History Professor Ranford Hopkins, has been named the 12th recipient of Moorpark College’s annual Distinguished Faculty Chair (DFC) award. Criteria for the DFC award are excellence in teaching as well as service to the college and community. Potential recipients for the DFC award are nominated by a faculty member and all nominations are voted on by former award holders and members of the Academic Senate. Each year the Moorpark College Foundation inaugurates a $500 scholarship to honor the DFC. Hopkins will establish his scholarship's criteria and it will be awarded for the first time in May, 2009.
Hopkins, a professor of history, is Chair of Social Sciences and Philosophy Department and
teaches African-American History, Social and Political History of the US, and History of the US- an honors course for highly motivated students. He has a master’s degree from UC Santa Barbara and has been teaching full-time at Moorpark since 1989.
His research interest continues to be in the Progressive Era of US History. He has three oral histories published under the UCLA Oral History Program.
He has served the community by being a founding member of the Multicultural Committee- which inaugurated Multicultural Day in 1990. Hopkins was the first to conceive of this alternative teaching day that takes place each April with more than 100 lectures, performances and seminars with a global theme. The 2009 event is April 15.
He has served on numerous campus committees and received the Associated Students Teacher of the Year Award in 1995 and is twice recipient of the Academic Senate Presidents Award for Outstanding Service to Moorpark College in 1990 and 1996.
Additionally, Hopkins has served as staff diversity facilitator for more than 40 academic hiring committees for the Ventura County Community College District. |
