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New Mexico Highlands University

 Organization

Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:

Human Resources Office Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 34.0
Scope and Content The Human Resources Office administers all non-academic job-related concerns for university employees. Affirmative Actions and Disability Services also fall within its purview.

This collection includes employee handbooks, faculty-staff directories, Affirmative Action Plans, and various reports, notices, and information on training programs.
Dates: 1986-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Juan José Peña Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 104.5
Scope and Content Juan José Peña taught at New Mexico Highlands University in the 1970s. He was active in Chicano Studies, the Chicano movement, and veteran’s affairs.
Dates: 1970-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

New Mexico Highlands University Centers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 28.0
Scope and Content During the 1970s the university maintained an off-campus center in Taos, New Mexico. It subsequently closed. In the mid-1990s the university began to open other centers. By 1998 it operated at four locations: Rio Rancho, Santa Fe, Farmington, and Española.

This collection contains materials relating to the creation and operation of some of the centers.
Dates: 1970-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Notes and Memoranda concerning the Legal, Literary and Scientific Activities of Frank Springer

 Collection
Identifier: AC 290
Scope and Content Collection contains notes and memoranda concerning the legal, literary, and scientific activities of Frank Springer compiled by Ralph E. Twitchell. Most of the information consists of printed material, reprints of articles, newspaper clippings, and typewritten letters, etc., published elsewhere. Volume 1 contains the most extensive collection with a brief introduction by Twitchell. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 contain mostly replicates of material found in the first volume.
Dates: 1871-1927

Office of Alumni Affairs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 52.0
Scope and Content The Office of Alumni Affairs conducts the business of the New Mexico Highlands University Alumni Association, which was formed in 1977. Through this office alumni contact the university and participate in alumni reunions and gatherings. The office maintains an alumni database. As of 2000 the association had approximately 650 members.This collection includes alumni newsletters and magazines, directories, information on Homecoming activities through the years, membership and...
Dates: 1977-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of Assessment Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 30.0
Scope and Content The Office of Assessment at New Mexico Highlands University was established in 2001. Prior to that the Provost’s Office coordinated assessment activities.

This collection contains reports received and issued by the office.
Dates: 2001-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of International Education Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 24.0
Scope and Content The Office of International Education was established in 1998. Its mission is to recruit and serve international students, encourage NMHU students to study abroad, facilitate faculty exchanges overseas, and work to internationalize the campus.

This collection contains this office’s North Central Association Report for 1999.
Dates: 1998-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of Research, Planning, and Institutional Development Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 10.0
Scope and Content This collection contains files and reports generated by the Office of Institutional Research and its subsequent manifestations from the 1940s forward. The information in these files and reports arises from internal studies of the operation of the university. Additionally, beginning in the 1990s, the office administered various public service agencies allied with the university. The reports of some of those agencies are included in the collection.An office for institutional research,...
Dates: 1944-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of the President Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 2.0
Scope and Content The first president of New Mexico Highlands University (New Mexico Normal School), Edgar L. Hewett, took office in 1898. Since that year the presidential terms have included1. Edgar L. Hewett, 1898-19032. Edmund J. Vert, 1903-19073. W.E. Garrison, 1907-19084. B. S. Gowen, 1908-19105. Frank H.H. Roberts, 1910-19216. Jonathan H. Wagner, 19227. Frank Carroon, 1923-19308. H.C. Gossard, 1931-1938...
Dates: 1916-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of the Provost Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 3.0
Scope and Content The chief academic officer of New Mexico Highlands University has been designated by various titles including (all dates approximate):1910- Dean (or Dean of the College) 1964- Vice President and Dean 1971- Academic Dean 1979- Dean of Academic Affairs 1987- Vice President for Academic Affairs 1998- ProvostIndividuals holding this office have included (all dates approximate):Frank Carroon (1910-1924)...
Dates: 1922-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of the Vice President and Dean of Students Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 8.0
Scope and Content This collection contains the papers, brochures, forms, and handbooks of the various officers and offices that have overseen and coordinated student affairs at the university. Since the founding of the university these affairs have been delegated as follows (dates approximate).1. From 1898-1924, within the purview of the Dean of the College2. In 1924 the office of Dean of Women, with Margaret J. Kennedy at the helm, was instituted.3. In 1953 the office of the...
Dates: 1898-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Office of the Vice President for Finance Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 6.0
Scope and Content This collection contains very early and some recent financial records for the university. The office has had various designations since the inception of the institution. It appears that from 1893 until the early 1920s the secretary-treasurer of the board of regents handled financial affairs. In 1922 (all dates approximate) a bookkeeper was appointed. After that the chief financial officer was known as the business manager (1924-1934), bursar (1934-1947), comptroller (1947-1993), vice president...
Dates: 1893-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 60.0
Scope and Content This collection accumulated over time in various offices and repositories at the university. Primary among these were the library and the alumni office. Donations over the years, from alumni and community members, also increased the number of photographs in the collection. The collection is an eclectic one, ranging from early photos, such as that of the first graduating class in 1901, to contemporary photos of university activities. A large privately donated collection of slides from Dr. Jay...
Dates: 1901-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Registrar’s Office Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 12.0
Scope and Content This collection contains the official bulletins of the university (beginning in 1898), class schedules (from 1923 forward), recruitment materials, commencement programs, enrollment statistics, and miscellaneous material pertaining to students, faculty, and curriculum.

The post of registrar first appears in the university bulletin for 1902. The name of the office has not varied since then.
Dates: 1898-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Related Material Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 102.0
Scope and Content This collection consists of material generated by individuals or organizations affiliated in some manner with the university. These would include clubs whose members were drawn from the faculty and staff of the university or persons who compiled information on the university for their own purposes and then donated it to the archives.
Dates: 1940-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

S. Omar Barker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 104.11
Scope and Content S. Omar Barker was a well-known and widely published New Mexico author and an alumnus of New Mexico Highlands University.
Dates: Placeholder Unit Date Text; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

School of Business Collection

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Identifier: Archives 18.0
Scope and Content The first catalog of the university lists Mr. W. L. Edwards as teaching commercial, business, stenography, and penmanship classes. Vocational courses (including teacher training courses) continued to be offered until the 1960s, when an exclusive emphasis on business administrative and economic studies began to prevail. This change is reflected in the changing administrative designations.1995 – School of Business1987 – Department of Business1985 – Division of...
Dates: 1930-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

School of Education Collection

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Identifier: Archives 20.0
Scope and Content New Mexico Highlands University, first known as New Mexico Normal School, was explicitly founded to train teachers for the public schools of the state. Training in primary and secondary education has always been central to its mission.1995 – School of Education1987 – Department of Education1981 – Division of Education1945 – Department of Education1935 – Department of Education and Philosophy1930 – Department of Education...
Dates: 1930-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

School of Social Work Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 22.0
Scope and Content The organization of social work as a separate academic unit dates from 1979. Prior to that a social work curriculum resided in the Department of Behavioral Sciences.

1995 – School of Social Work

1987 – Department of Social Work

1981 – Division of Social Work

1979 – Department of Social Work

This collection includes reports, student handbooks, and field manuals.
Dates: 1979-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Student Newspaper Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 100.0
Scope and Content This collection includes copies of the official student newspaper. With some lapses, there has been a campus newspaper published since 1914. The newspaper has had three titles, the Trigonian News (1914-1923), The Candle (1927-1973), and La Mecha (1973-present). The collection is not complete. It includes many duplicates.
Dates: 1914-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

Thomas C. Donnelly Library Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 14.0
Scope and Content This collection contains accession lists, minutes of the library’s Administrative Council, general files covering the day-to-day operation of the library, and special projects and developments, from the library’s establishment in 1897 to the present.The university library was first housed (1897-1935) in Springer Hall. From 1935 to 1966 it occupied the second floor of the Thomas C. Rodgers Library and Administration Building. In 1966 it moved to independent quarters, the Thomas C....
Dates: 1897-; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

University of New Mexico. Oral History Projects and Video Recordings Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-821-BC
Abstract This is a collection of oral history projects done in conjunction with the University of New Mexico. Project themes include community/local/family history, politics/government, veterans, labor, education, and events.
Dates: 1984-2006; Majority of material found within 1995-1998

University Relations Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Archives 56.0
Scope and Content The responsibilities of the Office of University Relations include: support of academic and non-academic departments regarding information to distribute to prospective students and other external publics; public and media relations, campus publications and internal communications; strategic marketing and advertising; university graphic style standards; university web site standards; crisis communications; distribution of public documents; maintenance of photo and clipping files; and campus copy...
Dates: 1965-1985; Majority of material found in Placeholder Unit Date Text

William C. Ilfeld Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: 1971-022
Scope and Content Collection consists of papers of individuals associated with the Charles Ilfeld Co., a mercantile company which operated in Las Vegas, Santa Fe, and other parts of northern New Mexico. Series I consists of the business and personal papers of Charles Ilfeld. Business papers include deeds, certificates, licenses, conveyances, blueprints, correspondence, contracts, notebooks, receipts, invoices, and other materials from the Charles Ilfeld Co. Personal papers include correspondence, notebooks, an...
Dates: 1860-1944