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  • 25

    Aug

    Student Film Screenings and Awards

  • 26

    Aug

    President's Welcome Back BBQ

  • 27

    Aug

    Welcome Back Beach Party

  • 28

    Aug

    Club Row

  • 28

    Aug

    Operation Glow

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Academic Calendar

FULL TERM: JAN 6 – MAY 10, 2019

  • 29

    Aug

    Last day to add or drop courses.

  • 02

    Sep

    Labor Day Holiday

  • 06

    Sep

    Census

  • 09

    Oct

    Mid-Term Exams

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TO FACULTY
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Campus News

August 22, 2019

Spanish Professor Leads Reading Group on Immigration

August 22, 2019 Las Vegas, N.M – An upcoming reading group at New Mexico Highlands University will explore immigration to the United States over the centuries as well as Indigenous sovereignty. The “No History is Illegal: A Multicultural American…

August 21, 2019

NMHU Screens Made-in-NM Films and Summer Camp Entries

August 21 This weekend, August 24 and 25, Highlands University is celebrating made-in-New-Mexico films at Ilfeld Auditorium with free public screenings of student-created shorts, a trio of blockbusters, and guest speakers from the state's film industry. Saturday, there will be showings of "The Lone Ranger"…

August 21, 2019

First Day of Fall Semester at Highlands

August 21, 2019 Maria Armijo works on financial aid forms at the New Mexico Highlands Student Center Aug. 21, the first day of fall semester. Armijo is a biochemistry senior from Las Vegas, New Mexico. Photo: Margaret McKinney/Highlands University

August 20, 2019

Residence Halls at HU See More Students for Fall Semester

August 20, 2019 Las Vegas, N.M. – There will be more students in the residence halls at New Mexico Highlands University this fall, thanks to what the university’s housing director, Yvette Wilkes, calls a record number of both new…

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