Jaymie Roybal is the ASUNM president for the 2011-12 school year. Roybal, who ran on the Now slate, received 883 votes in the Wednesday’s election, 62 more than her opponent, Tim Mousseau, who ran on the New Day slate.
Beer and wine might be available for some fans attending UNM football and basketball games next season.
For the first time at UNM, two American Studies graduate students were awarded prestigious Ford Foundation predoctoral fellowships.
Carmen Alvarez-Brown is leaving the University to accept a vice president position at Cleveland State University. Brown begins her employment July 1, Cleveland State announced in a news release Wednesday.
Information Technologies will see roughly $2 million cut from its budget next year, but no one is getting fired. Instead, the department won’t hire replacements after full-time employees retire or quit.
What do you get when you combine advertising, public relations and marketing? Strategic communication is a new major in the communication and journalism department and will be available to students in the fall.
Provost Suzanne Ortega will resign from her position in June, and a committee to find her temporary replacement will publicly interview applicants starting next week. President Schmidly announced in his April 4 Monday Morning Message that Ortega opted out of a renewed contract with UNM to take a job offer back East. Schmidly appointed Faculty Senate President Richard Wood to chair the internal search committee for an interim provost. Wood said the committee will replaceme Ortega with a UNM faculty member. He said a joint effort between faculty and administration is crucial to the selection process. “That’s a really important improvement in shared governance of the University — to have the faculty and administration deeply connected as we look for a new provost,” he said.
The ages of sexual assault victims in New Mexico range from as young as 6 weeks to 90 years old, according to data compiled by the Rape Crisis Center of Central New Mexico, and one in four women in the state will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime.
A Business and Economic Development report provides hard data that proves UNM’s significance to the state economy.
The UNM Police Department is reaching out to the community for leads in the only unsolved murder in campus history. Lisa Wortman’s body was found in a manhole June 1994 near The Pit.
The Faculty Senate passed a resolution last week to create a harsher disciplinary system for faculty who violate University policy. Faculty Senate President Richard Wood announced the measure at the Board of Regents Audit Committee meeting Thursday.
ASUNM has a new chief of staff as of Wednesday night. The ASUNM Senate passed a measure 18-1-1 to replace former Chief-of-Staff Michael Thorning with freshman Christopher Romero.
Fifth-graders at Monte Vista Elementary school raced mini, balloon-powered racecars Thursday designed with the help of UNM engineering students.
“Red or green?” may be the state question, but for the local chile industry the question is, “Is it grown here or there?” Gov.
The Board of Regents approved $10.5 million in cuts to the University’s budget Monday, and the Office of Equity and Inclusion was among the hardest-hit programs. Rumored to be cut completely, OEI budget was instead cut by $136,320, meaning it will have to terminate five positions within the department.
Anthony sits on a bench at the edge of campus with other men, surrounded by a heap of clothing, sleeping bags, a walker and grocery bags filled with old food.
ASUNM passed a resolution March 30 that proposed eliminating one graduate student position and adding three undergraduate student positions to the Student Fee Review Board. The resolution backs a Student Fee Review Task Force recommendation that contends changing the ratio of the SFRB would make it proportional to the student population.
The UNM Board of Regents decided not to increase student fees and approved a 5.5 percent tuition-and-fee increase that will raise costs to students roughly $305 next year. Tuition alone will increase 7 percent next year.
ASUNM plans to include two questions on its annual election ballot to determine if students are willing to pay for a recreational facility.
The UNM Japanese Language Club tried to withdraw funds it raised from its ASUNM account to give to the Japan relief effort, but discovered doing so would violate of the New Mexico State Constitution. The Anti-Donation Clause, article IX, section 14 of the New Mexico Constitution states that, “Neither the state nor any county, school district or municipality shall directly or indirectly lend or pledge its credit or make any donation to or in aid of any person, association or public or private corporation.” Because of the law, University policy prohibits organizations from donating funds in ASUNM accounts to any charitable or political organizations. George Gorospe, president of the UNM Japanese Language Club, said the club wanted to donate to Japan with money from fundraisers the club sponsored to support itself.
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