0001|                          SENATE MEMORIAL 3
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           MANNY M. ARAGON
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0010|                              A MEMORIAL
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0011|     DECLARING FEBRUARY 3 AS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DAY IN THE
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0012|     LEGISLATURE.
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0013|     
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0014|          WHEREAS, community colleges in New Mexico are
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0015|     strategically located around the state for easy access to the
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0016|     post-secondary and lifelong learning needs of our citizens;
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0017|     and
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0018|          WHEREAS, community colleges now educate and train fifty-
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0019|     three thousand New Mexicans in credit programs, or fifty-three
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0020|     percent of the total higher education student population, and
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0021|     another estimated seventy-five thousand New Mexicans in
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0022|     noncredit adult and continuing education; and
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0023|          WHEREAS, community colleges play an important role in
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0024|     local, regional and statewide efforts in literacy training,
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0025|     work force development, economic development and welfare
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0001|     reform; and
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0002|          WHEREAS, community colleges are committed to teaching
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0003|     excellence and produce students who excel in their academic
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0004|     and career development; 
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0005|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE STATE
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0006|     OF NEW MEXICO that in recognition of the importance of
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0007|     community colleges in New Mexico, February 3, 1998 be
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0008|     designated "community college day" in the legislature; and
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0009|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the nominated community
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0010|     college academic all-state team consisting of the following
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0011|     students be recognized by the senate:
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0012|          Eva Alcala and Karla Musgrove, Clovis community college;
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0013|     Clinton L. Dozier and Laurie Scott, New Mexico state
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0014|     university-Dona Ana; Martha Patterson and Shaya Patton,
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0015|     eastern New Mexico university-Roswell; Luis Aragon, III and
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0016|     Cynthia Gonzales, Luna vocational-technical institute; Blanca
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0017|     Esthela Banuelos and John Frost, Mesa technical college; David
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0018|     Sinclair, New Mexico military institute; Mary Byman and
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0019|     Loralei Hoggard, New Mexico state university-Alamogordo;
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0020|     Richard Vickrey, New Mexico state university-Carlsbad; Emily
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0021|     Hokom and Matt Miller, San Juan college; Susan Fehilly, Santa
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0022|     Fe community college; and Felicia Romero, university of New
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0023|     Mexico-Los Alamos.
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