Editor,
Thanks to the UNM regents for bringing back New Mexico culture: mediocrity.
At a time when all colleges and universities within the contiguous United States are raising their standards, UNM will be going in the opposite direction by reducing standards to compensate for mediocrity. Classified as a minority student, I have always welcomed and accepted the high standards set by the professors in whose classes I have had the opportunity to participate. Lowering standards to accommodate any minority group is ludicrous.
But thanks to the UNM Board of Regents, the primary goal of the University will no longer be to serve as an institute of higher learning, but as an entity whose focus is to be primarily on external affairs such as fundraising and relationships with legislators - one dare not mention education in this category.
The regents have said UNM does not need a president to be involved in "academic affairs or athletics" - being involved in the selection of an athletic director, for example. However, the qualifications for the new president of UNM have been narrowed to being Hispanic, female or both, according to an Albuquerque Journal interview with UNM Regent Mel Eaves.
UNM will be guided by a president whose qualifications for the job are based on ethnicity and/or gender - how sad.
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Virginia Roberts
UNM student
