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Free Online Fall Classes at Highlands for Community

Baronial 18, 2020 Las Vegas, NM – Community members who are not currently enrolled at Highlands Academy tin accept one gratis online form for the fall semester. The free class may be chosen as i of 4 undergraduate offerings: Indigenous People of North America, Art of the Americas, Aerobic Trip the light fantastic toe, or Introduction to Native American/Hispano…
Rodgers Hall Renovation Receives Architectural Award

August 17, 2020 Las Vegas, New United mexican states – The historic Rodgers Hall renovation at New Mexico Highlands Academy received a elevation architectural award. The project architects, Bakery Architecture + Design, won a Distinguished Architecture Merit Award from the American Association of Architects of New Mexico in August 2020. The firm is based in Albuquerque. The…
Science Equipment Grant Requite Students More than Easily-On Learning

August xiii, 2020 Las Vegas, New Mexico – Science students at New United mexican states Highlands University will increase hands-on learning with new state-of-the art science instrumentation and applied science tools, cheers to a grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation. The three-year grant totals $272,945 and began in July 2020. Information technology was awarded to the Highlands University Foundation….
Spanish Professor Publishes in Anthology on the New Mexico Homeland

August 11, 2020 Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University Spanish professor Norma A. Valenzuela published a affiliate in an anthology, Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland. The Academy of New United mexican states Press published the volume in May 2020. "The Querencia album represents the diverse bug Hispano and Indigenous communities inside the land…
New Mexico Painters Exhibition Will Be Virtual

August six, 2020 Las Vegas, Northward.M – This year marks the seventh New United mexican states Painters Exhibition at Highlands University, which will be virtual due to the COVID-nineteen pandemic. Planning is well underway to launch the virtual exhibition Oct. 18. The website link for the exhibition will be announced closer to the launch. "The most important…
HU Social Work Professor to Serve on Governor'south Racial Justice Council

August 5, 2020 Las Vegas, North.One thousand. – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appointed Highlands University social piece of work professor Ben Bencomo to serve on her new Racial Justice Council. In a July 31 statement, Lujan Grisham said the advisory grouping is tasked with counseling the assistants and monitoring state institutions, belongings them accountable for taking…
HU Receives Grant Aimed at Preparing Students for Water Resources Careers

August iv, 2020 Las Vegas, New Mexico – New Mexico Highlands University received a $275,000 grant aimed at preparing underrepresented minority students for h2o resources scientific discipline and direction careers. The U.S. Section of Agriculture awarded Highlands the four-year grant with an Aug. one start engagement. "This grant is exciting because it volition allow u.s. to…
Strategic Enrollment Management to Launch Recruit one Initiative to Help Enrollment Grow

July 29, 2020 Las Vegas, New Mexico – New Mexico Highlands University is launching the Recruit 1 Initiative, a staff-led endeavor to recruit new students to the university to help its enrollment grow. The Office of Strategic Enrollment Direction at Highlands will showtime the recruitment campaign Sept. 1. All staff and kinesthesia at Highlands are…
Geology Students Win Grants for Pecos River H2o Quality Enquiry

July 22, 2020 Las Vegas, North.M. – Two New Mexico Highlands University geology students volition work as a team to study water quality in the Upper Pecos River with the goal of protecting the watershed, thank you to grants from the New United mexican states Water Resource Research Establish. Letisha Mailboy and Megan Begay, both geology seniors, each…
Jemez Historic Site Student Video Accepted to New United mexican states Film Festival

July 21, 2020 Las Vegas, Northward.M. – New Mexico Highlands Academy media arts and technology students created an oral history documentary video about the Jemez Pueblo people that was accepted to a New United mexican states motion-picture show festival on Sept. 12, 2020. The Madrid Flick Festival in Madrid, New United mexican states, has a mission to encourage local filmmaking…
Highlands Students Complete Emergency Cultural Projects for New United mexican states Museums

July fifteen, 2020 Las Vegas, N.M. – Children who visit the Santa Fe Children'southward Museum website during the COVID 19 pandemic tin can larn how to brand a end motion blithe video nigh bees, thanks to Natasha Vasquez, a New Mexico Highlands University media arts and technology graduate. Vasquez' "We Bee Buzzin'" video projection is among…
HU Receives Grant to Increase Financial Aid Application Completion

July 14, 2020 Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University will help more than people in the state complete FAFSA, the Costless Awarding for Federal Student Aid, thanks to a grant from the New Mexico Higher Education Department. The NMHED FAFSA initiative grant award to Highlands totals $45,750. It began July 1 and continues through…
Highlands Foundation Establishes George Floyd Memorial Scholarship

July eight, 2020 Las Vegas, North.Chiliad. – The New United mexican states Highlands University Foundation established the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship in June to benefit African American students, thanks to a generous donor. "This new scholarship will do good African American Highlands University students who are leaders on campus or in their communities, or who are working on…
Highlands Summertime Enrollment Increases

July 2, 2020 Las Vegas, N.M. – Summer enrollment at New United mexican states Highlands Academy increased 3% despite the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to teamwork and maximizing the employ of engineering. "Commencement and foremost, the reason we were able to increase enrollment is that we had a collaborative and targeted effort between Strategic Enrollment Management, the Registrar's…
Virtual Cowboy Art Exhibition in Ray Drew Gallery

July 1, 2020 Las Vegas, North.M. – New Mexico Highlands University presents a virtual National Day of the Cowboy Art Exhibition in the university's Ray Drew Gallery. The xv-minute video of the art exhibition can be viewed online at http://galleries.nmhu.edu/ray-drew-gallery/ Information technology features 14 cowboy artists from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona. "The fine art displayed consists of…
HU Alumna Shanea Strachan Receives UK Scholarship for Film Written report

June 30, 2020 Las Vegas, N.Yard. – Shanea Strachan, a New United mexican states Highlands Academy media arts and technology alumna, received a Uk Chevening Scholarship to enroll at Bournemouth Academy in Dorset, England to pursue a chief's caste in producing moving-picture show and television. The British High Commission Nassau awarded Strachan, a Freeport, Grand Bahama native,…
NMHU Gets CARES Act Grant for Cultural Preservation

June 24, 2020 Las Vegas, North.Yard. – New Mexico Highlands University media arts and engineering science kinesthesia and graduates volition assist preserve Indigenous and Hispanic cultural memories in Northern New Mexico, cheers to a National Endowment for the Humanities grant from the U.S. Coronavirus Help, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Miriam Langer, chair of the…
Ambassador Programme Aims to Graduate Students for Health Careers

June 22, 2020 Las Vegas, Due north.M. – New Mexico Highlands University is joining forces with the University of New Mexico for a program aimed at graduating Highlands students into health careers. The Health Sciences Ambassadors Program will be implemented at the Achieving in Research, Math and Science (ARMAS) Center at Highlands and is sponsored by…
Highlands Restructures Recruitment, Admissions and Retention

Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands University has fabricated structural changes in its recruitment, admissions and memory offices, making it easier for students to apply to Highlands and stay actively engaged throughout their student feel until they graduate. Theresa Law, formerly the vice president of advancement, is now the vice president of educatee and…
Graduates Give Highlands High Marks in Survey

June 15, 2019 Las Vegas, N.M. – New Mexico Highlands Academy graduates gave the university high marks for quality of instruction and satisfaction with their college feel, meeting and exceeding 95% satisfaction on these and other measures. The Highlands Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Research administered the survey online in spring 2020 to students that…