible,” Minnesota Journal of Education, (December, 1967).
The Sociological Perspective. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1968.
Social Stratification: An Annotated Bibliography, (University of Minnesota: Center for Sociological Research, 1968).
“Social Disorganization and Availability: Two Methods of Accounting for Radical Rightism,” in Robert Schoenberger, ed., The American Right Wing, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969).
“The Rise of the Occult: A Pop Cosmology,” Minnesota Journal of Education, (December, 1970).
The Sociological Perspective, 2nd edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and
Co., 1971.
“Career of the Radical Rightist,” in McNall, ed., The Sociological Perspective. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1971.
“Hither the University,” (Commentary) Science, 174 (October 1, 1971).
“Culture,” in Robert A. Turk and Robert M. Kenney, eds., Selected Readings in the Social Sciences. New York: Richard D. Irwin Publishers, 1972. This was a reprint of Chapter 4 of the 2nd edition of The Sociological Experience.
“A Comment on Research in the Field of Military Sociology,” Pacific Sociological Review, 16 (April, 1973).
“Latin American Armies: An Analysis of the Socio-Economic Factors Contributing to Their Dominance,” in Procedures on Comparative Defense Policy (United States Air Force Academy, 1973).
“Military and Paramilitary Forces: An Analysis of the Factors Contributing to Their Dominance,” Center for Latin American Studies, Special Studies Series, No. 11 (October 1973).
The Sociological Experience, 3rd edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1974.
The Greek Peasant: Values in Conflict. Washington, D.C.: The Arnold and Caroline Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association, CambridgeUniversity Press, 1974.
“Values that Inhibit Modernization: The Case of Greece,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 9 (Fall, 1974).
“Guerrilla Warfare: Predisposing and Precipitating Factors,” in Sam C. Sarkesian, ed., Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare. New York: Precedent Publishers, 1975.
Social Problems Today. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1975.
Career of a Radical Rightist. Port Washington, NY: NationalUniversity Publications, 1975.
“Peer Teaching: A Description and Evaluation,” Teaching Sociology, 2 (April, 1975).
“The New Conservatives: Ethnomethodologists, Phenomenologists, and Symbolic Interactionists,” with James C.M. Johnson, The Insurgent Sociologist, 5 (Summer 1975).
“Barriers to Development and Modernization in Greece,” in Ernestine Friedl and Muriel Schein (eds.), Regional Variation in Modern Greece. New York: New YorkAcademy of Sciences, 1975.
“Social Impacts of Sludge Treatment for the Proposed Yuma Desalting Plant,” Appendix F in Evaluation of Alternatives Sludge Disposal for the Yuma Desalting Plant, Research Paper No. 2, Center for Environmental Studies, Arizona State University, 1976.
The Sociological Perspectives, 4th edition. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co. 1977.
Performance Indicators for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs. (University of Kansas: Institute for Social and Environmental studies, 1977.)
“Multinational Corporations in Latin America: The Search for Consumers and Raw Materials,” with Sally O. Margolin. Studies in Comparative International Development, 12 (Fall, 1977).
“Image Maintenance: U.S. Defense Policies before and after Vietnam,” in Yung-hwan Jo, ed., U.S. Foreign Policy in Asia. Santa Barbara: Clio Books, 1978.
“On Contemporary Social Theory,” The American Sociologist. 13 (February, 1978).
Alternative Theoretical Perspectives. Editor. Special issue of The American Sociologist. 13 (February, 1978).
“Alternative Theoretical Perspectives in Modern Sociology,” in my edited work, Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979.
Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology. Editor. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979.
“Greece and the Common Market,” Telos 43 (Spring, 1980).
Current Perspective in Social Theory, Vol. I. With Gary N. Howe (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1980).
“An Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy,” in my edited work Political Economy: A Critique of American Society, 1981.
Political Economy: A Critique of American Society. Editor Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Co., 1981.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. II. With Gary N. Howe (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1981).
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. III. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1982).
Plains Families: Exploring Sociology through Social History, with Sally A. McNall. NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
Instructor’s Manual for Plains Families, with Sally A. McNall. NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
“Foreward,” Sod House Days by Howard Ruede, University Press of Kansas, 1983.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. IV (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1983).
“Pornography: The Structure of Domination and the Mode of Reproduction.” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 4 (1983).
“Variations on a Theme: Social Theory.” The Sociological Quarterly, 24 (Autumn, 1983).
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol V. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1984).
“The Marxian Project.” The Sociological Quarterly, 25 (Autumn, 1984)
“Radical Kansas.” A lecture/slide presentation developed for the Kansas Committee on the Humanities. (Topeka, KS: Kansas Committee on the Humanities). 51 pages. Developed into a 55-minute video-tape and played on public television, channel 11, Topeka, KS, 1985.
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. VI. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1985).
“State, Party, Ideology: Populism in New Zealand and the United States,” Comparative Social Research, 9 (1986).
“It was a Plot Got Up to Convict Me: The Case of Henrietta Cook versus the State of Kansas, 1876,” Qualitative Sociology, 9 (1986).
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. VII., with John Wilson (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1986).
“Thinking about Social Class: Structure, Organization, and Consciousness,” in Rhonda Levine and Jerry Lembcke, eds., Recapturing Marxism: An Appraisal of Recent Trends in Sociological Theory. NY: Praeger, 1987.
“The Agrarian Revolt in Kansas,” Research in Political Sociology, Vol. 4 (1980).
The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Kansas Populism. 1865-1900. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
Bringing Class Back in: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, edited with Rhonda Levine and Rick Fantasia. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991.
“Fraternal Orders and Working-Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century Kansas,” with James R. Orr, Pp. 101-118 in Scott G. McNall, Rhonda Levine and Rick Fantasia, eds., Bringing Class Back In: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. BoulderCO: Westview 1991.