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UNM ranks first in study for diverse faculty The University is ranked first in the country with the most Hispanics and American Indians By Jonathan Natvig @Natvig99 According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, of more than 1,500 public and private universities examined, UNM employs the most Hispanic and American-Indian faculty members. The study included schools like the University of California, Los Angeles, New York University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Across the country, university faculty are overwhelmingly white and male, according to the study. The Chronicle of Higher Education -- an online aggregator of news for college administrators -- reports that 75 percent of national faculty members are white, 5 percent are black, 4 percent are Hispanic and 0.4 percent are American Indian. Roughly 65 percent of national faculty members are male and 35 percent female. Data from UNM’s Office of Institutional Analytics shows that the University’s Main Campus faculty base is much more diverse than most colleges nationwide.

At UNM, 12 percent of faculty members are Hispanic, three times the national average, and 3.3 percent are Native American, eight times the national average. According to the data, the diversity of tenured professors at UNM more closely line up with the national figures. Non-tenure-track female faculty members account for 55 percent of the group, while only 42 percent of tenure track faculty members are female. Despite high numbers in some faculty demographics, UNM still has plenty of room to improve campus faculty diversity, as AfricanAmerican faculty members are the most underrepresented, making up only 2 percent of instructors, or half the national average, according to the data presented by the Office of Institutional Analytics. Although UNM faculty is 63 percent white, it is a leader in faculty diversity. Josephine De Leon, vice president of the UNM Division of Equity and Inclusion, highlighted the importance of faculty

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Former teammates face off in rivalry game By Liam Cary-Eaves @Liam_CE After an extensive road trip, New Mexico gets to come home, but they won’t have much time to rest. Following nearly a month of road games all over the nation, the Lobos get to play in front of home fans for the first time in the 20162017 season, and will be facing off against a New Mexico State team with plenty of familiar faces. “New Mexico is kind of a small soccer community and a lot of their players are from Albuquerque,” Lobo head coach Heather Dyche said. “For a lot of our kids it’s their old teammates, and for me it’s kids that I used to coach and families that I care a lot about. They’re going to come here and bring their Aggie pride. It’s going to be a great weekend.” There will be 31 total local New Mexicans (14 for UNM and 17 for NMSU) on the field for the Rio Grande Rivalry contest, and Dyche said she expects Lobo fans to be sharing the bleachers with plenty of Aggie fans for the home opener. However, Dyche wants the excitement of what she labeled

as a “healthy rivalry” to limit the emotions and adrenaline associated with playing in front of the home crowd, “For us, you know those players, but they also get to play in front of their families, so I think they’re going to have extra energy and extra excitement,” Dyche said. “Any time you add that, there’s an element of emotion that gets played into the game. And because of that, sometimes soccer goes out the window.” If the in-state rivalry wasn’t already loaded with enough tension over state pride, a father and daughter on opposing teams makes the game even more interesting. UNM assistant coach Paul Maestas surely expects his daughter, Valerie Maestas, to do well in the contest, but might not want the NMSU freshman forward to have too good of a game against the Lobo defense. Specifically, one player New Mexico (3-2-2) can’t lose sight of is Aileen Galicia. In NMSU’s last game, Galicia single-handedly powered the Aggie offense, netting all three of the game’s goals in a 3-0 contest against Idaho State. “Anybody who has a hat trick in a game is doing something special,” Dyche said. “So we have to get on game film, and get a better idea

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Freshman defender Avadney Osbourne chases down the ball Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016 at the UNM Soccer Complex. The Lobos and the Aggies will compete this Friday at 7 p.m.

of how she’s playing and come up with a strategy on how to stop her, because nobody has done it yet.” The Lobos also beat the Bengals

earlier this year in a high scoring 4-3 affair. Dyche said people have been teasing her and the team about

being away for so long to start the season off. She said the ribbing has

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