New Mexico State University - Swastika Yearbook (Las Cruces, NM)

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About A M NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS OTFICE OF THE PRESIDENT STATE COLLEGE, NEW MEXICO January 19, 1953 TO THE STUDENT BODY: The university which we call the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts is, and for sometime has been, in a state of transition. For the first fifty years of its existence the College was a little local institution with only a few hundred students mostly from Dona Ana County and nearly all from New Mexico. Today there are students on the camnus from nearly every state in the union and from several foreign countries. Along with the rapid growth in enrollment in recent years, there has been, since about 19A0, a corresponding growth in the physical plant. So the transition has been from the small local institution of former years to a cosmopolitan institution no longer in the small college class. The transition also includes elanents entirely apart from growth in the number of people and buildings on the campus and in the counties of New Mexico which make up what we call the College, It includes a conscious effort to improve the educational program by constant study and revision of the curricula in the different schools. It includes an attempt to provide better and more interesting living conditions for students. It includes the beauti f ication of the campus and of the approaches to the campus. It includes the expansion and improvement of the services to the people of the state and the country through the experiment station, the extension service and the other divisions of the College. It includes a better student body to match the better facilities. All of this means not only a larger institution but also a better institution. Sijic erely urs , DiAcerely urs, J. w. Branson President of the College JwBrfh

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PRESIDENT J. W. BRANSON

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ROBERT A. NICHOLS Dean of Agriculture MELVIN A. THOMAS Dean of Engineering