Waded Cruzado to be paid $280,000 as new MSU president (4:45 p.m.)

She'll need it to cover the $800 a month heating bill for her new rustic Rocky Mountain 5,000 sq. ft.'cabin'. Not to mention all those special light bulbs and heat lamps to help cope with the brutal 8 month winters up there.

From tropical PR to hot & dry Southern NM...she'll last less than 2 years being miserably cold before seeking a new college to scam in a place that has palm trees.

because wrote:

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because the sun news, the editor and staff are communists who do not like capitalism. So because this salary sounds really high to them, they feel they should vilify this person. read quick this will most likely be deleted soon

Communist? Remember we are talking about the salary of a STATE university--a university that YOUR federal tax dollars support in some fashion! Pell Grants? Federal dollars, Stanford Student Loans? Subsidized with Federal tax dollars and the list goes on. Wake up like the editor and staff of the Sun News have and knwo that we ALL are paying for that salary.

MHO wrote:

This is featured as a headline in the LC Sun, why?

And it's still news. Go figure.

one a day wrote:

She still won't make as much as the NMSU football or basketball coach.
She will when they send her packing and have to buy her contract.

But that's what would have happened had she stayed her, so at least we won't be paying to send her packing.

MHO wrote:

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I read the Bulletin this morning and realized Ortiz will most likely get it, the school love to brag about it's latino anything.

The Sun-News is pretty pathetic. But you think the Bulletin is better?

Uncollegiate wrote:

She'll need it to cover the $800 a month heating bill for her new rustic Rocky Mountain 5,000 sq. ft.'cabin'. Not to mention all those special light bulbs and heat lamps to help cope with the brutal 8 month winters up there.
From tropical PR to hot & dry Southern NM...she'll last less than 2 years being miserably cold before seeking a new college to scam in a place that has palm trees.

UT-Pan-American must have turned her down. I always thought she'd end up there.

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I read the Bulletin this morning and realized Ortiz will most likely get it, the school love to brag about it's latino anything.

MHO your comment leads me to believe you have a problem with people from diverse backgrounds, particularly Latino. Perhaps you should read the Morrill Act where it specifically says that these universities should prepare the "working class of the state". Who do you think is the working class of the county, the state, and even the southwest? Who has been the working class in the southwest since the region was developed as New Spain, and who's land was this to begin with? It's not an arithmetic lesson you need, its history, sociology, and anthropology lessons that you need regarding your hegemonic ill-informed racist perspectives.

Oh Snap wrote:

NMSU has a track record of hiring crooks. They need to throw all of the bums out. She is just angry that they made her step down as acting president. If I recall, an interim president is NOT allowed to apply for the position, and that goes includes her. Doesn't matter if she was a minority or woman. According to policy she could not apply for the job and I am sure she new it when they appointed her as interim president, and she accepted it. Besides, she was involved in the fiasco with the College of Health and Human services, right along with her buddy Mike Martin. You're right, NMSU keeps hiring their own kind, and as far as I'm concerned she was one of THEM.<quoted text>

That policy was changes some time ago...get your facts! As far as CHSS get over it, who was not involved in that mess. Dr. Cruzado is being singled out because she is a minority....how about the rest of administration involved!!

Next year they are already planning on cutting another 10% of teachers here in the Cruces school district while the figure heads still bring in the cash.

Well if they changed it...they changed it for HER! Which was wrong. That was the policy for years and years. Dr. Cruzado had a choice to be involved in that mess with the CHHS. She could have stood up for what was right, despite the possibility of losing her job. That's called INTEGRITY, which she lacks. Instead, she decides to go along with the "good ol boys" against those two professors, who by the way are MINORITIES as well. She helped to set them up and lose their jobs. So now why is she surprised they did it to her. "WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND...DR. CRUZADO. What made her think that NMSU wouldn't do the same to her, once they got through using her.
ADIOS!.

Good Knight wrote:

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That policy was changes some time ago...get your facts! As far as CHSS get over it, who was not involved in that mess. Dr. Cruzado is being singled out because she is a minority....how about the rest of administration involved!!

John wrote:

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Communist? Remember we are talking about the salary of a STATE university--a university that YOUR federal tax dollars support in some fashion! Pell Grants? Federal dollars, Stanford Student Loans? Subsidized with Federal tax dollars and the list goes on. Wake up like the editor and staff of the Sun News have and knwo that we ALL are paying for that salary.

umm...nice high school debate team tactic..redirection. You should "knwo" that the idea of the taxpayer pocket paying for an elected officials salary is, if anything, more in support of communist ideology (stateless, classless, etc) than anything else.
the previous poster had it right, and you are way out in space.

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MHO your comment leads me to believe you have a problem with people from diverse backgrounds, particularly Latino. Perhaps you should read the Morrill Act where it specifically says that these universities should prepare the "working class of the state". Who do you think is the working class of the county, the state, and even the southwest? Who has been the working class in the southwest since the region was developed as New Spain, and whose land was this to begin with? It's not an arithmetic lesson you need, its history, sociology, and anthropology lessons that you need regarding your hegemonic ill-informed racist perspectives.

If this is the purpose of the Morrill Act, then the entire university needs to re-evaluate its objective and effectiveness on implementing it. The working class students are being ripped off by being force into a more expensive 4 year university when a properly ran community college system will get you your cogs into the workforce in a quicker fashion. The vocational technical programs in the high schools have been obliterated from the school system that so desperately needs them. The state lottery system for scholarships allows undocumented students eligible to receive monies that should go to students who have at the very least attended 2 years of HS in NM that resulted in graduation from a NM high school.

You are making some pretty sweeping assumptions in your statements and showing that the university gives favoritism to the local Latino majority that is no longer a minority. Unless a regular reporter at the Bulletin is writing an article, anything read in that paper is an obvious submitted press release or white paper (look it up it has nothing to do with skin color) that readers know to be directly from the source to be read as something presented in the most positive light for a specific purpose. When I read Todd Dickson's article concerning this issue as it was published in the Bulletin, there were not obvious leanings for or against any candidate, but the only significant items listed for Mr. Ortiz pointed to his heritage. If you do a search for NMSU + "Hispanic-serving institution" you will find something revealing about the schools objective and why Mr. Ortiz is in the running at all. http://www.google.com/search...

Not that it matters, but I am pretty sure my ancestors had land in this country long before yours, but you go on with your bad self and flutter that piece of paper and 'bragging rights' about being a 'NMSU faculty member' in front of as many people as you can to give your points validity, or try to anyway. Every faculty member could use a boost to their resume with a visionary, focused and determined leader leading the university to a level that deserves respect as a result of the quality of educated students it delivers to the workforce that is not based on the color of their skin or where their parents came from.

It might serve you well to read your faculty evaluation forms at the end of the semester with an eye to improve your attitude towards your students so that you can become a more effective educator, rather than to dismiss relevant constructive criticism as what you see as targeted racism. If you make such accusations about someone you can't see through your keyboard, I don't want to know what kind of havoc you wreak on students that you see only with your myopic eyes.

The second Morrill Act in 1890 required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color. Unless NMSU was a designated separate institution for this purpose (and we know it was not) the nation has come a long way since such acts were put into place and ability should be the most prevalent factor to consider for this leadership positon.

The university needs to move away from using skin color and heritage in its decision making processes and marketing materials.

NMSU Faculty Member wrote:

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MHO your comment leads me to believe you have a problem with people from diverse backgrounds, particularly Latino. Perhaps you should read the Morrill Act where it specifically says that these universities should prepare the "working class of the state". Who do you think is the working class of the county, the state, and even the southwest? Who has been the working class in the southwest since the region was developed as New Spain, and who's land was this to begin with? It's not an arithmetic lesson you need, its history, sociology, and anthropology lessons that you need regarding your hegemonic ill-informed racist perspectives.

Who would like to lead this kind of hegemonic ill-informed racist 'educator'? It would take someone with a very forgiving and compassionate heart, having much determination to get this flock of ravens to see the irony in chiding the blackness of those around them.

Try taking Harvard's racism test at Project Implicit. Your results will surprise you. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/

Cruzado’s salary $280,000, top in state government

“I think we’re all excited,” agreed Regent Lila Taylor.

Really? How do the struggling students feel, trying in vain to improve their lives? College is a scam, scam, SCAM.

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles...

Uncollegiate wrote:

Really? How do the struggling students feel, trying in vain to improve their lives? College is a scam, scam, SCAM.
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/articles...

Great article. It is nice how the nonprofit foundation for the university that solicits alumni for donations to support scholarships may actually tricked into increasing the salary as it stands. The student quoted in the article makes a good point, the university is sending the wrong message to the students.