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CSM faculty member explores sunken ships
Nicole Radov
Issue date: 12/11/06 Section: News
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A member of San Mateo's Community College District for thirteen years, Professor Ron Brown is a full-time professor of Computer Science.
Brown also devotes his time to collaborating with other teachers on the Distance Education Committee. The group's goal is to reinvigorate and construct a more formal system for online classes.
Brown is well aware that not every student can commit to being full-time. CSM's campus is diverse, as are its students. Provided the chaos of life, he believes that students should be able to make their schedules work for them without having to physically be on campus. "There should be other means of educational delivery besides the face-to-face," said Brown.
Brown was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is 53 years old and resides either on his boat in Redwood City, or at his house in Merced when not working locally.
After graduating college back East, Brown was among the first to catch the dot-com wave after its explosion in the early 80s. He worked as a market engineer for Pac-Bell (now known as SBC). After retirement, he decided to teach full-time after getting tired of the high-tech industry. He began teaching at CSM in 1993.
Besides teaching, Brown has another passion-travel. He's been to every island in the Caribbean, to most of Central America, Tonga, Tahiti, and many other areas. Brown emphasized that he is definitely not a tourist. When he travels he prefers to stay with locals and be adventurous. "You cook it, I eat it," said Brown.
In his spare time, and during semester breaks and vacations, Brown enjoys skiing, sailing, and scuba diving. He is affiliated with the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, a movement encouraging African Americans' participation in water sports.
Brown's most exciting scuba diving adventure was diving for artifacts on the shipwrecked Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank 35 miles off the coast of Florida in 1700. His dream is to eventually take "one big left turn" and set sail to the Caribbean, where he'd like reside after retirement.
When asked what thoughts Brown has for the education system as of right now, his primary concerns lie in the years of the younger generation, the ones in elementary school years when they are most susceptible to influences. Students at those ages "will either go one way or the other."
As for CSM, Brown believes that "we're headed in the right direction. As long as we keep up with the times and keep creating more methods of making education more accessible and not as costly, we'll do fine."
Brown also devotes his time to collaborating with other teachers on the Distance Education Committee. The group's goal is to reinvigorate and construct a more formal system for online classes.
Brown is well aware that not every student can commit to being full-time. CSM's campus is diverse, as are its students. Provided the chaos of life, he believes that students should be able to make their schedules work for them without having to physically be on campus. "There should be other means of educational delivery besides the face-to-face," said Brown.
Brown was born and raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is 53 years old and resides either on his boat in Redwood City, or at his house in Merced when not working locally.
After graduating college back East, Brown was among the first to catch the dot-com wave after its explosion in the early 80s. He worked as a market engineer for Pac-Bell (now known as SBC). After retirement, he decided to teach full-time after getting tired of the high-tech industry. He began teaching at CSM in 1993.
Besides teaching, Brown has another passion-travel. He's been to every island in the Caribbean, to most of Central America, Tonga, Tahiti, and many other areas. Brown emphasized that he is definitely not a tourist. When he travels he prefers to stay with locals and be adventurous. "You cook it, I eat it," said Brown.
In his spare time, and during semester breaks and vacations, Brown enjoys skiing, sailing, and scuba diving. He is affiliated with the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, a movement encouraging African Americans' participation in water sports.
Brown's most exciting scuba diving adventure was diving for artifacts on the shipwrecked Henrietta Marie, a slave ship that sank 35 miles off the coast of Florida in 1700. His dream is to eventually take "one big left turn" and set sail to the Caribbean, where he'd like reside after retirement.
When asked what thoughts Brown has for the education system as of right now, his primary concerns lie in the years of the younger generation, the ones in elementary school years when they are most susceptible to influences. Students at those ages "will either go one way or the other."
As for CSM, Brown believes that "we're headed in the right direction. As long as we keep up with the times and keep creating more methods of making education more accessible and not as costly, we'll do fine."
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