Robert B. France

Career Overview

First year at CSU: August 1998
1992-1998: Assistant\Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
1990-1992: Post-doctoral research at UMIACS, University of Maryland at College Park
1990: PhD, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
1984: BSc (First Class Honours), University of the West Indies, Trinidad

"I am always worried by the word encourage. Too often it means that with the best of intentions we praise what is third rate and omit to point out that Art requires talent … real talent and not mere literacy in any medium. I see no substitute for passion, internally generated, and hard work."
Martin Wylde Carter, Guyanese poet, 1927-1997.

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and accept without forgetting." Elizabeth Bibesco

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain

"Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you're willing to do your best." Colin Powell

“It doesn’t matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.” Charles Kettering

“Your history is not your destiny.” Alan Cohen

Last modified: March 2012