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SPOTLIGHT
GSE Profiles
Staff Contact: Brian Rugg
Lionel Chan
Visiting Associate Professor
Leadership for Educational Equity
Office: 3659 Tolman hall
Phone: 510-643-4733
Email: lionelchan at berkeley.edu
Website: www.MindObserver.com
Office: 3659 Tolman Hall
Phone: 510-643-4733
Email:
"The problems of education are merely reflections of the deepest problems of our age. They cannot be solved by organization, administration, or the expenditure of money, even though the importance of all these is not denied. We are suffering from a metaphysical disease, and the cure must therefore be metaphysical. Education which fails to clarify our central convictions is mere training and indulgence. For it is our central convictions that are in disorder, and, as long as the present anti-metaphysical temper persists, the disorder will grow worse. Education, far from ranking as man's greatest resource, will then be an agent of destruction..." Schumacher, E.F., small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered.
"[T]oday education...isolates children from their culture and from nature, training them instead to become narrow specialists in a Westernized urban environment. This process is particularly striking in Ladakh, where modern schooling acts almost as a blindfold, preventing children from seeing the context in which they live. They leave school unable to use their own resources, unable to function in their own world. *** Everything in school promotes the Western model and, as a direct consequence, makes them ashamed of their own traditions." Norberg-Hodge, Helena, Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh.
"[A]utocensorship begins at a very early age through a socialization process that is also a form of indoctrination that works against independent thought in favor of obedience. Schools function as a mechanism of this socialization. The goal is to keep people from asking questions that matter about important issues that directly affect them and others." Chomsky, Noam, Chomsky on MisEducation.
Lionel also serves as the Buddhist Chaplain at the San Francisco County Juvenile Hall and teaches stress management meditation at the SF County jail where he is known as Li (as in Jet Li).
• Ph.D. mathematics (U.C., Berkeley).
• J.D. law (U.C., Berkeley).
• Ed.M. (Harvard Graduate School of Education; Administration, Planning, and Social Policy; and Technology in Education).
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• C.P.A. (Hawaii).
• Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA.
• Chief Technology Officer at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco.
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Educ279A/B, Resource Management
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Other Papers/Reports/Op-Eds/Computer Programs• Hiroshima karma. Letter to the Editor, San Francisco Chronicle. 8/6/2007.
• Nagasaki, 61 years later. Letter to the Editor, San Francisco Chronicle. 8/9/2006.
• Preventing Problems: The best defense for your information system is good care and continued care, American School Board Journal, September 2004.
• Budgeting Red Flags, American School Board Journal, May 2004.
• Change Discovery, Business Officer, National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), May 1999.
• Organizing An Endowment Network, Trusteeship (published by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges), September 1995
• An Investment Policy for Maximum Accumulation, In Trust, Spring 1995
• Reducing Fiduciary Liability, Outlook (official publication of the California Society of CPAs), Fall 1994
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Invited• Mental Health Issues and Buddhism; California Mental Health & Spirituality Initiative; Oakland, 6/2009
• California School Finance Issues; Roosevelt Institute; UC, Berkeley, 4/2009
• Meditating for Health; Century Club of California, San Francisco, 4/2007
• Stress Management Using Meditation; Americorp, 2/2006; 2/2007
• Breath Meditation; Monte Vista High School, Danville, CA, 3/2005
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Professional Service• Anger Control, San Francisco Juvenile Hall (2004-present)
• Stress/Anger Control Using Meditation, San Francisco County Jail (2007-present)
• Substance Abuse Relapse Prevention Using Meditation, San Francisco Sherriff's Department, Early Release Program (2006-2007)
• Stress Control Using Meditation, Homeless Veterans program, VA Downtown Clinic, San Francisco (2007)
University and GSE Service• How to Control Stress/Anger Using meditation, April 2007, ASUC Safety Week
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Last Modified: 6/23/09
