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.
UNM President David Schmidly denied any wrongdoing in deciding to award an Oklahoma-based contractor a $60 million contract to renovate The Pit.
Despite a longer-than- expected recovery, UNM President David Schmidly is healthy and ready to tackle looming budget cuts. In a Jan.
Cesar Dominguez-Garcia, the man suspected of firing a bullet into a sixth-floor ceiling of UNM Hospital pediatric unit during a family altercation, turned himself in Jan.
The President’s Special Advisory Team completed its Fiscal Year 12 budget recommendations. President Schmidly initially charged the PSAT last spring to identify about $3 million in cost containment or revenue generation for the FY 11 budget.
UNM President David Schmidly is back at his post after almost six months of absence spent recovering from operations on an abdominal tumor. On Monday, doctors cleared President Schmidly to return to his duties at the University, and Schmidly said it’s good to be back. “My doctors cleared me to return to work…which has been my wish for the New Year,” he said in a University-wide e-mail.
“”:http://A rainbow flag at the LGBTQ Resource Center was ripped out of its place this morning, and some centers members are calling it an act of discrimination. Resource Center Program Coordinator Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos said she arrived at the Center this morning at 8:30 and noticed the rainbow flag that once waved in front of the resource center to direct students to its location was missing.
A resolution supporting a universal bathroom at the SUB was the subject of intense debate during ASUNM’s Dec.
Concerned staff and faculty members spoke for more than an hour at the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board’s meeting Friday.
The recent death of UNM law professor Tim Vollman lends itself to the ongoing discussion about bicyclists’ safety conditions. Vollmann was killed Dec.
The Regents’ Finance and Facilities Committee met Dec. 9 to prepare for the next fiscal year and discuss UNM’s plans to sustain state budget cuts without raising tuition.
Unless you are a UNM student, the job market doesn’t look good these days. Though New Mexico’s unemployment rate is a staggering 8 percent, the University employs 5,050 students, a 1 percent increase from 2008, said Connie Dennison, of UNM’s Office of Institutional Research.
The large, stone-covered building just east of the Yale bus stop is known for being one of UNM’s four designated smoking areas, but a closer look at a main campus map reveals that it is actually a city water reservoir. Thousands walk by the reservoir every day, but few students know what the building is used for.
UNM’s retiree health benefits may face some cuts. Helen Gonzales, vice president of Human Resources, announced in a UNM Today column the creation of a task force that will work to cut health insurance costs. Gonzales didn’t respond to repeated interview requests, but said in her column that UNM’s unfunded liability for retiree health insurance was $131.9 million in 2009, up from $91.3 million in 2007. “Given this increase in costs, UNM needs to reevaluate the retiree health plan,” Gonzales wrote.
Paul Panas has the hook up on quality, inexpensive haircuts. Yet, UNM wants the small business owner to dig deeper into his pockets to continue trimming up students.
The Castetter Hall addition, the hulking construction project next to the Yale bus stop, will not be completed by its scheduled April deadline.
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