Hispanic-serving Institutions Assisting Communities Program
FY 1999 Awardees

New Mexico State University will receive a Hispanic-serving Institutions Assisting Communities Program grant of $370,451 to establish a comprehensive culinary arts program and renovate the space in which the program will be housed. This space, in the old Court Junior High School, which is now a youth center, will house a full-scale accredited culinary arts teaching laboratory including hot and cold food preparation classrooms, a bakery, a lecture classroom, and a staging kitchen.

The target population will be the City's welfare-to-work population, who will be provided with job training that will result in jobs paying livable wages. When completed, it will be a one-of-a-kind facility and partnership in the area and will further strengthen the partnership between the Las Cruces Public Schools, the Dona Ana Branch Community College, and the University.

Contact: Dr. Keith H. Mandabach, 505-646-5995

Content Archived: January 20, 2009