UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTEA University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit |
UC LMRI is governed by a Director and a Faculty Steering Committee appointed by the Office of the President.
Members of the Faculty Steering Committee represent each of the UC campuses and serve renewable three-year terms. In addition to the campus representatives, the Steering Committee includes a representative from the UC Office of the President.
See also: Faculty Steering Committee Research
Current UC LMRI Faculty Steering Committee Members:
- Jamal Abedi
- Adalberto Aguirre, Jr.
- Joseph Castro
- Margaret A. Gibson
- Kris Gutierrez
- Jin Sook Lee
- Paula Levin
- Robert Ochsner
- Robin Scarcella
- Laura Sterponi
- Dante Noto, Ex Officio
- Jeannie Oakes, Ex Officio
- Laura Romo, Ex Officio
- Russell W. Rumberger, Ex Officio
- Patricia Gandara, Ex Officio
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Representing: UC San Diego 2000-2008
Paula Levin is Graduate Adviser and Senior Lecturer
(SOE) in the Education Studies at the University
of California, San Diego 
.
In these capacities, she is responsible
for directing the M.A. and Doctor of Education programs in Teaching and
Learning. Grounded in a commitment to educational equity, these programs
encourage students to examine the fundamental changes in approaches to
teaching and learning that are required to reach equity within the context
of larger scale school reform efforts.
Dr. Levin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology, and has conducted research on schooling and culture in the United States, as well as in French Polynesia and Papua New Guinea. Her writings have addressed teacher preparation, home-school relationships, curriculum design, and the social and cultural aspects of student performance.
From 1984-1988, Dr. Levin worked as a member of a curriculum development team to create pre-school programs for native Hawaiian children at the Kamehameha Schools in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since coming to UCSD, she has worked on a number of collaborative teacher-researcher projects, including Visualizing Earth, an NSF-funded multi-site, multidisciplinary research project to study scientific visualization, and to integrate the use of space shuttle images into middle school earth science instruction.
In addition to her work within the Teacher Education Program, Dr. Levin serves as affiliated faculty in UCSD's Program in Human Development and Department of Anthropology. In Spring 2000, she was named by the Academic Senate as a recipient of UCSD's Distinguished Teaching Award.
See: http://tep.ucsd.edu/people/levin.shtm
See also: http://create.ucsd.edu/index.htm
Email: plevin@ucsd.edu