Department of Government

 

Advising for Summer and Fall 2019: To see your advisor, please click here

NEW!! Apply to graduate programs and an assistantship in the Department of Government

We are now accepting applications from qualified students to our two graduate programs: MA in Government and the nationally-accredited Masters in Public Administration (MPA). For information about our MA in Government, click here, and for our MPA, click here

Financial support in the form of graduate assistantships is also available for Fall 2019. Assistantships are renewable for up to four semesters. Students MUST be accepted first into either the MA or MPA program in order to be considered for a graduate assistantship. There is no separate application for a graduate assistantship but make sure you indicate on your form and personal statement for admission to the MA or MPA that you would like to be considered for an assistantship. Decisions on the award of assistantships will be announced on April 5. Apply here

Questions? Contact Dr. Neil Harvey (Academic Department Head) at nharvey@nmsu.edu

For students interested in applying to the MPA program, please contact the MPA Director, Dr. Christina Medina at camedina@nmsu.edu

FAQ #1

Q: What can I do with a Government degree?
A: Many things!!…But don’t take just our word for it.
Read about our alumni and how their studies prepared them for a variety of rewarding careers.
See here

Friday, March 15 – Saturday, March16: Model UN Spring Conference. Las Cruces campus, NMSU

The NMSU Model United Nations team is recruiting students (Grad, Undergrad, and high school) for its annual Spring Conference. The simulation is scheduled for March 15-16th and the deadline is March 9th for applications. This is great way to practice your skills in making oral presentations and team work while learning about international relations and diplomacy. Time: 5-8 pm on March 15, and 9-12 pm on March 16. For further information on how to apply, please contact: Fay Yurwit, Secretary, NMSU Model UN. at ayurwit@nmsu.edu

 

Wednesday, April 3 – 7.00 pm, Hardman Jacobs Learning Center, Room 125

Robert A. Williams, Jr., Regents Professor and E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law, University of Arizona.

Why Do We Even Need a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples?

Exploring the legal history and major political developments leading to the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, Professor Williams draws on the tools of critical race practice and Native storytelling traditions to explain the forces, inspiration, and urgency behind the global contemporary indigenous human rights movement of the 21st century. For information about Professor Williams and his research, click here

Co-sponsors: Department of Government, Department of Anthropology, American Indian Progam, College of Arts and Sciences and the Conroy Honors College at NMSU.

 

Thursday, April 11 (3.30-8.30 pm) and Friday, April 12 (9.00 am-12.00 pm). NMSU Las Cruces campus, Gardiner Hall, GN 230 (for all panels).

J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium on Immigration and Human Rights – organized by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Government at New Mexico State University, with generous support from the Guadalupe Institute, Albuquerque. Program details to be announced.

 

Thursday, April 18, 4.40-5.50 pm, Nick Franklin Government Seminar Room, Breland Hall, Room 179

Honorable Ambassador Delano Lewis (former US Ambassador to South Africa, 1999-2001)

Book Presentation and Signing

Passion, Power, Politics and Purpose: Lessons from a Life of Public Service

Former US Ambassador to South Africa (1999-2001), Delano Lewis will share his reflections and personal experience in pursuing higher education, public service and political engagement. He will present and sign his two books, “It All Begins With Self” and his personal memoir “No Condition is Permanent.” Besides serving as US ambassador to South Africa, Ambassador Lewis has provided leadership in many roles, including as president of National Public Radio and leadership positions in the Peace Corps, the Justice Department, the Office of Compliance of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and in the private sector as CEO of Bell Atlantic. Ambassador Lewis also led the International Relations Institute (IRI) at NMSU from 2007 to 2012. Copies of Ambassador Lewis’s books will be available for purchase and signing. For more information, visit Ambassador Lewis’s webpage

For political discussion and insight on current national and international issues, listen to Ambassador Lewis’s podcast at:
    https://flyonthewallpodcast.com/
    
    

Service Learning

 

This interdisciplinary, service-learning study-abroad course examines the current migration crisis in Europe, which has fundamentally affected and transformed the European continent. In particular, Germany has emerged as the political core of the crisis. This interdisciplinary study-abroad trip to southern Germany/Munich engaged students with the immediate social complexity of the integration of migrants in Germany.

 
 

Model United Nations 2018-19

The NMSU Model United Nations Team travelled to Tucson to compete in CATMUN, a Model UN conference hosted by the University of Arizona on November 3, 2018. The team’s twelve members represented a diverse array of countries in working toward solutions concerning suppressing the financing of terrorism, crimes involving internationally protected persons, and the regulation of genetic engineering and biotechnology. 

The Model UN team also hosted its annual Fall Conference for High School students on the NMSU campus the following weekend, November 9th-10th. The team will compete in the National Model UN Conference, to be held in New York City during Spring Break 2019, as the Delegation of the Federal Republic of Somalia. See photo of the team, with the faculty adviser, Dr. Sabine Hirschauer.

2017: NMSU team earns top awards at national Model U.N. competition See full story here

Govt & Econ grad selected for Fulbright student award to South Korea. See full story here

2016: Model UN team wins big at New York conference. See story here.

NMSU Honors student Sarah Casson (BA Government and Spanish, 2013) on her Fulbright US Student Program Award. Read more about this achievement here.

Rylee Stenberg, an undergraduate senior in Government and Law & Society, has been featured by the national Women in Politics: College Edition program of MSNBC. Read more about this achievement here.

2015: Model UN team wins the top award again!!!

Video of the NMSU Model UN team in New York, April 2015, click here.

Past Events

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