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More nursing program spots available in fall year to year dramatically, Program said that CNM, and who are all competing along with every nursing Copy Editor for a very limited number of program in the state, has been transitioning as part Nursing major, Aliishea coveted spots. “I do appreciate the fact of the New Mexico Nursing Flook has been working to Consortium get into the competitive that I do have all those classes Education Nursing program at CNM under my belt, but at the (NMNEC), which was crefor four years now, she said. same time I feel like I’ve kind ated to standardize curricuAnd because of the of wasted my time and I’m lum and eligibility requirerecent changes to cur- not really where I want to be. ments and to make it easier riculum, eligibility require- And now my financial aid is for students to transfer to ments and the coordinated almost drained, so I’m sit- other schools. “It will ultimately result entry process, Flook said she ting back and thinking, what has struggled to pass many am I going to do?” Flook said. in the increase in the number Diane Evans-Prior, classes that are no longer required, and although Director of the Nursing see NURSING on page 7 she originally intended to just get an associate degree, she has ended up taking a lot of classes that are only Information Session for required for a bachelor’s. new Bachelor of Nursing She said she only has Program enough financial aid to pay for 25 more credit When: Monday, April 28, 12-1 p.m. hours, and worries she won’t be able to afford Where: Main campus, JS Building school much longer, that is if she manages to get room 208 into the program at all. Flook said there are What: Talk to advisors from both many other students like CNM and UNM about the new dualher, who have been caught enrollment program in the middle of a Nursing program that changes from
By Jonathan Baca
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Fine Arts changes requirements, adds new classes By Angela Le Quieu Staff Reporter
In the Fall 2014 Course Catalog there will be changes that will effect students with a Fine Arts major, including new program approved electives and classes such as jewelry making. Fine Arts Instructor, Harley McDaniel said that the changes are intended to allow them more flexibility, to make the transfer to UNM simpler, and give students applicable skills in the work force. “There are pretty major changes, previously we
basically dictated every course you had to take and that was kind of difficult for students because it didn’t give them a lot of options,” McDaniel said. The new curriculum for the Fall 2014 term is part of an effort that McDaniel has made to streamline both Fine Arts degree concentrations, Studio Arts and Art History, he said. Rather than having specific classes that students would be required to take, they will be able to choose three classes from program approved electives, and this will allow students more freedom to tailor their classes and
learning to their own needs, McDaniel said. One of the big advantages of this is that new art classes can be added to the program approved electives without changes to the greater curriculum being needed, and McDaniel said that the new catalog will reflect that as three jewelry classes that will be added as well as a second level ceramics class. Facilities for the jewelry classes are still in the works, so the classes will not be offered in the fall, but McDaniel hopes see
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Art Practices I teacher Harley McDaniel looks over his students’ progress.
School honors work-study employees The luncheon invited about 370 different student work-study Senior Reporter employees and the Committee This year the Student showed its appreciation and recogEmployee Appreciation and nition by awarding one person with Recognition Committee has once the Outstanding Student Employee again hosted a luncheon, of the Award and scholarship along with same name, in honor of the exem- three honorable mentions, he said. “We just want to show the stuplary performance seen from student employees all over CNM, dent employees here how important said Administrative Technical they are, and to kind of let them know Assistant for TRIO Student that all of their hard work is being Support Services, Willie Smoker. recognized by ourselves and their
By Nick Stern
supervisors and even administration here at CNM,” Smoker said. Psychology major and student employee, Kallie Gibson, who won the Outstanding Student Employee Award, said she really loved what her supervisor had to say about her, and that she feels she has gotten really close to her supervisor explaining she became her go to person in their office. “I feel very honored. It’s hard for me to accept a lot of recognition and
acknowledgement from a large party, and to also be placed at all the campuses of CNM,” Gibson said. The winner of the award was chosen by a nomination form that goes out to all student employee supervisors which they use to nominate the students in their departments who they think has earned it the most, Smoker said. The nominations are then voted for by the committee in a blind panel and then the winner is declared and
presented with the reward during the annual luncheon, he said. “Kallie Gibson, who is a student employee at Montoya campus Student Services, gets the reward and scholarship for Outstanding Student Employee this year and we are all very proud,” Smoker said. There was also a large amount of door prizes given out to all the people who attended the luncheon, so everyone who left did so with something in hand to go with the recognition they received, he said. The luncheon was held on Friday, April 11 at the Student Services Center Cafeteria at Main campus and there were more than 210 RSVPs for the event, he said. Smoker said that the student employees benefit greatly from the event because he believes that many of the working students go above and beyond their job descriptions, and that a lot of the different departments at school eventually come to rely on the hard work that is done by those students, he said. Smoker said that many of these employees do not realize how important they are to the
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Student employees enjoy a free lunch courtesy of CNM.
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