{"id":24633,"date":"2010-12-23T16:44:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=24633"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:44:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T23:44:35","slug":"democrat-garcia-picked-to-be-higher-education-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/12\/democrat-garcia-picked-to-be-higher-education-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Garcia picked to be higher education secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17695\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17695\" title=\"Garcia, Jose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Garcia-Jose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jose Z. Garcia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov.-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martineztransition.com\">Susana Martinez<\/a> has nominated a Democrat to be her administration\u2019s secretary of higher education \u2013 New Mexico State University government professor Jose Z. Garcia.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia, a political analyst who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/author\/jose-garcia\/\">written columns<\/a> for this site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/political-analyst-takes-sides-in-guv-race\/\">endorsed Martinez<\/a> in August. He\u2019s the first Democrat to be chosen to serve as a secretary in the administration of Martinez, a Republican. His nomination was announced today in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia has been a professor at NMSU since 1975 and was the director of the NMSU Center for Latin American Studies from 1991 to 2003. He\u2019s also a former member of the New Mexico Border Authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Garcia is a talented educator who will help me streamline\u00a0New Mexico\u2019s\u00a0higher education system,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cHis charge is to ensure that our universities and colleges provide students with all they need to be competitive in today\u2019s global job market and the opportunity to develop their talents and skills right here in New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Garcia said he looks forward to joining Martinez\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has asked me to ensure that our\u00a0colleges and universities\u00a0are among the leading centers of education and research in the nation,\u201d he said. \u201cOur focus must be on preparing our students for the jobs of tomorrow in the most efficient means possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov.-elect Susana Martinez has nominated a Democrat to be her administration\u2019s secretary of higher education \u2013 New Mexico State University government professor Jose Z. Garcia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[125,133,107],"class_list":["post-24633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-nmsu","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}