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Toles Learning Center
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Paul Horgan Library
Centerpiece of Toles Learning Center, the Paul Horgan Library embodies the NMMI mission to “provide challenging academic preparation through a structured learning environment.” The Library offers cadets opportunities for intellectual growth and disciplined study. An educated person must locate, interpret, and apply vast subjects, formats, and amounts of information. To be college-ready, cadets must analyze, synthesize, evaluate, and assess varied sources of data and information. In so doing, they will acquire knowledge and continue a life of learning with a global perspective.
An impressive space of multiple sides and 21/2 floors, the Paul Horgan Library reflects the vision of its namesake, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, librarian, and former cadet. In keeping with Colonel Horgan’s spirit, the Library is student-centered and inviting. Southwestern accents, leather sofas, deep-seated chairs, and dark wood trim create a warm refuge in the Library. Our friendly, specialized staff and librarians will help you navigate your way around the complicated world of information, in scheduled classes, impromptu requests, and in a Library course.
Organized by the Dewey decimal system, the Library contains over 70,000 items, across disciplines, including:
- Reference;
- Periodicals;
- Literature and literary criticism;
- Ethics and Philosophy;
- History and Social Sciences;
- Contemporary issues;
- Audio-visuals - DVD’s, CD’s, VHS, & audiobooks.
The Library’s electronic access and equipment opens its walls. From classrooms, dorms, and beyond, our Webpage directly connects cadets with the online catalog and electronic sources such as:
- Business Source Elite
- Electric Library
- OCLC’s FirstSearch (with inter-library loan capabilities among 6,700 libraries)
- The Internet
- InfoTrac’s Health and Wellness Resource Center
- Medline Plus
- Oxford English Dictionary
- ProQuest
The Library further enriches the campus culture through its facilities:
- conference rooms for group study;
- classrooms with emerging technology;
- Mabee Lecture Hall for theater-quality presentations;
- the Ward Room Special Collection of rare and unique scholarly materials; and
- NMMI’s Writing Center for class or individual instruction.
The Daniels Television Center broadcast studio and production facility makes possible the production of various media for classes, student projects, and Institute history. Courses in broadcast media are available through the Humanities division.
The Alumni Memorial Chapel was dedicated 15 May 1975 to those who gave their “Last Full Measure of Devotion,” NMMI alumni who lost their lives in military service, fighting to preserve the freedoms we now enjoy. Their names and graduating classes are listed on the main bronze plaque in the Memorial Narthex. Contributions from hundreds of alumni and friends of NMMI funded the construction of the building. Lieutenant Colonel L.T. “Babe” Godfrey, Class of 1924 was both the spirit and leader of the effort for the chapel. Through his leadership and the efforts of many others, the Corps has this beautiful house of prayer.
The chapel is located at the entrance to the campus as a solid statement of NMMI’s philosophy that spiritual development is necessary for a complete education. As such, it is the spiritual center of the life of the Corps of Cadets. The chapel serves as a worship center for Catholic, Protestant, Moslem, Jewish and other faith groups represented in the Corps. The chapel and the chapel garden are quiet places of refuge in the midst of an otherwise hectic cadet life. Cadets come to sit in the chapel or memorial garden to study, talk quietly with friends, meditate, and pray.
Daniels Leadership Center
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The Daniels Leadership Center is housed in a new 25,000 square foot building located at the northwest quadrant of the NMMI campus. The Center contains a multi-use Leadership Immersion Theatre, the Leadership Engagement Auditorium with tiered seating for lectures and immersed multi-media events, the Leadership Simulation and Reenactment Stage where the audience may strategize alongside famous leaders in making decisions that would affect the nation or world, and an operative Emergency Operations Center, as well as traditional computer labs, meeting and conference rooms, seminar classrooms, a resource library, and offices. The Center provides administrative oversight of the Institute’s leadership and character education programs, and offers both credit and noncredit bearing instruction to high school and college cadets. In addition, the Center offers extended education and professional development programs in leadership and character education to NMMI faculty and staff, and instruction and related contractual services for external constituents, such as those representing schools, government, homeland security and defense, and the private sector. The Center also administers the activities of the Yates Leadership Challenge Complex, which houses a Leadership Reaction Course as well as a low and high Ropes Course that has a capacity to accommodate 70 participants simultaneously. The Center hosts classes in managerial leadership leading to the Bachelor of Business Administration degree offered at the Institute by New Mexico State University. In addition, the Institute’s annual Distinguished Speakers Series is hosted at the Institute through the Center. Summer school camps promoting leadership and character development, such as CHARACTER COUNTSSM, are also sponsored by the Institute through the Center. |
