>I think the definition of Hispanic-serving is based on the percentage of Hispanic students which is very high at Highlands
I would be surprised if Highlands had a higher number of Hispanic students than any of the universities I mentioned. Compared to to them Highlands is small. I wonder why percentage is more important than the total number. Talk about ethnicism. --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 10:58 AM Edward Angel <an...@cs.unm.edu> wrote: > I think the definition of Hispanic-serving is based on the percentage of > Hispanic students which is very high at Highlands. > > The first year I was at UNM, a colleague and I went to career day at > Highlands. Because Highlands lacked an Engineering program, we thought it > would be an excellent opportunity to recruit some of their grads to > Engineering at UNM, The gym was filled with recruiting tables which except > for us were all either from the military or the Ivy League schools trying > to recruit Hispanics. During the morning, not a single student came to our > table. After lunch, a group of young women came to our table, looked at our > materials, and then asked if they needed math to study engineering. When we > said yes, there was a loud “Ugh” and they turned around and left. Only > students we talked to the whole day. > > A few years later, David West would come down to UNM once a week to UNM on > his bike to teach a software engineering course. > > Around that time, we had a very active NM Chapter of SIGGRAPH in NM. I > worked a lot with Bruce Papier at Highlands who was running a wonderful > computer art program at Highlands. I believe he too was pushed out during > the Manny Aragon era. He passed away in Santa Fe a few years ago. > > But what I really want to write about is a related story to David’s at > UNM. At UNM the Latin American (now Latin American and Iberian ) Institute > is a prestigious research and teaching center. It’s founder-director and > associate director were not Hispanics. In the mid-90s, Tom Benavides, a > powerful NM legislator ( > http://insidethecapitol.blogspot.com/2004/05/most-excellent-sir-tom-benavides.html) > insisted the director and associate director be replaced by Hispanics and > when UNM refused, the funding for LAI was removed from the UNM budget. The > result was that UNM had to come up with funds from other projects to > support LAI. > > Tom was a very popular legislator from the South Valley, so popular that > there was a movement to create a separate county for the South Valley and > name it after Tom. But then there was his downfall; drinking and wife > abuse. When he lost a reelection, UNM seized on the opportunity and hired > him as a legislative lobbyist. UNM then got back it’s funding for LAI > without having to replace its leadership. > > At the time, I was teaching a lot of short courses in Latin America > through the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium > (ISTEC) which was started at UNM and was administratively under LAI. One > of Tom’s duties (actually rewards) was to attend the yearly ISTEC > conferences in Latin America as did I and usually Rose Mary. Tom was > somewhat uncomfortable outside NM and speaking Spanish, so Rose Mary would > often invite him to join us for dinner. I always learned a lot about the > spotted history of NM. > > Ed > _______________________ > > Ed Angel > > Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory > (ARTS Lab) > Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico > > 1017 Sierra Pinon > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > 505-984-0136 (home) an...@cs.unm.edu > 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > > On Oct 29, 2021, at 6:15 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During the era of which Dave speaks at New Mexico Highlands i had an > interview for a faculty position in the CS Department there. I wasn't a > good match because they were looking for someone in the area of computers > and the arts. Among my application materials I emphasized my ability to > speak Spanish, my family roots in Central NM, and our adoption of a young > child from Mexico. Someone told me that it was a mistake to mention the > relationship with Mexico because Aragon didn't consider Mexicans to be > Hispanic. To him that word apparently means someone from one of a few > families from Northern NM. > > At that time there was material that claimed that Highlands was the > foremost Hispanic serving university in the US. At the time I wondered, > "What about UCSD, UCLA, Arizona, UNM, UTexas, etc?" I think the answer lay > in his definition of Hispanic. > > Frank > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 5:39 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> > wrote: > >> Manny Aragon was president of Highlands at the time of my program. He >> hated me personally for no apparent reason other than my program was >> gaining publicity and overshadowing his role as "savior" of Highlands. >> Also, his Board of Regents assigned mission was to reduce the white faculty >> and increase the Hispanic.Those efforts earned censure for the University, >> multiple lawsuits by white faculty all of which Highlands lost; and >> eventually Manny's firing as University President. >> >> He arbitrarily and "illegally" (circumventing the faculty and established >> procedures) cancelled the program. Students demonstrated at Capital in >> protest; dozens of industry leaders, and all of our clients, sent letters >> in protest, students directly petitioned Manny to change mind — all to no >> avail. >> >> A little less than two years after cancelling the program, Manny was >> convicted of embezzlement of federal funds and sent to prison for five >> years. He was Speaker of the House in the state legislature before coming >> to Highlands and nothing but a powerful and corrupt and self-aggrandizing >> politician before coming to Highlands and wreaking havoc. >> >> davew >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021, at 3:33 PM, Russ Abbott wrote: >> >> Dave, Sounds like a wonderful program. Is it continuing? If not, why not? >> If so, how has the structure changed so that it sustains itself as an >> ongoing effort? >> >> -- Russ Abbott >> Professor Emeritus, Computer Science >> California State University, Los Angeles >> >> >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 12:40 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> >> wrote: >> >> >> Pieter, >> >> Your plans are admirable and exciting.I wish you the best in this >> endeavor. If you would have any interest, I would be happy to share my >> experience in New Mexico developing and delivering an industry award >> winning program — the Software Development Apprenticeship. >> >> We totally blew up the academy. The program had no courses — instead we >> defined "competencies" that had to be demonstrated — acknowledged by peers, >> professors, and industry professionals — at five different levels: >> basically following directions or rote learning; applying knowledge solo; >> applying in different context; mentoring others / sharing knowledge; and >> making an 'original' contribution or extension to the knowledge. Everyone >> had to master all the "competencies" to level 3, but would vary widely by >> individual interest in which ones were achieved at higher levels. >> >> We had a "one room schoolhouse" where students worked in teams on >> real-world development projects alongside industry professionals, graduate >> students to freshmen mixed on each team. >> >> If we had packaged the knowledge delivered in the program into >> traditional semester credit courses it would have been the equivalent of >> two undergraduate and three graduate degrees. Subjects far transcended >> programming and other computer science topics to include business (of >> course since business constituted the vast majority of our projects), hard >> and soft sciences, writing, presentation, inter-personal and "soft" skills, >> philosophy and history (Computer Scientists and Software Engineers are >> abysmally ignorant of their own history and the thought foundations of >> their discipline), art (including computer graphics of course, but much >> more), and math (but probability and statistics and geometry instead of >> calculus). >> >> Students learned 'on-demand'. The project to which they were assigned >> would require some specific knowledge and they would "demand" that >> learning. Actually, every six weeks, students would complete a learning >> plan and the faculty had to combine them into a set of modules for lecture >> and presentation in the ensuing 6-week interval. All teaching took place in >> the same open lab/classroom, so everyone either directly or by "osmosis" >> picked up on what was being taught. >> >> The program was immensely successful. Our student body came from the >> poorest county in the poorest state (sometimes Louisiana would take first >> place) and were woefully unprepared for college. But they succeeded: one >> exemplar student entered the program lacking even rudimentary user skills >> like "cut and paste," but was a team leader and J2EE mentor at the start of >> his second semester. (He was also the only one who figured out why the Hero >> — movie of same name — did not kill the warlord unifying China in a >> wonderfully written essay.) >> >> Our student body was 70% minority (mostly because of where we were and >> the mission of the University) and 51-54 percent female. >> >> Half of the students in the first year of the program had papers (not >> student presentations but full papers) accepted to OOPSLA and Agile both >> conferences had a 90+ percent rejection rate). Every student was place in >> jobs, often before graduation and often with the companies who gave us >> apprenticeship projects. >> >> The preceding is just bragging, but I am very proud of what we did. >> >> We had two faculty, myself and Pam Rostal and both of us worked 70-90 >> hour weeks which would not be sustainable long term. We did attract a lot >> of attention and industry "superstars" would drop by to mentor in their >> particular area for 2-3 weeks at a time. >> >> If you have interest in any details, please ask off-list and I will be >> happy to respond. >> >> davew >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Pieter Steenekamp wrote: >> >> The public education system in South Africa is largely broken. For those >> who can afford it, we have very good schools, but the majority cannot and >> the education options for them are bleak. >> >> I plan to do something about it. >> >> This is my second attempt. About three years ago I started a school as a >> proof of concept with a radical model to have very high quality yet very >> low cost education and it failed miserably. (I managed to make plans for >> the kids and I don't believe any suffered from the experience - I pulled >> the plug before too much harm was done). I've thought, and discussed it a >> lot, and I'm ready to roll out my second, very different attempt. >> >> The basis of this is that there are plenty of resources available for >> free, and provided you manage the environment properly, kids can and will >> teach themselves. >> >> My plan is a model with two legs, both legs offering very high quality >> education, but the first leg is relatively expensive and has "bells and >> whistles" to attract the wealthy and the second is bare bones to make it >> affordable for those kids whose parents can't pay. >> >> The profit from first leg schools then cross-subsidise the costs of the >> second leg schools. >> >> The concept for both legs are copied from https://www.khanlabschool.org/ >> , adapted for local conditions of course. The second leg schools will just >> be a low cost version, but the education offered will still be world class. >> >> Our academic year starts in January. I'm working flat out to have my >> first school of the first leg open in January 2022. Then to have the first >> school of the second leg open in January 2023. Then to learn from the >> experience, adapt and roll it out so that every child in South Africa has >> access to world class education in five years time. >> >> Pieter >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >> >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> >> >> >> .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: >> 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > > > > .-- .- -. - / .- -.-. - .. --- -. ..--.. / -.-. --- -. .--- ..- --. .- - . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn UTC-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: > 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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