University of New Mexico Vice President for Student Affairs Eliseo “Cheo” Torres has been named to the 2004-2006 Governing Council of the Institute of Advanced Studies for the Americas, an agency under the auspices of the Organization of American States. The honor results from his noteworthy contributions to the socio-educational and cultural exchange in the Americas through his research and studies in the socio-educational integral development from an interdisciplinary and multisectoral approach according to the INEAM.
Torres will be presented with a certificate marking the honor at a brief ceremony at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Jemez Room in the Student Union Building. Dr. Carlos E. Paldao, an OAS representative, will present Torres with the certificate.
According to OAS promotional literature, INEAM is an initiative of the development branch of the OAS, instituted to “strengthen the formation and training of human resources through the use of new information and communication technology. Its creation is a direct response to the mandates of the Summit of the Americas in Quebec, Canada that called for the OAS to ‘promote access…to new information and communications technologies applied to education, in order to reduce the knowledge gap and the digital divide within and between societies in the Hemisphere.’”
“I am honored and pleased to be selected for this distinction,” Torres said. “Much work needs to be done to further human development and develop human capital in the Americas, and exchanging information and promoting education through new communication and information technologies will help us to promote this worthwhile end of the INEAM.”
Torres has been vice president for student affairs since 1996. He was also honored recently by the Mexican Consul’s Office in Albuquerque for his contributions to improving understanding and relations between the United States and Mexico, especially through educational initiatives.
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