Alex Gonzalez, associate director of the Scholarship Office at UNM, won the “Golden Shoe Award” for his outstanding work with vendors at the Region IV-West conference of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) held earlier this months in Breckenridge, Colo.
Photo: Alex Gonzalez, associate director, Scholarship Office
Gonzalez raised more money for this year’s conference, working as a liaison for NASPA to corporate sponsors, than has been raised in any previous year, bringing in $12,000 from vendors who were represented at the conference.
Trey Smith won the Rising Star New Professionals Award for his innovative student programs. Smith is a Student Activities Coordinator in the Student Activities Center. Both the Scholarship Office and the Student Activities Center are departments within the Division of Student Affairs.
The Breckenridge NASPA conference encompassed ten western U.S. states and two western Canadian provinces comprising Region IV-West of NASPA, the professional organization for college and university student services professionals. The U.S. states in the region are Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming. The Canadian provinces are Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
"Our University is producing some excellent young student services professionals," said Dr. Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, vice president for Student Affairs. "I can think of many people in our Division in addition to Alex and Trey who could also represent the University of New Mexico extremely well in their professional accomplishments. Alex and Trey are among our best and brightest, and we are pleased to have them represent us so well at this conference.”
For further information about Alex Gonzalez and Trey Smith, please contact the Division of Student Affairs at 277-0952. For more information about NASPA and its regional and national conferences, please visit their Web site: NASPA.
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627; e-mail: kwent2@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at November 14, 2006 05:15 PM