Upcoming Events
Focus Group Participants Needed: Free dinner and $50.00 for your opinion!
Metro Magazine is looking for eight Metro State graduates who would be willing to participate in a 90-minute focus group about the magazine, a publication for alumni of Metro State. The focus group is scheduled for Tuesday, September 12th, from 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. in room 237 of the Plaza Building on the Auraria Campus.
We’ll provide dinner, pay for your parking and throw in $50.00 for your valuable time. We want to learn about your thoughts on the magazine—what you like, what you don’t like and how we can improve it.
Please contact Michael Zastrow by Friday, September 1st at 303.556.5122 or e-mail zastrowm@mscd.edu to sign-up.
2006 Alumni Association Annual Meeting: Come and see why Metro State is on the “Moove”
Please
join your fellow alums and community supporters for breakfast and a bit
of association business at the 2006 Metro State Alumni Association Annual
Meeting, “Metro on the Moove”. The meeting will take
place on Saturday, September 16, 2006 from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Stapleton
Town Center Amphitheater-Founder's Green. Tickets are $15.00/person
and include breakfast, business meeting and bus tour of CowParade Denver
2006.
REGISTER NOW for the 2006 Metro State Alumni Association Annual Meeting by clicking HERE.
All registration information must be received by Friday, September 8th.
Volunteer with the Metro State Alumni Association!
Are you looking to get re-involved with Metro State? Would you like to donate your time and talents to your alma mater? We have several exciting volunteer opportunities available during fall 2006. If you would like to sign-up for any of the below listed events, please contact Stefanie Carroll at 303.556.6935 or scarro17@mscd.edu.
Alumni Chapter & Club Orientation Night
Thursday, September 7th from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Alumni House-1020 9th Street Park
If you are interested in starting or joining an alumni chapter/club, this
is the meeting for you! We currently have interest in NEW Latino/a, GLBT,
African-American and Political Science chapters--and we are still searching
for alumni interested in starting other departmental chapters. We will
provide a dinner, training and materials. Please RSVP for the
training by Friday, September 1st.
NOTE: If you live outside of the metro Denver area and/or in another state, we are also interested in talking to you about starting an alumni chapter/club in your area.
2006 Alumni Association Annual Meeting
Saturday, September 16th from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Stapleton-East 29th Street Town Center-Founders' Green Amphitheater
We need volunteers to assist us with our 2006 Annual Meeting "day-of" logistics. Volunteers are needed to help with the set-up and take-down of the event, as well as assistance during the meeting with registration and other duties. Please contact us by Friday, September 1st if you are interested in volunteering for this event.
ADVANCE Volunteer Orientation/Training Night
Tuesday, October 10th from 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Auraria Campus-Room TBA
As an ADVANCE volunteer, you can assist the Office of Admissions in recruitment
activities that are meant to positively impact the college’s enrollment
goals. ADVANCE members typically donate 8-10 hours of their time per year
performing a minimum of one of the following recruitment activities: Writing
letters, making phone calls, and/or assisting at on-campus visitation
programs. Please RSVP for the training by Friday, September 29th.
Campus News
Alumni Spotlight: John Cochran and Carlos Fresquez
Many alumni graduate from Metro State and later return to the school as
employees. Below are two very different examples of how high quality Metro
State students often become high quality Metro State faculty.
John Cochran, Dean of School of Business (‘78)
Metro State Provost Rodolfo Rocha announced recently that John Cochran had been named Dean of the School of Business. “John is an example of the high quality of student that Metro State produces,” Rocha said of Cochran, who is a 1978 economics graduate of Metro State. “He’s a visionary and his understanding of the mission and the role that Metro State plays will help us move closer to the College’s vision.” Cochran came to Metro State in 1981 to teach economics after graduating from CU-Boulder with a Ph.D. in the discipline. He has been with the College ever since, rising to full professor and chair of the Economics Department. In 2005, he received the Distinguished Service Award for administrators. Read more . . .
Carlos Fresquez, Artist and Assistant Art Professor (‘80)
A 1980 graduate of Metro State, Carlos Fresquez (who earned his M.F.A
from the University of Colorado), returned to the College in 1989 to fill
in for a painting professor who was recovering from back surgery. “I
really enjoyed it. I had no idea of a teaching style or anything,”
Fresquez says, “so I just did the class, and they loved what I was
doing.” He ended up teaching part time at Metro State for 11 years
before taking an instructorship at the University of Colorado at Denver
and Health Sciences Center for four years. Metro State asked him back
when a full-time position opened up. Read
more . . .
Vol 3. Issue 12
August 15, 2006
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