July 6, 2006 Education Briefs

Wayland receives diversity award

Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, ranked first in awarding baccalaureate degrees in education to minorities, according to the magazine Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

The university issued 247 degrees in education to minorities in the 2004-2005 school year, according to a Wayland news release.

The university also ranked 47th for total minority degrees issued in the business field.

The magazine ranked the top 100 universities that award undergraduate degrees to minorities.

Wayland operates 13 campuses in the United States from its home campus in Plainview. Locations exist in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arizona and Hawaii, the release noted. The university also has a partnership in Kenya, Africa, to grant degrees in religion.

ENMU to offer social work degree

With cooperation of New Mexico Highlands University’s BSW program, Eastern New Mexico University will offer a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree at ENMU-Roswell, according to an ENMU news release.

The degree will also be offered at ENMU-Portales and ENMU-Ruidoso, as well as at Eastern’s other instructional television sites at Cannon Air Force Base, Clovis Community College, New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs and Mesalands Community College in Tucumcari, the release said.

All of the social work courses for the degree can be taken through instructional television combined with Web-based study, according to Allen Stata, director of the social work program at Eastern.

Students who have already taken the required general education courses, either through Eastern or from other programs, should be able to obtain the BSW in two additional years. Students who have taken social work courses from a Council on Social Work Education-accredited BSW program may also be able to transfer those courses into Eastern’s BSW program, the release said.

For more information, call Stata at 562-2504, or e-mail him at [email protected].

C.A.T.S. accepting requests for 2006-07

Clovis Area Transportation Services is accepting after-school transportation requests for the upcoming school year.

The service is available to students ineligible for their school’s bus service, said Mary Lou Kemp of C.A.T.S.

That includes students who live too close to school for normal bus service, students attending a school not in their district and students who attend latch-key or day care programs, she said.

Transportation, however, is only provided within city limits, Kemp said.

The number of reservations placed at each school, and available drivers and vehicles will determine the routes for the transportation system.

Last year, C.A.T.S. provided service to students at 11 schools.

For more information, contact C.A.T.S. at 769-7910.

Zia’s Hubby elected to Who’s Who

Wendy Hubby has been elected to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers for 2005-2006, according to information from Who’s Who.

Hubby is a fifth-grade teacher at Zia Elementary School in Clovis, and has been teaching for 19 years.

Students elect teachers for inclusion in Who’s Who, an organization that celebrates the nation’s best teachers.