NNMC News:
- Newly revitalized center will provide academic and personal support to Native American students
ESPAÑOLA — Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) welcomes the community to the Grand Reopening of the American Indian Student Center, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22 in the Española Administration Building Rotunda.
The American Indian Student Center (AISC) addresses the unique educational needs of Native American students, providing academic and personal support to enter and be successful in college. The AISC works with the College community to ensure cultural sensitivity; promote partnerships with the tribes to meet educational needs of their community; seek outside resources for the benefit of students; and ensure that American Indian students receive services on campus that will help them be successful in college and in their career.
The Northern community is proud to build on AISC’s decades of service to Native students at Northern and its partnership with the Northern Pueblos Institute at the Center on campus.
“By continuing to provide a center for our Indigenous populations on campus, this makes a statement that we are invested in their future and higher educational experiences,” AISC’s new director Nathana Bird stated. “Being in the heart of Pueblo Country, here in Española, we must continuously show up for our Indigenous students. This center is a resource for them.”
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About Northern:
Northern New Mexico College has served the rural communities of Northern New Mexico for over a century. Since opening in 1909 as the Spanish American Normal School in El Rito, NM, the College has provided affordable access to quality academic programs that meet the changing educational, economic and cultural needs of the region. Northern is an open-admissions institution offering the most affordable bachelor’s programs in the Southwest. Now one of the state’s four regional comprehensive institutions, with its main campus in Española, Northern offers more than 50 bachelor’s, associate, and certificate programs in arts & human sciences, film & digital media, STEM programs, business, education, liberal arts, and nursing. The College has reintroduced technical trades in partnership with two local unions and five public school districts through its new co-located Branch Community College, the first of its kind in the state’s history. Northern is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and has earned prestigious industry-specific accreditations for its engineering, nursing, education, and business programs. Learn more at https://nnmc.edu/.