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July 2010

Dr. Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo recently became the 15th president in the 100-year history of Northern New Mexico College. Barcelo has had a 30-year career in higher education at the university level. Previous positions were vice provost and vice president for equity and diversity at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Francisco Gonzalez-Scarano was recently appointed dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at the University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio. Gonzalez-Scarano is an accomplished administrator, clinician, researcher and educator. Recognized nationally as a leader in neurology, he recently chaired the department of neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Alma College (Mich.) hired Robert Garcia as its new director of admissions. Garcia comes to Alma after serving as an admissions administrator at Central Michigan University since 2004, most recently as senior assistant director of admissions.

Mark McClendon has joined the executive leadership team at Tarrant County College as vice chancellor for finance. McClendon, a native of Venezuela, has overseen corporate finance departments in the private sector, including the financing of energy and technology projects throughout the world. He chairs a National Society of Hispanic MBAs taskforce on increasing Hispanic representation on various boards.

California State University (CSU)-Fullerton announced that Priscilla A. Lopez, former president and CEO of the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is newly named director of the Regional Lead Small Business Development Center Network serving Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Since 2003, CSU-Fullerton's Mihaylo College of Business and Economics has been responsible for the administration of the centers in Fullerton, Santa Ana and Riverside.

In March, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Regents and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, joined three other writers as new inductees in the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Ortiz Cofer is the author of numerous works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

Rediscovering Pape, a film by Maria Royo, graduate film student who attended the City College of New York (CCNY) on a Fulbright Scholarship, won for Best Documentary at the 31st College Television Awards and is a finalist for a student Oscar. The 25-minute film also took first prize at the Citivisions and CUFF festivals, which showcase student work at CCNY and City University of New York, respectively.

Dr. Jose Marichal, a California Lutheran University (CLU) political science professor, discussed good and bad ways of teaching people about diversity during a recent lecture at CLU. "ThickCulture: Constructing a Civic Rationale for Diversity and Multiculturalism" was part of the Center for Equality and Justice Faculty Lecture Series.