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David Schmidly became the 20th president of the University of New Mexico in 2007. It is his third university presidency. When Schmidly came to the campus to meet with students he told them he planned to teach as part of his duties. He is an internationally respected researcher who has written 9 natural history and conservation books about mammals and more than 200 scientific articles. This fall Schimidly is teaching a seminar course on leadership at the Anderson School of Management.

There are 53 students enrolled in the course, which will use as a text “Leadership: Texas Hold ‘Em Style” by Andrew J. Harvey and Raymond E. Foster. In this lecture, Schmidly talks about how he became a leader.

 

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University of New Mexico President David Schmidly has set some lofty goals for his first year at the school ranging from reducing the institution’s carbon footprint to retaining faculty.

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