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UNM graduate student Brian Hendrickson is leading the charge on revamping how higher education recruits, teaches and retains students. The Rhetoric and Writing doctoral candidate says the responsibility isn’t just on institutions – it is also on...

Andrew Bourelle’s first novel has not even been released, but is already gaining national recognition. “Heavy Metal” is a coming-of-age tale, about trying to find one’s balance in an unsteady world. Bourelle’s debut novel hits store shelves Feb. 1 and...

The University of New Mexico-Los Alamos’ (UNM-LA) Adult Basic Education office is offering free English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and New Mexico High School Equivalency (HSE) prep classes beginning Tuesday, July 5 and running through Aug....

The Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee and the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) announced the 2015-16 UNM Teaching awards recently, honoring educators from around UNM. Every year the Faculty Senate Teaching Enhancement Committee selects...

With a little bit of extra time and support, students at The University of New Mexico with low test scores are able to learn necessary skills to pass first-year composition courses thanks to an innovative and now award-winning program designed to...

UNM Assistant Professor of English Cristyn Elder has been elected by the members of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) to the Executive Board. One of three newly elected members of the nine-member board, Elder will begin a three-year...

Timothy Graham, professor of history at The University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Medieval Academy of America Committee on Centers and Regional Associations (CARA).

Distinguished writer N. Scott Momaday is the featured speaker for the fourth annual Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya Lecture on the Literature of the Southwest, on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Student Union Building ballroom. ...

Acclaimed poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove wrote, "By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other." In this same spirit, community members ...

The 19th United States Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, will deliver the keynote address at the 15th Annual Taos Summer Writer's Conference, Sunday, July 14, 8 p.m., at the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center, 1508 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur. In ...