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Staff Hone People
Skills in Advanced Connections
by Colleen Wright
Communication Services
Eastern New Mexico University staff have been participating in Advanced
Connections, a three-part on-campus workshop focusing on advanced service
skills, teamwork, problem prevention, and many other topics designed
to move Eastern to a higher level of service excellence.
Advanced Connections, designed by Noel-Levitz, will continue to run
throughout the year for administrators and professional and support
staff. Some professors are helping by facilitating sessions, along with
administrators and staff. [more]
Former NFL Player Settles in
Rio Rancho
by Gary Herron
Rio Rancho Observer Sports Editor
Conrad Hamilton's football odyssey, which began in Alamogordo,
proceeded to Roswell and then Portales, and took him to the pinnacle--the
National Football League--has ended.
The 27-year-old six-year NFL veteran and his wife, Leah, are having
a home built in Rio Rancho, where he hopes to coach and be a personal
trainer in the near future. [more]
Heritage of Top-Quality Associate Deans Continues at ENMU-Roswell
by Donna Gutierrez
ENMU-Roswell
 Dusty
Heritage is the new associate dean of Career and Technical Education
(CTE) on the ENMU-Roswell campus. Dr. Dwight Rogers, dean of Instruction,
made the announcement following a nationwide search to fill the position.
Heritage is currently the recruiter for the CTE Division at ENMU-Roswell.
She will begin her new position on July 15.
Heritage received a bachelor's degree in agriculture with a minor in
marketing from New Mexico State University in 1996. She received a master
of arts degree with an emphasis in agriculture and extension education
from NMSU in 1998. She is currently enrolled in an Education Administration/Community
College Leadership doctoral program through NMSU, which she expects
to complete in May of 2004. [more]
ENMU Receives Talent Search
Funds
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici has reported that the U.S.
Department of Education has awarded five New Mexico institutions federal
funding to host a Talent Search program that seeks to assist disadvantaged
individuals in completing high school and continuing on to receive a
postsecondary education.
Domenici indicated the funding was issued through the Department of
Education's (DoED) TRIO program and is designed to encourage students
to complete their high school education. It also has a component to
help drop-outs reenter the system to complete their education. [more]
New Mexico Business Journal Publishes Article
on ENMU Web Site
by Andrew
Webb
New Mexico Business Journal
How do you sum up the process of rebuilding a university
Web site that
hasn't been overhauled or pruned since it was created in 1995?
Jennifer Poyer, Webmaster for Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU),
can
do it in one word. [more]
Candid Camera
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Strange Happenings at ENMU-Roswell
Prove Pie=MuCho
$$ Squared
Theory –
In this stunning set of undercover photos, an investigative
photographer hired by the Monday Memo recently captured
strange happenings at ENMU-Roswell. In shades of 1947, small flying
disks were spotted crash-landing on campus – some even striking
people's faces (or was this just a clever cover-up for their alien
appearance?). Ostensibly, the official cover (coverup?) story
was that the flying saucers (described by some as "big as
plates!") were part of a $1-per-pie-throwing fund-raiser
sponsored by residence hall students. The story is that staff
members (aliens?) volunteered to be targets for restless students
who hadn't been able to afford Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break.
Besides the official cover story, many other unsubstantiated rumors
have been flying around faster than a UFO looking for intelligent
life on a South Padre beach. A few of the more believable include:
the activity was actually a cosmetology workshop in cleansing
and massaging facial pores; students unhappy with the cancellation
of "Roswell" from the WB network were trying to get
the attention of CBS executives to pick it up as a reality-based
series; the flying disks were actually pies being used in a new
intramural sport, with the winners challenging Ruidoso and Portales
to an all-campus pie-throwing championship (in a related matter,
psychologists claim that this activity can be very cathartic for
students–though not necessarily for staff); the ENMU-Portales
football staff scouted the activity for future quarterbacks; and
that spies from Furr’s Cafeteria spirited a few of the disks
away to study their ingredient (rumored to be HyTop whipped cream)
for a possible new low-budget, all-you-can-eat pie-line. Of course,
these are just a few of the more believable rumors; the Monday
Memo cannot report the ridiculous ones for fear of losing
credibility. Nevertheless, our undercover agent reports that the
strange occurrence is most likely exactly what it appears –
much improved flying disks returning to retrieve the 1947 debris
for a museum in a faraway galaxy with a technology so advanced
that it was able to fly all the way to Earth – but not so
advanced in 1947 that it couldn’t keep from crashing once
it got here in crafts cleverly disguised as U.S. military top-secret
hot-air balloons. The materials in the new disks are reportedly
even more cleverly disguised, and much tastier, than the old disks
– though conspirators have apparently consumed much of the
evidence. The Monday Memo will keep you posted as more
information becomes available from our undercover source –
though it was hard to understand her (or his) last phone call
because the agent was apparently performing a taste-bud investigation
of the evidence. Conspirators captured in the above images, taken
with a tiny spy camera concealed in the swoosh of the ENMU-Roswell
logo on an innocent-looking name badge, are: (top to bottom) Jessie
Hall, Financial Aid director; Linda Green, director of Special
Services; and Bob Bowman, dean of Student Services.
(although it is the policy of the Monday Memo
to give photo credit, please do not read the credit below so that
our undercover photographer/agent can remain incognito)
(undercover photos by Donna Gutierrez)
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Farewell to Claudia –
A farewell for Claudia Crowell, executive director of Institutional
Advancement, was recently held in the Office of Development. Pictured
are (L-R): student Jessica Harwell; Lisa Obenhaus, office coordinator;
Ms. Crowell; Noelle Bartl, director of Development; and student
Ayanna Arnold.
(photo by Wendel Sloan)
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Dr. Robert Long represented ENMU in a planning meeting
for the New Mexico "Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research" (EPSCoR) efforts in Nanotechnology at UNM on Jun 19.
EPSCoR is a program by major US grant agencies (NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD,
etc.) to provide additional funding opportunities to states which have
traditionally received smaller allocations of research grant funding.
New Mexico was just designated an EPSCoR state last year. ENMU is participating
in the Natural Resources and Nanotechnology state-wide NSF EPSCoR focus
groups.
Dr. Robert Long (ENMU, Chemistry) and Dr. Plamen Atanassov (UNM,
Chemical Engineering) gave a joint presentation to a panel of American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) scientists at a NM
EPSCoR program review meeting in Albuquerque on Jun 20. The presentation
was titled "Integrating Polymer Materials with micro-Fuel Cell
Engineering at the Nano Scale".
Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy has had a paper accepted for publication
in the Korean Journal of Thinking and Problem Solving. It will appear
in the October issue.
Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy and Effie Laman, graduate of ENMU,
now at Texas Tech pursuing her doctorate, have had a paper accepted
for presentation at the Ninth International Literacy and Education Research
Network Conference on Learning in Beijing, China July 16-20. They presented
their paper via the World Wide Web and responded to questions via the
Internet and e-mail.
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