Last week, when deflated revenue projections were announced, the prevailing opinion was that leaving Santa Fe with the same amount of money you came in with would be considered a victory. For higher education, 2016 will not be a winning season.
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The Tuesday morning session, when the New Mexico Department of Higher Education presented its funding wish list, evolved into a wide-ranging, sometimes lively discussion on topics like funding formula stabilization, disagreement over performance measures...
Gov. Susana Martinez was on the University of New Mexico campus Wednesday kicking off her Summit on Higher Education. As the event’s keynote speaker, Martinez discussed a variety of issues facing higher education; focusing on the need for a more unified...
Gov. Susana Martinez had lunch with business leaders yesterday, taking the opportunity to sign HB 170, which makes changes to the Higher Education Endowment Act that allow an infusion of cash into the endowment fund once the budget is signed.
After struggling mightily to get out of House Education over a long couple of weeks, the Higher Education Endowment bill, HB 170, has gathered steam and is moving rapidly.
The New Mexico Senate has confirmed Barbara Damron as the secretary of the Higher Education Department. It was a breeze, starting this morning with a lovefest in the Senate Rules Committee.
They keep calling it is a messy process that leaves no one totally happy. That is how the state budget is built. This afternoon, House Appropriations approved what will go into the final crafting of the general appropriations act as will be found in HB2.
The Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) revealed its budget recommendations for the 2015-16 fiscal year this morning. Usually these recommendations are the best indicator of how the budget built by legislators during the upcoming session will look.
For higher education, the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) hearing in December is the biggest and most important of the interim season. This is when institutions outline their legislative requests and when legislators work hard to deflate campus expectations.
New Mexico voters approved General Obligation Bonds B and C benefiting libraries, and colleges and universities statewide in Tuesday’s general election. GO Bond B will allocate $3.5 million for academic libraries, while Bond C provides $139 million in