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Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell has more than $1 million in federal funding related to COVID-19 programs left and is considering how best to allocate it, said ENMU-Roswell President Shawn Powell.
“Out of the money we received, we have $1.7 million remaining to expend,” he said. “But there are pretty stringent rules about how the money can be used.”
Powell was interviewed Wednesday afternoon following a work session of the Community College Board held on the ENMU-Roswell campus.
The session covered several different topics regarding campus operations, finances, planning and construction. Use of the coronavirus federal funds to help students also was on the agenda.
Powell said that ENMU-Roswell has received more than $5.34 million in higher education emergency relief funds since March 2020 from three different pieces of legislation: the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of March 2020; the Consolidated Appropriations Act of January 2021, which included the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act; and the American Rescue Plan of March 2021.
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In addition, the college also received $361,268 in Minority Serving Institution (MSI) funds from the packages that can be used for student support during the pandemic.
Powell said that at least half of the Higher Education Emergency Relief funds must be spent directly for student emergency financial aid, and that the ENMU lead campus in Portales as well as the Ruidoso and Roswell branches decided that the student emergency aid would be allocated to students based on their enrollment credit hours.
“On our campus, 60% or so of those funds we have allocated to students based on their enrollment credit hours,” Powell said.
The college also could use the funds to prevent the spread of coronavirus by purchasing personal protection equipment, sanitation supplies or for vaccination incentives.
With the MSI funds, ENMU-Roswell created the Cosmo Cares emergency funding program.
Powell said students receiving those funds can use them for laptops, transportation costs, food, child care and other life expenses that would not be covered by the tuition, fees and educational aid involved with the other relief funding.
He said the college and its board are considering using the $1.7 million remaining for such items as purchasing laptops for the library; buying and installing contactless, bottle-filling water fountains; improving the paperless processes used by the college; and enhancing the fiber optics on campus needed to support remote learning.
In another item the Community College Board considered recently, members voted Oct. 27 to approve dedicating the planned video broadcast studio on campus in honor of David González, a Roswell native and Goddard High School graduate whose achievements included working for more than 20 years as a local TV news anchor and news director. González passed away at age 63 in May 2019.
According to information from Powell, the family of González has donated $20,000 to name the new KENW broadcast studios in the Instructional Technology Building in honor of their loved one. He said the studio is still waiting for some equipment before it can begin operations.
The ENMU Board of Regents is due to consider the naming request on Nov. 19.
Lisa Dunlap can be reached at 575-622-7710, ext. 351, or at reporter02@rdrnews.com.
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