In January, Davis New Mexico Scholarship Deputy Director, Hanna Negishi Levin, and Upward Bound Española Director, Tobe Bott-Lyons, spoke with Deputy Cabinet Secretary of Higher Education, Patricia Trujillo, at Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe about their chapter Urbanormativity, College Access, and Rural First-Generation Students of Color in Northern New Mexico: A Case Study. Their chapter, which explores innovative and homegrown approaches to supporting New Mexican students, centers on their work as founding steering committee members of ROCA NM and appears in Race and Rurality: Conside ..read more

The Davis New Mexico Scholarship and ROCA New Mexico are joining forces to host a groundbreaking event that is set to expand the college options of New Mexico's rural high school students. The Rural College Access Bus Tour is a unique opportunity for high school students in Las Vegas, Pecos, Cimarron, Questa, Taos, and surrounding communities to explore higher education possibilities beyond the state's borders. The event will take place from November 7-9, featuring visits from prestigious colleges and universities, including the University of Portland, Vanderbilt University, the University of ..read more

Tobe Bott-Lyons Going to college is scary. Every step along the way is fraught with danger, real and imagined. Am I good enough? Can I do it? Will I be accepted? Am I doing enough? What if I fail? What if I am making the wrong decision? Students must battle their own fears and doubts, as well as those of their families, friends, teachers, communities, and societies– pressures come at our students incessantly and from every direction. To make it worse, students on the college path must face these dangers steeped in a culture of seemingly unceasingly increasing stakes. As college access professi ..read more

Breakthrough Santa Fe tenth grader, Josué Solís, covers the Davis New Mexico Scholarship deadline in the Santa Fe New Mexican ..read more

Sam Ritter In 2019, acclaimed author Paul Tough published a compilation of research on higher education in America called The Inequality Machine. The thesis of the book, as the title implies, was that college– and where you go to college– does matter. It’s a 350-page rejoinder to those that tell us that higher education is no longer a ladder to financial security. Regardless of background or income status, college remains vitally important to career success, despite what the headlines say. And, most convincingly, Tough lays out how this is even more true for historically underrepresented stude ..read more

Four Indigenous Davis New Mexico Scholars are profiled in UP’s student newspaper, The Beacon. Read more here ..read more

Video: Jake O’Hare Last summer, the Davis New Mexico Scholarship in partnership with Santa Fe Prep's College Counseling team and Northern New Mexico College piloted ROCA NM, a college access program for rural first-generation college-going students. Mary is a member of the inaugural ROCA NM cohort– she's also a senior at Springer High School and an incoming Davis New Mexico Scholar. Learn more about her experience and how we’re working to serve rural communities in New Mexico ..read more