Font ResizeSANTA FE - New Mexico State University's Board of Regents heard reports on the legislative session and the university's enrollment at a regular meeting Monday in Santa Fe.
Ricardo Rel, NMSU's assistant vice president for government relations, updated the regents on bills that have been introduced during the legislative session to-date that are of interest to the university. Rel said there are more than 50 bills that the university is tracking directly related to higher education and other bills that are administratively related.
For more information on the university's state funding requests as they move through the legislative process, visit www.nmsu.edu/~legislat/.
The regents also received an enrollment update from Bernadette Montoya, interim vice president for student success. Montoya said total enrollment is up slightly at the NMSU Las Cruces campus. The largest increase is in transfers from out-of-state at all levels. Each of the NMSU community college campuses is up, except for Carlsbad.
Santa Fe Mayor David Coss, a 1977 NMSU graduate, was a special guest at the meeting and welcomed the Board of Regents to Santa Fe.
