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The Staff, which includes a Director, a Project Coordinator, an Academic Services Coordinator, an Office Manager, a Graduate Assistant, and Academic Tutors, provides individual assistance and guidance to Scholars during each phase of the McNair Program and continual monitoring of their progress toward graduate school.
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Dr. Kamatuka has served as the Director of Educational Opportunity Programs in the School of Education at the University of Kansas since 1988. He earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from KU in 1987. Dr. Kamatuka's teaching experience spans two decades at both the high school and university level. A native of Namibia, Dr. Kamatuka makes his home in Lawrence with his wife and three children.
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Dr. Rodriguez has served the McNair Scholars Program since 1998. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Kansas in 2005. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from KU and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation is entitled "A Comparative State Analysis of Professional Boxing Regulations." Dr. Rodriguez was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in southern California. He is of Argentine heritage and is the first in his family to earn a college degree. |
 Allyson Flaster Academic Services Coordinator |
Allyson joined the McNair Scholars Program in August of 2005. She holds a Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from Harvard University, teaching certification in the state of Kansas, and a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. Born and raised in California, she now considers Kansas her home.
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 Linda LaPierre Office Manager |
Linda has been with the McNair Scholars Program since June 2004. She currently serves as the Program's office manager, and is the Human Resources contact for several of the Educational Opportunity Programs at KU. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Emporia State University (KS), and an Associate of Applied Science degree from Butler County Community College (KS). |
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Clarice began to work as a student assistant for the McNair Scholars Program in the summer of 2008. She is a junior undergraduate student majoring in Anthropology and Journalism, with a minor in Latin American Studies. She was born and raised in Recife, Brazil, and has been attending KU since the fall of 2006.
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 Tanya Kooi Email Tanya |
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