The City University of Santa Fe is an organization dedicated to
identifying and mobilizing the intellectual resources of the City’s
educated and talented population in support of its institutions of
advanced learning. Both the organization and the website are in the earliest stages of development. When the website is finally completed we hope it will contain links to all the many educational resources available in the City -- to all the many places in Santa Fe where there is something to be learned and to all the many people in Santa Fe who have something to teach.
Below is a partial list of the educational institutions in and around Santa Fe. There are many others. Please help us add to this list. [Each entry is a link to the home site of the institution.]
Institute of American Indian Arts
Renesan Institute for Lifelong Learning
I need a blogger! Somebody who will keep us up to date with events in higher education in Santa Fe. For instance, CSF finally enrolled 220 students for the fall semester and I assume will be enrolling substantially more, in the spring. Renesan Institute has put up 30 course's for the spring! Lo…
As the membership approaches 50, we will be approaching the time when we need to get together and decide what CUSF will do. Our long term goals are pretty clear, but how should we get started? What shall we do first?
As I survey higher education in Santa Fe, the one big gap seems to be post-G…
The new academic year has begun and the news concerning the College of Santa Fe continues to be good. According to their Web Site, 180 students are enrolled and classes begin on Septmenber 21. I was particularly moved by the statement of Keith Murfee printed there: "The rebirth of the College of…
As most readers will know, The City has agreed to purchase and Laureate to lease the College of Santa Fe campus. This is wonderful news for the community. If you, like me, have been away from Santa Fe, you might want to read the story in the New Mexican at http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%…
One of our ambitions for this forum was to use it to pool the membership's information about the status of higher education in Santa Fe. What will most affect that situation in the near future will be the situation with the College of Santa Fe, the City, and Laureate. The only information I can offe…
Sitting in a packed lecture on Darwin in the Lensic one cold February night, about the time the legislature was voting down the proposal that New Mexico Highlands University take over the College of Santa Fe, I got to wondering how it could be that a small city that could pack such a lecture on suc…
Please go to the member information page to become a member. The first goal of the City University of Santa Fe is to assemble a data base of the City's remarkable intellectual resources. Members are people who are willing to contribute their knowledge, their skills, and their experience to the life of the mind in Santa Fe. Here is a partial list of ways in which we think people might contribute:
* identify and
support interests common to the institutions of higher learning in the City of Santa Fe.
* empower
its members to support higher education in Santa Fe by gathering and sharing reliable
information on the status of institutions of higher learning in the City.
* provide
forums, both electronic and face-to-face, for discussion of ways to advance
higher education in all its forms within the city.
*provide
access to national and international personal networks of its members that
would assist in recruiting students and faculty to institutions of higher
learning in Santa Fe.
* offer from
its membership a wealth of experience upon which Santa Fe’s institutions of
higher learning may draw as they seek
grants and funding from the federal government and foundations to
support their programs and placement for their students. .
*provide from its
membership experienced teachers with advanced degrees who might volunteer
to help institutions maintain or supplement their programs during emergencies.
* provide
access to mentors, internship supervisors, for students in fields where
practical experience illuminates scholarly learning.
* provide
intellectual support to scholars seeking to develop academic careers at Santa Fe institutions of
higher learning.
*provide a
focus of social and political energy to maintain SF as the sort of place where high
quality lecture series concerning important intellectual matters continue to
thrive.
*and provide such other advice, consultation and volunteer service as the Board and the membership may determine in the future.
