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Meet the Dean of International and Border Programs

The Dean
Dr. Everett Egginton
Dr. Everett Egginton

Everett Egginton is Dean of International and Border Programs at New Mexico State University, and President Elect of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. He has had vast experience in Latin America throughout his career including the Peace Corps (Venezuela), Foreign-Area Fellowship (Peru), Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship (Colombia); numerous consultancies with the U.S. Agency for International Development (Colombia, El Salvador), various ministries of education (throughout Central America), and the World Bank (El Salvador); and more recently as a Senior Fulbright Research and Teaching Fellow (El Salvador). Egginton has worked in the field of education over thirty-five years, occupying a wide range of positions in teaching, research and administration. He has been a high school teacher, a university professor and administrator, and director of international offices and funded educational programs. He is widely published in the areas of Latin American education, Latin American bibliography, and internationalization and higher education. He has also served the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a Senior Policy Analyst and an HHS (HEW) Fellow and has taught and conducted research at universities in Spain, Colombia, and throughout Central America. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), has served as Chair of the Standing Committee on International Exchanges and Matriculation at the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), and as a member of the Executive Committee of NASULGC.s Commission on International Programs. He currently serves on NAFSA's Board of Directors.