Digital Memories Repository Moves Forward in New Mexico
With a $970,000 grant to New Mexico Highlands University, the project will continue its memory-gathering effort and community-based archive for Indo-Hispano communities in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. by Adrian Gomez, Albuquerque Journal / February 1, 2021
Manitos Community Memory Project.
With a $970,000 grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to
New Mexico Highlands University, the project will continue its memory-gathering effort and community-based archive.
The digital archive will be an online repository that is accessible and usable across Indo-Hispano communities in northern
New Mexico and southern
Colorado.
The archive will be developed with a growing number of individual and organizational partners from rural villages that include Abiquiú, Chimayó,
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Wiley Education Services Accelerates Growth with Five New University Partners Wiley Education Services ends 2020 with 15 new global partners, and plans to launch more than 80 new online programs
HOBOKEN, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–
Wiley Education Services, part of John Wiley and Sons Inc. (NYSE: JW-A) (NYSE: JW-B), recently signed five new university partnerships including University of Montana, New Mexico Highlands University, New York University, Spring Hill College, and – marking further momentum globally – Lebanese American University. Across these five new university partners, Wiley will support 27 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral online programs in a variety of high-demand disciplines like healthcare, social work, business, and computer science.
Attorney General Hector Balderas And Wife Denise Balderas Give Back To New Mexico Highlands University
NMHU News:
LAS VEGAS, NM New Mexico Highlands University alumnus Hector Balderas, the New Mexico Attorney General, is giving back to his alma mater through working with students in the university’s Legislative Fellowship Program.
Denise Balderas, the attorney general’s wife, also is a Highlands alumna. She is working with the university’s Facundo Valdez School of Social Work to develop a field practicum for a student at New Mexico ABLE, which she directs.
“I was raised in a vulnerable and impoverished small community in Northern New Mexico,” Hector Balderas said. “The Highlands students will be partnering with me and other leaders in my office and will be presented opportunities to make a difference in their own communities. I wanted to make sure the students at Highlands understand that they are valuable and strong leaders who can create change. I’m excited to w
Cowboys For Trump Leader Arrested Over US Capitol Riot
- Associated Press, KUNM News
A New Mexico county official and founder of the group Cowboys for Trump who had vowed to return to Washington after last week s riot at the U.S. Capitol to place a flag on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s desk was arrested Sunday by the FBI.
Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin was arrested on charges of illegally entering the U.S. Capitol.
According to court documents, Griffin told investigators that he was caught up in the crowd, which pushed its way through the barricades and entered the restricted area of the U.S. Capitol, but he said he did not enter the building and instead remained on the U.S. Capitol steps.