New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has given her approval to four separate infrastructure projects that will take place on the Shiprock campus of Dine College.
The public tribal land-grant school is based in Tsaile, Arizona, but has five satellite campuses in both the Grand Canyon State as well as New Mexico, with the Shiprock campus located at two separate sites in that city.
The largest capital outlay at exactly $1 million will go for the phase one construction of a new mathematics and science building to be located on the south campus of the school off U.S. Route 64.
Some $800,000 will target the planning, design, and building of a supplemental water supply system to be used by the school’s Agricultural Multi-Purpose Center, located within what is known as the Shiprock Demonstration Farm.
Another $193,000 is set for equipment, fixtures, and furniture at the new mathematics and science building; while a fourth project, the building of a student services center on the south campus, is getting $50,000.
The Dine College, launched in 1968 as the Navajo Community College, is the first tribally run and accredited institution of higher learning in the country.
Encompassing its main and satellite campuses, the school has an enrollment of around 2,000 students.
By Garry Boulard
