DAVID WEINER

8402 Appalachian Dr

Austin, Texas 78759

(512) 345‑8319

Fax 345‑3671

dweiner@austin.rr.com

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

1999‑ Teach sociology and sociology courses at Austin Community College and work with organizations attempting to improve educational opportunities for minority youth.

1985‑99 Taught High School science courses

1984‑85 Trained and evaluated personnel for industrial employers.

1978‑84 Evaluated secondary school performance, trained teachers, collaborated in designing and implementing a large environmental education project for the Israel Ministry of Education and the Sde Boker Research and Development Project. Arranged and facilitated meetings of the Board of Governors of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

1974‑77 Designed training programs, and recruited and trained personnel for several corporations.

1968-74 Taught sociology courses as an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston and SUNY/Buffalo. At the latter I was attached to the School of Social Work.

1964‑68 Conducted workshops and seminars on racial prejudice for the University of Texas, Division of Extension's Adult Basic Education Program -- part-time while in graduate school.

1962‑64 Taught math and science at Middle Schools in California.

1950‑62 Stockboy, truck driver, salesman and management trainee for paper companies -- mainly Fine Papers,Inc., my family's business.

EDUCATION

B.A. in Chemistry, 1958, University of Texas at Austin.

General secondary teaching certificate, 1963, following course work at the

University of Southern California.

Ph.D in sociology, 1968, University of Texas at Austin

CERTIFICATIONS

California: certified in physical and life science.

Texas: certified in chemistry, physics, physical science, composite science, and sociology.

AWARDS AND PUBLIC

SERVICE

University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award, 1973.

Member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Educational Administration Advisory Committee, 1987‑1988.

Member of the Austin Community College Booker T. Washington Collaborative Outreach Partners 1999‑present.

Member of the Austin Community College Behavior Science Task Force 2000-present.

Participant in Senator Royce West's 5th African‑American Legislative Summit as a member of the Education Braintrust: "Opportunities Suspended: Devastating Consequences of Accountability, Zero Tolerance and School Discipline," February 8, 2002.

Member Austin Community College Eastview Campus Advisory Committee April 2002 - present.

Educational advisor to Senator West, 2002 ‑ present.

Member of Texas Alliance for Human Needs' Basic Money Management advisory committee, 1999‑present.

PUBLICATIONS

"Prejudice and Adult Education," in Adult Learning, (ed.) National University Extension Association, Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1967.

With Norval D. Glenn and Jon P. Alston, Social Stratification: A Research Bibliography, Berkeley: Glendessary Press, 1970.

"Toward a Broader Clinical Approach to Crisis," Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 2 (Autumn, 1974), 50‑55.

"When Cynicism Prevails," The Progressive Populist, Vol 6, Oct. 1, 2000.

Review of Dollars for Terror by Richard Labeviere, The Progressive Populist, vol. 8, July 1, 2002

" Health Care Reforms and Stolen Elections," OpEdNews.com, January 22, 2006

PERSONAL

I'm the husband of a dynamic woman and the father of two daughters of amazing heart and energy. An autobiographical manuscript can be found at http://sdweiner.home.texas.net/d/manuscript.htm