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LAWRENCE -- University of Kansas Executive Vice Chancellor for University Relations Janet Murguia will speak to Hispanic students at Goodland High School at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
"I'm really looking forward to seeing Goodland and meeting the students," said Murguia. "My message wherever I go is to stress the difference that education in general and a college education in particular can make in people's lives. It is so important for our young people to be motivated to seek a good education."
On Saturday, Murguia will be in Garden City to give the keynote address for the daylong Latina Women's Leadership Conference at Garden City Community College.
The conference is the outcome of a National Center for Outreach grant to Smoky Hills Public Television to respond to community needs for educational and leadership opportunities and encouragement for Hispanic women.
Murguia, who grew up in the Mexican-American neighborhood of Argentine in Kansas City, Kan., is in her first year as KU's executive vice chancellor for university relations -- a new top post at the university to oversee public affairs and public relations for all KU campuses.
Before coming to KU, Murguia served as deputy campaign manager and director of constituency outreach for the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign. Prior to the campaign, she worked at the White House in various capacities beginning in 1994. She was deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of legislative affairs, serving as the senior White House liaison to Congress.
In addition to stopping in Garden City and Goodland, Murguia will visit several other communities in western Kansas, meeting with alumni and prospective students. At several stops she will appear with Al Bohl, KU's new director of athletics.
Murguia holds three degrees from KU: a juris doctorate from the law school, a bachelor of science in journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, and a bachelor of arts in Spanish from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
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