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Curriculum Vitae
Robert A. Blumenthal
Address
Department of Mathematics, Georgia College & State University, Campus Box 17, Milledgeville, GA 31061. 478-***-**** ******.**********@****.***
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1978, Washington University, St. Louis, MOB.A. (with Distinction), 1973, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Administrative Positions
Chair, Department of Mathematics, Georgia College & State University, 2009-presentAssociate Provost for Academic Affairs, Oglethorpe University, 2003-2006Chair, Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Oglethorpe University, 1998-2004Faculty Coordinator for Evening Degree Program, Oglethorpe University, 1997-2009Chair of the Evening Degree Program Council, Oglethorpe University, 1997-2007Supervisor of Lower Division Mathematics, Saint Louis University, 1986-1989Summer Chairman, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint Louis University, 1987 and 1988
Faculty Positions
Professor of Mathematics and Chair, Georgia College & State University, 2009-presentProfessor of Mathematics, Oglethorpe University, 1989-2009Assistant, Associate, & Full Professor of Mathematics, Saint Louis University, 1979-1989Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Universit de Lille, France, 1978-1979
Accreditation Experience
Member of the On-Site Reaffirmation Committee of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) which reviewed the application of Mary Baldwin College for re-accreditation (March, 2007)
Member of the Site Evaluation Team of the American Academy for Liberal Education (AALE) which reviewed the application of St. Andrews Presbyterian College for accreditation of its Educational Program (October, 2008)
Member of Oglethorpe’s Steering Committee for SACS re-accreditation and Co-Chair of the Strategic Accreditation Committee charged with the establishment of the Evening Degree Program, 1997
Member of Oglethorpe’s Mathematics Education Program Committee (for the institutional self-study related to the application to the Georgia Professional Standards Commission for re-accreditation of the university’s program in secondary mathematics education)
Participant at the Regional Meeting for the Accreditation Review Project of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Atlanta, Georgia, October, 2000
Teaching Experience
Have taught a wide range of mathematics courses at all levels from remedial through advancedHave extensive experience teaching both traditional and non-traditional studentsHave taught courses in a variety of formats, including traditional classroom setting, online courses, and hybrid (blended) courses
Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Rochester, 1973Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK) Faculty Appreciation Award, Oglethorpe University, 1993Vulcan Materials Award for Excellence in Teaching and Leadership, 1999Core Teaching Award, Oglethorpe University, 2009
Publications
Transversely homogeneous foliations, Annales de l'Institute Fourier (Grenoble) 29 (1979), 143-158. (MR 81h:57011)
The base-like cohomology of a class of transversely homogeneous foliations, Bulletin des Sciences Math matiques 104 (1980), 301-303. (MR 82d:57012)
Riemannian homogeneous foliations without holonomy, Nagoya Mathematical Journal 83 (1981), 197-201. (MR 82m:57013)
Foliated manifolds with flat basic connection, Journal of Differential Geometry 16 (1981), 401-406. (MR 83g:57015)
Basic connections with vanishing curvature and parallel torsion, Bulletin des Sciences Math matiques 106 (1982), 393-400. (MR 84g:53055)
Riemannian foliations with parallel curvature, Nagoya Mathematical Journal 90 (1983), 145-153. (MR 84h:53040)
De Rham decomposition theorems for foliated manifolds (with James Hebda), Annales de l'Institute Fourier (Grenoble) 33 (1983), 183-198. (MR 84j:53042)
Transverse curvature of foliated manifolds, Structure Transverse des Feuilletages (Toulouse), Ast risque 116 (1984), 25-30. (MR 85k:53031)
Foliations with locally reductive normal bundle, Illinois Journal of Mathematics 28 (1984), 691-702. (MR 85j:53038)
Stability theorems for conformal foliations, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 91 (1984), 485-491. (MR 86b:57013)
Ehresmann connections for foliations (with James Hebda), Indiana University Mathematics Journal 33 (1984), 597-611. (MR 85m:53024)
Cartan connections in foliated bundles, Michigan Mathematical Journal 31 (1984), 55-63. (MR 85j:57040)
Local isomorphisms of projective and conformal structures, Geometriae Dedicata 16 (1984), 73-78. (MR 85m:53018)
Complementary distributions which preserve the leaf geometry and applications to totally geodesic foliations (with James Hebda), Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Oxford) 35 (1984), 383-392. (MR 86e:53021)
Submersions affines et feuilletages des vari t s munies d'une connexion lin aire, Comptes Rendus de l'Acad mie des Sciences, S rie I, Paris 299 (1984), 1013-1015. (MR 86h:53034)
Connections on foliated manifolds, Seminar on Deformations (Lodz/Warsaw), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1165, Springer-Verlag (1985), 30-35. (MR 87d:53061)
Sprays, fiber spaces and product decompositions, Differential Geometry (Santiago de Compostela), Research Notes in Mathematics, 131, Pitman (1985), 156-161. (MR 88a:53039)
Affine submersions, Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 3 (1985), 275-287. (MR 87c:53063)
Les applications de Cartan et les feuilletages mod le transverse un espace connexion de Cartan, Comptes Rendus de l'Acad mie des Sciences, S rie I, Paris 301 (1985), 919-922. (MR 87g:57037)
Mappings between manifolds with Cartan connections, Differential Geometry (Pen scola), Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1209, Springer-Verlag (1986), 94-99. (MR 87k:53053)
Un analogue de la nappe d'holonomie pour une vari t feuillet e (with James Hebda), Comptes Rendus de l'Acad mie des Sciences, S rie I, Paris 303 (1986), 931-934. (MR 88c:53034)
Cartan submersions and Cartan foliations, Illinois Journal of Mathematics 31 (1987) 327-343. (MR 88f:53061)
Une g n ralisation du th or me de Cartan-Ambrose-Hicks (with James Hebda), Comptes Rendus de l'Acad mie des Sciences, S rie I, Paris 305 (1987), 647-651. (MR 89e:53043)
An analogue of the holonomy bundle for a foliated manifold (with James Hebda), Tohoku Mathematical Journal 40 (1988), 189-197. (MR 89d:53069)
A sufficient condition for the leaves of a totally umbilic foliation to be conformally complete (with James Hebda), Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry 6 (1988), 165-175. (MR 90b:53039)
The generalized Cartan-Ambrose-Hicks theorem (with James Hebda), Geometriae Dedicata 29 (1989), 163-175. (MR 90b:53035)
Mathematics: What Role in a Liberal Arts Curriculum? College Teaching, Volume 51, Number 1 (Winter, 2003), p. 39.
Lift the Veil Off the Finances of Colleges and Universities, The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, August 8, 2007. (http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=1879)
The Education Sector: A Paradigm Shift, Career Education Review (October, 2007), 63-65.
What Does Accreditation Really Mean?, The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, November 21, 2007. (http://www.popecenter.org/clarion_call/article.html?id=1928)
Dispute Shows Accreditation Flaws, The Fayetteville Observer, November 25, 2007, p. 13A.
Capella Education, Career Education Review (December, 2007), 47-48.
Nonprofits Lag on Transparency and Accountability, Philanthropy Journal, August 11, 2008. (http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/nonprofits-lag-transparency-accountability)
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Invited Lectures and Papers Presented
Transversely Homogeneous Foliations, American Mathematical Society (754th Meeting), New York, New York, March, 1978.
Transversely Homogeneous Foliations, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Fordham University, April 24, 1978.
Transversely Homogeneous Foliations, Miniconference on Foliations, July 15-17, 1980, University of Notre Dame. Organized by Paul Schweitzer, S.J. of Pontificia Univ. Catholica, Rio de Janeiro.
Riemannian Foliations with Parallel Curvature, American Mathematical Society (88th Annual Meeting), Cincinnati, Ohio, January, 1982.
Transverse Curvature of Foliated Manifolds, Structure Transverse des Feuilletages, Feb. 17-19, 1982, Toulouse, France. Organized by Jean Pradines of Universit Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.
Foliations with Locally Reductive Normal Bundle, Geometry of Foliations, Nov. 12-13, 1982, East Lansing, Michigan. Special Session at American Mathematical Society meeting organized by Philippe Tondeur of University of Illinois.
Transverse Geometry of Foliated Manifolds, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, January, 1983.
Stability Theorems for Conformal Foliations, American Mathematical Society (89th Annual Meeting), Denver, Colorado, January, 1983.
Transverse Geometry of Foliated Manifolds, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Feb. 17, 1983.
Connections on Foliated Manifolds, Seminar on Complex Analysis with Physical Applications, International Congress of Mathematicians, Aug. 16-24, 1983, Warsaw, Poland. Organized by Julian Lawrynowicz of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Lodz) and Leszek Wojtczak of the University of Lodz, Poland.
Curvature of Locally Symmetric Foliations, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Washington University, Dec. 15, 1983.
Complementary Distributions Which Preserve the Leaf Geometry and Applications to Totally Geodesic Foliations, American Mathematical Society (90th Annual Meeting), Louisville, Kentucky, January, 1984.
Curvature of Locally Symmetric Foliations, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Feb. 9, 1984.
Curvature of Locally Symmetric Foliations, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University, March 23, 1984.
Sprays, Fibre Spaces and Product Decompositions, Fifth International Colloquium on Differential Geometry, Sept. 24-28, 1984, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Organized by Luis A. Cordero of University of Santiago de Compostela.
Totally Geodesic Foliations, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Jan 31, 1985.
Transverse Geometric Structures for Foliations, U.S.-Spanish Workshop on Special Geometric Structures, May 30 - June 1, 1985, Valencia, Spain. Organized by Antonio Naveira of University of Valencia and David L. Johnson of Lehigh University.
Mappings Between Manifolds with Cartan Connections, Second International Symposium on Differential Geometry, June 2-9, 1985, Pen scola, Spain. Organized by the Department of Geometry and Topology of the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Valencia, Spain.
Transverse Structures, Differential Geometry, Nov. 1-2, 1985, Columbia, Missouri. Special Session at American Mathematical Society meeting organized by John Beem and Paul Ehrlich of University of Missouri, Columbia.
De Rham Decomposition Theorems for Foliated Manifolds, Seminar on Differential Geometry, Department of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, Nov. 14, 1985.
De Rham Decomposition Theorems for Foliated Manifolds, Seminar on Differential Geometry, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, Nov. 18, 1985.
An Analogue of the Holonomy Bundle for a Foliated Manifold, American Mathematical Society (93rd Annual Meeting), San Antonio, Texas, January, 1987.
Some Remarks on Infinity, Fiftieth James E. Case Memorial Lecture, Saint Louis University, March 26, 1987.
Ehresmann Connections for Foliations, Transformation Groups in Geometry, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 1987, Lincoln, Nebraska. Special Session at American Mathematical Society meeting organized by Carolyn S. Gordon and Quo-Shin Chi of Washington University.
Transverse Geometry of Foliated Manifolds, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Feb. 25, 1988.
Foliations: Introduction and Examples, Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Feb. 2, 1989.
From Calculus to Geometry, Colloquium, Bard College, Feb. 24, 1989.
Mathematics and Liberal Arts, Mathematical Association of America, Atlanta, Georgia, August 1-4, 1997.
Great Ideas of Modern Mathematics: Pedagogical Strategies for the General Audience, 41st Annual Georgia Mathematics Conference organized by the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Eatonton, Georgia, October 19-21, 2000.
Great Ideas of Modern Mathematics, 40th Annual Conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, Chicago, Illinois, November 2-4, 2000.
Teaching the Mathematics Core Course to Faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 41st Annual Conference of the Association for General and Liberal Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, October 11-13, 2001.
Perfect Numbers: A Perfect Way to Stimulate Curiosity About Mathematics, 42nd Annual Georgia Mathematics Conference organized by the Georgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Eatonton, Georgia, October 18-20, 2001.
Refereeing and Reviewing
Transactions of the American Mathematical SocietyLecture Notes in Mathematics (Springer-Verlag)City University of New York Research Award Program
Conferences
Conference on Disability and the Americans with Disabilities Act in Post-Secondary Education, Emory University, April, 1997
FIPSE Core Curriculum Workshop, Fisk University, June, 1998
Memberships
Mathematical Association of AmericaNational Council of Teachers of MathematicsGeorgia Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Selected Committee Work
Evening Degree Program Council (Chair)
Mathematics (Chair of Search Committee)
Administrative Search Committees
President of Oglethorpe University (1998 and 2004)Provost of Oglethorpe UniversityDean of the Evening Degree Program, Oglethorpe UniversityRegistrar, Oglethorpe UniversityChair of the Division of Education, Oglethorpe UniversityChief Financial Officer, Oglethorpe University
Interviews with the Press
Interviewed by Peter Panepento of the Chronicle of Philanthropy for an article entitled Charities Ask IRS to Delay New Informational Tax Return which appeared in the Chronicle on August 31, 2007
Interviewed by Lauren Shepherd, reporter on the Financial News desk of The Associated Press, for an article entitled Microcap Investors Look for Growth, Cash published on July 3, 2007
Sound Recording
I am a pianist and I have recorded several works by the Austrian-American composer Ernst Krenek. This compact disc, entitled Twelve-Tone Miniatures, was released in 1998 by Gasparo Records (#GG-1016). The disc contains the following collections:
Twelve Short Piano Pieces Written in the Twelve-Tone Technique, Opus 83 (1938)Eight Piano Pieces, Opus 110 (1946)Twenty Miniatures, Opus 139 (1954)
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