Welcome from the Dean

- Dick Howell, COE Dean

One can hardly imagine more challenging times for educators than those we are faced with today! We find ourselves at a crossroads where the intersection of demand and quality have come front-and-center for the profession. The College of Education at the University of New Mexico is aware of and is responding to this clarion call for definitive reform of our educational systems. We are in a unique position in New Mexico, the first minority/majority state in the U.S. and one that exemplifies all the challenges of the 21st century. For example, we have the 27th largest urban public school district in the country here—in the Albuquerque Public Schools. We have a large number of rural and geographically isolated school districts throughout the fifth largest state in the nation. And we have a unique multilingual and multicultural environment that includes large immigrant populations of second-language learners. Continued ...