In Brief
National
Native News to be produced at KUNM
Effective
March 31, National Native News (NNN) will be consolidated with
Native America Calling (NAC); NNN will be produced in the KUNM,
89.9 FM, studio at UNM.
“KUNM
is honored to serve as the production center for National Native
News. The consolidation enlarges UNM’s long-standing commitment
to broadcast Native voices and to share the Native-American
perspective with the diverse communities we serve.
Koahnic
Broadcast Corporation (KBC) owns both NNN and NAC. NNN has a
long tradition of carrying reports from New Mexico and the southwest.
KUNM serves
Albuquerque, Santa Fe and most of central and northern New Mexico.
Enrollment
up for spring
Spring
semester enrollment at UNM is up 3.78 percent as compared to
last year, according to the Official 2003 Spring Enrollment
Report.
As of the
Feb. 7 census date, 23,813 students were attending UNM’s main
campus, compared with 22,946 last spring, making it the largest
spring enrollment total since 1999. Returning student enrollment
is 20,297 students, or 3.04 percent compared with last spring,
while beginning freshmen retention (fall-to-spring) is 88.4
percent.
According
to the Office of Academic Affairs, another notable increase
came in the area of evening and weekend enrollment with a spring
credit hour increase of 11.7 percent or 5,548 additional credit
hours, mostly upper-division and graduate, reported over last
spring.
Medieval
Studies looks at Barbarian Europe
The Institute
for Medieval Studies presents “Barbarian Europe: The Creation
of a Civilization,” Monday-Thursday, March 24-27 in Woodward
Hall, rm. 101 on the UNM campus.
The spring
lecture series features a team of five acclaimed experts delivering
seven lectures exploring major transformations and achievements
of the centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.
The lectures
will cover history, literature, women’s studies, art and archaeology
and music. All lectures are free and open to the public. Free
parking and a shuttle service are available.
For more
information, visit the Institute for Medieval Studies on the
Web at http:// www.unm.edu/~medinst or email at medinst@unm.edu.
Frontier
earns good neighbor award
The Frontier
Restaurant has been named Restaurant Neighbor of the Year by
the New Mexico Restaurant Association.
The award
was presented recently to Larry and Dorothy Rainosek at the
annual Hospitality Industry Awards. The Rainoseks are the owners
of the Frontier Restaurant and Golden Pride Restaurants in Albuquerque.
Several
individuals and groups from the UNM community sent letters in
strong support of the Rainoseks.
The couple
are charter members of the President’s Club, a group of high-level
donors who directly support initiatives designed to reduce the
freshman dropout rate. Additionally, as advocates for the Presidential
Scholarship Program, the Rainoseks helped raise more than $53,000
in new scholarships last fall. Mrs. Rainosek is also a member
of the UNM Foundation Board of Directors.
CASAA
event showcases runaway youth program
UNM’s Center
on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Addictions (CASAA) will host
an open house Friday, March 21, from 1 to 4 p.m., at 317 Washington
S.E. to showcase its new Runaway and Homeless Youth Program.
The program
provides many services coordinated onsite. “Albuquerque is facing
a crisis in which the welfare and future of its adolescents
and young adults are at risk,” said Natasha Slesnick, research
assistant professor at CASAA.
For information,
contact Isela Roeder at 925-2395.