ELIZABETH H. TOBIN Address Office of Academic Affairs Illinois College 1101 West College Ave. Jacksonville, IL 62650 Education 1984 1973

Ph.D. History B.A. History

Princeton University Swarthmore College

Professional Experience 7/2006 – Present Dean of the College and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Illinois College. Responsible for faculty, curriculum, off-campus study, library, registrar’s office, information technology. 7/2005 – 6/2006

Special Assistant to the President at Bates College, managing self-study of campus climate in regard to diversity. Twenty-percent of time spent managing the Teagle Assessment Grant and First-Year Program for the Dean of Faculty.

8/2004 – 6/2005

Co-leader of a Bates College Fall Semester in Berlin, Germany; sabbatical and research in winter semester.

9/2000 – 7/2004

Associate Dean of Faculty, Bates College Responsibility for supervision of social sciences and interdisciplinary programs; hiring of temporary faculty; grant writing and management; participation in policy formulation and implementation: First-Year Seminar Program, faculty workload review, Committee on Curriculum and Calendar, Learning Associates, policies on part-time faculty.

9/1999 - 8/2000

Manager of Mellon Grant Activities at Bates College: working with faculty and administrators to develop a concept and grant proposal for “Learning Associates,” practitioners or graduate students who assist in the learning process. The concepts served as the basis for successful grants.

1/1998 - 6/1998

Acting Associate Dean of the Faculty, Bates College Responsibility for hiring of temporary faculty; assistance in development of new guidelines for evaluation of faculty with significant interdisciplinary work; participation in policy formulation

1996 - 2000

Division Chair of the Social Sciences, Bates College Responsibility for evaluation of faculty; advice to department chairs and colleagues; service on advisory committee to the Dean of Faculty

1/1990 - 8/1994

Director of Program in Women’s Studies, Bates College

2 Leader of ad hoc group proposing creation of first interdisciplinary program and major, 1986-90. As first Director, worked with faculty committee to develop curriculum and new courses; gained approval to hire first faculty member; emphasized outreach to existing departments through lecture series and faculty development seminars; counseled students extensively; coordinated conferences and other projects with other women’s studies programs in Maine. 1979 - Present

Department of History, Bates College 1997 - Present Full Professor 1987 - 1997 Associate Professor 1984 - 1987 Assistant Professor 1979 - 1984 Instructor Position in History shared with Steve Hochstadt. One of Bates’ first shared appointments; we helped develop appropriate evaluation structures, allowing shared appointments to become a Bates tradition.

Selected Administrative Initiatives Manager of self-study concerning campus climate. Goal was understanding nature of student campus climate, especially in regard to questions of diversity. Process involved working with many faculty, vice presidents and other staff to identify appropriate methods for gathering and analyzing information, interviewing students, preparing and presenting results to many audiences. I worked one day each week in admissions to help understand how our admissions processes contributed to campus climate. Co-manager of general education reform initiative in its first year, including accompanying faculty team to AAC&U conference and assisting faculty team as they led a full faculty discussion of the need for reform and a decision to begin reform, 2003 - 2004. Manager of review of faculty workload, including collection of quantitative data, direction of outside consultant, preparation and implementation of recommendations, 2000 - 2003. Manager of First-Year Seminar Program, working with faculty committee, individual faculty, deans of students, and registrar to create a program in which all first years have the option of a First-Year Seminar; initiated yearly faculty workshops to create a community of teachers in the program, 2001 – 2003; 2005-06. Director of pilot residential life project, “Experiment in Community Governance,” designed to educate students about the challenges of living in dormitories; recruited and advised the faculty working with the pilot group of students, 2003 - 2004. (Project continued, 2004-05.) Planner and manager for Bates of a grant funded as a pilot project by the Mellon Foundation in 2003 – 2004, and by the Teagle Foundation in 2005-2006, in cooperation with the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and several other New England liberal arts 2

3 colleges; comparison of programs aimed at student transitions: entering college, planning for and reintegration following study abroad, and capstone projects. In 2005 – 2006, concentration on transition to college. Leading role on a committee which successfully developed, steered through faculty approval, and implemented a new flexible class scheduling grid, designed to allow classes different lengths of time for class meetings, depending on pedagogical practices and the needs of particular classes, 1998 - 2002. Leading role in investigation of issues associated with adjunct faculty, created a clear and fair hiring and evaluation system, produced successful faculty legislation, and gained trustee approval, 1997 - 2001. Significant role in implementation 2001 - 2003. Selected Women’s Studies Activities Co-organizer of “Women and Scientific Literacy: Building Two-Way Streets,” a series of faculty development seminars and events for faculty in the natural sciences and women’s studies, with Pamela Baker, Sharon Kinsman, Mark Semon and Bonnie Shulman, funded by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, 1997 - 2000. Organized and directed Seventh Annual Maine Women's Studies Conference at Bates College, “Breaking Chains, Forging Bonds,” with a focus on connecting women’s studies to the needs of women outside academia, 1991. Developed and organized series of four Faculty Development Seminars at Bates College, which brought faculty from diverse disciplines together to focus on the impact of women’s studies on existing academic disciplines, 1990 - 1994. Public speaking in connection with women’s studies on a wide variety of topics including “Abortion and Politics,” “Women in the First World War,” “Women of the Ojibwa Culture,” and “Why We Need Women’s Studies,” 1990 - 1996. Leadership of ad hoc group responsible for creation of a Women’s Studies Program at Bates: organization of interested faculty and students; development and team-teaching of first women’s studies course; negotiation with college administrators; organization of consultant’s visit, primary authorship of proposal presented to faculty for vote, 1986 -1990. Research Papers Presented “Early Intervention at Illinois College: The Politics, Potentials, and Perils of Using ACT’s CollegeReadiness Benchmarks,” with Nicholas Capo, National Symposium on Student Retention, Milwaukee, Oct. 2007. Paper received the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange Best Practices Award. “Changing Faculty Workload Without New Resources: The Creative Use of Curricular Planning,” with Pamela Baker and Jill Reich, American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual 3

4 Meeting, Jan. 2004. “Practitioners on Campus: Learning Associates from the ‘Real World,’" with Pamela Baker, Judith Robbins, and Abraham Smith, American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting, Jan. 2004. “How We Can Treat Part-Time Faculty Equitably: Solutions in the Making,” with Susan Bowers, Robert Farnsworth and Warren Funk, Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, D.C., January 2002. “Your Critique, My Content: The Difficulties of Crossing Academic Boundaries,” National Women’s Studies Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, given with Pam Baker and Bonnie Shulman, June 1999. “The Context of Memory: Representations of Women in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,” American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, DC, Nov. 1, 1997. “The Meanings of Work: East German Women in the Transition from Nazism to Communism,” Women in the Curriculum Lunch Series, University of Maine at Orono, November 1995. “Women in the Holocaust: Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Sons,” Maine Women’s Studies Conference, Portland, Maine, December 1995. "Local Beamten as Counter-revolutionaries: Düsseldorf 1918-19," New England Workshop on German Affairs, East Kingston, New Hampshire, June 1986. "Krieg, Gesellschaft und Revolution in Düsseldorf 1914-1919," Institut für Europäische Geschichte, November 1984. "Die Beamten als Gegenrevolutionäre Kraft in Düsseldorf, 1918/19," Historisches Seminar der Universität Düsseldorf, Abteilung für Neuere Geschichte, November 1984. "White-Collar Workers in the German Revolution: The Case of Düsseldorf, 1918-19," American Historical Association, Los Angeles, December 1981. Publications Review of Sean Dobson, Authority and Upheaval in Leipzig, 1910-1920: The Story of a Relationship. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, in The Journal of Modern History, 76.3 (September 2004), 719-721. “Changing Faculty Workload Without New Resources: The Creative Use of Curricular Planning,” with Jill N. Reich and Pamela J. Baker, Council on Undergraduate Reserach Quarterly. 24.4 (June 2004), 167. 4

5 “Treating Part-Time Faculty Equitably: One College’s Solutions,” Peer Review: Emerging Trends and Key Debates in Undergraduate Education 5.1 (Fall 2002), 22-24. Review of David Clay Large, Berlin. New York: Basic Books, 2000, in The Historian 65.1 (Autumn 2002) 224-25. “Difficult Crossings,” with Pamela Baker and Bonnie Shulman, in Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation, ed. Maralee Mayberry, Banu Subramaniam, and Lisa Weasel (New York and London: Routledge, 2001). Review of Sibylle Quack, ed., Between Sorrow and Strength: Women Refugees of the Nazi Period, and Leonie Wagner, et. al., eds., Aus dem Leben jüdischer Frauen. Welche Welt ist meine Welt? in Gender and History 9.2 (1997). Review of Klaus-Jürgen Müller, ed,. The Military in Politics and Society in France and Germany in the Twentieth Century, (Berg: Oxford, Washington, D.C., 1995), in The Historian 59 (1996) 200-201. “The Meanings of Work: German Women in the Transition from Nazism to Communism,” with Jennifer Gibson, Central European History 28, no. 3 (1995) 299-342. Review of William Pelz, The Spartakusbund and the German Working Class Movement, 1914-1919, in Socialism and Democracy, 7 (1991), 195-198. “Where were the Women?” Bates: The Alumni Magazine, (Spring, 1991), 8-12. "War and the Working Class: The Case of Düsseldorf 1914-1918," Central European History, 18, no. 3-4 (1985), 257-298. "Krieg, Gesellschaft und Revolution in Düsseldorf 1914-1919," Arbeitspapier 2/1985. (Arbeitspapier is a series of the Institut für Europäische Geschichte.) "Die Beamten als Gegenrevolutionäre Kraft in Düsseldorf 1918/19," Arbeitspapier 3/1985. "Revolution and Alienation: The Foundations of Weimar," in Towards the Holocaust: The Social and Economic Collapse of the Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Wallimann, eds., (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983) 155-176. Work in Progress Workers, Socialists and Civil Servants: Revolutionary Conflicts in Düsseldorf, 1914-1918. Equality and Gender in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (under consideration by Journal of Women’s History) 5

6 Memories of Gender: Memoirs, Museums and Memorials Ongoing Professional Development Maine Women’s Management Institute, 1997-98. HERS Management Institute for Women in Higher Education, 2000-2001.

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