El Centro de la Raza and Recruitment Services at the University of New Mexico provide a day full of university activities to more than 1,000 Hispanic high school juniors and seniors on Oct. 28. The day provides an excellent opportunity for juniors to learn what it takes to get into college and seniors can experience UNM on-site admissions.
The Hispano Student Day theme is ¡Tu futuro está en tus manos! – Your future is in your hands!
Representatives from across the Campus serve on the Hispano Student Day committee and help organize the event. The goal of the event is to inspire and enable students to leave the campus with a plan of action.
“This is the time that students can recognize that UNM and higher educations is waiting for them. We want students to have the information to help them make the right choice for themselves as well as get excited about pursuing their education. We want Hispano students to know that they have right to a college education,” said Rosa Isela Cervantes, event co-chair.
Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. The welcome by students begins at 9:10 followed by a welcome by President Louis Caldera at UNM Johnson Center. Junior and senior workshops will be held at the SUB from 9:40 – 11 a.m. A special session designed for counselors and sponsors to give them updated information will be held from 9:40-11 a.m. at the SUB Theater.
The keynote address, which will take place at the UNM SUB Ballroom, will feature national speaker Lieutenant Colonel Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch who is retired from the U.S. Army. A lunch and Campus tour will finish the day with Mariachi Lobo entertaining the crowd. For more information call Rosa Isela Cervantes at 277-5020 or Sonia Archuleta at 277-2260.
Contacts: Rosa Isela Cervantes, (505) 277-5020; Sonia Archuleta, (505) 277-2260; Eleanor Sanchez, (505) 277-1813
Posted by scarr at October 28, 2004 09:23 AM