ASUNM and GPSA will not collaborate this year on student-fee allocation after a dispute over whether to allow Saturday’s hearings to be video recorded, as well as what ASUNM President called “irrelevant attacks” and “distracting interruptions” during the hearings. Cardenas said in a Sunday evening statement that ASUNM removed itself from the Student Fee Review Board.
More than 300 people are expected to attend best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson’s Saturday seminar hosted by the Africana Studies Department. Dyson, once included in Ebony Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential black Americans, will address the brunch’s theme, “Forty Years Wandering in the Academic Desert: Does Anyone See the Promised Land?” at 11 a.m.
Students seeking locally grown, organic and preservative-free food on campus are in luck. La Montañita Co-op opened its third location in Albuquerque last week next to the UNM Bookstore. Student Jake Wellman said students want more local and organic food. “Students want to eat healthy, and students want to be environmentally conscious,” he said.
Nicole Thomas traveled the world, learned four languages and held an array of professions before deciding to study science at UNM. The future volcanologist was born in Mexico City and followed her father, an international banker, and mother, a TV/radio journalist, to places like Panama, Jamaica and Hong Kong.
The University has been left scrambling for funds to renovate Riebsomer Hall in the wake of Bond D’s failure at the November elections.
A recent cost-containment recommendation could force the Latin American and Iberian Institute to close up shop. The Provost’s review committee drafted a report recommending the LAII begin to transition from a University-funded to an externally funded budget, but LAII Director Susan Tiano said it is impossible. “Depending on how they cut us, we might have to close our doors,” she said.
House Bill 62, which would extend the time period students can apply for the Lottery Scholarship, was a hot topic of conversation at Wednesday’s GPSA Executive Board meeting.
His term is up, but Jack Fortner said he is confident he will retain his seat on the UNM Board of Regents. Fortner, the vice president who has served two terms spanning 12 years, said he thinks Gov.
Two seats on the UNM Board of Regents are up for grabs, but it’s not clear how the governor will decide to fill them.
Outrage over a proposal that would affect many UNM employees’ retirement plans has died down, and state officials claim the lull is a result of weeks of compromise. Jan Goodwin, N.M.
SANTA FE— During her inaugural State of the State speech at the Roundhouse, Gov. Susana Martinez laid out her plan for bold change. She called for administrative cuts in education, pro-business legislation and to reinstate the death penalty.
SANTA FE — The 60-day legislative session kicked off Tuesday, and UNM officials will monitor 77 bills that could impact the University’s financial and administrative future.
English students walked into a mess of fallen tile and water their first day of class Tuesday in Ortega Hall Room 121, after a leak damaged parts of the ceiling, a UNM official said.
The Board of Regents approved a housing plan in December that calls for the demolition of a dorm building, two Student Residence Center apartment buildings, a parking lot, two tennis courts and part of lower Johnson Field.
The Board of Regents welcomed President David Schmidly back to work during its Jan. 11 meeting before discussing the University’s financial state and its Athletics Department.
Anticipating a $28 million cut in state funding for next year’s budget, UNM administrators discussed how it will affect National Merit Scholarship offers. President David Schmidly said no decision or recommendation has been made, but UNM officials alerted the Division of Enrollment Management so it can plan to potentially scale back NMS offers to brace for the expected budget.
New Mexico teachers flocked to the Roundhouse on Monday with a clear message: Cutting education funding won’t hurt teachers as much is it will hurt students.
The Science and Math Learning Center, which opens its doors today, will house four departments under one roof in hopes of getting the programs to rethink the nature of science at UNM.
Each year, UNM spends more than $1 per student per year on the LoboAlerts system, even though recipients have only received the alerts twice this school year. Jeff Gilmore, a University purchasing department representative, said UNM dedicates $35,000 in its annual operating budget to maintain the emergency alert system, which was last used Jan.
The LGBTQ Resource Center will host a flag-raising ceremony to replace the flag that disappeared after one of two vandalism incidents against the center last month. Program Assistant David Griffith said the ceremony would honor the center’s mission of providing services to people of all gender identities and sexual orientations. “We aren’t reading too much into the situation,” he said.
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