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  UNM Office of the President
Louis Caldera, 48, began his tenure as the 18th president of the University of New Mexico in August 2003.
During his tenure, Caldera chaired several business and finance committees, and was an active proponent of measures to improve the lives of children, particularly in the areas of education, foster care, and health and safety.
Caldera has served on numerous boards and commissions, including the National Commission on the Senior Year in High School, the Ad Council's Community Affairs Advisory Committee and the Panama Canal Commission.
www.unm.edu /president/aboutcaldera.html   (453 words)

  
 Introducing Army Secretary Louis Caldera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In his first interview since becoming the 17th secretary of the Army, Louis Caldera shared with SOLDIERS magazine his thoughts on the state of the Army, where he will focus his attention over the next few years and what needs to be done to maintain a strong defense for the nation.
A commissioned officer from 1978 to 1983, Caldera served as a military police platoon leader, admissions officer at West Point, and executive officer of a basic training battalion at Fort Dix, N.J. The Harvard University law and business school graduate entered private practice and later represented Los Angeles County, Calif., in state and federal court.
Caldera was also a member of the Intergovernmental Policy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Trade Representative.
www.army.mil /Soldiers/sep1998/features/secarmy1.html   (1040 words)

  
 Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caldera, a former U.S. Army captain from Los Angeles currently serving as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National Service, is the first Latino in U.S. history to be nominated for the post of Secretary of the Army.
Caldera was responsible for bringing some of our best and brightest recruits into the Army and then training and leading them as they continued their military service.
Caldera last September to manage the Corporation for National and Community Service, the pride his colleagues in the California Legislature and his Los Angeles constituents felt was really tempered by sadness.
www.senate.gov /~feinstein/releases98/caldera.html   (537 words)

  
 cOMMunications.com - Alumni - O'Melveny Alum Louis Caldera Named President of the University of New Mexico
Prior to that, Caldera held two appointed posts in the Clinton administration: as secretary of the Army from 1998 to 2001, and as managing director and chief operating officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service from 1997 to 1998.
During his tenure, Caldera chaired several business and finance committees, and was an active proponent of measures to improve the lives of children.
Currently, Caldera sits on four corporate boards: Southwest Airlines Co. of Dallas; Iomega Corp. of La Jolla, California, a maker of computer peripheral devices; BELO Corp. of Dallas, a media company that owns the Dallas Morning News; and Indy Mac Bancorp of Pasadena, one of the nation's largest mortgage finance companies.
www.omm.com /communication/2003/06-02/caldera_alumni.html   (488 words)

  
 Louis Caldera: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Louis Caldera served as United States Secretary of the Army United States Secretary of the Army quick summary:
Caldera then served as California state assemblyman from 1992 to 1997, EHandler: no quick summary.
Caldera became the 18th president of the University of New Mexico[Click link for more facts about this topic] in August 2003.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_caldera.htm   (541 words)

  
 CSU | Public Affairs | Former U.S. Secretary Of The Army Named CSU Vice Chancellor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caldera served in the California State Assembly from 1992-1997, representing the 46th District, centered in downtown Los Angeles and surrounding neighborhoods from mid-Wilshire to Boyle Heights.
Prior to election to the Assembly, Caldera served as a Deputy County Counsel for the County of Los Angeles, and as an attorney in private practice.
Caldera left the Assembly in September 1997 after he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the parent organization to the Americorps, Senior Service Corps and Learn and Serve America community service programs.
www.calstate.edu /PA/oldnews/2001/Caldera.shtml   (675 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Army secretary's story is top rank
For Louis Caldera, who rose from the barrio, public service is the calling even if more lucrative jobs beckon.
Born and raised in the barrio, Caldera was believed to be retarded in kindergarten because he could not speak English.
For the first time in his life, Caldera, 44, whose term expires when President Clinton vacates the White House, is entirely dependent on events that are beyond the reach of his remarkable self-will and drive.
www.sptimes.com /News/100300/news_pf/Worldandnation/Army_secretary_s_stor.shtml   (1460 words)

  
 CSULB Online 49er: v8n126: Former Secretary of Army begins stint at CSULB
Louis Caldera, the former U.S. Secretary of the Army, began his stint as Cal State University vice chancellor last week, bringing his ambition to the university to expand public and private support in an effort to raise the quality of higher education.
Caldera was appointed vice chancellor by the California State University Board of Trustees on June 4.
Caldera, a father of three daughters, is still searching for a house around the Long Beach area where his family will relocate from Maryland.
www.csulb.edu /~d49er/archives/2001/summer/news/v8n126-caldera.shtml   (523 words)

  
 The Albuquerque Tribune: Education
Caldera wouldn't comment on his relationship with regents or on what led to the move.
Caldera said he hoped regents would green-light it in June; instead, they rejected it, saying it needed to be looked at over time.
Caldera received a minimum raise of 3.25 percent in May - the same as faculty - bringing his salary to nearly $293,000.
www.abqtrib.com /albq/nw_education/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19857_4417546,00.html   (845 words)

  
 DefenseLINK News: Army Announces Recruiting Advertising Contract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caldera: I can tell you that I personally was not part of the selection process, just in the way that we are structured, and so I can't answer that question for you.
Caldera: Well, there are costs obviously associated with that as well as their time in production and talent and the other kinds of things that this encompasses.
Caldera: I'm afraid that I don't have the specifics, but we can get to that information, kind of a little bit more about how the contract is structured and what those specific incentives are.
www.defense.gov /news/Jun2000/t06282000_t0627arm.html   (4397 words)

  
 DLC: Blueprint Profile: Louis Caldera
Former Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera was the mastermind behind the "Army of One" recruitment campaign that's currently hitting the airwaves with a vengeance.
Caldera says shifting his focus from the Army to student recruitment and university fundraising was a logical next step.
Caldera says his Army experience taught him that community partnerships can be a powerful recruitment tool.
www.dlc.org /ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=3758&kaid=110&subid=134   (354 words)

  
 ABQjournal: Caldera Selected To Run UNM
Louis Caldera said he would put aside some of his ambitions in business and politics to run the University of New Mexico.
Caldera sits on four corporate boards: Southwest Airlines Co. of Dallas; Iomega Corp. of La Jolla, Calif., a maker of computer peripheral devices; BELO Corp. of Dallas, a media company that owns the Dallas Morning News; and Indy Mac Bancorp of Pasadena, Calif., one of the nation's largest mortgage finance companies.
Caldera, one of five presidential finalists, said he made the same promise to regents during interviews on campus.
www.abqjournal.com /AED/865966news05-06-03.htm   (865 words)

  
 Hispanic Magazine November 1999 - Features - All He Can Be
In a second floor Pentagon office larger than a typical home in the poorest neighborhoods of his birthplace of El Paso, Louis Caldera is pondering the challenge he faces.His job, as secretary of the Army, requires him to make sure there are enough soldiers to fight the nation’s wars.
In Sacramento, Caldera built a reputation as a moderate, fighting for gun control, but also for charter schools, and becoming involved in the New Democrat movement fostered by the Democratic Leadership Council, a group where Bill Clinton got much of his ideological grounding.
Caldera sees his role as ensuring the Army is well prepared for the future.
www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/1999/nov/Features/all.html   (1373 words)

  
 The Albuquerque Tribune: Education
Caldera, regents, some faculty and staff were together this morning for Caldera's annual state of the university presentation.
Caldera said he had asked for the minimum raise so he would get the same average raise that faculty received.
Should Caldera leave now, officials could be forced to abandon their search for a new provost - a search Koch said should be done in the next month or two months.
www.abqtrib.com /albq/nw_education/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19857_4402752,00.html   (949 words)

  
 BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | US probes Korean massacre allegations
A survivor tells Louis Caldera [left] what happened at No Gun Ri The US Secretary for the Army has begun an investigation in South Korea into allegations that American troops killed hundreds of civilians during the Korean War.
Louis Caldera visited No Gun Ri on Monday where American soldiers are said to have gunned down refugees in the first weeks of the war 50 years ago.
Mr Caldera, the most senior US politician to investigate the allegations, interviewed survivors who said they saw the massacre and talked to families of victims.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/597094.stm   (541 words)

  
 Belo Corp. | Management Team
LOUIS E. Louis Caldera has served as president of the University of New Mexico since August 2003.
Louis was Secretary of the Army in the Clinton Administration from July 1998 until January 2001.
Louis also serves on the boards of directors of IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. and Southwest Airlines Co..
www.belo.com /about/caldera.x2   (96 words)

  
 Press Conference Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera and Chief of Staff of the Army General Eric K. Shinseki
SECRETARY CALDERA: It will clearly put some pressure on restructuring the institutional Army to put more of the forces in the teeth and not the tail and not the institutional non-TO&E portion of the Army.
CALDERA: And many of the investments in the M1A1 upgrades, of course, are recapitalization, replacing aging equipment and upgrading the equipment by the manner in which you're recapitalizing and introducing more technology and more capability into it.
SECRETARY CALDERA: Well, let me say, first of all, that yes, we have both clearly, obviously, have responsibilities as part of a joint team to work with the other services and under the auspices of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
www.fas.org /man/dod-101/army/unit/docs/r19991014ausapress.htm   (4084 words)

  
 Untitled2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caldera was born in El Paso, Texas in 1956 and raised in Los Angeles for most of his life.
When Caldera was in the State Assembly, he was appointed chairman of the powerful Banking and Finance committee during his first term and assistant democratic floor leader in his second term.
As the Secretary of the Army, Caldera will be responsible for all matters relating to Army manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems, equipment acquisitions, communications, and financial management.
www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/july10/army.htm   (555 words)

  
 Untitled15
Louis Caldera, Secretary of the United States Army, was not one that would be allowed to travel incognito.
Caldera: The manning levels of Hispanics currently are about 8 percent enlisted and 3.5 percent in the officer ranks.
Caldera: It appears that the Navy and Marine Corp are doing a far better job of attracting the Latino youth.
www.laprensa-sandiego.org /archieve/august04/caldera.htm   (1022 words)

  
 LatinoLA - Forum - Your opinions and commentaries
Apparently, they seem to believe that Caldera's support for the ROTC trumps the voice of a bunch of students who have never been elected to office and are not recognized by the media and the ruling institutions of this country.
So, when Caldera first ran for office, I questioned his credentials because he was running in a district that he knew little about and had previously shown little interest in.
Caldera carried this vision or lack of it to Washington where he preached that Latinos by not being recruited into the army were being locked out of the American Dream.
www.latinola.com /story.php?story=723   (1087 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News
Caldera said there is now a mood in Washington that the Pentagon and the Congress may provide several billion additional dollars to repair aging weaponry and bases.
At 42, Caldera, who served for five years in the California Legislature, oversees an annual budget of $59 billion, 1.2 million uniformed and civilian employees and military bases that span 25 million acres.
Meeting with reporters yesterday at Schofield Barracks before he visited 25th Infantry Division soldiers training, Caldera said today's troopers are concerned about pay and retirement benefits, better management of their time since many of them are constantly deployed to places like Bosnia and Haiti and better equipment and opportunities to train.
starbulletin.com /1999/01/21/news/story4.html   (613 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: School of the Americas -- September 21, 1999
After this background report, U.S. Rep. Joseph Moakley, D-Mass., and Army Secretary Louis Caldera, discuss the 'School of the Americas' funding issue to be looked at by the House- Senate Conference Committee tomorrow.
LOUIS CALDERA: Well, first of all, of course, there was a lot of brutality in the civil war that is occurred in Latin America and it was conducted by all sides.
LOUIS CALDERA: If you eliminated the funding it would effectively close the school but I don't think we're going to eliminate the funding; I think Senate position is going to hold on this issue.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/military/july-dec99/sotamericas_9-21a.html   (1735 words)

  
 Harvard Law Bulletin
Caldera’s agenda is even more daunting than that of his predecessor, for with the arrival of a new century, the U.S. Army is preparing for dramatic changes.
Caldera says these inquiries, to conclude next year, "must be handled very diplomatically, to keep in mind the views of our own veterans, the domestic Korean-American community, and the international ramifications." He adds, "In 1950 the Army was in Korea to protect South Koreans.
According to Caldera, even the famous Army recruiting slogan, ranked second on Advertising Age’s listing of the century’s most popular jingles, may be retired or retooled to better grab the attention of today’s 18- to 24-year-olds.
www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/backissues/spri2000/article1.html   (2028 words)

  
 Caldera (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Caldera Systems, the former name of SCO Group
Caldera Systems, created a GNU/Linux distribution referred to as Caldera OpenLinux
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caldera_(disambiguation)   (124 words)

  
 UNM regents to meet Wednesday on president's contract
Caldera, whose contract expires in 2007, serves at the discretion of the regents.
Caldera and the regents have disagreed on a number of issues over the past year, including implementing a program to give bonuses to top-level administrators and efforts to tighten admissions standards.
Caldera had said the bonuses were a trend in higher education and would help raise administrators' salaries to those paid to top officials at other large research universities.
www.freenewmexican.com /news/38415.html   (880 words)

  
 caldera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera with a “tarbucket” Saturday at Eisenhower Hall after the superintendent’s pre-game football luncheon.
Daniel W. Christman, presented Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera with a cadet "tarbucket" Saturday after the superintendent’s pre-game luncheon at Eisenhower Hall.
Caldera, a 1978 USMA graduate, "understands the role of the academy in the producing of officers for 21st century Army excellence," Christman added.
www.usma.edu /PublicAffairs/PV/caldera.htm   (202 words)

  
 Albuquerque Tribune Online
He was referring to three closed meetings in which the performance review items were negotiated with Caldera, a former U.S. secretary of the Army who became president of the university in August 2003.
"Louis has been here a little over a year, and we felt we should give him some time to get his organization together and become familiar with the university," Koch said.
After the board unanimously approved the list, Caldera said his personal goals as UNM president were even greater than those it specified.
web.abqtrib.com /archives/news04/110504_news_unm.shtml   (658 words)

  
 Silvestre Reyes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
“It is my pleasure to present Louis Caldera with a special CHCI award in honor of his achievements and his dedication to the Hispanic community,” Congressman Silvestre Reyes (D-El Paso) said.
Caldera is currently the Vice-Chancellor for University Advancement for the California State University system.
Caldera holds a Bachelor of Science from West Point Military Academy, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
wwwc.house.gov /reyes/print_news.asp?id=168&action=print   (276 words)

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