Featured Alumni
Dr. Camila Alire, MLS '74
Camila was the ALA President in 2009-2010. Dr. Alire is Dean Emerita at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University. She has additionally served as Dean/Director of Libraries at University of Colorado at Denver. Other previous library experience includes serving as a community college library director, head of a special library, school librarian (K-12), and assistant to the dean/instructor at the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management (GSLIM). Camila received her doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Northern Colorado.
Camila maintains an outstanding record of service in the profession and is an active and long-standing member and leader of several associations. She is active in the American Library Association, currently chairs the ALA Committee on Legislation, has chaired several ALA Committees (Nominating, Committee on Education, American Libraries Advisory Committee), and has served on four ALA President's Special Advisory Task Forces. She has served on the ALA Council and on the ALA Executive Board, is past-president of the Association for College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and served as chair of the 2005 ACRL National Conference. She is a member of REFORMA (National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to the Spanish-Speaking), serving as national president and chair of several committees. In addition, Camila has been a member of the DU LIS Advisory Board since 1995.
Camila Alire
Front and Center with Dr. Miles
Dr. Shirley A. Miles,PhD '01, Director of DoDEA (Department of Defense Education Activity), addresses the employees of DoDEA at the start of the 2008-2009 year in this "Front and Center" video: http://www.dodea.edu/xcast/2008_Front_Center/popup.cfm. To learn more about the DoDea, please visit http://www.dodea.edu/home/index.cfm.
Celine Carbullido, MA '06, Takes RMS Around the World
What are some of the things you can do with a degree in Research Methods and Statistics from the Morgridge College of Education? Improve educational assessment tools for students with disabilities, monitor national aid policies and practices, travel around the world; or, in the case of Alum Celine Carbullido, all of the above.
Carbullido recently became a Program Evaluator for the Pacific Assessment Consortium grant (PAC 6), which examines reporting and assessment for students with disabilities in Guam (where she resides currently), Saipan, Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and American Samoa. "[They] are very much developing nations, so challenges (technology, for example) lay ahead," Carbullido says, "I'm really excited about the project."
Prior to working for PAC 6, Carbullido spent time working in the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of Katrina Aid Today (KAT). As part of a team of three, she visited thirty-one states, reporting on best practices of a standardized case management process, conducting focus groups with survivors, and ultimately submitting "The First Year in Review" (March 2007), to FEMA.
This motivated alum looks forward to more exciting, demanding research, which is often informed by her DU education. Says Carbullido of her work for PAC 6, "I referenced the Evaluation Roots textbook we used in [RMS] class!"
Celine Carbullido at work.
