[FRIAM] City University of Santa Fe

[Nick Thompson]

Hi Glen and other interested parties, 

I went by the Secretary of State's office on Thursday and we found The City University of Santa Fe without difficulty and all I have to do is pay past filing fees to get myself back in good standing with the State of New Mexico.  When you search it, be sure to start with leading "The" .  I tried to find my old web page on the way back machine and I think I found some reference to it, but not the page itself.  The url was something like www.cusf.org. If anybody finds it, save it for me, would you.  I quite liked it.  I mean for citizen work. 

Some of you seem to raise the question where do we go from here.  I had thought, since I am getting so friggin old, that I would just shut it down.  The only things it has going for it are the name and the fact that Santa Fe is in many ways a university town without a university.  It has all these institutions doing quasi graduate work, and a gazillion retired PhD's doing various proects, and even a couple of advanced degree granting places.  But no desire to coalesce and cooperate, that I could detect.  I am not much of a culture vulture, but on a whim, went out to hear a TGIF concert of Schubert Leider in the Presbyterian church, this evening .  There were something like 500 people there.  Not sure you could get a crowd like that on a cold winter's night to hear a local singer in Berkeley.  Santa Fe is an extraordinary town.  It deserves a University.  

At today's meeting of the mother church I was banging on about the battering that the Liberal Arts ideal has received during my lifetime and my blief that we need to restore the country's faith in LEARNING.    I believe with all my heart that good things happen when you get smart diverse people together and make them think and argue about stuff.  I also thing there are a tremendous amount of young people in Santa Fe, working as baristas, and programmers, and piano tuners who by their devotion to the life of the mind deserve to pursue their interests.  

Speaking of battering, it's my understanding that the small liberal arts colleges are in for a terrible few years under the new tax bill and the Relatively Wealthy People of Santa Fe may need to be thinking about how to defend St. Johns, not to mention what every might be left of the poor old College of Santa Fe. 

Take care, 

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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I don't know how long they keep their records.  But there's no corporation with that name in the online database:

  https://portal.sos.state.nm.us/BFS/online/CorporationBusinessSearch

There are some non-profits with a Nick Thompson as an officer.  But that Nick seems to live in Albuquerque.

On 01/05/2018 07:35 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:

>     On Jan 4, 2018 11:05 PM, "Nick Thompson" <nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>         YEARS ago, when the College of Santa Fe was failing, I started 
> a nonprofit called the City University of Santa Fe which was designed 
> to pull all the educational resources of Santa Fe into one semi-formal 
> organization, which, at the very minimum, would keep everybody 
> informed about what everybody else was doing and maximally, might have 
> provided temporary, volunteer,  faculty to the College of Santa Fe 
> during its time of stress.   It turns out that you can set up a New 
> Mexico non-profit for 25 dollars and ten bucks a year thereafter.  
> Frank, and tom, and Mike Agar signed on as board members, I set up a 
> website, and then, essentially, nothing happened.   SFAUD took over 
> from CofSF and other organizations I contacted about the possible 
> communication function dismissed the idea out of hand.  AND I lost my 
> website and url,

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