LCU graduate fulfilled career dream with adoption agency
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When Ellis was an infant, she was adopted through a Dallas-based agency called Christian Works for Children.
After graduating from Cedar Hill ISD in 1999 and earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work, Ellis became the director of Adoption Works for Christian Works for Children.
“It was a pretty surreal feeling to be chosen to work as a director of the same adoption agency that my biological mother chose to work with and that my parents applied to adopt from,” Ellis said. “I felt like I was giving back to the community and helping families and children by putting them together. I would have never dreamed as a child that I would get to do that one day. That was a dream that came true.”
(Updated: December 22, 6:02 pm)
The North Central Regional Transit route began last Thursday, making its way through Mora, Holman and Las Vegas. The 810 Mora Route is a partnership between Mora County, Luna Community College, the City of Las Vegas and New Mexico Highlands University and will run on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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NMHU: Student Teachers Succeed In Virtual Education
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. Students teachers from New Mexico Highlands University didn’t let the pandemic and the need for virtual education stop them during the fall semester, 2020, completing their training with excellence as demonstrated by improved K-12 student test scores and receiving teaching job offers.
“Our student teachers stepped up and entered their final semester not quite knowing what to expect, but ready for the challenge,” said Stephen Weatherburn, director of the School of Education Field Experience Office at Highlands. “They did not simply survive their student teaching semester, or just succeed with it, but they excelled.”
This hour-long episode of Augmented Humanity will be preempting No More Normal on Sunday 12/13, 11a.
Miriam Langer and Lauren Addario are coordinating cultural technology services to assist New Mexico museums and historic sites affected by the pandemic to address their technological needs. Miriam Langer is an artist, maker, and the Chair of the Media Arts and Technology department at New Mexico Highlands University. Lauren Addario teaches emerging technologies design for New Mexico Highlands’ Media Arts department. Over the last ten years, she has partnered with Miriam to map out the Cultural Technology Internship program, which provides media arts students with paid opportunities at museums, libraries, non-profits, and cultural institutions across the state.
Highlands University Professor Ali Arshad Publishes Paper On New Mexico Economy And 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
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LAS VEGAS, N.M. – The 2020 pandemic poses a grave danger to the New Mexico economy and increases the potential unemployment rate throughout the state, according to a New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) business professor’s study.
Economic professor Ali Arshad’s research will be published in the International Journal of Business and Economic Perspectives later this month.
“The primary purpose of my research was to assess the economic impact of a further shutdown of the New Mexico economy due to COVID-19,” Arshad said. “The contractions in the economy have the potential of increasing the unemployment rate throughout New Mexico.”