SACC 2001 Annual Report

REVISED 1/3/02 2001
Annual Report
Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges
A Section of the American Anthropological Association

I. Spring Meeting: April 2001, Oaxaca:

Forty-seven registrants plus fifteen guests. Guest speakers: Archaeologist Marcus Winter on Monte Alban, and cultural anthropologist Robert Murphy on Oaxaca de Juarez. Presentations and roundtables one day and a quarter. Guided field studies of Monte Alban, Mitla, villages specializing in weaving and pottery, dinner at the Zocalo. Board meeting and Business meeting.

II. Report to AAA President Louise Lamphere, sent November 1, 2001, concerning information about Anthropology in Community Colleges. At the Oaxaca meeting of the Board, AAA President-Elect Don Brenneis commented on the Report. He saw Community Colleges as a crucial link between college and K-12. He was impressed by the number of students and their diversity. In his first statement as AAA President, he wrote in Anthropology News: When I attended the annual meeting of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges earlier this year, it became very clear just how many students nationwide have their initial and perhaps only contact with our field through courses in such institutions. If we value the perspectives that anthropology can provide on human experience and the range of methods and substantive knowledge that we can offer, there is no more significant teaching going on today.

III. At the Annual Conference of the AAA in Washington, DC, SACC organized the following Invited Sessions:

a) Current Issues in Anthropology - Organizer and Chair, Omara Benjamin Abe; Five Fields Update

b) Community Archaeology - Organizer and Chair, Robert Muckel.

c) Also organized was a Workshop on Curriculum Development and Ideas for Increasing Enrollments-Organizer Philip L. Stein, Mary Pilford, Chair-Charles Ellenbaum

IV. At the Business Meeting:

a) Phil Naftaly was nominated for President of SACC and Mel Johnson for Treasurer, for 2003

b) Receiving Presidential Excellence Award for 2000 Tony Balzano; for 2001 - Mark Lewine. They joined the Awardees for 1991-Richard Furlow, 1992-Charles Ellenbaum,1996-Lloyd Miller, and 1997-Phil Stein.

c) The following statement of recognition was sent to Mark Lewine, Awardee for 2001: TO: The Board of Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges and to Members of the SACC: As President of the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, it is my honor to present the President's Award for 2001 to Dr. Mark S. Lewine, Professor of Anthropology at Cuyahoga Community College and Director of the Center for Community Research in Cleveland, Ohio, for his many years of dedicated, passionate leadership of our national anthropology association and for effectively pursuing the cause of public educational outreach for anthropology. His innovative ideas have resulted in significant developments in democratizing education in our community colleges. Illustrative of Dr. Lewine's tireless energy is his alerting of SACC members to the dropping of anthropology courses from nursing programs, and from other required vocational programs. These students comprise a large segment of community college enrollment. A basic understanding of the complexity of other cultures, and cultural diversity in the United States, cannot be achieved through snippets in nursing textbooks. The confusion following the events of September 11 should make this self-evident. We in the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges are deeply grateful for the vitality and innovativeness of Dr. Mark Lewine. Sincerely, Leonard Lieberman, Ph.D. Professor of Anthropology Central Michigan University President, Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges, 2001

d) Rob Edwards presented a tape about the Archaeological Technology Certificate Program at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California. This vocational program teaches essential archaeological employment skills: site survey, mapping, recording, unit layout and excavation, laboratory processing and cataloging, and archival data use and management. Students earning this certificate have been hired by local and national archaeological firms and by government agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service. Students may also choose to complete an AA or AS and go on to a four-year university locally or worldwide. In addition Edwards presents a brochure about the Central California Consortium for Archaeological Technology including the following colleges: Cabrillo, Gavilan, Hartnell, Merritt, Mission, Modesto, Monterey Peninsula, Ohlone, San Mateo, West Valley. Comments from others at the Board meeting clarified that similar programs exist across the nation.

V. SACC is discussing the development of a Student Achievement Award and a Student Scholarship Award. In addition President Brenneis has notified us that the AAA is considering a Minority Scholarship and wishes to coordinate with SACC. Paula Clarke and Ted Hamilton of Columbia College, California, announced that they have developed a Future Promise Award for Community College Students.

VI. The 2001 Business Meeting ended with the virtual gavel turned over to the new President, Charles Ellenbaum, who is planning the Spring Meeting in Fort Lauderdale.

Prepared by Leonard Lieberman, President SACC, 2001

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