Eastern New Mexico University Offering Online MBA

http://www.enmu.edu/academics/undergrad/colleges/business/graduate/index.shtml

The ENMU MBA is designed to meet the needs of working adults, hence courses are delivered through multiple formats to ensure maximum flexibility in course selction. Currently, courses are offered in traditional "face-to-face" mode on the main campus, through two-way audio and/or video feeds to remote sites, and as purely web-based classes. Regardless of the delivery mode, all courses contain the same level of rigor, and, in nearly all cases, are taught by full-time graduate faculty.


http://www.enmu.edu/academics/learning/degrees.shtml

The Master of Business Administration or MBA degree is also available online. Please contact the College of Business for details.

Looks like $361.00/credit
http://www.enmu.edu/services/business/tuition-fees/fee-sheet.shtml

 

There you go, Dr. Osborne, your next degree.

 

Iffn I wuz agunna du a Emmy Bee A, I'da du th' wun they got cheer at Aggie State.

Sumwun done woke up 'n maid that puppy a even'n progrum. See, thata ways, I wuddnta havta deal with all them blamed TEXANS!

 

ENMU Criticism???

Nosborne,

Do New Mexicans have some insight into ENMU that is not widely known outside the state? I had been under the impression that New Mexico Highlands University was the bastard child of the state university system. Can you provide some type of ranking order for the state schools in NM?

Tom H.

 

TH,

New Mexico doesn't really have a BAD state university. My personal rankings for overall quality and reputation would run like this:

New Mexico Tech at Socorro for engineering and ohysical sciences. National reputation; first rate research opportunities.

University of New Mexico at Albuquerque for most professional and graduate work in everything else.

New Mexico State is a close second in the areas where it has programs.

Next are the former Normal Schools (no doctoral programs) in order of their reputation as I understand it:

ENMU in Portales;
WNMU in Silver City; and
Highlands U in Las Vegas.

Having said that, kindly remember that not all schools offer all programs. If you want an M.S.W., for example, your choices are Highlands and State.

An undergrad degree from any New Mexico public school is a perfectly good credential.

Highlands DOES attract the occasional raised eyebrow; due to its location, Highlands caters to the Hispanic population more than the other Normal Schools do, IMHO. Therefore, its environment will feel a bit strange to most Anglos who go there. However, there's never been any reason to think that Highlands is in any way substandard.

And it's in a beautiful location!

 

ENMU Grad

My wife holds her B.S. & M.Ed, my brother holds his B. A. & MBA and I have my B. S. and some grad work from ENMU. In fact, my step-dad graduated from Eastern New Mexico College in 1949 before it became a university! I would highly recommend it to anyone!

It is a relatively small school, located on the eastern plains of New Mexico in Portales. Portales is located about 100 miles west of Lubbock, Texas. ENMU has about 4000 students with one branch campus in Roswell, New Mexico, located about 90 miles to the southwest. The business and education schools probably have the largest number of students, but the other schools do well also.

The have a full athletic program and compete in the Lone Star Conference at the NCAA Division II level. Their mascot is the greyhound, which is very unique and their colors are silver and green.

Tuition was very reasonable when I attended there almost 30 years ago! I am sure that it is still very competitive.

As a grad, I still keep up with the school and especially the campus ministry where my wife and I met.

 

Yes, and your post points out two related, interesting things about ENMU;

-it is on the High Plains right next to Texas and deep in the Bible Belt; and

-you majored, at a STATE school, in religion.

I lived in Portales and Clovis for a yer and a half, right out of Law School. I was amazed at how pervasive the fundamentalist Christian culture is out there.

Although it didn't suit me, I admit that I did like that wide open landscape. There's a sense of, I don't know, room? possibility? freedom?

My then-wife HATED it, so we moved to Santa Fe. Boy, was THAT a stupid move...

 

Re: ENMU Grad

I once had a case representing a corporate client in Minnesota against a New Mexico corporation. They retained an attorney from Portales. He was a real good 'ol boy--in a good way. He had none of that smug hotshot arrogance like you see in most lawyers from New Mexico (and like I might have were I only a more successful attorney), and he had this deep Texas-like accent.

Bet they get a few interesting characters looking for signs of alien life over there.

Which ministry?

 

I grew up in Clovis, my wife in Tucumcari (west of Amarillo, 100 miles) We met at the Christian Campus House at ENMU.

Yes, I majored in Religion at a STATE university. However, the STATE only granted the credit and received the tuition money. The churches (representing several denominations) paid for the facilities (off campus), faculty members and other things necessary to offer courses. It was a good deal for the STATE as they received tuition money and provided little or nothing in return. (Rant over...)

Sorry you didn't like Clovis or Portales... They are both nice, solid communities to grow up in. I agree about Santa Fe. It was a nice place until the fruits and nuts from California discovered it.

Notice you live in Cruces, now... I have a neice and nephew attending NMSU. Best thing about Cruces is the chili! Red or green? The New Mexico state question!!

 

I also lived in Hobbs, compared with which Clovis is an earthly paradise.

I am quite familiar with the really unique arrangement at ENMU for religion majors. I brought it up, though, to demonstrate just HOW pervasive Christian fundamentalism is out there, due, I think, to the proximity of Texas. This arrangement wouldn't even be considered anywhere else in New Mexico.

Only in Eastern New Mexico have Baptist ministers actually APPEARED ON MY DOORSTEP in an effort to convert me.

I think my final image of Clovis is the church next to the Courthouse; It's an attractive brick and stone structure with the usual columns and porch and, I would GUESS, some nice stained glass windows. But they blocked those windows up and installed an enormous satellite dish. Perhaps they prefer their favorite televangelists to engagement with the local community.

Red. Chimayo, not Hatch. Medium hot.

 

I know I'm just chattering away here, but I just remembered where the attorney actually was from--that opposing counsel guy. He was from Clovis, and his name is Wesley something-or-other, a really great guy. Never met him face-to-face, but had some great conversations with him. The Portales connection was the firm that we eventually retained when I told my boss it would be silly to try and pro hac vice me into NM. It was Doerr and Knudson.

I only talked with this whole gang by phone, so it's not like they're my longtime close friends, but just wondering if you ever have run across any of them in your practice, Dr. Osborne?

 

I became very familiar with Doerr and Knudson. I didn't run into Wesley...Wesley...no, I don't know him.

(pulls out Bench and Bar)

Wesley Pool? He must have appeared after I left.

I will say that Lubbock was big enough and cosmopolitan enough to be actually a rather pleasant city. (Texas Tech is there as is the only synagogue in the Texas Panhandle).

 

Granted, the Clovis - Portales area is indeed a paradise compared to Hobbs!

I'm not familiar with too many of the legal types in the area, except that I went to church with the District Judge in Portales, who was a fine man.

The church located next to the courthouse in Clovis used to be the Methodist church, but they moved to the northeast side of town where the growth was taking place. They sold it to a charismatic group pastored by a guy I was in high school with. It was a beautiful building. I had the privilege of playing in it during high school with our woodwind and brass quintet. Not to brag, ok to brag... I was a two time all-state French Horn player... (Hold your applause!)


A couple of other tidbits, the air force base (Cannon) is on the list to close. They are a single mission base and the move is to multiple mission bases.

Roswell has finally pulled its head out and is taking advantage of the alien tourism business.

By the way, I like the green!

 

David W. Bonem?

 

I'm familiar with that name, but the man I am thinking about (and can't for the life of me remember his name, Fred? something...) was the District Judge in the late 70's. I was a young student and still awe of actually knowing and having conversations with a District Judge in social and church settings...

 

Fred Hensley.

I tried many cases before him. A good judge and an honest man.

 

Yes! He was a good man and seemed to be a good judge!

 

Yes, Wesley Pool, absolutely. I could just see him sitting there in front of his law office (it has a wooden sidewalk/front porch in my mind's eye, like the turn-of-the century law office), leaning back in a wooden chair, cowboy boots perched up on a porch rail, cowboy hat tipped back, telling tall tales to a group of locals. Kind of guy I'd like to go into practice with. Steve Doerr (never spoke with Knudson) sounded more like what I was used to, professional lawyer-type.

I wonder whatever happened with that case? Wonder if my ex-employer ever paid them? They haven't yet paid me my final paycheck!

 

hijacked

This thread reminds me of a mill that was around, and may still be. It was in New Mexico and called Eastern University. Anyone remember that school? Are they still around? I recall them for one interesting thing. They did not have an edu presence. It was a mall or something as I recall.

 

I think that it's not unusual for state schools to offer degrees in religion. Typically these religion programs are entitled 'religious studies'. They address religion in general, marshalling the resources of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology and so on, and bringing them to bear on religion in its various manifestations around the world. Although students are sometimes given the opportunity to specialize in a particular tradition through choice of electives, the approach taken is usually kind of scholarly and arms-length, more analytical than confessional.

UC Riverside is an example of this kind of program. (UCR is rolling out a new Ph.D. in Religious Studies for 2006.) Scroll down for their course listing.

http://www.students.ucr.edu/catalog/current/rlst.html

What strikes me about Eastern New Mexico University's religion program is how closely it resembles a Bible studies program at a church-related college. I was surprised to see offerings entitled 'Preparation and Delivery of Sermons' and 'Counseling in Religion', which sound like professional seminary courses.

http://www.enmu.edu/academics/undergrad/colleges/las/religion/courses.shtml

Two programs in the same subject, both from state universities, but each one profoundly different.