Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Grants is a city in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about 78 miles (126 km) west of Albuquerque. The population was 9,163 at the 2020 Census. [5] It is the county seat of Cibola County. [6] Grants is located along the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways. [7]
St. Catherine University (St. Kate's) is a private Catholic university in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was established as one of the first institutions of higher learning specifically for women in the Midwest and was known as the College of St. Catherine until 2009. [ 5 ]
St. Joseph is present in his role as patron of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, and St. John recalls the great John Ireland, the archbishop presiding when St. Kate's was first conceived. St. Teresa of Avila is there because the Sisters of St. Joseph, founders of St. Kate's, became a congregation on her feast day. Thérèse of Lisieux is ...
Citing low enrollment and untenable costs, the Early Childhood Center at St. Catherine University in St. Paul is closing May 24 after 93 years. Some parents say the Feb. 15 announcement of the ...
The principal objectives of the land grants were to encourage the foundation of new communities and to expand the settled area on the frontiers of New Mexico for defense from Indian raids. After its conquest of New Mexico in 1846, the United States adjudicated the grants and confirmed 157 as valid.
The community of Las Trampas, New Mexico was founded the same year. The grant consisted of 28,132 acres (11,385 ha) of land on the western slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The settlers served as a buffer on the frontiers of New Mexico to fend off Comanche raids. By the mid 19th century the population of the grant area had grown to ...
Sep. 2—Three community development financial institutions in New Mexico recently were awarded grants from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas through a grant program the bank says will help ...
Formerly the College of St. Catherine, St. Kate’s was founded in 1905 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. [3] Today, it is one of the largest women's universities in the nation. Previously, she served as the 17th President of Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey , from 2019 until the College’s merger with Montclair State ...