Katie Besser Student Awards and Richard Bradford scholarship announced at Zoom gathering
Santa Fe Community College’s emerging writers, photographers and mixed media artists were recognized during the Katie Besser Student Awards celebration hosted online by the SFCC Library on May 14. The awards were named for the late Katie Besser in recognition of her love of literature and creative writing. The event […]
SFCC team wins WERC awards Spring 2020
Congratulations to an SFCC team, which earned WERC an (Waste-Management Education Research Consortium) Engineering NM Resource Network Pollution Prevention Award ($1500). SFCC student Zachary DeLay also was recognized with one of Intel’s Terry McManus Outstanding Student Awards ($1,000). The competition is usually held in person at NMSU, but needed to […]
SFCC Snapshot: Steve Martinez
“About 10% of my students were having difficulty because of what was happening in their lives or access to the Internet. You think everybody has access to the Internet, but that’s not the case. I had a handful of students who called me crying, saying they couldn’t study, and I […]
SFCC Snapshot: R. Charlie Shultz
“It started when SFCC President Becky Rowley announced that we weren’t coming back to campus after spring break, so we were really thrown into transition. Right away our concern was to use the facility that we’d invested in to provide food to the community. We can’t just close down the […]
SFCC Snapshot: sj Miller
“This semester I had one face-to-face class, Theories of Teaching and Learning. The 11 students in the class were already very bonded when we went online, so we didn’t miss a heartbeat. Those relationships were already formed and going online brought us even closer. Since we were in crisis, I […]
SFCC Snapshot: Dr. Jen Breneiser
“Based on what I was hearing from my students, their schedules changed significantly when the covid situation happened. I personally didn’t feel comfortable holding them to a class meeting that they had made an obligation to before covid. Maybe their parents lost a job, or maybe they had to work. […]
SFCC Snapshot: Ian Widrick Martinez
“During this time, the biggest challenge for me has been the adjustment of balancing my work life with my school life and my student government life. I feel like they’ve all been crushed together, and I’ve had to figure out how to do my homework, my student government life, my […]
SFCC Snapshot: Natasha Farmer
“One of the biggest challenges is that many of the classes I was taking were practical classes, and it’s hard to transition those to online, although it hasn’t gone as badly as I thought it would. My instructors have been very creative. In the Wastewater Microbiology class, my instructor found […]
SFCC Snapshot: Russell Fletcher
“I am energized by being around people and that’s why I’ve always been drawn to a traditional classroom. Being in a classroom online is not the same as being in a classroom in person. When our Theories of Teaching and Learning class, taught by sj miller, went online, we met […]
Reduction in Force Announcement May 19, 2020
Dear Colleagues, As we continue to make adjustments and sacrifices in our personal lives in response to COVID-19, so too must our institution respond to the financial challenges of our current and anticipated economic circumstances. I am saddened to announce that due to the unprecedented and unforeseen challenges presented by […]
SFCC history of Katie Besser Awards and Richard Bradford Scholarship
SFCC celebrated Katie Besser Award winners and announced the winners of the Richard Bradford Creative Writing Memorial Scholarship on May 5, 2021. Read more in this press release. Here’s a brief history of the Katie Besser Student Awards and the Richard Bradford Creative Writing Memorial Scholarship.: Nearly 20 years ago, […]
President’s Update to SFCC Staff and Faculty: Limited Access to Campus Starting May 18; Campus Remains Closed to Public
Dear Colleagues, During this unprecedented and unpredictable time, the college continues to operate in accordance with New Mexico stay-at-home orders and its plans for a tiered and safe reopening. While the college remains closed to students and public throughout the summer semester, I am announcing beginning May 18 the limited […]
Kids Campus distributes educational kits on May 8, 2020
Santa Fe Community College’s kids from Kids Campus were feeling the love as they arrived to be met by their teachers and staff at Kids Campus. They made We Love You signs to share the love. Activity Kit List Infants to Pre K contained specific materials for Infants, Toddlers, Twos, […]
President’s Update: April 28, 2020
Dear Colleagues: You continue to inspire me with the many ways you are helping our students and each other navigate this unfamiliar terrain. Thank you. You are making a difference. See the latest issue of Inside SFCC, which describes some of the outstanding outreach that has been implemented to further […]
SFCC faculty member Emily Stern has work featured in Seattle Art Show
Emily Stern was part of a group art show, originally to open in Seattle on April 11, but instead was on Zoom and YouTube. See more information here. Stern’s work is called “Photo Albums from the Future.” She expressed thanks to the fine woodworking department for letting her use some […]
