{"id":496,"date":"2006-08-23T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-23T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/former-ambassador-npr-head-joins-nmsu\/"},"modified":"2006-08-23T15:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T21:20:00","slug":"former-ambassador-npr-head-joins-nmsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/former-ambassador-npr-head-joins-nmsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ambassador, NPR head joins NMSU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Lewis%2C%20Delano.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Lewis%2C%20Delano.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A former <st1:country-region st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:country-region> ambassador to <st1:country-region st=\"on\">South Africa<\/st1:country-region> and National Public Radio president has been named a senior fellow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico State University<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Delano Lewis starts Sept. 1 and will be paid $90,000 for the year. His appointment is renewable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201c<st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">Del<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>\u2019s experience, insights, reputation and knowledge will be invaluable to the university,\u201d NMSU President Michael Martin said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lewis\u2019 mission will be twofold: He will \u201cassume a leadership role\u201d in the development of an institute for international relations that will serve as the state\u2019s think tank on the topic, according to the news release. He will also advise those involved in the management of KRWG television and radio on \u201cstrategic opportunities to strengthen and grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">First: This is a great opportunity for the university. Lewis has an impressive background, and his knowledge and experience can only add to the opportunities for learning at NMSU.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Second: There\u2019s an obvious political aspect to Lewis\u2019 appointment. The university has been under fire from students and graduates for its management of KRWG and, particularly, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krwg-tv.org\/news22\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">News22<\/a> television program traditionally produced by students. The university considered some changes last year that would have made News22 less valuable as a learning lab and might have lessened student involvement. That led to protests by students and alumni and, for the time being, the university has backed off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The news release states that Lewis\u2019 goals for the station include growing and developing local programming and local news; increasing funding, viewers and listeners; \u201cand, of course, to strengthen student involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lewis will report directly to Martin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. ambassador to South Africa and National Public Radio president has been named a senior fellow at New Mexico State University. Delano Lewis starts Sept. 1 and will be paid $90,000 for the year. His appointment is renewable. \u201cDel\u2019s experience, insights, reputation and knowledge will be invaluable to the university,\u201d NMSU President Michael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","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=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}