Waded Cruzado
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Waded Cruzado
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| 12th President of Montana State University |
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Assumed office 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Geoff Gamble |
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January 16, 1960 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico |
| Children | Gerald Christian Mazo; Brenda Nicole Mazo |
| Alma mater |
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez University of Texas at Arlington |
| Profession | Professor of Spanish language and literature |
| Salary | $289,466 ($335,173 total compensation) |
| Website | www.montana.edu |
| Role/School | Former VP/Dean | Date Left | Current VP/Dean | Date Appt'd. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VP for Acad. Aff./Provost | Dave Dooley | May 2009 | Martha Potvin | Jan. 2011 |
| VP for Research | Thomas McCoy | May 2013 | Anne Camper | Interim |
| VP for Student Success | Jim Rimpau | Aug. 2013 | Robert Marley | Interim |
| VP for Admin. & Finance | Craig Roloff | April 2011 | Terry Leist | April 2011 |
| VP for External Relations | Cathy Conover | Oct. 2010 | Doug Steele | Dec. 2010 |
| → | Doug Steele | Aug. 2012 | Tracy Ellig | Interim |
| → | Tracy Ellig | April 2013 | Jill Martz | Interim |
| Athletic Director | Peter Fields | May 2002 | - | Incumbent |
| Exec. Dir. for Univ. Comm. | - | New | Tom Calgani | March 2011 |
| → | Tom Calgani | April 2013 | Tracy Ellig | May 2013 |
| Dean of the Library | Tamara Miller | June 2012 | Kenning Arlitsch | August 2012 |
| College of Agriculture | Jeff Jacobsen | May 2004 | - | Incumbent |
| College of Arts & Archit. | Susan Agre-Kippenhan | May 2011 | Nancy Cornwell | April 2012 |
| College of Business | Dan Moshavi | March 2011 | Kregg Aytes | March 2012 |
| College of Education | Larry Baker | June 2012 | Lynda Ransdell | Jan. 2013 |
| College of Engineering | Robert Marley | Aug. 2013 | Brett Gunnink | Interim |
| College of Letters & Sci. | Paula Lutz | June 2012 | Nicol Rae | Jan. 2013 |
| College of Nursing | Helen Melland | May 2009 | - | Incumbent |
| The Graduate School | Carl Fox | June 2013 | Ronald Larsen | Interim |
Waded Cruzado, (born in 1960) is a Puerto Rican professor of Spanish language and Spanish literature. She served as Interim President of New Mexico State University from 2008 to 2009, and since 2010 has served as the 12th President of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.
Waded Cruzado was born in 1960 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, to parents Morgan and Daisy. Her father gave her the unusual name of "Waded", an Arabic word meaning "peace". The oldest of four children, she had a brother and two sisters. She was raised in Mayaguez by her stepfather, Roberto, and her mother. The household also included two aunts and her maternal grandmother, Julia. Her grandparents were farmers, but her stepfather worked for a coffee company as a trader selling ground and packaged coffee and her mother was a homemaker.
She was taught to read at the age of three by her maternal grandmother. She would assist with getting the family's meal of rice and beans ready, and then spend the morning at a table with a primer. As a little girl, she often pretended to be a teacher to her dolls and stuffed animals, using a small blackboard and desk. She points to this early play-time as the root of her desire to be an educator.
When she turned five years old, Cruzado began helping her grandfather on his coffee farm, spreading beans out to dry. She also began assisting her stepfather in the coffee mill where he was a manager, stacking bags of pre-ground coffee. She often played in the mill, her clothes smelling of coffee afterward.
When she was 10 years old, Cruzado's parents enrolled her in an all-girl parochial school in Mayaguez. After school, she returned home in her school uniform and played in the coffee mill (her clothes still smelling of fresh coffee at school the next day). She found school boring compared to her grandmother's lessons, and frequently got into trouble. As punishment, she was forced to read novels aloud to a blind nun. The experience taught her a love of literature which influenced her choice of major in college. Her parents wanted her to go to college, and her teachers expected everyone in the school to attend a university.
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