Silver City Public Library is located in Silver City, New Mexico. Their mission is to provide access to information and ideas, foster literacy, life-long learning and creativity, to connect people to each other and the wider world, and to strength their communities. They serve a population of over 10,000 residents.
The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), one of 37 tribal colleges in the United States, is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was established in 1962 as a high school under the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs but in 1975 became a two-year college offering associate degrees in topics such as Studio Arts, Creative Writing, and Museum Studies.
Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC), a 2-year public college, is located in Bentonville, Arkansas and serves the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers-Bentonville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this is one of the fastest growing MSA’s in the United States!