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Prism, the Magazine of Texas A&M International University ChangeThe Spring 2009 Edition! The Magazine of Texas A&M International University EDUCATION IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY Prism Magazine: IS N IDE THIS NEDITIO Dr. Ray M. Keck III, President Candy Hein, Publisher Editor: Steve Harmon (‘91) Art Director: Ana P. Clamont (‘00) Contributing Photographers: Ana P. Clamont, Catarina Colunga, Dan Lathey, Rebecca M. Martínez, Eugene Ruiz, Daniel Tijerina 3 Contributing Writers: Mika Akikuni, Melissa Barrientos-Whitfield, Steve Harmon, Dr. Ray Keck III, Rebecca M. Martínez, Dr. Bonnie Rudolph, Senator Judith Zaffirini Cover Photo Illustration: Ana P. Clamont CHANGE OF ADDRESS ONLY: Please send to Office for Institutional Advancement 5201 University Boulevard Laredo, Texas 78041-1900 10 Telephone: 956.326.2175 Facsimile: 956.326.2174 E-mail: [email protected] If you receive duplicate copies, kindly send both mailing labels to the above address. 6 OTHER MAGAZINE QUERIES: Please send to Prism Magazine te N THINGS TO DO TA TAMIU Office of Public Relations, Marketing hea D TO THE “U” FOR SOMETHING TO 8DO! and Information Services 5201 University Boulevard Laredo, Texas 78041-1900 Telephone: 956.326.2180 Facsimile: 956.326.2179 E-mail: [email protected] TAMIU DCALEN AR 3 of events 2009 TE H EXAS A&M All contents © 2009 Prism Magazine, UNIVERSITY SYSTEM except where noted. Opinions expressed in Prism are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect B OARD OF the opinions of its editors or policies of Texas A&M International University. FINANCIAL AID REGENTS POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to MAKES IT POSSIBLE 5 5201 University Boulevard Don’t backburner your dreams... Bill Jones, Chairman Laredo, Texas 78041-1900. John D. White, Vice Chairman MISSION: Prism is published twice a year for Texas A&M International University Dr. Richard A. Box friends. By highlighting the University’s life and its programs, faculty, students and alumni, Prism RETOOL BY RE-INVESTING Morris Foster reflects the diverse educational excellence of Texas’ fastest growing University. I N YOUR EDUCATION 6 Lupe Fraga Higher education remains a valid Texas A&M International University is investment for future success. Erle Nye committed to the preparation of students for leadership roles in their chosen profession Gene Stallings and in an increasingly complex and culturally diverse state, national and global society. Ida Clement Steen TCON OS S P U James P. Wilson M % E OUR 9 0 R FACULTY 1 Professor’s legacy lives on with a Folklore Anthony Cullins, Student Regent Collection. C T O N T E N PRESIDENT’S TTHOUGH S Success In Circuit Lies he best of times, the worst of times. Americans have, for the first T time in half a century, lived anew the meaning of Dickens’ famous words. For many, the soaring markets of the Bush years proclaimed the final ascendancy of capitalism and the American way, bringing the dream of early retirement and fiscal tranquility. At the same time, the attacks of September 11th, followed by the tragically blundered war in Iraq, forced us to confront both domestic and international issues that admit of no easy or sure solution. And then in 2008, everything seemed to come apart at once: an economic system undermined by faulty reasoning and greed, a social contract threatened as citizens watched their life savings begin to shrink to half their peak value. The wisdom of the ages tells us that hard times, adversity, disappointment, and pain demand renovation, a restructuring of both what we have done and how we understand our actions. At no other time can education offer a clearer, more certain path for a journey certainly grown dark. The University experience unites the mechanics and process of professional life, even as it teaches us how to reflect upon what happens to us, how to think about ourselves. Henry James, in his famous distinction between reality and romance, frames what I believe are the two great gifts, practical and theoretical, material and spiritual, of a University education. Reality for James discloses to us “the things we cannot possibly not know,” the science and knowledge necessary to forge a lifetime of meaningful work. Romance, by contrast, “stands... for the things that, with all the facilities in the world, all the wealth and all the courage and all the wit and all the adventure, we never can directly know, the things that can reach us only through the beautiful circuit of thought and desire.” Our reason, what Mark Lilla calls our “rage for order,” leads us to create an orderly and fiscally sustaining life, what we cannot possibly fail to learn in order to survive. But the unstable, mutable, insatiable knowledge our hearts crave reaches us through that beautiful circuit James calls romance. Together, reality and romance offer the physical and psychological comfort of a life well-lived, that which we most certainly will find, and that which appears before us only in our thoughts and our desires. Now, in times of fiscal and political turmoil, we need more than ever the balanced life a University experience teaches, both reality and romance. Our studies will lead us to recover sustainable economic and political order while we also reflect upon their inner lives, comforted in that beautiful circuit. Dr. Ray M. Keck III, President prism 1 Martinez Named in the global job marketplace, ” Dr. to Statewide Rodríguez explained. Post The program offering with Fu Jen Elizabeth N. developed from an initial contact from Martinez, (BBA, Fu Jen’s dean of the College of Business 1980, MPA, 2001), and TAMIU’s Sanchez School of Business TAMIU associate dean, Dr. Jacky So. It came to fruition in a vice president for short time, about one year. administration, University faculty have already has been named president of the traveled to Taiwan to present course Texas Higher work. Dr. Milton Mayfield, associate Education Human professor of management, delivered Resources a master’s seminar in management Association as part of the dual MBA program, The 200-member Association while Dr. Jackie Mayfield, Sanchez contributes to the advancement School associate professor, delivered a of higher education, specifically series of presentations on Research in the professional advancement of Management issues to Fu human resources administration Jen business school Ph.D. in State-supported senior colleges students. TAMIU officials and universities. have also met with the INEN T R ATIONAL EDUCATION AT TAMIU Thompson Gets Southwest dean of the Fu Jen nursing Book Award D I RAWS TA WANESE STUDENTS program and Fu Jen nursing TAMIU Regents Professor faculty have visited TAMIU of History Dr. Jerry Thompson to explore joint programs. received a Southwest Book Award ndaunted by a worldwide Rodríguez said the Fu for his collaborative book, “The Ueconomic downturn, some Texas Jen initiative is a clear example of TAMIU’s Reminiscences of Major General A&M International University students growing pre-eminence in international Zenas R. Bliss, 1854-1876.” are going the distance to secure their education. The Southwest Book Award is education. Specifically, they’re traveling “This program, as well as the Dual sponsored by the Border Regional around the world, drawn by the growing MBA with Universidad Regiomontana Library Association. global importance of an international in Monterrey, México, fits our mission of In the book, Dr. Thompson education, delivered by TAMIU. serving the global community parallel explores the early years of Some 16 students from Fu Jen General Zenas R. Bliss, who to our local and regional mission. The received the Medal of Honor Catholic University of Taipei, Taiwan are uniqueness of dual MBA programs is in the Civil War at the Battle of participating in an innovative dual Master that they allow international students to Fredericksburg. of Business Administration program at consider and undertake our programs in TAMIU. The initiative sees them take a way that better fits their needs. TAMIU’s Heredia co-authors intensive coursework at both campuses. “For example, part of the program, or Bilingualism Textbook TAMIU faculty deliver the course in Taipei in the case of México, the entire program TAMIU associate professor and Taipei students come to TAMIU to is delivered at the home institution of Dr. Roberto Heredia, is co-author complete other courses. these students and/or partly online. of “An Introduction to Bilingualism: Dr. Antonio J. Rodríguez, TAMIU’s A. R. We are able to offer our MBA program Structures and Processes” Sanchez, Jr. School of Business associate to students who normally would not (Erlbaum, 2008) with Dr. Jeanette dean and professor of finance, said the consider investing in a full-time program Altarriba, associate dean and program, designed to be completed in professor, University at Albany, on site at our campus or at an American State University of New York, about two years, is strongly international university. These programs allow TAMIU College of Arts and Sciences. in its offerings. to establish itself globally by developing The book provides a general “Our focus is on international a unique niche in the MBA program overview of the methods and business in this MBA program, which market. We are constantly looking for theories used in the broad is a perspective that students not only opportunities to develop and implement domain of bilingualism. Using an at Fu Jen but all over the world are now similar arrangements with universities in interdisciplinary approach, the emphasizing. One of our Fu Jen students, other parts of the world,” Rodríguez said. book presents a global picture Rou Wen (Adela), happens to have For additional information, contact of the field, from early childhood majored in Spanish in college and is fluent Dr. Rodríguez at the Sanchez School intellectual development to in the language. Coupling her language of Business at 956.326.2517, e-mail educational and social-cognitive skills with an international business MBA [email protected] or click on http:// challenges and on to the maturing will make her a highly desirable candidate bilingual brain.
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