Conflict of Visions: The Birthing of a University by Joyce M. Kennedy Ph. D.

Description: This is the story of hope and despair, heartache and triumph, told by an insider who was intimately involved in the quarter-century struggle to establish a state university in Ventura, CA Imagine an unknown woman with no special credentials, and from another country, rallying local citizens, future students, local politicians, the news media, chambers of commerce, and various people of vision, to rise to the call of the past and the promise of the future, and to band together to establish a public university for the greater good. When she started, Joyce M. Kennedy had no idea it would take a Sisyphean struggle in a lovely California city to try to establish a public university. This is a story that had to be told - a true story of clear-versus-clouded visions, hidden agendas, egos, politics, power struggles, threats of closure, myopia, and the ups and downs of a quarter century struggle. It is a story of heartbreak, but also of ultimate vindication and triumph, the creation of a new university in Camarillo, California-CSU Channel Islands, the fastest growing university in the United States and now a "center of light, liberty and learning" as Disraeli would have described it. Conflict of Visions tells the unvarnished story of its birthing. Dr. Joyce M. Kennedy has led a distinguished career in the fields of education, the military, communications, and public service in Canada, France and the United States. In addition to several honors recognizing her dedication to, contributions to, and achievements in the field of public higher education in the State of California, Dr. Kennedy was named Director Emeritus of the California state University Northridge, Ventura Campus, upon her retirement in 1997, Her work to bring a state university, California State University Channel Islands, to Ventura County is detailed in CONFLICT OF VISIONS. She authored a detailed account of Canada's participation in WWI with her book DISTANT THUNDER - CANADA'S CITIZEN SOLDIERS ON THE WESTERN FRONT, after discovering her father's letters and war diaries as a soldier in the trenches of Belgium and France. Her second book JUST CALL ME EVA - THE STORY OF AN UNCOMMON WOMAN, chronicles the life of a precocious young girl who left the family farm in the Ottawa Valley to train at New York's famous Metropolitan Hospital, where, among other things, she voluntarily nursed highly contagious Leper victims. She later married, raised six children in the Great Depression, delivered several hundred babies (some in her own home, a private nursing hospital), played the church organ for fifty years, all the while helping her husband who was the Township Clerk/Administrator and Treasurer. Eva was Dr. Kennedy's mother. Dr. Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; a MA in Mass Communication from CSI Northridge; and a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Organizational Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. She served as a Flying Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force on bases in Canada, the United States, and Europe. She now resides in the Phoenix area, where her passion is prevention of cruelty to animals and rescuing abused and abandoned horses. You can learn more about Dr. Kennedy at

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