University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico (also referred to as UNM) is a accessible analysis university amid in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is New Mexico's flagship analysis institution, the better post-secondary academy in the accompaniment in absolute acceptance beyond all campuses as of 2012, and one of the state's better employers.

Founded in 1889, UNM offers bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and able amount programs in a advanced array of fields. Its Albuquerque campus currently encompasses over 600 acreage (2.4 km²), and there are annex campuses in Gallup, Los Alamos, Rio Rancho, Taos, and Los Lunas.[6]Coordinates: 35.08389°N 106.61861°W UNM is categorized as an RU/VH Analysis University (very top analysis activity) in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, with three Nobel laureates affiliated or associated.

History
Founding
Hodgin Hall, the aboriginal architectonics on campus. The bluff has changed, and the architectonics is now acclimated by the Alumni Association.

The University of New Mexico was founded on February 28, 1889, with the access of House Bill No. 186 by the Legislative Assembly of the Area of New Mexico; stipulating that "Said academy is hereby amid at or abreast the boondocks of Albuquerque, in the canton of Bernalillo aural two afar arctic of railroad access in said town, aloft a amplitude of acceptable top and dry land, of not beneath than twenty acreage acceptable for the purposes of such institution," and that it would be the accompaniment university if New Mexico became a state. Bernard Shandon Rodey, a adjudicator of the area of New Mexico, pushed for Albuquerque as the area of the University and was one of the authors of the statute that created UNM, earning him the appellation of "Father of the University." Two years later, Elias S. Stover became the aboriginal admiral of the University and the afterward year the University's aboriginal building, Hodgin Hall, opened.

Early growth
The third admiral of UNM, William G. Tight, who served from 1901–09, alien abounding programs for acceptance and faculty, including the aboriginal fraternity and sorority. Tight alien the Pueblo Revival architectonics for which the campus has become known. During Tight's term, the aboriginal Pueblo Revival appearance architectonics on campus, the Estufa, was constructed, and the Victorian-style Hodgin Hall was bashed over to actualize a cairn to Pueblo Indian culture. However, Tight was vilified for his primitivism and was removed from appointment for political reasons, admitting history would absolve him as the Pueblo Revival appearance became the ascendant architectural appearance on campus.

Under David Ross Boyd, the university's fifth president, the campus was connected from 20 to 300 acreage (1.2 km2) and a 200,000-acre (810 km2) federal acreage admission was fabricated to the university. In 1922, the University was accepted by the Arctic Axial Association of Colleges and Schools. During this time, added accessories were complete for the university, but it was beneath the administration of James F. Zimmerman, the university's seventh president, that the university underwent its aboriginal above expansion. Beneath Zimmerman, abounding new barrio were constructed, apprentice acceptance increased, new departments were added, and greater abutment was generated for accurate research. Among the new barrio complete were Zimmerman Library, Scholes Hall, the aboriginal apprentice abutment architectonics (now the anthropology complex), the university's aboriginal amphitheater and its aboriginal stadium. John Gaw Meem, a acclaimed Santa Fe architect, was apprenticed to architecture abounding of the barrio complete during this period, and is accustomed with imbuing the campus with its characteristic Pueblo Revival style.

World War II and beyond
During World War II, University of New Mexico was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took allotment in the V-12 Navy Academy Training Program which offered acceptance a aisle to a Navy commission.

Thomas L. Popejoy, the ninth and the aboriginal built-in New Mexican university president, was appointed in 1948 and oversaw the university through the next twenty years, a aeon of above advance for the university. During this time, acceptance jumped from about 5,000 to added than 14,000, new programs such as medicine, nursing, dental, and law were founded, and new accessories such as Mesa Vista Hall, Mitchell Hall, Johnson Gymnasium, new dormitories, the accepted apprentice abutment building, the Academy of Education complex, the business center, the engineering complex, the Fine Arts Center, the Apprentice Health Center, University Stadium, University Arena (now clearly accepted by its appellation of The Pit), and the aboriginal accessories on Arctic Campus were constructed. This aeon aswell saw the foundation of UNM's annex accessories in Los Alamos and Gallup and the accretion of the D.H. Lawrence Ranch arctic of Taos.

During the aboriginal 1970s, a alternation of protests were captivated at the university and some of them angry violent. On May 5, 1970, a beef over the Vietnam War and the Kent Accompaniment annihilation active the Apprentice Abutment Building. The Civic Guard was ordered to ambit the architectonics and arrest those inside; eleven acceptance and journalists were bayonetted if those alfresco did not apprehend the adjustment to banish accustomed inside.[8] On May 10, 1972, a peaceful demonstration beef abreast Kirtland Air Force Base led to the arrest of thirty-five humans and was pushed aback to UNM, arch to eight added arrests. The afterward day, breach gas was acclimated adjoin hundreds of demonstrators on campus and the bearings connected to deteriorate, arch to the university to acknowledge a accompaniment of emergency.

New programs and schools were created in the 1970s and the university acquired ascendancy over the hospital on Arctic Campus. New accessories for the medical and law schools were complete on Arctic Campus and new Capital Campus barrio were complete on the website of the now burst Zimmerman Field and Stadium, including Ortega Hall, Woodward Hall, the Humanities building, and the Art building. The campus aswell underwent a new agriculture plan, which included the architecture of the avoid pond west of Zimmerman Library and the about-face of abounding streets to banal malls in adjustment to accomplish a added pedestrian-friendly campus.

At the end of the decade, the university was active in a recruiting aspersion dubbed "Lobogate" by the press. An FBI eavesdrop on the buzz of a arresting Lobo booster recorded a chat in which basketball arch drillmaster Norm Ellenberger abiding with abettor drillmaster Manny Goldstein to alteration artificial credits from a California inferior academy to the appointment of the UNM registrar. Subsequent analysis angry up a bogus academy allowance from Mercer Canton Community Academy in New Jersey, forth with bare transcripts and annal of antecedent forgery. Further analysis baldheaded declared incentives like cars and apartments doled out to prime players and apparent a all-inclusive arrangement of sports gambling. The aspersion affected Ellenberger to abandon and authentic the appellation of William E. Davis, UNM's eleventh president.

Recent history
The university has connected to grow, with accretion acceptance and new facilities. In the 1980s, affecting amplification occurred at the medical center, business school, and engineering school. The Centennial Library was aswell constructed. During the 1990s, an Honors Academy was founded, and the university completed architecture of a new bookstore and Dane Smith Hall. The Analysis Park at South Campus was aswell expanded.

By this point, the university had one of the better apprentice and adroitness populations of Hispanics and Built-in Americans in the country. A abstraction appear in 1995 showed that the amount of full-time Hispanic adroitness at UNM was four times greater than the civic boilerplate and the amount of Built-in American agents 5 times greater. The schools of law and business had some of the better Hispanic apprentice populations of any university in the country.

In the aboriginal decade of the 2000s, above amplification began on medical accessories on Arctic Campus. The accepted company center, a new engineering center, and George Pearl Hall were constructed. Renovations and expansions were undertaken on several barrio on Capital Campus, forth with the conception of a annex campus in Rio Rancho. This beachcomber of architecture is continuing at present with added projects ongoing.

Campus
The capital campus is amid on 600 acreage (2.4 km2) in Albuquerque on the heights a mile east of Downtown Albuquerque, and is breach in three locations – central, north, and south. The axial campus is anchored amid Axial Access on the south, Girard Boulevard on the east, Lomas Boulevard on the north, and University Boulevard on the west, and is home to the capital bookish university. The Arctic Campus, which includes the medical and law schools as able-bodied as the University of New Mexico Hospital, is amid on the arctic ancillary of Lomas beyond from the axial campus. The South campus is amid a mile south of the axial campus, centered about the circle of University Boulevard and Avenida César Chavez, and includes a lot of of UNM's able-bodied facilities. The axial campus is acclaimed for its different Pueblo Revival architectural style, with abounding of the barrio advised by above university artist John Gaw Meem, who is accustomed with imbuing the campus with its characteristic Southwestern feel. The axial campus is aswell home to the University of New Mexico Arboretum, which contains some 320 breed of coarse plants.

Eight university barrio are listed alone on the Civic Register of Historic Places, including Hodgin Hall, the University's aboriginal building, and two adjoining structures, the Art Annex and Sara Reynolds Hall. The Estufa, one of the aboriginal Pueblo Revival appearance structures in the country and the aboriginal on campus, is aswell on the list. Added structures on the anthology are Carlisle Gymnasium, Jonson Gallery, Scholes Hall, and the University House.

The axial campus is home to four museums: the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in the anthropology building, the Geology and Meteorite Museums in Northrop Hall, the Southwest Biology Museum in the CERIA building, and the University Art Museum in the Centermost for the Arts.

In an accomplishment to advance sustainability and abate the ecology appulse of the campus, UNM has been abbreviation the campus activity acceptance through ecology and retrofitting cooling, heating, water, and lighting technologies.[9] Due to these efforts, the University of New Mexico's brand on the Academy Sustainability Report Card 2009 bigger from a "C" to a "B" according to the Sustainable Endowments Institute.Since 2008, afterward an controlling adjustment that all new accompaniment barrio over 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2) charge to accommodated LEED argent at minimum, all new architecture on campus has been registered for LEED status. So far, an amplification of Castetter Hall and the Technology and Education Centermost are the alone LEED-certified barrio on campus, with a Gold and Platinum appraisement respectively. Several added barrio are currently registered for LEED status.