Back to Home PageDR. WELLS ABRIDGED VITAFrom September 1 ,1974 through October 6, 1999 I was employed at the university of Southern Colorado in Pueblo, Colorado where I held several titles. Among them were the Associate Dean of Student Life and Multicultural Development, Program Development Specialist, Director of International Student Services, Sponsor of the Associated Students' Government, the USC Hearing Officer and Sponsor of the USC Las Hermanas Program. Additionally the Offices of Student heath, Belmont Residence a Hall, and United Campus Ministries reported to me. My teaching responsibilities at USC included Black studies courses: Blacks in America Today and Afro-American Heritage (1978-1999), as well as a Human Diversity Class (Sociology 105 ) from January 1996 - May 1999. After a period of 25 years my retirement became effective 10/6/99. Prior to coming to Pueblo, Colorado I attended the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I earned my PhD. degree with a major in Education Foundations/Curriculum and Instruction and a minor in sociology in 1974. While completing the degree, I established an alternative school for Black high school drop outs within the school on wheels program which was part of the Albuquerque Public School System. Prior to moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico I lived in Point Barrow, Alaska where I worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (from 1966 - 1971). During my five years there, I taught in the junior high school and administered the Instructional Media Center. Also during this time, I was able to complete my masters degree in education administration at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Before moving to Alaska I lived in Pasadena, California where I worked for Knudsen creamery and Mobile Oil Company. I also worked as a Teen Post Director under President Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity Program in the Communities of Monrovia and Duarte Prior to moving to California I encountered my first teaching assignment, teaching second grade in Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation under the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Low Mt. Boarding school which was part of the Chinle Subagency (1962). From 1959 to 1962 I was working on my bachelor's degree at Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where I was born and raised. I completed my B.A. there in Physical Education with a minor in sociology while on a football/track scholarship prior to moving to Arizona. Return to |