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| August 11, 2004 PAINE NAMED UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATE DEAN Charles Paine, UNM associate professor of English, has been named University College associate dean. Paine directed the UNM Freshman English program from 1998-2000 and has been associate director since 2002, where he played a key role in the university's retention and student-success efforts. “I'm very excited to have Charles Paine working in University College because he has exactly the right kind of experience and point-of-view about student success that we need here at UNM,” said Peter White, dean. Paine contributed to the many elements that make up UNM's fairly new “Freshman Academic Choices.” He worked with Joel Nossoff and White to organize the first four Freshman Learning Communities. He coordinates FLC efforts for the Department of English and teaches an English 101 FLC this fall. Paine specializes in rhetoric, composition, and professional writing. He is author of “The Resistant Writer” (SUNY Press), a book about the history of writing instruction in the United States with particular focus on the role of popular public culture on teaching writing. “I am particularly interested in student-success efforts. I believe it is some of the most important work we do at the university. After all, I was an at-risk undergraduate here myself many years ago and although I managed to succeed I recognize how easy it can be to fall through the cracks,” said Paine, who went on to earn his master's from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and Ph.D. from Duke University. Comments to: |