Northern New Mexico College Study Group

NNMC Board Hiding in Out of Town Meeting

9/16/2015

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The NNMC ‪ Board of Regents has just sent out notice of an out of town meeting. The members of the Board will be hiding in "Executive Session" at Buffalo Thunder Monday, September 21, 2015 at 5:30 PM.

The NNMC Study Group asks, why are the Board members hiding from the Valley? Is it not enough to hide in Executive Session? Now they have to hide out of town?

Will this Executive Session of the Board of Regents include each member of Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo's team of highly-paid, unqualified administrators, as most hidden discussions for each Board meeting do?

And finally, how much will the deluxe meeting accommodations at the Buffalo Thunder Casino cost students, parents, and tax payers?

Contact your NNMC Board of Regents members to ask them why they are hiding from students, parents, local tax payers, community members, and community leaders. Insist that the public dollars that keep NNMC afloat (in spite of the disastrously inept and possibly criminal Barcelo Administration) are discussed publicly. Insist that the Board meet at NNMC.

Board members can be reached at:

Rosario "Chayo" Garcia: chayo@nnmc.edu
Damian Martinez: damian.martinez@nnmc.edu
Kevin Powers: kevin.powers@nnmc.edu
Melinda DeHerrera: melinda_s_deherrera@nnmc.edu

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Constitutional Violations, Knowing DMCA Misuse, and harassment by NNMC Administrators

8/16/2015

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After an unconstitutional challenge of the NNMC Study Group website and a knowing misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--which is a third degree felony--by NNMC Vice President of Advancement Ricky Serna, the NNMC Study Group site is back online.

We want to especially thank our legal advisers and our contributors who have given of both their time and money to insure that the NNMC Study Group continues to publish information in the public interest. Below is the original takedown request by VP Serna along with our response in full. VP Serna has also sent take-down requests for Facebook and Twitter accounts, including the accounts of individuals.

This is particularly important as the NNMC Board of Regents considers Serna's newly proposed Social Media and Public Access policies.

NNMC VP Ricky Serna's Take-down Request

NNMC Study Group Response

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Barcelo Takes Advantage of El Rito Normal School alumni

5/31/2015

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NNMC President Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo with NNMC Board of Regents President Rosario "Chayo" Garcia (left). Entry sign for Northern New Mexico Community College at El Rito.

NNMC President Nancy “Rusty” Barcelo and her Executive Team recently closed all programs at NNMC at El Rito—the seat of the college as defined by the New Mexico Constitution and as defined by New Mexico State Statutes.[i]

Media, including The Albuquerque Journal, The Rio Grande Sun, and The Santa Fe New Mexican have each covered the illegal plans for closure of all classes at El Rito. The move to close El Rito is currently under investigation by several New Mexico State authorities. Yet, Barcelo and her team did their best to cover up the unconstitutional and illegal closure of El Rito by hoodwinking the Northern New Mexico Normal School Alumni Association into celebrating a “ground-breaking” at the El Rito campus.[ii] The Alumni Association Vice-President, Maria Dolores-Gonzales, was recently paid by Barcelo to act as the NNMC El Rito "Campus Coordinator" while simultaneously running her privately owned business, Bilingual Strategies, out of the El Rito Campus. The “groundbreaking” of the Alumni Memorial Wall amounted to unveiling two full-color posters with Barcelo and her Executive Team posing for photo ops armed with smiles and golden shovels, using the unsuspecting alumni as props.

President Barcelo and her Executive Team timed the event to cover up the extensive coverage of the closure of El Rito and her Administration's years-long neglect and destruction of the campus. Here is what Barcelo wanted the press and public to see:

Indeed, Barcelo travels with at least two (often three) public relations staffers (Sandy Krolick, David Lindblom, and Stephanie J. Montoya) whose State salaries are paid by New Mexico taxpayers and student tuition and fees. Click pictures below to view larger

President Barcelo is pictured here with her golden shovel (above left). Barcelo was sure to autograph the images of the Normal School Memorial Wall that were generated and paid for by the alumni group (above right). Barcelo's publicity team of Sandy Krolick and Stephanie Montoya spent the day at taxpayer expense capturing photos of Barcelo and her Executive Team posing with the unsuspecting Normal School Alumni.

What barcelo didn't want the Normal School alumNI to see

Above is the true state of NNMC El Rito under her leadership. El Rito's educational mission precedes New Mexico statehood and its land was donated by Venceslao Jaramillo. Jaramillo, State Senator from Rio Arriba County, helped draft laws for the state in 1912 as a member of the Constitutional Convention. Venceslao and his wife Cleofas (Martinez) Jaramillo would begin their married life in El Rito. Cleofas Jaramillo--author, historian, preservationist in her own right--organized La Sociedad Folklorica de Santa Fe (Folklore Society of Santa Fe) in 1935 with the mission of preserving the traditional Spanish folklore and customs of New Mexico. Today the Jaramillo legacy at the Normal School (today NNMC at El Rito) has been reduced to crumbling walls, black mold, dangerous exposed asbestos, electric wiring next to massive, active water leaks, Heritage Arts course materials strewn like trash. Such a sight would no doubt break the hearts of Venceslao and Cleofas Jaramillo, who set aside the Normal School at El Rito as a place for cultural preservation and as a place to train New Mexicans to become educators. Today, under the leadership of Barcelo, neither is occurring.

What is perhaps most shameful is that Barcelo has required the Northern New Mexico Normal School Alumni Association to pay for the Alumni Memorial Wall themselves. Further, Barcelo will require the non-profit alumni group to "donate" the Memorial Wall, which will cost thousands, to NNMC. Barcelo has appointed VP of Advancement Ricky Serna as the "official liaison" to the alumni group to guarantee the transfer of property to the college, though Barcelo has closed the El Rito campus to all credit-bearing programs and has removed all classes from El Rito, in violation of the NM State Constitution and State Statute.

The NNMC Study Group would encourage alumni, current students, community members, and Legislators to hold Barcelo accountable for the closure of all credit-bearing programs at El Rito, the closure of all Heritage Arts classes at El Rito, the complete divestment from El Rito, and the heartbreaking and dangerous disrepair of our historically-significant campus. While Barcelo focuses on the surface, on cheap photo ops, the college is very literally falling to pieces.

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[i] See “NNMC Relocation Move Sparks Debate,” The Albuquerque Journal, April 17, 2015. http://www.abqjournal.com/570810/news/nnmc-relocation-move-sparks-debate.html

[ii] See “Normal School Alumni Break Ground on memorial Wall in El Rito,” The Valley Daily Post “Virtual Newspaper,” May 12, 2015. The reader should note that the images provide for this story by NNMC show a lush courtyard. Under Barcelo’s leadership, that once lush courtyard and fountain have fallen into neglect and disrepair as seen in the current images of the El Rito campus. http://valleydailypost.com/nnmc-normal-school-alumni-break-ground-memorial-wall-el-rito

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NNMC Regent Kevin Powers & RBC Capital Markets Possible Conflict of Interest in $16 Million Dorm Project

4/10/2015

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NNMC VP of Finance Domingo Sanchez, NNMC President Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo, Regent Kevin Powers, Director RBC Capital Markets Paul Cassidy at NM HED requesting dorm project approval (left to right). Click each pic to view larger.

Director of RBC Capital Markets Paul Cassidy at NNMC Board of Regents meeting (May 2014) with former Regent Michael Branch, Regent Kevin Powers, NNMC President Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo, Regent Rosario "Chayo" Garcia, NNMC VP of Finance Domingo Sanchez, and Peter Franklin of Mondrall Sperling Law Firm (left to right).

As Northern New Mexico College continues litigation against Monument, LLC, their dorm developer, the NNMC Study Group felt it important to explore the history of failed dorm projects at NNMC.[i] In particular, we have uncovered the possible conflicts of interest in various phases of the project with NNMC Regent Kevin Powers. Regent Powers was the Director of RBC Capital Markets in Albuquerque, the bond underwriter for the dorm project in 2007 and again in 2013-2014.

The NNMC dorm project was first proposed during the administration of former NNMC President José Griego. The college issued a request for proposal (RFP) seeking a company to act as project manager for dorm development. One of the duties of the project manager would be to devise a financing scheme, i.e. handle the details of funding the project via the issuance of bonds by the college or some other entity of state government acting on the college’s behalf. The project manager would oversee all aspects of the project and would manage or sub-contract the various elements of work to other companies such as an architectural firm, a construction firm, or a bond underwriter.

An experienced company, well-qualified to be such a project manager, responded to the RFP. That company was Institutional Project Management (IPM) of the Chicago area. IPM’s proposal identified RBC Capital Markets as the bond underwriter. At that time Regent Kevin Powers was identified as the Director of RBC Capital Markets in Albuquerque.

Communications between the college and IPM show that IPM was to be selected as the dorm project manager. But on the eve of the anticipated formal action awarding the management contract to IPM, then NNMC Board President Michael Branch proposed a change in the proposal specifications regarding the materials to be used for the dorm buildings beams. Branch, CEO of Santa Fe’s Branch Realty Commercial Advisors [sic], wanted to substitute steel beams for wooden beams. IPM informed NNMC that such a change would mean a substantial increase in construction cost and thereby have an impact on the financing aspects of the project. Another development at this stage of the was IPM’s announcement that the company wished to amend its proposal to make a change it the architectural firm it had initially proposed as one of its sub-contractors in the project.

Based on these two developments, NMCC cancelled the RFP and rejected the IPM proposal. The NNMC Board then stated that no other company had submitted a “second best” proposal and the entire dorm project was effectively cancelled/put on hold.

IPM then sued the college appealing the Board’s cancelling of the RFP and alleging that the college had violated various legal requirements it was bound to observe (such as basic State procurement procedures).[ii] The case was settled via a stipulated dismissal, meaning an out-of-court settlement was reached between IPM and NMCC in 2010. IPM also sued NNMC in a related case, which was regarding the college’s refusal to release public records as required by the NM Inspection of Public Records Act.[iii]

Certainly Kevin Powers, per his role as a senior executive at RBC Capital Markets, was involved in the IPM submissions to NMCC that identified RBC as the underwriter of bond for the dorm project. And surely Powers was aware of the IPM/NMCC disputes leading to the aforementioned litigation.

The dorm project effectively went into hibernation until sometime in 2012 or 2013 when the BOR resuscitated it.

Meanwhile, Powers retired from RBC in November, 2012. Just two months later in January 2013 Governor Susana Martinez appointed Powers to the NMCC BOR. However, the state Senate failed to consider confirmation of that appointment and Powers became a “regent-in-waiting” for the duration of 2013, taking his seat only after the state Senate did confirm him in January, 2014.

It is not known what, if any, continuing financial relationships/entanglements Powers may have with RBC Capital Markets as a retired executive of that securities firm.

It was during his “regent-in-waiting” period that the NMCC Board of Regents (led by Michael Branch) revived the dorm project. The dorm project’s second incarnation involved a new company playing the role of project manager. That company was Indiana-based Monument, LLC. Regents Branch and Herrera, who led the new push for dorms, were intimately familiar with the IPM fiasco as they were both serving as Board members in 2008.

In the minutes of the February 2014 NNMC Board of Regents meeting, Regent Herrera gave a report regarding Monument and the dorm project. That meeting was the first meeting attended by retired RBC Director Kevin Powers (immediately following his Senate confirmation). Herrera, according to the minutes, specifically mentioned that Monument’s services on behalf of the dorm project would involve the participation of RBC, newly-installed Regent Kevin Powers’ former employer.

The Monument services being provided to the college vis-à-vis the dorm project and RBC’s role in that endeavor were remarkably similar to those proposed by IPM back in 2008.

Throughout its failed 2013-2014 attempt to build new dorms, NNMC Board of Regents meeting minutes and college-related documents demonstrate RBC assisted Monument in that company’s quest to obtain approval of bonds to be issued to fund the dorm project. That quest met with failure.

NNMC entered into two contractual agreements with Monument, LLC, which total near one-million dollars. The college paid Monument in full for its services performed pursuant to the first contract. But the college has failed to make payments to Monument pursuant to the second contract. NNMC ceased additional payments to Monument coincidentally after to the college failed to obtain endorsement of the dorm project (and issuance of bonds) from the State Board of Finance. That failure effectively killed the dorm project in its second incarnation.

Subsequently Monument’s attorney, Jason Bowles, wrote the college regarding the payments Monument was owed under the second Monument/NMCC contract (roughly $600,000). Bowles suggested mediation (as required under the second contract) as a method for resolving any disputes regarding the unreceived payments. In response, the college filed a State District Court lawsuit against Monument seeking a declaratory judgment stating that the college was not liable for any additional payments to Monument. This action, filed by NMMC’s legal counsel, Basham & Basham of Santa Fe, was a preemptive strike by the college to forestall any debt-collection lawsuit against the college by Monument.

This new dorm-related litigation in which the college is now embroiled may or may not involve some review of the pleadings/evidence in the 2008 IPM lawsuit against NNMC regarding the dorm project.

Of particular interest is the relationship of NNMC Regent Kevin Powers (RBC Capital Markets, former Director) with the 2008-2009 IPM failed dorm project, and his involvement with the 2012-2014 Monument deal, which was assisted by RBC. What were the entanglements as during the resurrection of the dorm project?

What were the discussions between Regent Powers, the NMMC Administration/Board members, and RBC in the 2012-2013 period when Powers was about to retire from RBC? What were the discussions between when Regent Powers was newly retired from RBC, and was a regent-in-waiting as the Monument/NNMC dorm project relationship was initially flowering?

Of particular interest are Regent Powers’ conversations and interactions with his former colleagues at RBC as Monument and RBC efforts to secure bond approval were underway after he took office on NNMC Board in 2014.

We might also ask the propriety of Powers’ involvement with the proposed $16 million dollar dorm deal involving RBC when, according to his 990-T disclosure form to serve on the NNMC Board, Powers and his wife Marci listed annual income over $5,000 as “various stocks bonds & funds 401k & IRA.” What are the amounts Regent Powers and his wife have continued to draw from RBC?

Below is a small excerpt of the May 2014 NNMC Board of Regents meeting, we see Regent Kevin Powers pledging the direct and active support of the NNMC Board members to RBC's current Director Paul Cassidy (4:15).[iv] The intimacy of the continuing relationship between NNMC Regent Powers and RBC Capital Markets will continue to be probed.
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[i] For full story and court documents on the lawsuit filed by NNMC against Monument, LLC, see: http://www.nnmcstudygroup.org/blog/nnmcs-barcelo-administration-sues-its-dorm-developer-to-avoid-payment-of-650000-past-due The Rio Grande Sun has also reported on the lawsuit. See story at: http://www.riograndesun.com/articles/2015/04/09/news/doc55259c88b4285872893446.txt

[ii] The case number for that lawsuit, filed in 2008, is D-117-CV-200800427. All of the case-file documents are domiciled at the Rio Arriba County Courthouse (First Judicial District Clerk’s Office) in Tierra Amarilla. All such documents (contained in two large file folders) are hard copies. The case file is not imaged and therefore inspection of those documents requires visit to T.A. These voluminous case file documents reflect/substantiate the narrative above.

[iii] The IPC IPRA case number is D-117-2009-00265.

[iv] NNMC minutes of that Board meeting available online at: http://nnmc.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BORMinutesMay222014.pdf The RBC Capital Markets presentation by Director Paul Cassidy begins at page 11. Additional excerpts of the RBC and Mondrall Sperling presentation at the May 2014 Board of Regents meeting available on youtube at the NNMC Study Group Channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChVQBq07UoeNxltoa7syzXw/videos

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Extensive and National Coverage Critical of NNMC Name Change

4/7/2015

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Media coverage of the unauthorized, costly and misleading name change from Northern New Mexico College to Northern New Mexico University has been extensive. The Santa Fe New Mexican feature article [left] was followed by articles in Inside Higher Ed, The Arizona Daily Star, and The Houston Chronicle among others. New Mexico news stations also featured the story on evening news broadcasts as well as on their websites.

The Santa Fe New Mexican, in particular, emphasizes responses by New Mexico Legislators critical of the name change. Northern New Mexico College has yet to correct their website and social media sites to reflect that their official name is still Northern New Mexico College rather than Northern New Mexico University.

Click each image for full story.

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Notice: NNMC Board "Work Session" Subject to Open Meetings Act (Friday April 10th, 8:30AM)

3/31/2015

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Proposed "Academic And Student Affairs Committee" Violates NM Constitution, Open Meetings Act, NNMC Faculty Policies, and Shared Governance

3/25/2015

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Ex-Regent Michael Branch

At the Thursday, March 26th Board of Regents meeting, the Board will vote on a proposal for an “Academic and Student Affairs Committee,” authored by ex-Regent Michael Branch (who also named himself the Chair of the Committee in the proposal, see full proposal above). The “Academic and Student Affairs Committee,” if approved, would erode the governing function of the Board of Regents in violation of the New Mexico State Constitution and would destroy all semblance of shared governance jeopardizing the College’s accreditation.

As proposed, all activities of the entire college would be funneled through the “Academic and Student Affairs Committee.” The Committee would function as a screen, controlling what the Board of Regents itself is allowed to see, hear, and deliberate upon. In addition, the Committee would completely negate any action the faculty takes (there is no faculty member of this committee), as any actions would require approval by the Committee before it goes to the Board. Indeed, the Committee has the power to remove or revise anything proposed by faculty and substitute their own version.

It is abundantly clear that by standards of shared governance—as measured by Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), the college’s accrediting agency, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) that such a Committee would violate basic standards of shared governance. The Committee is specifically designed to erode shared governance, making the role of the faculty, faculty committees and the Faculty Senate obsolete. Such a move is likely a violation of AQIP standards, our accreditation requirements from the Higher Learning Commission, and the guidelines of the AAUP. Power over curriculum, teaching, research, programs and degree decisions would—by virtue of the Committee—be given to four people: two Board members, Provost Pedro Martinez, and one “at large member” to be appointed by the Board of Regents.

We might notice two key things about the design of the four person Committee:

1) The “at large member” would be appointed by the Board and given the power to govern every aspect of the college. As we are aware, per the New Mexico Constitution, the New Mexico State Governor is charged with appointing Regents to govern Northern New Mexico College. The proposed “Academic and Student Affairs Committee” would thus create an extra-legal appointment by the NNMC Board. This would circumvent the power to appoint that is granted to the State Governor in the NM State Constitution.

2) Ex-Regent Michael Branch has also designed the Committee so that it has only two Regents—a clear attempt at preventing a quorum, which is subject to the Open Meetings Act. The “Academic and Student Affairs” Committee is designed specifically in violation the Open Meetings Act. However, the NM Attorney General has stated that “even a non-statutory body appointed by a public body may constitute a ‘policymaking’ body subject to the Act.” [i]

This would most certainly be the case, much to the dismay of ex-Regent Branch, as the Committee “attends to students’ concerns about matters such as tuition, fees; financial aid, admissions, retention, student success and graduation requirements, faculty teaching and advisement; student life, student conduct and housing rules and staff support and services.” Further, the “Academic and Student Affairs Committee” proposal explains: the four person Committee will both “approve and recommend” strategic plans, mission statements, budgets, development or cancellation of academic programs, establishment of colleges, departments, institutes and programs. The proposed Committee will both “approve and recommend” changes to policies and procedures for faculty and students, changes to enrollment management, graduation standards, and even intellectual property rights of faculty and students.

Given the power granted to the four person “Academic and Student Affairs Committee,” we may ask why have a governing Board of Regents at all?

The NNMC Study Group encourages the Board of Regents to vote no on the proposed “Academic and Student Affairs Committee,” as its adoption will violate the NM State Constitution and jeopardize the college’s accreditation.

We recommend that the members of the Board of Regents research issues of the Constitutional powers and responsibilities granted the Regents, the requirements of the Open Meeting Act, and the principles of shared governance as required by AQIP, HLC—our accreditation agency, and the AAUP.

The Regents should note that the AAUP is currently investigating Northern New Mexico College for violations of shared governance (as reported in both The Journal and the Rio Grande Sun in 2014).

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[i] “Open Meetings Act Guide 2015,” New Mexico Office of the Attorney General, pg. 9. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=bm1hZy5nb3Z8dGVzdC1ubWFnfGd4OjdkYjUwMTgyNGQyNzljMw

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NNMC's Barcelo Administration Sues Its DORM Developer To Avoid Payment of $650,000 Past Due

3/24/2015

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April 2014 Board of Regents meeting with discussion of dorm project led by VP Domingo Sanchez and Basketball Coach Ryan Cordova.

Northern New Mexico College has filed a lawsuit against Monument, LLC, their own student housing developer. Northern agreed to pay over $978,000 in 2013 and 2014 for the development of a dorm project at the Española campus of NNMC.

Records from 2014 show the VP of Finance’s Office signed off on invoices sent by Monument, internally scheduling them for payment. However, as the months passed, by late 2014 invoices and statements sent by Monument showed NNMC behind in payments by hundreds of thousands dollars and incurring thousands in finance charges.[i]

The Rio Grande Sun covered the dormitory project, with a particularly shocking story of how the college had “borrowed” $200,000 from the alumni scholarship fund (The Northern Foundation) to pay Monument. Indeed the college “forgot” to pay back the Foundation (a 501c3 non-profit organization) until contacted by reporters. [ii]

In 2014, the New Mexico State Auditor reported that NNMC violated NM State Statute by “expending funds on capital projects before required approval.” The Monument dorm deal struck between NNMC and Monument (a project led by the Head Basketball Coach, Contractor Ryan Cordova) violated State Statute 21-1-21 (article 12, Section 11), which reads:

“[N]o expenditure shall be made by any state educational institution confirmed by Article 12, Section 11 of the state constitution for the purchase of real property or the construction of buildings or other major structures or for major remodeling projects without prior approval of the proposed purchase or construction or remodeling by the board of educational finance and the state board.”[iii]

Northern’s President Nancy “Rusty” Barcelo and four members of the NNMC Board of Regents flagrantly violated the New Mexico State Statute.

In July 2014, the college’s request for a revenue bond to finance the $16 million no-bid dorm project was rejected by the New Mexico Board of Finance.[iv] The rejection by the Board of Finance was covered by The Journal, which noted that according to "Ricky Serna, Northern’s vice president for advancement… the college isn’t giving up on its goal to construct dorms in time for the 2015-16 school year. He said in an email to The Journal, the college is looking at other options for funding, including ‘a public-private partnership or a privately developed building near the College campus.’ The project ‘remains a priority for the College,’ he wrote."[v]

NNMC violated NM State Statute by initiating unauthorized capital projects and expenditures, it raided the Northern Foundation, a non-profit 501c3 (whose Treasurer, Liddie Martinez, is the aunt of VP Ricky Serna), then due to its fiscal instability and malfeasance, the college fell months behind in payments to Monument by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

What’s the plan now? The Barcelo Administration hopes to delay or even avoid payment of $650,000. And it continues to promise dorms as it recruits out-of-state and out-of-country athletes. The story will continue to develop.

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[i] Original contracts signed between NNMC and Monument, LLC along with samples of invoices available at: http://www.nnmcstudygroup.org/monument-llc.html

[ii] Stories ran on 7/24/2014 and 9/6/2014--the latter discussing the raid of the alumni fund. Transcripts of stories available at (scroll to 7/24 and 9/6): http://thenorthernissue.org/

[iii] Violations regarding agreements with Monument, LLC on pg. 55 of 2014 New Mexico State Audit. Available at: http://www.saonm.org/audit_reports/detail/8920

[iv] See full report on NM Board of Finance here: http://www.nnmcstudygroup.org/blog/nnmc-dorms-indefinite-hold

[v] “Plan by Northern to Build Dorms Hits a Major Hurdle,” 25 July 2014. http://www.abqjournal.com/435078/news/plan-by-northern-to-build-dorms-hits-a-major-hurdle.html

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nNMC VP Serna Caught Misrepresenting Accrediting Agency Role in "Name Change"

3/23/2015

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Click above for full original story and correction.

The Santa Fe New Mexican has issued a correction regarding Northern New Mexico College name change to "university."

NNMC Vice President of Institutional Advancement Ricky Serna misrepresented the college's accrediting agency's role in the attempt at an institutional name change. This misrepresentation was repeated to both the media and to New Mexico Senators during discussion of the Name Change Bill (SB-603).

The accrediting agency, The Higher Learning Commission, "did not play a role in the name change" as was claimed by VP Serna. This misrepresentation was taken directly to NM State Senators by NNMC President Nancy "Rusty" Barcelo and VP Serna during discussion of the NNMC name change bill, which was never called to full floor discussion or vote by its sponsor Senator Carlos Cisneros.

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NNMC Office of the President Releases Agenda on "College" Letterhead

3/17/2015

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The Northern New Mexico College Office of the President has released the March 26th agenda for the NNMC Board of Regents Meeting...

on "College" letterhead.

Of special note: The Tuition Hike/ "Flat Rate" Proposal, which was discussed at the February Board Meeting and was to be voted on during the March meeting, is missing from the agenda.

For full Board meeting agenda, click agenda at left

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