0001|                       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 38
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              ROD ADAIR
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION TO STUDY THE
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0012|     FEASIBILITY OF PRIVATIZING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL
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0013|     OF LAW.
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0015|          WHEREAS, the university of New Mexico school of law has a
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0016|     faculty of thirty and a student body of about three hundred
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0017|     forty, providing one of the smallest faculty-student ratios in
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0018|     the country, but has a budget of about five million one
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0019|     hundred thousand dollars ($5,100,000); and
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0020|          WHEREAS, the concept of converting publicly operated
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0021|     schools to privately operated schools is gaining acceptance
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0022|     nationwide;
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0023|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0024|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the commission on higher education
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0025|     study the feasibility, implications and potential savings and
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0001|     costs to the state and its taxpayers of privatizing the
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0002|     university of New Mexico school of law; and
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0003|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the commission report its
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0004|     findings to the appropriate interim committee by November 1,
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0005|     1998; and
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0006|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this memorial be
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0007|     transmitted to the executive director of the commission on
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0008|     higher education.
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