![]() The eight-point strategic plan called for a series of new initiatives establishing strong partnerships with other academic institutions, including area community colleges, and identifying and vigorously addressing the educational, social, and economic needs of the region. We achieve this through a university-wide commitment to quality student-centered education, recognition of the growing importance of the Spanish language to our nation’s interests, and an acknowledgment our many responsibilities to residents of northern New Mexico as the principal educational institution in the region. New Mexico Highlands University is a diverse comprehensive quality university serving the global community by integrating education, research, public service, and economic development, while celebrating our distinctive northern New Mexico cultures and traditions. In the second, they adopted a broad-ranging, thirty-three-page five-year strategic plan that included a mission statement with the following opening paragraph: In the first, the regents voted unanimously not to extend the two-year contract of President Caballero beyond its expiration date the following June and authorized a national search for her successor. Meeting in December 2003, the board of regents took two actions with important ramifications for the future of the university. Gonzales, a Santa Fe business executive who replaced former governor Toney Anaya as chair in January 2005. 4 The university’s five-member board of regents, appointed by the governor, is now chaired by Mr. Rael, a tenured member of the Highlands faculty in the Department of Natural Sciences, held the position of interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences during the 2004–05 academic year. Gomez, who has the title of vice president for academic affairs. She resigned in July 2005 and was succeeded by Mr. Janice Chavez served as the interim provost during the 2004–05 academic year, when most of the events described in this report took place. Aragon was for many years majority leader of the New Mexico Senate and well known throughout the state. Prior to his appointment to the presidency, Mr. “Manny” Aragon became the sixteenth president of Highlands on July 1, 2004, succeeding Dr. The university was first accredited in 1926 by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools and, as chronicled by Highlands’s official historian, the university has intermittently experienced problems with accreditation and faced allegations from its faculty of administrative interference. Nearly 60 percent of the Highlands student body and nearly 30 percent of the faculty are Hispanic. As of fall 2005, approximately 2,340 students were enrolled on the main campus, some 45 percent of them graduate students, served by a full-time faculty of approximately 115. ![]() Highlands offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in five departments in the College of Arts and Sciences and in schools of education, business administration, and social work. Satellite learning centers are located in Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Farmington, and Roswell. The university is located on a 175-acre campus in the small town of Las Vegas, New Mexico, in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains some sixty-five miles east of the state capital, Santa Fe. Bearing its current name since 1941, Highlands is a state-supported coeducational institution and a federally designated Hispanic-serving institution. New Mexico Highlands University (usually referred to as Highlands or NMHU) was established in 1893 by the New Mexico Territorial Legislature as New Mexico Normal School, admitting its first students in 1898. Turner and to deny tenure to Professor David J. This report concerns the actions taken by the administration of New Mexico Highlands University to dismiss Professor Gregg H. This report was published in the May-June 2006 issue of Academe. ![]()
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