SFCC Snapshot: Sarah Ruiz
“It’s definitely been difficult. I’m a single mom and I have no family around to help. I have two children, 13 and 8, and the youngest is autistic. For me, the biggest challenge was trying to stay on a schedule; however, I was determined to finish nursing school. My boys really stepped up and made […]
SFCC Spring 2020 Graduation Fast Facts
344 Santa Fe Community College (New Mexico) Spring graduates are eligible to receive 374 awards. 24 students will receive more than one award. Of those awards: 237 are for certificates and 137 are for associate degrees. 73.4 percent are from Santa Fe; 5.5 percent from Albuquerque, 2.4 percent from Pecos, 1.7 from Rio Rancho, 1.4 […]
SFCC Snapshot: Ondine Frauenglass
“During the campus closure, I have been involved in drafting the health and safety protocols so students who wish to complete their hands-on training can come to campus in a safe environment. These protocols follow CDC guidelines and have been adapted for Welding, Controlled Environment Agriculture (Greenhouse), and the Culinary Arts Program partnership with World […]
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 celebrated students’ creative expression through […]
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 shift quickly to an online […]
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 was not going to penalize […]
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 greenhouse . . . some […]
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 just kind of threw my […]
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. So I recorded all of […]
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 work life, and when I […]
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 out that there were virtual […]
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 on Monday nights, the same […]
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 the coronavirus, the college has […]
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 14, 2020. 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, they first began when associate […]
