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Jawad Khaki was born in Tanzania in 1958 and moved with his family to Pakistan in 1971. He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering in London, where he began his work as a software designer. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1980, working at AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1989, when he joined Microsoft. There he oversees the development of networking technologies for Microsoft Windows platforms.

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Khaki took an active role in building understanding and trust in his local Seattle community. Speaking from his experience as a Muslim, he participated in community dialogues, spoke in schools and faith communities, and spearheaded the creation of a multi-faith coalition of Muslims, Jews, and Christians—Together We Build a World Community—that built homes for needy families through Habitat for Humanity. “As people of different faiths, we wanted to show that there was another way to change the world,” he said. “We wanted to show that our collective human dignity is in ensuring dignity for all.” For his interfaith leadership work, Khaki was awarded the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award from the national Interfaith Alliance Foundation.

Trained and educated as a computer engineer in London, Khaki spent his early career as a hardware design engineer developing hardware and firmware for GEC Computers Ltd. in Great Britain, and as a UNIX development consultant for AT&T Bell Laboratories. In his position as corporate vice president of Windows Networking & Device Technologies at Microsoft Corporation, Khaki is responsible for overseeing the development of those networking technologies in Microsoft Windows platforms. Khaki manages the group of engineers and business leaders dedicated to delivering integrated communication and device technologies that empower information workers and home users. With more than 25 years of hardware and software design experience, as well as more than 700 U.S. patents filed under his management—over 400 in the United States and more than 300 patents in other countries—Khaki works to ensure that Windows-based PCs and devices deliver innovative, relevant, and superior experiences. Khaki is responsible for determining the networking and device strategy and advances in Windows Vista, the next generation of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Among Khaki’s many achievements, he was appointed honorary professor by Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications in October 2003.

Jawad Khaki is the father of Carleton junior Ali Khaki.

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Winter Term of 2005, Administrative Council authorized a committee to investigate and implement a one-card system at Carleton and provided one-time funding for the project. A committee of 20 people has been meeting since that time to identify vendors and determine the benefits of a one-card system on the Carleton campus. It is the committee's goal to launch the one-card in September 2006.

The one-card system will allow faculty, staff, and students to consolidate all card functions onto our existing ID card providing at a minimum: photo identification, library services, entrance to the recreation center and other campus buildings as needed, admission to College events, flex dollars for meals, equipment checkout, and a debit function that would allow students and/or their parents to put money on the card to be used at the Bookstore and at vending machines, copiers, and laundry machines equipped with card readers. In the future, the one-card will be used for interior door access to rooms with expensive equipment or hazardous materials and network printer control in public computing labs.

Most campuses with a one-card have given their card a memorable or fun name. Our committee is exploring card names with student groups and working with our Publications Office staff on redesigning the card we currently hold. The current implementation timeline calls for all faculty, staff, and students to receive new ID cards during the summer of 2006. If you have questions about the new card, please contact Dan Bergeson, dbergeso@acs.carleton.edu, or Sue Traxler straxler@acs.carleton.edu, co-chairs of the committee.

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As Carleton faculty, many of us tend to disparage the kinds of information that national (or even local) tests can provide about how (and what) our students learn. We think we know that students gain content knowledge and skills in our courses and through their four years at Carleton, based on the feedback we get from their papers, projects, student evaluations, and other forms of assessment. How much of this progress is related to the qualities the students have when they enter Carleton, how much to our exquisite academic program, and how much to their increased intellectual maturity after four years? What's the "value-added" of a Carleton education? Is it worth trying to measure? If so, how?

Carleton, along with Macalester, Grinnell, and St. Olaf, recently received funding from the Teagle and Lumina Foundations to assess critical thinking, writing, quantitative skills, and global understanding. As part of this project, we are participating in the CLA (Collegiate Learning Assessment), which attempts to assess students' critical thinking, writing, and analytical skills through "real-life," complex, messy problems. At this LTC session, we will discuss the larger implications of this grant, the CLA, and similar "authentic" assessment tools—is "teaching to the test" always a bad thing?

Suggested (very short) reading: Lloyd Bond, 2004, Teaching to the Test: Carnegie Perspectives, April 2004.
Elizabeth Ciner, Associate Dean of the College
Chico Zimmerman, Professor of Classical Languages
and Carleton students
Co-sponsored by the Dean of the College Office and grants from the Teagle and Lumina Foundations
Alumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch provided for 50

Looking ahead:

Thursday, October 20: Carleton Classrooms: Safe Spaces, Challenging Conversations
Carleton faculty, students, and staff
Co-sponsored by DIG (Diversity Initiative Group)
Gould Library Athenaeum, noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch provided for 50

The LTC Web site is ready with our new look. Please view it and let us know what you think!

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Monday, October 10, at 7 p.m.
Author Abigail Garner will read from her recent book "Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is."

Tuesday, October 11, noon
"Bioethics and Emerging Medical Technologies: A Report from Europe"—Dr. Anne Patrick, William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts at Carleton, will share what she heard at this fall's Barcelona meeting of the European Society for the Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care, and Dr. Carol Tauer, Visiting Professor in the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics, will summarize her own paper from that conference on "Therapy vs. Enhancement in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis."

Friday, October 14, at 3 p.m.
John Siegfried, Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, will speak on "The Economics of Public Subsidies for Sports Facilities."

Friday, October 14, at 4:30 p.m.
Frank Graziano, John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College, will speak on "Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America."

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Abigail Garner will be discussing her book Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is on Monday, October 10, at 7 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. Drawing on a decade of community organizing, interviews with grown children of gay parents, as well as personal experience, Garner presents an honest and realistic portrayal of complex family situations. A booksigning will follow her talk. This event is sponsored by the Gender and Sexuality Center.

Please join us for a discussion and booksigning with Jeff Blodgett, Executive Director of Wellstone Action. Blodgett, Carleton Class of ’83, will be discussing Wellstone Action’s new book, Politics the Wellstone Way: How to Elect Progressive Candidates and Win on Issues. He will be speaking on Tuesday, October 11, in Olin Hall 149 at 7 p.m. Established by the Wellstones’ sons, Mark and David, Wellstone Action is a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching effective political action skills in order to continue working towards economic justice and progressive change. Politics the Wellstone Way is a well-organized, practical, and joyful workbook which outlines how to do grassroots politics. Blodgett was Paul Wellstone’s campaign director. We look forward to a stimulating and thoughtful evening.

Both of these books are available at the Carleton Bookstore and will be sold at the booksignings. Our 15% author event discount will apply.

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October 1 to 31 Book Exhibit

Books and resources by and/or about people with disabilities will be displayed.
4^th Floor, Gould Library

October 1 to 31 Common Reading

Explore how disabilities impact relationships by reading the award-winning novel, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer, an O. Henry Award winner. The reader is reminded how quickly our lives can be divided into before and after, whether by accident or by the choices we make. One reviewer states: "The Dive from Clausen’s Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforces our faith in fiction. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale. It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page."—Scott Turow
This book is available at the Carleton Bookstore at 15% off during October.

October 13 Information Table

Stop by to learn more about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as well as disability resources, contact information for services, and Carleton’s programs for staff, faculty, and students with disabilities.
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sayles-Hill Great Space

October 21 MURDERBALL

Bring a bag lunch and join us for an eye-opening film that will smash every stereotype you ever had about the disabled. It is a film about family, revenge, honor, sex, and the triumph of love over loss. But most of all, it is a film about standing up, even after your spirit—and your spine—has been crushed. Featuring fierce rivalry, stopwatch suspense, and larger-than-life personalities, MURDERBALL, winner of a Special Jury Prize for Editing at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, is a film about tough, highly competitive quadriplegic rugby players. Whether by car wreck, fist fight, gun shot, or rogue bacteria, these men were forced to live life sitting down. In their own version of the full-contact sport, they are fierce competitors in custom-made, gladiator-like wheelchairs. And no, they don’t wear helmets. (Rated R)
Noon to 1:30 p.m., Olin 149. Note: only beverages with lids may be brought into this classroom. Employees will be paid their normal work schedule for this film. Contact Human Resources for questions.

October 21 to 22 MURDERBALL

Presented as part of the SUMO (Student Union Movie Organization) weekend movie trio (see description above).
October 21, 6:30 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Olin 149
October 22, 9 p.m., Olin 149

October 27 Common Reading Discussion

Bring a sack lunch and your thoughts about The Dive from Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer to this lunch-time discussion.
Noon to 1 p.m., Alumni Guest House Library

Sponsors: Carleton’s Accessibility Awareness Committee, the Office of Disability Services, Gould Library, SUMO (Student Union Movie Organization), Human Resources, Printing Services, and College Relations

*If you have questions or to request disability accommodations, please contact the Office of Disability Services for Students, x4464.

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