Ernesto A. Longa

Opinion

LETTER: New Mexico adjunct faculty deserve a living wage

Ernesto A. Longa | February 26

Last year, New Mexico’s Legislature enacted Senate Bill 1 which guaranteed a living wage to all public educators teaching pre-K through 12th grade. This year, New Mexico’s Legislature should enact House Bill 417, a bill that proposes to establish a comparable living wage for all faculty teaching at New Mexico’s public colleges and universities. The establishment of a living wage for faculty at New Mexico’s public colleges and universities will be especially important for our state’s adjunct faculty.

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Opinion

LETTER: Why isn’t UNM requiring high school students on campus to be vaccinated?

Ernesto A. Longa | September 27

In late August, the University of New Mexico publicly announced that all students, staff and faculty accessing University facilities would be required to be fully vaccinated by Sept. 30, with two exceptions: medical necessity and sincere religious belief. What the UNM administration failed to tell the public was that there was a third exception to the vaccine mandate: high school students attending UNM classes. The UNM administration has informed the United Academics of the University of New Mexico’s bargaining team that it is too complicated to require high school students to be vaccinated.

Ernesto A. Longa

LETTER: New Mexico adjunct faculty deserve a living wage

LETTER: Why isn’t UNM requiring high school students on campus to be vaccinated?

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