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A current board member and a retired Dexter teacher and academic administrator are running unopposed in the 2021 local elections for two positions on the Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell Community College Board.
Rissie Ellen Daubert of Dexter is running for the District 2 seat that has been held since December 2016 by educational diagnostician Patricia Parsons, who has decided not to run for re-election.
Tamaliah “Tammy” D. Lueras of Roswell is seeking election to the District 3 seat. She has been serving in that position since June 2020, having been appointed to fill an unexpired term when longtime board member Eloise Blake resigned.
Both women are candidates for elected office for the first time. The two positions, which do not involve any type of pay, are for four-year terms that will begin Jan. 1. Because they are unopposed, each candidate will need to receive only one vote by election day Nov. 2. Early and absentee voting begins Oct. 5.
The five-member ENMU-R board provides oversight of the finances, administrative actions, programs and policies at the local campus of the ENMU system, although the Eastern New Mexico University Board of Regents must give final approval on some issues.
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Daubert, a resident of the Dexter area for about 43 years, is a retired educator with 40 years of experience. She is also the wife of Dexter Mayor Mitch Daubert.
For 32 years, she worked for the Dexter Consolidated School District as an English middle and high middle school teacher, an instructional coach and dean of students.
“I really appreciate our community college and our university,” Daubert said. “I see it as a good place for our students to go to begin their education at the higher level, but I also see it as a good resource for our community and for our local schools. I think it has a lot to offer Dexter schools if they will utilize it correctly. It offers a great resource for things we can’t offer on our own.”
Daubert earned her degrees from Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. She received a bachelor’s degree in physical education with a minor in English and a master’s degree in secondary education with an emphasis in English.
She added that she took some coursework in her minor at ENMU-Roswell and has two grandchildren who earned about 30 hours each of college credit at ENMU-Roswell while in high school through the dual enrollment program.
She also served on a committee that was involved in the selection of Shawn Powell, the current ENMU-Roswell president, and believes that the institution has been “stable” under his leadership.
“I think he is working on programming in a good way,” Daubert said. “I want to see career-oriented programming continue because I think that is real important. I always told my kids when I was dean of students that college isn’t for everybody, but there are a lot of things they can do to get good, long-lasting careers. And I think the college and Eastern offer a lot of those areas.”
Lueras, a retired ENMU-Roswell nursing instructor and nursing program director, said she has chosen to run for the seat because of her desire to serve.
“I want to continue to be of service,” she said, “and represent the people of District 3 and also the people who attend ENMU-R or work at ENMU-R.”
Lueras said that she thinks the board works and communicates well with each other, with ENMU-Roswell leadership and with the ENMU Board of Regents and administration.
She said that, in addition to providing oversight of the school’s financial operations, capital projects and general obligation bond projects, she wants to help the college “maintain its position as a quality institution offering not only degree and certificate programs, but responding to community and Chaves County needs for either continuing education or additional job training.”
She said her work on the board has included supporting the institution as it has prepared for its accreditation reviews and as it has responded to changes in how classes were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her goals include encouraging the school in using its resources to help students with their unmet needs not covered by financial aid funds available for tuition, books, supplies and room and board. Student surveys conducted in fall 2020 and planned for this year as well are helping to identify the needs, she said.
Lueras earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from West Texas State University and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Texas at El Paso.
From 1993 to 2007, Lueras was a nursing instructor at ENMU-Roswell. From 2007 to 2010, she was director of the nursing program. She then worked as an adjunct nursing instructor from 2012 to 2017, when she retired.
She said that, in addition to work with the college board, she volunteers with the Calvary Chapel meal program and the Good Samaritan food bank.
Lisa Dunlap can be reached at 575-622-7710, ext. 351, or at reporter02@rdrnews.com.
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