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CNM adviser talks on transfer process
FAREWELL TO JOHNNY TAPIA
by Avicra Luckey
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Adria Malcolm / Daily Lobo
A man holds a memorial card at the funeral for Johnny Tapia in The Pit on Sunday. The memorial service attracted thousands of fans to mourn the boxer’s passing a week after his death was announced. Tapia is a local sports legend who claimed five world championships in three weight classes. However, his personal struggles led to a life of hardships including drug use and attempted suicide. Tapia was declared dead four times due to drug overdoses throughout his life. The cause of his death remains unknown until toxicology and autopsy reports are released.
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About 42 percent of UNM transfer students transfer from CNM, according to the Office of Institutional Research’s fact book for the 2009-2010 school year. To find out how UNM and CNM have collaborated to make the transfer process easier on students, the Daily Lobo talked to the Director of Academic Advisement and Job Connection Services at CNM, Tammy Strickler. Daily Lobo: How does CNM advisement collaborate with UNM advisement? Tammy Strickler: CNM and UNM have many collaborative advisement efforts. Some of these efforts include the STEM UP Cooperative Grant serving students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. The grant employs staff at both CNM and UNM, including academic advisers that work with both colleges and are dedicated to serving students who start their education at CNM and then transfer to UNM. This grant has a Joint Advisory Council in which academic advisers from both UNM and CNM collaborate on transfer efforts. We are currently working on a new biology transfer agreement. Academic advisers at both colleges are participating in the development of the transfer agreement to ensure it will work for transfer students. CNM Academic Advisement hosts an annual University Transfer Fair in which UNM regularly participates. CNM and UNM collaborate to have CNM to UNM Transfer Days. This event is usually hosted at CNM. The next event will be hosted at UNM in fall 2012 to encourage students to transition to UNM. CNM and UNM routinely participate in collaborative team efforts including the Joint Advisory Council and the Provost Committee on Advising. CNM Academic Advisement has long-standing advising practices that are new or forthcoming advising practices for UNM, such as online advisement, a uniform advising system
and a centralized advisement student data tracking system at multiple campuses. CNM can contribute knowledge and expertise in the development of these components of the UNM advising program. DL: What are some challenges with these collaborations? TS: 2+2 Transfer Agreements (a transfer program that allows students to take their first two years at CNM and transfer into their bachelor’s degree programs at UNM) can be difficult to create due to the many differences in graduating requirements at each college and differing college policies. DL: What have UNM and CNM done to overcome that challenge? TS: Assembling advising experts and program experts at both colleges to identify the challenges that exist and design transfer agreements that remove obstacles for students. DL: Are there ways that you receive feedback from CNM students who plan to transfer to UNM? Do you receive feedback from students who
see Transfers PAGE 9 For information about transferring between CNM and UNM, see these websites. cnm.edu/depts/trio/unmtransfer. php
admissions.unm.edu/transfer/ agreements/cnm-trans-guidebb54.pdf
‘Late Night’ bus schedule returns to ABQ RIDE by Avicra Luckey
avicraluckey@gmail.com UNM students can safely and cheaply experience more of Albuquerque’s nightlife this summer with ABQ RIDE’s 66 Late Night service. The service extends the schedule of Route 66 buses by one hour, to 1:30 a.m., on Friday and Saturday nights this summer. ABQ RIDE Director Bruce Rizzieri said the program began in 2005 and was originally called Rapid Ride After Dark. He said the bus program is a way for locals to get around town Friday and
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Saturday nights without having to spend money on parking or worry about driving to and from their destinations in Albuquerque’s Old Town, Nob Hill, Downtown and East Central areas. “It’s convenient … so you don’t have to worry about traffic, someone else is doing the driving for you and by extending the hours you can stay at these venues about an hour longer than you could without the program,” he said. Public Information Officer at ABQ RIDE Rick De Reyes said the program operations changed along with the name in 2010, and the new
program includes more frequent stops so bus riders spend less time walking to their destinations. He said that the program utilized Rapid Ride buses and bus stops until 2010, when it switched to the stops along the 66 bus route be more convenient for riders. “What happens if you live between two Rapid Ride stops, if you leave off at one or the other you’ll have to walk back to your neighborhood,” he said. “So we decided to employ the number 66 bus, which makes much more frequent stops.” De Reyes said UNM students, staff and faculty members board
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the bus about 1 million times a year. He said the Late Night program will offer additional transportation services to students who may live in the dorms or depend on public transportation to get around the city. “We figured especially for UNM students this was something that we wanted to take advantage of … we figured that using public transportation would not only be an inexpensive way to get around town, it would also be a way to be able to get them to their hot spots inexpensively and maybe keep them safe,” he said.
While the goal is to create a safe environment, bus rider Frank Shorty said he feels unsafe riding the bus after certain hours, and only uses the bus to get home when he works late. “When I work late it helps me. I don’t stay out later than 11 because there’s a bunch of goonies out and about … That’s just me, I know there are other people that work late,” he said. Shorty said he is otherwise satisfied with the bus service and wants the
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