Politics of Education
The UNM Faculty Senate is hosting an on-campus Forum on Higher Education today, where state legislators and gubernatorial candidates are invited to share their perspectives on New Mexico’s higher education.
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The UNM Faculty Senate is hosting an on-campus Forum on Higher Education today, where state legislators and gubernatorial candidates are invited to share their perspectives on New Mexico’s higher education.
Lobo Gardens event hosted an open house for its RED garden Sunday to celebrate the ongoing success of the program.
UNM has more than 300 buildings, some built as far back as the 1920s,
The UNM Day Planner, given to freshmen at orientation and sold at the UNM Bookstore, has inaccurate information. The Planner mistakenly lists Sept. 3 and Sept. 17 as the last day to drop a course without a grade.
Zipcar offers UNM students the freedom of owning a car without associated costs and hassles, yet some students are unaware that the service is available.
Graduate students and faculty in the Anthropology department have been in class-and-research limbo, while crews work to repair the basement after the Anthropology Annex flooded Sept. 1.
Representatives from the Office of the Chief Information Officer discussed University-wide e-mail problems and proposed solutions to these problems in a Faculty Senate meeting held Tuesday.
President Obama spoke out about education reform and what he’s doing to help college graduates succeed in today’s job market in a Monday conference call with student journalists.
The UNM Alumni Association is working to boost revenue from its annual Homecoming silent auction by adding online bidding.
Since last spring, UNM administrators have been developing a plan to help the University cope with more than 3 percent in budget cuts. Still, the cuts have major effects that have already trickled down to each department, as each struggles to scrape together its own 2011 financial plan.
When the United Nations declared Sept. 21 the International Day of Prayer for Peace in 2002, it said the day should be “reminding us that our permanent commitment, above all interests or differences of any kind, is to peace.”
Ever since professor Hector Torres and graduate student Stefania Gray were killed on a quiet Sunday in March, students, family, friends and colleagues have been tackling the issue of domestic violence.
A proposed buyout plan encouraging older UNM faculty to retire was recently ended because of questions about its financial viability. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood headed a task force on retirement incentives that proposed in February for UNM to offer potential retirees an annuity equal to one year’s salary so as to allow UNM to hire promising young professors.
UNM Information Technologies (IT) released LoboMobile, an application that allows student to access UNM information from their cell phones. LoboMobile is a free app that allows students to renew/place holds or place holds on books and contact librarians at UNM Libraries. Users can also view campus maps, look up students or staff in the campus directory, see a list of UNM Shuttle operation times, see the IT Service Catalog and access campus feeds on Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.
The Anthropology Annex basement flooded with gray water Sept. 1, leaving several archaeology labs ruined, graduate student and faculty labs unusable, and a basement ceramics class without a classroom.
Career Week at the Anderson School of Management, an event to meant to help students jump into the work force, began Tuesday and will run through Sept. 15.
Behind Quarters restaurant at Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Boulevard, a storage shed exploded and damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton.
Behind Quarter’s restaurant on the corner of Avenida Cesar Chavez and Yale Blvd. a storage shed exploded, sparking a fire that damaged nearby buildings Thursday evening, according to Albuquerque Fire Department Commander Kerry Horton.
Faculty members in the Psychology Department housed in Logan Hall have started the semester with a shortage of offices, labs, computers and furniture, in the aftermath of the Aug. 8 flood that left 35 rooms unusable.
UNM is always bustling with students during the first week of classes, but this year the campus may seem more crowded than usual.