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Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Louis Caldera, the former University of New Mexico president, is joining the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in early July as its Vice President of Programs.
Caldera is leaving the Center for American Progress, a public policy think tank headed up by President Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta; Caldera was the Director of the White House Military Office from January 2009 to May 2009 until a controversial flyover of New York City cost him that job.
The foundation since 2000 has awarded 1,200 scholarships totaling more than $60 million to high-achieving low-income students and has given more than $46-million in grants to nonprofit organizations with similar missions, according to a news release sent out Wednesday.
Caldera presided over the University of New Mexico for 30 months until his resignation in 2006, when he took a tenured position at the university’s law school.
“I am deeply attracted to the Foundations mission because it resonates with my own personal story as the son of Mexican immigrants,” Caldera said in the news release. ”It is my life-long commitment to challenge and assist others from similar circumstances to make the most of their God-given talents through improved educational and career opportunities and mentoring.”
“Were tremendously excited to have Louis joining us,” the news release quoted Lawrence Kutner, Ph.D., executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, as saying. ”He not only understands what were trying to accomplish at an intellectual level; he gets it at a gut level.”
