Higher Education Today in New Mexico

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

  • Albuquerque Journal

    Posted 7 days ago

    SFCC Pushes State Review

    The governing board of Santa Fe Community College has turned to the courts to help settle its months-long dispute with the state over plans for a new, voter-approved Higher Education Center. In a complaint filed Tuesday in District Court, SFCC is request...

  • Farmington Daily Times

    Posted 11 days ago

    San Juan College's elderly students graduate alongside younger counterparts

    FARMINGTON — After his car broke down on the way to his college graduation, Fred Poole was too late to sit by his friends but early enough to catch up to them in line for their diplomas. "These are my bros," said Poole. He slapped them on the back and cr...

  • The Huffington Post: UK Edition

    Posted 12 days ago

    Professor Ross Williams: Which are the World's Top Countries for Higher Education?

    While there are any number of well-regarded global rankings of universities and colleges, these don't reveal anything about national systems, the environment which different countries provide for education, for the institutions and students themselves. G...

  • University Business

    Posted 20 days ago

    Director of Finance and Administration

    Salary: Negotiable; commensurate with education and experience. Work Location: UNM Gallup Campus Position Summary: The University of New Mexico has established branch colleges to serve the citizens of New Mexico and to provide the highest quality of educ...

  • Street Insider

    Posted 20 days ago

    H-E-B Joins Statewide Celebration Of GenTX Day Friday, May 4

    AUSTIN, Texas, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Generation TX, featured today in the New York Times' education column "The Choice," and H-E-B are pleased to announce that they have joined forces for the second year in a row to promote GenTX Day across the sta...

  • Daily DOOH

    Posted 20 days ago

    DPAA Announces Three New Members

    Campus Networks offers national advertisers an opportunity to reach the 18-24 student demographic via 900 digital screens in top colleges across the country. The company has launched national campaigns for marketers including HBO, Dell, AXE, L’Oreal, McD...

  • Inside Higher Ed

    Posted 23 days ago

    Faculty members donate money to teaching academy

    A teaching academy might not be the first place university administrators think of when they have money to invest in new projects -- but it might be one of the first places that they look to cut during lean years. The Teaching Academy at New Mexico State...

  • The Huffington Post

    Posted 25 days ago

    College Tours: 9 Questions You Should Always Ask When You Visit A Campus

    By Jessenia Martinez Jessenia is a senior at Benito Juarez High School. She’s a reporter for The Mash , a weekly teen publication distributed to Chicagoland high schools. Everyone asks basic questions when they start their college search, such as does th...

  • Dissident Voice

    Posted 25 days ago

    Disposable Teachers

    It’s the equal pay for equal work thing, stupid. Union strong and proud. (Bumper sticker on 1972 VW Rabbit, Vancouver, Canada). Sure, that might be the mantra for the New Faculty Majority, but in a large sense, the fight to normalize the work, pay and be...

  • Farmington Daily Times

    Posted 25 days ago

    Shiprock HS, Tse Bit Ai granted GEARUP funds

    FARMINGTON — Tse Bit Ai Middle School and Shiprock High School will receive a slice of a $33.8 million federal grant distributed to 24 high-poverty middle and high schools around the state, Governor Susana Martinez announced Wednesday. to the Class of 20...

  • Chronicle of Higher Education

    Posted 26 days ago

    In Brazil, a Conference on Internationalization Debates Its Dangers

    The second Congress of the Americas here this week was dominated by a strong Canadian presence and lively debates over what internationalization means to Latin America and the early trials of a new Brazilian international scholarship program. Almost 600...

  • New Mexico Business Weekly

    Posted 1 month ago

    Top of the list: Colleges and universities, MBA programs

    Our April 20 edition lists 25 colleges and universities in New Mexico by their 2012 undergraduate spring enrollment. The issue also lists 10 Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs in the state by 2012 spring enrollment. The Business Weekly aske...

  • The Chronicle Duke University

    Posted 1 month ago

    The Graduates

    It’s 1965 on the North Side of Chicago. Living in a poor neighborhood about a mile from the United Center, a high school senior dreams of playing college basketball. With his mother busy scrubbing the floors late at night at the Chicago Athletic Club and...

  • Columbia Chronicle

    Posted 1 month ago

    Mike Alexandroff, a Columbia radical

    Radicals create change. They see the world not as it is, but as it should be. By the sheer force of vision, will and personality, a radical can lead a revolution. Mike Alexandroff was president of Columbia beginning in 1961. He is a radical who started a...

  • American Banking and Market News

    Posted 2 months ago

    Computer Career Center, A Division Of Vista College Offers New Criminal Justice Program At Las Cruces Campus

    Computer Career Center, a Division of Vista College announced the addition of a new Criminal Justice program at their Las Cruces Campus. Computer Career Center, a Division of Vista College offers quality, specialized career training in a wide range of in...