Elizabeth F. Barkley

Ph.D., Music Professor
Foothill College,
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
12345 El Monte Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
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Dr. Barkley is a classical pianist who holds a BA and MA from the University of California at Riverside and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She has worked at Foothill College since 1977, including nine years as Dean of Fine Arts and Communications. As a faculty member at Foothill she has taught piano, music history and literature, and music theory and composition. She is author of Music of American Cultures (MA: Pearson, 2000); co-author of a three-volume series, Great Composers and Music Masterpieces of Western Civilization (MA: Pearson, 2001 and 2002); and Crossroads: Popular Music in America (NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003).

In 1989 she was selected as a Leadership Fellow by the American Council on Education and in 1998, named California's Higher Education Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Other awards include Innovator of the Year in conjunction with the National League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, the Gerald Hayward Award for Educational Excellence, the Center for Diversity in Teaching and Learning's Higher Education Faculty Award, the Foothill College President's Special Achievement Award, and the California Community College League's Out-of-the-Box Thinker Award. In 2001, her course Music of Multicultural America was selected as the Best Online Course by the California Virtual Campus.

She has also been named a Carnegie Scholar by the Pew Charitable Trusts in conjunction with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and as part of her responsibilities with this honor, she is one of two national higher education scholars working on issues of scholarship and teaching in the discipline of music. In 2001, she was a presenter and honored guest at the College Music Society's International Conference at the University of Limerick in Ireland as well as at their national conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been a presenter and a consultant on teaching and learning at educational conferences and at colleges and universities throughout the United States. She is currently working with K. Patricia Cross and Claire Major on Collaborative Teaching: A Handbook for College Faculty scheduled for release by Jossey-Bass Publishers in 2004.