Staff Report The Higher Learning Commission has arrived at UNM to begin evaluating the University for re-accreditation. Students, faculty, staff and community members can meet with the HLC team for discussion in open forums today. The HLC is hosting the forums to hear from the UNM community, which should help it in its assessment of how UNM is meeting the five criteria for re-accreditation.
Anne-Elisabeth Rae said it felt like any other day when she and her service dog Scooter went to class in Dane Smith Hall on Tuesday. Rae, who has permanent neurological damage, said she arrived to class early, sat down and poured water for Scooter to drink.
Should there be more collaboration between ASUNM and GPSA? How would this benefit you? Colleen Massari Sophomore Art studio "I think the graduates are free to do their own thing even if it is a student body. I think they're a completely different level. I don't think they need to be involved with the underclassmen.
Wednesday's GPSA presidential debate between Lissa Knudsen and B. Lee Drake centered on issues from undergraduate relations to community outreach. About a dozen people crowded into the lounge at El Centro de la Raza in Mesa Vista Hall for the NMPIRG-sponsored debate, but only one voting member of the graduate student population stayed for the entire dialogue.
An estimated 17,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. from Mexico each year, according to the U.S. Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Representatives from both sides of the border are gathering in Albuquerque today through Friday to discuss this issue at a conference titled "Modern-Day Slavery in the Americas: A Regional Approach to a Global Epidemic.
March 24 A student parked in the UNMH parking structure told a police officer that the license plate on her vehicle did not belong to her. UNMPD dispatch ran the plate number and discovered the plate belonged to a stolen vehicle. The stolen license plate came from a car that matched the description of the student's vehicle.
Undergraduate students are kick-starting their spring ASUNM campaigning season this week. Jason Belitz, elections commission chairman for ASUNM, said the elections commission is taking extra measures this semester to ensure that senatorial candidates follow the rules.
Daily Lobo: Why are you majoring in Biology? Aja King: Well, I really like science, and I think there's a lot I can do that kind of affects the environment I'm living in if I'm majoring in Biology. I was considering going into conservation ecology. DL: Are you a vegetarian? AK: Yes, I am.
UNM Press will fire three employees on April 30, citing budgetary shortfalls and the economic downturn. The Provost's Office has asked UNM Press, a publishing and distribution company for New Mexico publications, to consider outsourcing to prevent further financial problems, which could threaten other jobs.
The candidates for Graduate and Professional Student Association president will face off in two debates today. The first debate is at noon in the SUB. UNM's Public Interest Research Group will host the second debate at 5 p.m. at El Centro de la Raza in Mesa Vista Hall.
Students who created video games as part of their final projects for a computer graphics class may sell their games to Microsoft. John Harger, Jeremy Wright, Craig Vineyard, and Justin Kellogg all spent about six weeks creating Xbox games for professor Pradeep Sen's 400-level class.
The Higher Learning Commission will visit UNM next week to evaluate the University for accreditation. UNM was last evaluated in 1999 and received re-accreditation for 10 years, with no interim reports or additional visits required. The University has been accredited through the North Central Association since 1922.
RIO RANCHO, N.M. - No amount of preparation for Danielle McCray could help the UNM women's basketball team slow down the Kansas star. The Jayhawks prevailed 78-69, ending the Lobos' NIT run in the quarterfinals and ending Angela Hartill and Amanda Adamson's careers at UNM.
New Mexico's interest in educational employee retirement is quickly changing in light of the state's desperate need to save money. House Bill 854, awaiting Gov. Bill Richardson's signature, would save the state $42.6 million this year, $9.6 million of which comes from reducing the employer contribution to higher education workers' retirement funds by 1.
Two UNM organizations are teaming up for this semester's Health Care Awareness Week to help students become more aware of health care policies. The Public Interest Research Group and Associated Students for Empowerment have organized activities every day this week to promote health and awareness of students with disabilities.
UNM will save about $1.5 million by switching its employees over to a self-insurance plan, according to the University. The Board of Regents voted March 20 to move the University's health benefits to a self-insurance plan, with the goal of maintaining current standards of care for faculty and staff and keeping health care premiums low.
Half a dozen enraged New Mexicans clung to homemade posters and shivered outside of Tom Udall's Downtown office on Friday. The group, brought together by Stop the War Machine, gathered in outrage over what they said was the misuse of federal bailout money and poor representation of the New Mexican population in Washington, D.
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