University of New Mexico Parent Guide
Faculty mentors speak to parents March 3
Meet the UNM faculty at the next Parent Talk, Wednesday, March 3, from 6-7 p.m. in the Student Services Building, Dean of Students Conference Room, Rm. 260.
Students' relationships with UNM faculty and staff are key to accessing research, scholarships, internships and graduate school. Engaging parents and families in the topic "Faculty as Mentors" will be John Benevidez, Anderson School of Management, and Mary Bowannie, Native American Studies. Gain knowledge about how students can build professional relationships with faculty, use office hours effectively, ask for a letter of recommendation and identify help to succeed in the classroom.
Benevidez, a lecturer mentoring students who later win national marketing competitions, was named UNM's Outstanding Lecturer of the Year for 2003-2004; was noted among New Mexico Business Weekly's "40 Under Forty" in 2006. He received the New Mexico American Marketing Association Recognition of Excellence Award in 2008.
Bowannie incorporates her vast journalism experience in the classroom. She has covered stories on Native America for public radio outlets, tribal newspapers and magazines since 1994. In 2006, she was among recipients of the competitive RTNDF Educator in the Newsroom Fellowship. She mentored students who published the campus' first Native newspaper.
The Parent Talk series is sponsored by UNM's Dean of Students' Family Connection Program and Parent Relations Office, the Parent Association and Extended University's Media Technology Services.
Students and extended family are welcome. Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. Light refreshments are served. Parking is availabe for $1.75 per hour in the Cornell Parking Structure near Central and Cornell NE. To visit the Student Services Center (SSC) from the Cornell Parking Structure walk north on Cornell Mall, pass by Popejoy Hall and the Student Union (SUB). At the SUB's north end, go east passing under the Mesa Vista archway to the SSC.
Please RSVP for this free event at http://parent.unm.edu/parent-talks/.
