Full Biography for Tim Hegstrom

Candidate for
Governing Board Member; Campbell Union High School District

The Campbell Union High School District has been important to me for over35 years. I am a Campbell High School Graduate (1965). Four younger siblings also graduated from Campbell, the youngest in 1978.

My wife and I are parents of children in the Campbell Union High School District. One son, Justin, graduated from Westmont High School. Two other children attend Rolling Hills Middle School and will soon attend Westmont. We have had our share of back-to-school nights, parent conferences, graduation night volunteering, fund-raisers, and so forth. My service in our feeder elementary school includes a pro bono development day workshop for faculty, volunteering in the school library, and coaching the Odyssey of the Mind team.

I serve on several statewide education committees that are relevant to the concerns of California High Schools. For example, I am a member of an ad-hoc committee that met in Sacramento at the behest of the California Education Round Table (CERT) to "map" the state in terms of regional partnerships between K-12 schools and college and university campuses. The idea is to promote more regional K-16 cooperation, and to do it in a more equitable way than we have previously done. For the past two years I have chaired the "CERT-4" sub-committee of the Intersegmental Coordinating Committee. This group is charged with studying Round Table proposal number four (CERT-4) which seeks an increase in the number of college and university students serving as tutors in grades K-12. This received its impetus as a favorite initiative of Superintendent DeLaine Eastin. One outgrowth of the work was a small grant from the California Department of Education to the Santa Clara County Office of Education which resulted in a web-site designed to match tutor coordinators with those K-12 districts who perceived a need. Similarly, for the past five years I have served as a member of the intersegmental (UC, CSU, CCC, and privates) committee on Outreach, Admissions, and Transfer. Among the issues we struggle with are the admissions goals and profiles of high school graduates. Finally, I am a member of the CSU Academic Senate which is currently studying ways to increase the number and quality of credentialed K-12 teachers. All of this has resulted in my gaining some understanding of the state-wide forces and personalities that have a profound effect upon the efforts of the Campbell Union High School District.

BRIEF RESUME

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

San Jose State University, Professor, Communication Studies, 1993 to present; Associate Professor, 1988-1993; Lecturer, 1984-1988, Department Chair, 1993-97.

Teach upper division courses and graduate seminars in
organizational communication and group discussion theory, teach the graduate research methods course and the lower division small group communication course.

Serve as department liaison to local chapter of California Faculty Association.

Serve on SJSU Academic Senate. Represent SJSU on system-wide CSU Academic Senate.

Former Chair, Campus Planning Board.

Coordinate undergraduate internship program in
organizational communication.

University of Jyvaskyla, Finland; Visiting Professor, Communication. (January 1998).

Taught "Current Issues in Organizational Communication."
Presentations for Faculty and Graduate Students in Tampere and Helsinki.

West Valley College, Saratoga, CA 1971-88.

Faculty Member and Department Chair.

President, District Academic Senate: Organized faculty
representation on contingency budget committees, Represented the faculty at bi-weekly Governing Board meetings.

CONSULTING AND TRAINING--since 1974 with over 50 different businesses and organizations.

Coached and worked issues one-on-one with key personnel, facilitated board retreats and staff planning sessions, helped organize and facilitate initial meetings of an "engineering council," facilitated strategy sessions in working with key customers, researched the communicative value of product labels, mediated inter-departmental disputes, evaluated and helped revise performance systems, facilitated organization-wide goal setting, investigated and recommended correctives for morale problems, conducted attitude surveys, and reviewed staff meeting procedures. Provided training in team building, selection interviewing, performance evaluation, Equal Employment Opportunity, management communication, managing meetings, customer relations, managing conflict, presentations, and advanced management training.

Board of Directors, Public Dialogue Consortium.

Pro bono consulting and training for KNTV (Channel 11); Second Harvest Food Bank, Forest Hill School, San Jose Symphony, and Children's Discovery Museum.

RESEARCH--author of 45 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Directed 7 M.A. theses. Principal current research interests: Organizational Democracy, Organizational Voice. A relevant article:

1992. "Perceptions of School Principal Communication
Effectiveness and Teacher Satisfaction on the Job." (w/K.W. Whaley). Journal of Research and Development in Education 25:224-231.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS--Western States Communication Association (WSCA), National Communication Association (NCA), International Communication Association (ICA), and International Consortium on Communication.