Jeannie Diaz is the director of the TTU McNair Scholars Program at Texas Tech University. She has worked for Texas Tech University for over three years in Career Center Services and has a background in public relations, marketing and corporate recruiting. She is also a Lubbock native and graduate of Texas Tech University where she received both her bachelors and masters.
This position is currently open. To apply, please visit the Texas Tech System jobs web site to apply beginning May 1, 2008.
Carrie Friar is the Senior Business Assistant for the McNair Scholars Program at Texas Tech University. She has been with the McNair Scholars Program for over four years. She received her bachelors degree in Accounting from Texas Tech. Her husband, Ken Friar, also received his bachelors degree in Management from Texas Tech. Carrie has a son, Kenny Friar, who graduated from Texas Tech University in 2007 with is bachelors in Civil Engineering. She also has a daughter, Kelli Friar, who is a Junior at Texas Tech majoring in Civil Engineering.
Bree Denton is the graduate assistant for the McNair Scholars Program at Texas Tech University. She began working for McNair in Spring of 2008. She is currently pursuing her Ed.D. in Instructional Technology with minors in Human Development and Family Studies and Special Education at Texas Tech. Bree received her Bachelors degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Texas Tech in 2003 and her Masters degree in Elementary Education from Lubbock Christian in 2006. From 2002 to 2003, she participated as an Undergraduate Research Fellow for the Honor's College at Texas Tech researching preschool children's conflict and social development and working with Dr. Malinda Colwell researching preschool children's social and emotional intelligence. She has research published in the Kappa Omicron Nu Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences.
