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The road to student success starts well before the student enters college. Many have what it takes, but some lack access to information and resources. Enter Youth Leadership Institute, an initiative of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Five YLIs are ...

UNM was one of ten universities to participate in a field trial conducted by Educational Testing Service to develop and study an assessment of noncognitive skills for incoming college students. The assessment, later named SuccessNavigator®, measures ...

There is a new pack at UNM. A group of students have formed ranks to blog about life, the universe and UNM, and chances are good everyone in the UNM community will want to hear what they are howling about. Six students with six perspectives, and ...

The New Mexico Leadership Institute (NMLI), formerly the Rosemont Leadership Institute (RLI), in collaboration with the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, is hosting is a weeklong event at UNM for 30 incoming university freshmen ...

Many UNM-Gallup students graduate and go on to realize even greater accomplishments. Recently, Paula Watt had the opportunity to celebrate some of these special achievements with two former students, April Longhair and Crystal Tulley, who also did ...

University of New Mexico student and chair of the Young Democrats of New Mexico Women's Caucus, Cindy Nava, will be awarded the National Federation of Democratic Women Founders Award in June in Kansas City, Mo., at the organization's national ...

Students at the University of New Mexico who receive the lottery scholarship have one less concern this summer. The New Mexico State Higher Education Department recently announced that New Mexico’s Legislative Lottery Scholarship (LLS) will cover all ...

Cindy Nava, a current student at the University of New Mexico, has been appointed to serve as the Southwest Regional chair on the US Student Association’s national Board of Directors. The US Student Association (USSA) is the nation’s oldest, largest, ...

Lameck "Humble" Lukanga is a man who puts value in gratitude and humility. He brought both traits when he came to the University of New Mexico as a student who escaped unspeakable conditions in his native Uganda. He never forgot those values as he ...

The UNM chapter of the national Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization, or CEO, is one of the newest student clubs on campus, formed just two months ago. The organization aims to inform and inspire UNM students to think like an entrepreneur and seek ...