Celebrating Student Success and Opportunity

NMHED Cabinet Secretary Rodriguez addresses HSE grads
SFCC celebrated 38 graduates of its Adult Education ACE program during the High School Equivalency (HSE) graduationceremony on Tuesday, May 20. New Mexico Higher Education Department Cabinet Secretary Stephanie Rodriguez delivered the keynote address. Read More…

Pre-Apprenticeship Contracts
President Rowley spoke at a May 15 statewide press conference at NewSpace Nexus in Albuquerque announcing new workforce investments from the State Apprenticeship Expansion Formula Grant. SFCC was awarded two contracts totaling $215,250 to develop pre-apprenticeship programs in broadband infrastructure and residential energy auditing. SFCC is the only community college to receive funding this cycle, furthering its leadership in workforce training through the EnergySmart Academy. 

Katie Besser Art & Writing Awards
The annual Katie Besser Art & Writing Awards celebrated SFCC’s emerging writers and artists on May 5 at Meow Wolf. The event honored student excellence in writing, photography, and media arts, with winners reading from their work. Stacey Foiles received the $1,000 Richard Bradford Memorial Creative Writing Scholarship, marking the fifteenth annual award. The awards are presented through a collaboration between SFCC’s English, Creative Writing, and Media Arts programs, the SFCC Foundation, and Meow Wolf. Accolades, which contains the winning entries is available online. Kudos to Genevieve Betts who directs the Awards program. Read More…

Student Accomplishment
Student Rachel Weber has produced the 32nd issue of the SFWP Journal as part of her PILAS internship this spring. Issue landing page contains her Guest Editor Bio and Editor’s Note.