SMU-in-Taos

June and August term students:

STUDENTS ACCEPTED TO JUNE TERM: If you are on the list (link to "students accepted to June term"), please consider your housing options (community or semi-private) and advise the office of your decision and roommate choice as soon as possible. If you have not yet picked up your enrollment packet, do so immediately! Payment due date is MAY 7!!

STUDENTS ACCEPTED TO AUGUST TERM: If you are on the August list (line to left), please consider housing options (community or semi-private) and advise the office of your decision and roommate choice as soon as possible. If you have not yet picked up your enrollment packet, please do so immediately! Payment due date is MAY 7!!

WE HAVE SPOTS AVAILABLE IN BOTH JUNE AND AUGUST TERMS SO IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAVE NOT YET APPLIED, PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO SO!!

If you find you did not get in, please come by the office in person to be placed on the waiting list; wait listing cannot be done by telephone!

Summer and Fall Terms -- and Additional Financial Aid!!

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For more than 30 years, the SMU-in-Taos program at Fort Burgwin has offered a variety of unique educational experiences enhanced by the bountiful cultural and natural resources of Northern New Mexico. For summer participants, in addition to the Clements Scholarship Award, the Taos program also has funding from the Friends of Taos to help defray tuition costs in the summer program.

Though our Fall 2010 Term has been cancelled, we will be using the fall term to plan a dynamic and unique Fall Term for 2011.  Think about it.  As a participant in the SMU-in-Taos fall program, your experiences will be your classroom. Instead of reading about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, you’ll visit the site of the famous event. Rather than looking at pictures in a classroom, you will be taking the pictures. You will be part of history on this historic campus and instrumental in establishing traditions for future classes on the Taos campus.

Students and faculty will be part of an entirely unique educational experience during the fall term, participating in an active, engaged academic community of investigation and discovery. Students will register for at least one academic course during each of four blocks, allowing for in-depth focus on course content and thereby completing 12 credit hours. A fifth course, the Taos Experience, is a common experience course that lasts the entire 14-week semester and included a service learning component. Students may also take their Wellness II course in the outdoors of the Taos area. There will be a 3-4 day break between each of the blocks allowing for Outdoor Adventure trips (one of which WE pay for), visits home, return visits to the Dallas campus, resting up in residence or perhaps having parents come to Taos for a visit.

Tuition, room and board costs will be consistent with those on the Dallas campus. WE pay for your course books (average $800 in savings to you).  In addition, the cost of one trip taken during one of the interim breaks between blocks will be covered by the SMU-in-Taos program.

To explore the SMU-in-Taos campus and its summer and fall programs, as well as scholarship opportunities, please use the links at the left.