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Ortiz named to student affairs post
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Samantha Ortiz, Ph.D., has been chosen interim associate vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus. Ortiz has been with the university since August 2008 as assistant vice chancellor for university life and dean of students.
"It has been a pleasure working at CU Denver because the students are fantastic, and faculty and staff are dedicated to student learning," she said. "I am looking forward to working in my new role to continue to enhance the student experience across campus."
The University of Colorado Denver has seen great advancement in the areas of student affairs the past five years. The institution has:
- Achieved record enrollments for each of the past four years.
- Implemented a $3.5 million Title V Cooperative Grant with Community College of Denver (CCD), the Denver Transfer Initiative, and significantly increased transfer and graduation rates of students from CCD.
- More than doubled the number of high school students participating in dual enrollment courses; now serving nearly 7,000 students across the state.
- Established student fee funding for a new Veteran Student Service Manager and development of services for veteran students. (CU Denver was designated as a "Veteran Friendly School" by GI Jobs Magazine: Top 15 percent of Schools Nationwide.)
- Established the university's first Disability Resource Services office supporting students with accommodations and assistive technology on both campuses.
In her new role, Ortiz will oversee enrollment management, student success, university life and the university registrar.
Ortiz's background in higher education and student affairs includes direct experience in academic advising, residence life, judicial affairs, career services, instruction, orientation, and as dean of students with the University of Northern Colorado.
She has been an active member in the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, including serving as the Colorado Membership Coordinator as well as the co-chair for the 2009 NASPA IV-West Regional Conference.
Ortiz attained her bachelor of science degree in psychology from Colorado State University and her master's in secondary/post-secondary school counseling and her Ph.D. in higher education and student affairs leadership from the University of Northern Colorado.
Class of Fellows chosen for Center for Humanities and the Arts
Eight members of the University of Colorado Boulder campus have been named Center for Humanities and the Arts (CHA) Faculty Fellows. Three external reviewers rated the applications from a pool of 41 applicants in the first of what's planned as an annual competition.
"We are very excited about this first class of Fellows," said Helmut Muller-Sievers, director of CHA. "The breadth and quality of these projects show how strong and inventive the humanities and arts are at CU-Boulder. The Center for Humanities and the Arts is proud to support such excellent faculty."
The 2011-12 recipients are:
Lucy Chester, associate professor, department of history and the International Affairs Program
Chester's research project is titled "Networks of Decolonization: Britain's Withdrawal From South Asia and Palestine." She will examine anticolonial and imperial connections between British India and the Palestine Mandate in the decades leading up to Britain's withdrawal.
Elspeth Dusinberre, associate professor, department of classics
Dusinberre will study impressions left by sealstones on the Aramaic tablets of the Persepolis Fortification Archive (ca. 500 BCE) and created drawings of collated images to illuminate the imagery of these ancient artifacts and bring them into scholarly discourse on the tremendous working apparatus of the Achaemenid Persian empire (ca. 550-330 BCE).
Jill Heydt-Stevenson, associate professor, department of English
Heydt-Stevenson will complete the research and writing of a chapter titled "The Media of Archaeology: Romantic Travel to the Middle East" from her book "The Afterlife of Things: Belongings in 18th- and 19th- Century French and British Literature." Analyzing unpublished and virtually unexamined letters and manuscripts of travel accounts to the Mideast, she will explore the mutual impact on British and Syrian cultures of the earliest Westerners' journeys to Palmyra, an ancient, ruined city in Syria, investigating how their travel accounts transformed this city in the desert into the media sensation of 18th- and early 19th- century Europe.
Janice Ho, assistant professor, department of English
Ho's book project, titled "Liberal Englishness, Alterity, and the Twentieth-Century British Novel," examines how representations of modern English national identity are shaped by principles of liberalism in the works of major 20th-century novelists such as Conrad, Forster, Woolf and Rushdie.
Michael Huemer, associate professor, department of philosophy
Huemer will complete a book project titled "Freedom and Authority." The book argues that there is no philosophically satisfactory account of the basis for political authority, and thus that authority is a moral illusion.
Karen Jacobs, associate professor, department of English
"Trace Atlas: Itineraries of Postmodern Literary Space" investigates a selection of recent theoretical works and post-1980 American novels that imagine post-Cartesian engagements with space, mapping and the atlas form, often against the backdrop of what is imagined to be a shattered or ungraspable global space.
Mithi Mukherjee, associate professor, department of history
India is emerging as one of the most important countries in Asia and the world for the 21st century, yet there has been little work on India's understanding of its place in the world. This project is a historical inquiry into India's quest for its place in the world by way of an exploration into the nature and origin of India's role in the making and evolution of the United Nations, particularly as leader of the nonaligned movement.
John Slater, assistant professor, department of Spanish and Portuguese
Professor Slater's book project, "Momentary Monuments: The Reign of the Hapsburgs and the Vegetable Kingdom," demonstrates how early modern Spanish fascination with natural history developed into a political philosophy that opposed corporal models of the state. He shows how Spanish kings were often represented as rational gardeners of a vegetable kingdom, rather than the heads of a body politic.
Dropping names ...
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Angela Hill is the new nurse manager for the ninth-floor Pulmonary/ Surgical Units at the University of Colorado Hospital. Hill joined UCH in 1999 as nurse in the inpatient surgical unit and was promoted to charge nurse in 2007. She has been the Interim Nurse Manager for the ninth-floor Pulmonary/Surgical Units since November 2010. Hill also serves as Charge RN Leadership Council President, KAIZEN Committee Co-Chair and President Elect of the Colorado Mile High Chapter of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses. ... Steven G. Medema, professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support the work on his current book project, "Legal Fiction: An Intellectual History of the Coase Theorem." NEH Fellowships support college and university teachers and independent scholars pursuing advanced research. The NEH awarded 99 Fellowships for 2011-12 from a pool of more than 1,400 applications. ... Alexander Soifer, professor of interdepartmental studies at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs recently published "Ramsey Theory: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" (Springer Science and Business Media, New York). The research monograph explores the history, recent developments and future directions of Ramsey Theory and contains articles written by prominent mathematics researchers. Soifer served as the monograph's editor and wrote two of its nine articles. ... Allison Kempe, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, has won the 2011 Academic Pediatric Association Research award. Kempe is the 21st winner of the award, given annually to a member or group in the association who has contributed to "advancing pediatric knowledge through excellence in research, characterized by originality, creativity and methodological soundness." She will receive the award in Denver during the Pediatric Academic Societies' 2011 annual meeting in early May. ... Sonja Foss, professor of communication at the University of Colorado Denver, has won the Western States Communication Association's 2011 Distinguished Scholar Award. The award recognizes exceptional accomplishments across a career and is one of the highest research awards in the field of communication. Foss will receive her award at the WSCA convention this month in Monterey, Calif. ... Benjamin Eiseman, M.D., professor of surgery and medicine emeritus at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, was given the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award this month by the Society of University Surgeons. His contributions to the school are reflected in an honor awarded by the Medical Student Surgical Society, the Ben Eiseman, M.D., Surgical Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. ... Marsha Anderson, M.D., will join the Undergraduate Medical Education at the University of Colorado School of Medicine as assistant dean for Longitudinal Curriculum. She will be responsible for a variety of research and scholarly activities programs. Anderson currently serves as the Disease and Defense Essentials Core Clinical Block Co-Director. ... Lisa Potter of University of Colorado Boulder facilities management has received the Certified Educational Facilities Professional (CEFP) credential from APPA, formerly the Association of Physical Plant Administrators. The credential is a way to validate the knowledge and competency required of an accomplished professional in the educational facilities field.
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