{"id":78,"date":"2008-09-22T13:05:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.csun.edu\/CSUNStories\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-03-30T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T16:43:53","slug":"stan-charnofsky-educational-psychology-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/csun-stories\/2008\/09\/22\/stan-charnofsky-educational-psychology-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Charnofsky, Educational Psychology faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was a graduate student at USC [University of Southern California], and a guy named Phil Monroe, who was a professor of Physical Education, asked me to come out and interview for — amazingly– the baseball coach\u2019s job. Because I\u2019d played professional baseball with the New York Yankees. Meanwhile, I was working on my doctorate at USC in Counseling\/Psychology, and then I get offered this job as the baseball coach. So I consulted with my advisor at USC, and he said \u201cWell, it\u2019s a professorship. That\u2019s hard to get — so, take it if you can, and then later maybe, you can switch over.\u201d Well, that\u2019s exactly what happened. I was a coach, and I taught Physical Education for five years, and then they needed me in the Educational Psychology department, and I switched over.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Prator used to come to the Physical Education building to work out. He was the President, and I\u2019d run into him there because he\u2019d be in the faculty dressing room and we\u2019d talk, and talk, and I got to know him fairly well. When it came to the point that they said, \u201cWell, we only have fifteen Latinos on the whole campus, a dozen Blacks on the whole campus, [so] we\u2019re going to try to recruit minorities,\u201d [Prator said] \u201cStan, I\u2019d like you to be the first EOP [Educational Opportunity Program] Director, because students get along well with you, and you understand them.\u201d I mean, I had a good relationship with the students. He said, \u201cI know you don\u2019t know much about the other aspect of it, but maybe we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what I did was, I called in Miguel Verdugo \u2013 Mike Verdugo, who was head of what they called UMAS at that time \u2013 United Mexican American Students; and I called in Archie Chatman, who was head of the BSU, the Black Student Union. And I said, \u201cYou guys go out and find students \u2013 I don\u2019t know how to find them.\u201d [They asked,] \u201cWhat are the criteria?\u201d [I answered] \u201cBring them over, and we\u2019ll see.\u201d The interesting thing to me was, we brought kids in who were failing in the eleventh grade, and then all of a sudden got As and Bs in the twelfth. Their overall grade-point average wouldn\u2019t have permitted them to get in here, but we saw something in them. They must have had a terrible eleventh grade year \u2013 you know, maybe trouble in their family, maybe a loss, maybe jail \u2013 who knows what? So we looked for people who showed some little glimmer of promise. And that first year we brought in 123 Blacks and Latinos \u2013 mostly Black students \u2013 all from Central LA, or Sylmar, or San Fernando.<\/p>\n

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On November 4, 1968, a group of black athletes and Black Student Union activists at SFVSC seized the sixth floor of the Administration Building seeking demands for educational reform and an end to perceived racism in the Athletic Department. Dr. Charnofsky was EOP Director at the time, and witnessed these events. A extensive account is given in John Broesamle’s book, <\/em>Suddenly a Giant<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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After the takeover in November of 1968, the campus was pretty disrupted for several weeks, and there were other incidents around the campus : they broke a door in the administration building at one protest, and there were other arrests made after that. But what happened was, they brought in ministers from South Central LA \u2013 Black ministers– they brought in Latino, Chicano men \u2013 and a couple of women too, I think– I don\u2019t think Delores Huerta was around yet then \u2013 but Cesar Chavez\u2019s people \u2013 people like that came in, and they all wanted to try to ameliorate the situation. \u201cHow can we get this to work? How can we have this thing work?”<\/p>\n

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The demonstrations were unfortunate, but sometimes power is the only\u2013 You show power is the only way you fight power. The power structure doesn\u2019t give up power voluntarily, in any situation \u2013 very rarely. [It\u2019s not] \u201cOh, you want something? We\u2019ll give it to you.\u201d You know– they\u2019ve got to feel pressure. So that\u2019s what happened. And I think the best thing was, we have a diverse campus. We have campus of diversity. My own Master\u2019s program now \u2013 we have people from all over the world that come here. We have a lot of Muslims, we have middle-easterners, Israelis, Iranians, Iraqis, Russians, a lot of Armenians. We have people from all over, everywhere, that come to our program now. I know that\u2019s not the cause and effect — but because we have an open campus, people are attracted to us. So we have a very diverse campus, which I really like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was a graduate student at USC [University of Southern California], and a guy named Phil Monroe, who was a professor of Physical Education, asked me to come out and interview for — amazingly– the baseball coach\u2019s job. Because I\u2019d played professional baseball with the New York Yankees. Meanwhile, I was working on my doctorate … <\/p>\n

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