KNME-TV’s weekly public affairs news magazine In Focus presents a look at higher education in New Mexico on Friday, Feb 24 at 7:30 p.m. The broadcast will repeat on Sunday, Feb 26 at 6:30 a.m. Kate Nelson moderates a roundtable of the secretary of the New Mexico Higher Education Department and leading college representatives from around the state.
Topics on the agenda include increasing minority graduation rates, college affordability, ways two year and four-year colleges can cooperate to serve students better and the challenges of leading New Mexico's institutions of higher learning into the 21st century.
Guests include:
* Secretary of Higher Education Beverly McClure
* Interim Provost Reed Dasenbrock, University of New Mexico
* President Michael Glennon, Albuquerque Technical Vocational Institute
* President Steve McCleery, New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs
In Focus is an in-depth, television news magazine focusing on the events, topics and issues shaping peoples lives in the Southwest, covering issues that New Mexicans want to know more about, and a fusion of KNME’s award-winning journalistic, documentary and cultural local-production.
Support for the 39-week season of In Focus has been provided by McCune Charitable Foundation.
Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at February 22, 2006 04:00 PM