Academic Affairs
Golden Student Success Center Activities | Available June-July
ENMU's Summer 2026 programming offers a diverse mix of social, creative, and educational activities hosted primarily at the Golden Student Success Center. Highlights include competitive and social gaming through a Cribbage Tournament and weekly Board Game sessions, alongside hands-on creative workshops like Camp Paper Craft, Coptic bookbinding, and textile arts.
For those seeking cultural and intellectual engagement, the schedule features a Philip K. Dick film series, a behind-the-scenes Museum Manager's tour, a Hispanic musical recital, and weekly "Eat, Read, Share" lunch gatherings.
While many events are open to all ages, several technical workshops and tours require advance registration at enmu.edu/SummerPrograms.
Non-Credit Course Proposals
Have a great idea for a non-credit course? We'd love to hear it!
Non-credit courses offer valuable opportunities for community engagement, professional development, and enrichment. We encourage creative, innovative, and multidisciplinary proposals that align with community interests and workforce needs.
Submit your Fall Non-Credit Proposals by Friday, July 31, 2026
Class Options
Offer your course free to the community as a service or charge a fee with a 70/30 revenue split
Help Us Grow Our Community
We are especially interested in expanding course offerings that incorporate cultural elements to help promote our local traditions, heritage, and community pride.
From arts and culture to professional skills and beyond—bring your creativity! These courses help connect, inspire, and engage our community.
Questions? Call us at 575.562.2165. We're happy to help.
We look forward to your ideas and working together to expand our non-credit offerings this fall!
Free Cybersecurity Workshop in Portales Sept 28 to October 1st.
ENMU Distance Learning is hosting the Department of Homeland Security - National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium to offer a Comprehensive Cybersecurity Defense course. This course is designed for IT professionals to plan, prepare, monitor, and test cyber defense tactics to protect an organization's digital health.
As you may know, small rural entities (businesses, hospitals, schools, police/fire departments, municipalities, organizations, etc.) are often targeted for cyberattacks and may not have the staffing or resources to plan or design an approach. This workshop would help.
Participants would learn from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. September 28 to October 1 in Portales. Participants should have technical expertise and an understanding of cybersecurity, networks, and computer operating systems. Each participant will be expected to bring their own laptop. The course will be completely free, and if all sessions are attended and all activities completed, the participants will earn a certificate.
To sign up go to: https://bit.ly/C_S_Training2026
We need at least 10 more participants to have the workshop and bring in the presenters from across the country. Please sign up today.
Communication Services
Hotel Special Rates
Fairfield Inn & Suites Albuquerque Uptown | Book your corporate rate for ENMU at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Albuquerque Uptown, which is only $144 a night plus tax. Visit this link to reserve at the available rate.
Visit the hotel reservation link
Holiday Inn & Suites Albuquerque-North I-25 | ENMU also has a $104-a-night rate at the Holiday Inn & Suites Albuquerque-North I-25. Visit the Hotel Booking link to check availability.
Visit the hotel reservation link
Website Update
Communication Services continues its work with the web design firm Juicebox as part of the scheduled website update.
After several focus groups, feedback, and early drafts of the new website visual design, we will soon move into the next stage of development: content refresh.
As Juicebox continues designing the website, we will work with the Academic and Service departments to refresh content across our webpages. The ENMU web team will reach out to departments and offices at the appropriate time.
We ask that, during this time (fall period), webpage updates be limited to necessary changes to avoid duplicating effort or missing changes during content migration. Currently, we are projecting a mid-late Fall soft launch of the website experience.
Fine Arts
4th Annual Community Juried Art Exhibition
Available throughout July from 8 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Runnels Gallery, Golden Student Success Center (GSSC)
The Fourth Annual Community Juried Exhibition highlights local talent within 40 miles of Portales, New Mexico. This year, guest juror Rhonda Headley—an ENMU alumna and Meow Wolf designer—selected 29 exceptional works from over 100 submissions based on originality and craftsmanship. Open to all media and free to enter, the event celebrates artists of all experience levels and features top awards for Best of Show, First Runner-Up, and Second Runner-Up.
This year's exhibition was juried by Rhonda Headley, an Eastern New Mexico University alumna and Senior Graphic Designer of Signage at Meow Wolf. In her professional work, Headley helps create visual systems and environmental graphics that guide audiences through immersive experiences. As a juror, she reviewed submissions and selected the works presented in this exhibition.
Featured artists include Linda Anderle, Dalton Banister, Evelyn Bassett, Sarah Bice, Brittany Crone, Clyde Davis, Mackenzie Fox, Jaslyn Gilbert, Jonathon Gooding, Bryan Hahn, Barbara Klapperich Senn, Cooper Knauer, Debbie McCart, Divyaxi Patel, Heather Reno, Arrianna Romero, Becky Smith-Hahn, Mason Stielow, and Crystal Welch.
Learn more at enmu.edu/CommunityArt
For more information, contact Bryan Hahn at [email protected].
General
ENMU Road Closure
The City of Portales will be conducting phase one of road work. This will be on South Avenue K and is set to begin on Monday, July 13, 2026. South Avenue K, between West 17th Street (Guadalupe Hall) and West 14th Street (GSSC), will be closed to all traffic until the completion of this phase of road work. All vehicles must be moved from South Avenue K between West 17th Street and West 14th Street by 12:01 a.m. on Monday, July 13th. Vehicles parked in this area, moving traffic control devices, or jumping curbs to gain access after the above deadline will be towed at the owner's expense. This construction will be completed in two phases to complete the entire length of South Avenue K. Additional information will be provided prior to the start of phase two.
Please contact the ENMU Department of Public Safety at 575..562.2392 if you have any questions.
ITS
Early Adopters: SharePoint Migration
If your department uses a shared drive, ITS is looking for a few early adopters to pilot the move to SharePoint. This helps us test the process and work through any issues before a broader rollout. Participation includes some prep work and coordination with ITS during your scheduled migration.
Learn more by visiting our link.
Want to be an early adopter? Visit our signup link.
Watch: Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Training
AI is already part of your Microsoft 365 tools. This Copilot Chat session, presented by Microsoft, shows you how to use it to save time and get more done in your daily work.
Watch the training by visiting the recording link.
Monday Memo Submissions
Please submit any announcements to enmu.edu/MondayMemo by the Friday before the new Monday Memo is published.
