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Multi-disciplinary groups from across The University of New Mexico are working together to improve UNM’s response to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking. In 2018, UNM received a grant through the Department of Justice’s (DOJ)...

The UNM Division for Equity and Inclusion hosts a virtual townhall on Thursday, Sept. 24 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The townhall, titled Promising Practices in UNM Campus Safety, is being held to hear concerns from the campus community about public safety and...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

The path to change is often difficult to navigate and that is especially the case with the civil rights movement in the 60s and the present-day Black Lives Matter movement. In fact, many have said, ‘two steps forward, one step back.’ While progress has...

From the moment the first African slaves were brought to the shores of Virginia and sold to the colonists there in 1619, the battle for education for African-Americans has been hard-fought and often cruel. As the groundbreaking New York Times 1619 series...

The University of New Mexico's Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI) welcomes several new additions to the staff for the FY21 academic year. Professors Nancy López and Elizabeth Quay Hutchison will join DEI as Associate Vice Presidents while Mónica...

Rocky Cordova knew he wanted to go into politics ever since he ran his first campaign in elementary school. “I was ten years old,” he remembers. “But I never wanted to be the candidate, I just wanted to work with the candidate. I remember using markers...

#UNMCENSUS2020 is the University’s initiative to confirm all students, faculty and staff are counted in the 2020 Census. To help raise awareness of student’s roles, the UNM Complete Count Committee is inviting the campus community to a virtual block...

The circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic have produced extraordinary and rapid changes to undergraduate life across the nation, and UNM is no exception. University faculty have worked quickly over the past weeks to move their classes online, adapting...

The 2020 Census is a decennial population count of the residents of the United States that is mandated by the government. It counts every person living in the United States and five U.S. territories. In mid-March, homes across the country began receiving...