Daily Lobo: What do you think is the most important issue facing higher education? David Schmidly: I actually think there are four, and they're all interrelated, and you have to balance them. They are access, affordability, excellence and student success. Those are the four issues driving higher education ...
Concerns about a lawsuit involving UNM presidential candidate David Schmidly dominated the open question portion of the faculty's meeting with him.
David Schmidly, the final presidential candidate to visit UNM, met with students, staff and faculty Tuesday. Schmidly has been the president and CEO of the Oklahoma State University System since 2002. The regents will name the president by Feb. 23. Here's a look at each of Schmidly's meetings:
Special UNM Weather Closure Notice -- February 14, 2007 Effective at 3 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 14, classes at UNM for the remainder of the day, including evening classses, will be canceled. In addition, UNM employees in non-critical areas, unless otherwise specified by their respective supervisors, may also leave for the remainder of the day.
The University of Hawaii-Manoa named UNM Provost Reed Dasenbrock as a finalist for its vacant chancellor position Feb. 12. Dasenbrock was nominated for the position by a professor at the university. He will visit the university Feb. 26 and 27 to meet with faculty, staff and students. The chancellor functions as a president for that university branch and reports to the president of the University of Hawaii System.
As a child, the president of Sandia National Laboratories did not understand engineering. "I lived in a small town, so I had this vague idea that an engineer had something to do with trains," Thomas Hunter said. "I had no sense of what an engineer was or what an engineering education entailed. But I did know what Sputnik was."
An ASUNM senator is gathering signatures for a letter to the Board of Regents stating that students were not given enough time for meetings with presidential candidates. Sebastián Pa°s, who started the letter, said he is unhappy with the amount of input students were given.
A.J. Tongate Junior Psychology and communication Daily Lobo: What's the most interesting psychology class you've taken so far? A.J. Tongate: Positive psychology. DL: What was that about? AT: Encouraging positive characteristics instead of focusing on what's wrong with people. It develops what's ...
Mayor Martin Chávez signed a bill Wednesday that bans cell phone use while driving a vehicle unless a hands-free device is used. The Albuquerque Police Department will issue warnings for the first 60 days after the law takes effect Saturday. Starting April 18, it is $100 for the first citation and $200 for each citation after that.
High school students gathered at UNM from Thursday to Saturday to try to solve the world's problems. The topics included Darfur, North Korea and climate change. UNM's Model U.N. team hosted the conference to give them a realistic view of the U.N.'s procedures.
Daily Lobo: What do you think is the most important issue facing higher education? Robert McGrath: Within New Mexico and here at UNM, I think it's the graduation rate. The six-year graduation rate has to go up. I'm looking forward to having the opportunity to work on that if selected for this important ...
Unplug your Ethernet connection and get ready to roam. UNM is going wireless. By the middle of 2008, ITS plans to have about 85 percent of Main Campus covered with free wireless Internet, said Moira Gerety, director of ITS.
Robert McGrath, the fourth of five candidates for president of UNM to visit campus, met with faculty, staff and students Friday. McGrath is the senior vice president for research at Ohio State University. Candidate David Schmidly will visit campus Tuesday. Here's a look at each of McGrath's meetings.
Sony announced its partnership with UNM on Feb. 2 to provide students with the skills they need to be ahead of the game in graphic and animation design. Imageworks, the division of Sony that makes movies, needs graduates with a wide range of skills, said Christopher Mead, dean of the College of Fine Arts. Imageworks started a program called IPAX, the Imageworks Professional Academic Excellence program, to work with colleges.
Most Americans are buried or cremated after they die. For those who want something less clichÇ, there's the Maxwell Museum's Laboratory of Human Osteology. The lab stores about 250 modern skeletons that were donated. It is also home to historic and prehistoric remains from about 3,000 people. Heather Edgar, curator of the collection, said she has an exciting job. "There are days when people call and say, 'Oh, I found this skull out in the desert,'" she said. "They're freaking out, and then it turns out to be a piece of dog skull or something. When I come to work, I might have a plan, but I never know what's going to happen."
Brandon Rael Senior Art studio It's kind of bullcrap. I think it's terrible. You can't drive around talking on the phone. Sometimes it's hard. There might be an emergency or talking on an important call or something. It's kind of hard to do it when you're not driving - to pull over. It's kind of expensive ...
Black Men in Motion kicked off its first Madden football video game tournament Wednesday in the SUB. Jason Goodman, president of the community outreach organization, said he wanted to have an event that was unique. Most events on campus aren't exciting enough to draw people in, he said.
Condoms, circumcision and sex education have been used in an attempt to prevent the spread of AIDS. The TV station MTVU is trying something different - an online video game. The station is asking college students nationwide to submit ideas for a game that will raise awareness and educate people about HIV.
Boston's will no longer serve circular pizzas starting Friday. Instead, the restaurant and sports bar will serve heart-shaped pizzas as a Valentine's Day fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network. "We want to be involved with the community, so we thought of something more creative," general manager Henry Buckner said. The restaurant and the 42 others in the nation will give $1 from each pizza they sell to the Children's Miracle Network.
Students will get a chance to try stress- and anxiety-relieving tactics today at the Focused Awareness Workshop.
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