Part of her role as interim chair of the Stanislaus State Ethnic Studies Department is organizing the annual Ethnic Studies Conference, and Associate Professor Mary Roaf is fully prepared. 

Department colleagues are dedicated to creating programs related to their specific fields, leaving the chair to organize the broader Ethnic Studies Conference. 

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All offices within the Division of University Advancement work to advance the mission of the University by developing programs that broaden understanding, promote engagement and foster private support and charitable giving.

Developed by the RAND Corporation and the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) and launched in the fall of 2000, the CLA is a standardized testing initiative that allows for a direct measure of student learning by combining two types of testing components, 1) a set of real-world performance tasks, and 2) a set of analytic writing prompts. These are used to measure student learning in the areas of critical thinking, analytic reasoning, and written communication.