El Rito Heritage Retreat Center

Title: El Rito Heritage Retreat Center Category: Schools Clicks: 345 Listing added: Jun 20, 2005 PageRank: Not available

El Rito Heritage Retreat Center was established in 1909 as the Spanish American Normal School, Northern New Mexico Community College’s El Rito campus is nestled in the Carson National forest in northcentral New Mexico. The El Rito campus is home to several of Northern’s vocational programs which offer both certificate and associate degrees. These programs include Adobe Construction/Construction Trades, Barbering, Cosmetology, Electricity, and Automotive Technology. In addition, the College offers traditional arts programs such as Spanish Colonial Furniture Making, Fiber Arts/Rio Grande Weaving - taught by award winning artists Rik Gonzales, Daniel Tafoya, and Karen Martinez. Recently, Spanish Language Immersion courses have been developed at the El Rito campus. Alejandro Lopez, a well-known Spanish language educator and writer, teaches the courses. Other offerings on the campus include: High School Equivalency Program (HEP), and Visual Communications classes, English, Math, and Spanish coursework. The College has two new state-of-the-art computer labs, Internet and e-mail access is available, and classes can be televised between the two campuses via an Interactive Televised Video (ITV) studio.