HSU Honors Outstanding Professor

Arcata – Humboldt State University will honor Jennifer Eichstedt, Professor of Sociology and 2008/2009 Outstanding Professor, at a dinner on Wednesday, April 22, at 6 p.m. in the University Center Banquet Room, just off the Quad.
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Eichstedt will give a free lecture at 5 p.m. in the Kate Buchanan Room, also at University Center. A specialist in race and ethnic issues, she will address “Creating a Socially Just Campus: Transformation and the Reproduction of Power.”

Eichstedt has been teaching at Humboldt State since 2002. She earned her doctorate in 1995 from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is co-chair of HSU’s Diversity Plan Action Council and a member of the Personnel Committees of Women’s Studies and Native American Studies.

She is also a member of the American Sociological Association, the National Council on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education and the Society for Applied Technology.

Both the lecture and the dinner are open to the public. Dinner tickets are $38 per person and RSVP is Friday, April 17. Checks should be made payable to the HSU Sponsored Programs Foundation. Details are available from the Office of Academic Affairs at 707/826-3722.