Before the coordinator of the Department of Hispanic/Latino Student Services could clean out her office after resigning from her position, a new coordinator was ready to move in.
Lupita Temiquel, who has worked in student affairs at Miami University in Ohio, accepted the position in late August after Laura LaBauve-Maher left to become an associate dean at Harper College in Palatine.
LaBauve-Maher, who filled the position for two years, called the decision to leave Northwestern “heart wrenching.” Harper College is a two-year junior college where 16 percent of the population is Latino.
“This was unexpected. I wasn
