Dr. Torres has served as Vice President for Student Affairs at the University of New Mexico, a four-year state research university, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, since January 2, 1996. Before he came to the University of New Mexico, Dr. Torres served as Vice President for External Affairs at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He also taught in the Bilingual Doctoral Program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He has served as Interim President, Vice President for Student Affairs and Special Services, Director of the University's Center for Continuing Education, and also as Assistant to the President. For two years preceding his appointment to the Texas A&M University-Kingsville staff, he was with the Texas Education Agency in Austin.
Among other initiatives, Dr. Torres has spearheaded several programs through the Office of Special Programs at the University of New Mexico in which students participate in work and study programs to allow them attend school and earn wages at the same time. The most prominent of these takes place in partnership with L.A. Works of Los Angeles County, in which dozens of inner city students are brought each year to the University of New Mexico for residential work-study programs.
Dr. Torres received his doctorate in Education from Texas A&M University in Kingsville in 1980. His academic interests include studying and writing about the Mexican-American tradition of curanderismo, the folk healing culture of the Southwest and Latin America, on which Dr. Torres regularly offers courses and lectures. He lives in Albuquerque with his wife, Nieves, and has a son, Kiko, and a daughter, Sandra.
Saturday, November 12 12:00 p.m-1:30 p.m.
