SFCC Instructor Develops COVID-19 Workplace Safety Training
When the covid-19 pandemic hit, employers around the country were uncertain how to keep their workers safe. As businesses have begun to slowly re-open, it’s become essential for owners to protect their employees and customers. Santa Fe Community College’s covid-19 workplace safety class has offered a solution to thousands of […]
Ensuring Safety in the Pandemic
Although we had hoped to welcome everyone back to campus this fall, circumstances required us to keep the physical campus closed and with very few exceptions move most classes online. As we all are aware, the best way to ensure the safety of our community is to minimize person-to-person contact. […]
Vote on Bond B and Bond C to support SFCC
During the upcoming Nov. 3 election, voters will have an opportunity to vote on statewide General Obligation Bond C for Higher Education and Bond B for Academic Libraries. “These Bonds will not raise property taxes,” said SFCC President Becky Rowley, Ph.D. The outcome could greatly impact Santa Fe Community College, […]
SFCC honors High School Equivalency, I-BEST Graduates
Depending on life’s circumstances, and often in the face of multiple challenges, it can take students looking to finish high school anywhere from two months to as much as 10 years to earn their equivalency certificate. Acknowledging this persistence, SFCC is pleased to celebrate the more than 45 graduates of […]
SGA sends special graduation gift to graduates
Student Government Association President Ian Widrick Martinez and Student Involvement Coordinator Mary Eleas were intent on finding a way to celebrate SFCC’s Spring 2020 graduates. “We know how hard these students worked to complete their coursework remotely this spring. We also know how much our students look forward to a […]
Nursing students lead Operation Bandana
Robin Carrillo Ortiz, 46, and Erin Price, 35, were hardworking SFCC Level 1 nursing students when life changed for everyone. When Carrillo Ortiz saw an MSNBC report about a hospital asking people to sew cloth masks, she knew that bandanas (as recommended by the CDC) were not good enough and […]
Faculty and staff produce PPE for hospital
SFCC continues to participate in the regional initiative known as Operation Protective Gowns, producing PPE for health care personnel at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. Media Arts Program faculty member Peter Taussig got the project rolling by taking the submitted pattern and reconfiguring it for a large-scale printer. He […]
Massage Therapy program launches
SFCC has established a new Massage Therapy Program, the first of its kind at a New Mexico community college. The affordable program has been developed in response to industry, where demand for qualified, certified massage therapists continues to grow. The program includes coursework in anatomy, physiology, pathology and kinesiology as […]
President’s Diversity Advisory Committee (PDAC) Juneteenth statement
Black Lives Matter. George Floyd’s life was stolen by a white police officer. We witness that his life was taken as result of systemic racist practice and the authorities who uphold it. A bankrupt system of violence, oppression, brutality and aggression that must be reformed. We respond to this atrocity […]
Noteworthy
SFCC team, student Zachary DeLay earn WERC awards SFCC’s Team Blue Nanno competed for the first time in this event and earned a $1,500 Engineering NM Resource Network Pollution Prevention Award from WERC (Waste-Management Education Research Consortium). SFCC student Zachary DeLay was recognized with one of Intel’s $1,000 Terry McManus Outstanding […]
SFCC responds to crisis, moves online
In response to the COVID-19 health emergency, SFCC closed the main campus and the Santa Fe Higher Education Center after spring break, but student success remained front and center. President Becky Rowley, Ph.D., emphasized that SFCC is here to assist students during this challenging time. The college responded quickly to […]
SFCC Foundation Provides Student Emergency Funds
The effects of the COVID-19 crisis have been heartbreaking. Although the college has responded to its best ability to address the rapid transformation of their educational experience, students are being impacted, directly and indirectly, and in multiple ways: taking online classes for the first time, family situations, loss of income, […]
Student government feeds hungry students
SFCC’s Spring Holiday weekend earlier this month was a bit brighter when it was kicked off with dozens of students receiving nutritious food care packages. Student Government Association (SGA) President Ian Widrick Martinez, who initiated the effort, shares some of the details of the April 10 event. Q: What made […]
