STEM UP Open House to Help Transfer Students

An open house hosted by Sci­ence Tech­nol­ogy Engi­neer­ing and Math Under­grad­u­ate Path­ways (STEM UP), a coop­er­a­tive grant, will host an open house for the new trans­fer cen­ter at Cen­tral New Mex­ico Com­mu­nity College’s Main Cam­pus on Wednes­day, Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. The pub­lic is invited to visit the infor­ma­tion table and tour the cen­ter at the cor­ner of the SRC grass area and L Build­ing. Advi­sors, tutors, and peer men­tors will be avail­able to offer infor­ma­tion, refresh­ments and door prizes.

The trans­fer cen­ter is a valu­able resource for stu­dents pur­su­ing STEM degrees at CNM and plan­ning on trans­fer­ring to UNM. The trans­fer cen­ter will offer STEM spe­cific aca­d­e­mic advis­ing, indi­vid­u­al­ized tutor­ing, work­shops, peer men­tor­ing, trans­fer assis­tance, and degree and STEM career infor­ma­tion. This new cen­ter will sup­port the path­way between CNM and UNM, and will help stu­dents trans­fer­ring to UNM.

The CNM/UNM STEM UP Coop­er­a­tive pro­vides ser­vices and resources to under­grad­u­ate CNM and UNM stu­dents with the goal of increas­ing the num­ber of His­panic and low-income stu­dents attain­ing degrees in the fields of Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy, Engi­neer­ing, and Math­e­mat­ics. Another goal is to develop model trans­fer artic­u­la­tion agree­ments in STEM fields between CNM and UNM.

STEM UP is a Title V grant, funded for five years in the amount of $3.5 mil­lion by the Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion and autho­rized under Title III, Part F, sec­tion 371 of the Higher Edu­ca­tion Act of 1965 as amended, Hispanic-Serving Insti­tu­tions (HSI) STEM and Artic­u­la­tion Pro­gram Cooperative.