Stokes participates in national HACU panel April 14, 2021
University of New Mexico President Garnett S. Stokes today participated in a national panel of university leaders to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on institutions serving traditionally disadvantaged students, and how federal relief is being used to assist those students and universities.
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Appearing on a virtual panel at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) 26th Annual National Capitol Forum on Tuesday afternoon with other prominent university leaders, Stokes shared UNM’s experiences and responsibilities over the last year as a Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI). An HSI is defined under federal law as an accredited institution of higher education that has an enrollment of needy students and has an undergraduate full-time equivalent enrollment that is at least 25 percent Hispanic.
LUBBOCK, Texas – Mack Chambers of The University of New Mexico baseball team has been named to the 2021 Brooks Wallace Award watch list, the College Baseball Foundation announced Tuesday. The watch list features some of the most recognizable names in college baseball who either have paced perennial powers or led some relative newcomers to new heights. The list consists of a group of 100 of the most talented athletes in Division I college baseball.
“This is a very high honor to be named on this list,” said head coach Ray Birmingham. “I believe Mack has a shot at being a big-leaguer.”
This season, Chambers is atop the Mountain West in many categories, including hits (34, fifth), triples (2, T-third), and has a top-ten batting average of .370, ninth-best in the conference. The transfer from Seminole State College has fielded ten double plays on the season and is currently fourth in the conference in assists, tallying a total of 52 on the season.
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The state of Michigan ranks 18th among most environmentally friendly states and is one of the top states for highest soil quality. (Image Credit (Corey Seeman/flickr))
According to an analysis last year from Yale and Columbia Universities the US lags behind other industrialized nations on environmental performances ranking 24th in the world. The US ranked 15th when it came to climate. It is currently the second-biggest contributor to the climate crisis, after China.
The US also witnessed numerous natural disasters last year alongside the COVID panemic. The billion dollar events weather and climate disasters across the United States shattered the previous annual record of 16 events, which occurred in 2017 and 2011. Adding the 2020 events to the record that began in 1980, the U.S. has sustained 285 weather and climate disasters where the overall damage costs reached or exceeded $1 billion.
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Sonya Acosta is a Policy Analyst with the Housing Policy team. Prior to coming to the Center, she worked on disaster recovery, Native housing, appropriations, and benefits cuts at the National Low Income Housing Coalition. She also worked at several fair housing organizations in the Chicago area and completed two terms of AmeriCorps service.
Acosta holds a B.A in history and international studies from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
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After much of the area was rezoned in the 1960s, the residents, who are mainly Chicanos as well as recent immigrants, came under siege by the structural forces of environmental racism that dictate who lives near polluters and who doesnât. Mountain View was soon enveloped by industry â auto recyclers, Albuquerqueâs sewage plant, paint facilities and fertilizer suppliers â that left a legacy of contaminated groundwater, two Superfund sites and high levels of air pollution.
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