[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 138 (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)]
[Senate]
[Page S12561]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     INSTALLATION OF WILLIAM GORDON

 Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, on Sunday William C. Gordon was 
installed as the 16th President of the University of New Mexico.
  A psychologist by training, Dr. Gordon came to New Mexico by way of 
Wake Forest University, and Rutgers, where he earned his Ph.D. He 
taught at the State University of New York before moving to Albuquerque 
more than twenty years ago. Serving as a Professor of Psychology, then 
as chairman of the department, he became Dean of the College of Arts 
and Sciences. From there he became the Provost and Vice President for 
Academic Affairs and then assumed the job of interim president. It was 
during that period, and after a national search had been conducted, 
that he himself was named President in March of this year.
  Distinguished and well respected, Dr. Gordon has worked diligently 
throughout his administrative career to improve the university not only 
for the students and faculty, but for the staff and the wider 
community. He has sought to improve both the education people are 
getting, and the way they are getting it. The University of New Mexico 
is our state's largest institution of higher learning. The potential 
this represents is not lost on Dr. Gordon, and we look to him for 
leadership well into the 21st century.

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