Date:
9/2/2004
Contact: Wendel Sloan at 505.562.2253
PORTALES—Eastern New Mexico University welcomes two familiar faces as new department chairs this fall.
Lee Weyant, assistant professor of management and graduate coordinator, is the new department chair of Business Foundations. Weyant received his bachelor's degree in education, and secondary mathematics at Shippensburg University in Shippensburg, Penn., and his master's in systems management from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas.
He replaces the departing Robert Sprague.
Don Morris, associate professor of accounting, is serving as the interim chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Morris received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a master's in Taxation at De Paul University in Chicago Ill.
Morris, former owner and manager of a business tax, accounting and consulting firm, replaces previous chair Rosemary Bahr, associate professor of sociology.