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NMSU dean Rick Marlette outlines HEST enrollment gains, clinic expansion and partnership needs for Las Cruces
Summary
At a Las Cruces City Council work session, Dean Rick Marlette of New Mexico State University’s College of Health, Education and Social Transformation (HEST) reported record fall 2025 enrollment, detailed clinic expansions in O'Donnell Hall and urged city-university partnerships to retain teachers and nurses in the region.
Dean Rick Marlette of New Mexico State University presented the College of Health, Education and Social Transformation’s latest enrollment and program updates to the Las Cruces City Council during a work session.
Marlette said HEST recorded an all-time headcount high in fall 2025 of 4,224 students and nearly 38,000 student credit hours; he also reported FY26 research expenditures of $17,500,000 and noted HEST is NMSU’s second-largest college with about 200 faculty and nearly 200 staff. "We welcome the opportunity to serve all students and invite all community members in the borderland and beyond to join our academic communities," Marlette said.
The dean described a cluster of on-campus clinical and public-facing services that will be centralized in a planned…
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