Senior Exhibitions

Senior Exhibitions ran from Monday, May 5th to Monday, May 12th, 2008.

I attended all of them with the exception of Tuesday morning, May 6th, and a few others on Monday, May 6th due to time spent helping a few seniors with last minute glitches which required me to run to 7800 to fix, and in one instance, having to help a senior re-create a project that had been accidentally damaged.

Overall, the level of academic rigor was not up to the New Media Standard of what we're looking for in a senior project. However, there were a few bright stars in the bunch, and overall, the work was BETTER than the work we're used to seeing from many of the students, especially those with a history of low performance academically.

Many of the issues with academic rigor are the result of students not getting ample input from multiple academic advisors. In this case, that is especially true in the areas of English/Language Arts and Math.

As I told Dr. Walker, many of these issues will not be as acute when we are in the new building, because the senior classes henceforth will be more integrated into the larger NMTCS community and will have more access to the resources of the school.

As it stands now, two senior student groups will be presenting in our May 28th Exhibition Night: Justina Ray & Rhonda Bartlett, and Tierra Jones.