A series of public forums for candidates vying to become the new UNM dean of Graduate Studies is halfway complete, with the third of four candidates appearing today.
The new dean will replace interim dean Kenneth Frandsen, who has been in the position since it was officially created in October 2000.
The candidates are:
- Rodney Taylor, now the associate vice chancellor for Graduate Education and Interim Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Taylor earned his bachelor's degree in Asian Studies from the University of Southern California in 1966 and a master's in East Asian Languages and Literatures from the University of Washington in 1968.
He also received a Ph.D. in East Asian Religion at Columbia University in 1974. He has also been associate dean of the Graduate School and chairman of the Religious Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Taylor's interview forums were held April 15 and 16.
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- Linda Lacey, is now associate dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is also a professor of city and regional planning.
Lacey received her bachelor's degree in social science in 1972 from the University of California at Berkeley, her master's in city and regional planning from Cornell University in 1974 and her doctorate in city and regional planning from Cornell in 1981.
Lacey has been a Fullbright Exchange Professor twice, once in 1997 at the Women's Research and Documentation Center of the University of Dar es Saleem in Tanzania; and the other in 1988 at the Institute for Regional Studies at Wirschafs Universitat, in Vienna, Austria. Lacey's forums were April 18 and 19.
- Teresita Aguilar is the associate dean of the College of Education and Integrative Studies at the California State Polytechnic University in Ponoma, California.
She is also a professor in the Department of Ethnic and Women's Studies. Aguilar earned her bachelor's degree in recreation from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas, her master's in therapeutic recreation and a doctorate in higher education from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
From 1991 to 2000, she was graduate program chairperson at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Neb. An open forum for students to talk with Aguilar is offered today from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Springer Room of the Office of Graduate Studies.
A formal presentation and question-and-answer session with Aguilar will be held tomorrow from 10-10:45 a.m., followed by an open forum from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. in the same room.
- Robin Fisher, is a professor in residence of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.
Fisher earned his bachelor's degree in psychology in 1974, his master's degree in experimental psychology in 1976 and his doctorate in physiological psychology in 1979 from the Ohio State University.
He completed post-0doctoral training at the University of California at Los Angeles and Purdue University. Fisher also works with the UCLA Mental Retardation Research Center, the Brain Research Institute and the Section on Oral Biology.
An open forum for students to talk to Fisher will be offered April 29 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Springer Room of the Office of Graduate Studies.
A formal presentation and question and answer session is scheduled for April 30 from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m., followed by an open forum from 11-11:45 a.m. in the same room.
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