New Mexicans have complained for many years about how the best and brightest students tend to go outside the state for higher education, seldom returning upon graduation. The Yale Alumni Association of New Mexico has a plan to combat the phenomenon, known as "brain drain." Last summer, fourteen undergraduates from Yale University, took intern posts with New Mexico associations or companies. The Yale Alumni have sponsored intern programs across the country. Santa Fe is the tenth city to adopt "Bulldogs Across America." Others include Louisville, KY, Cleveland, OH and the San Francisco Bay area. The mission of Bulldogs Across America is to create and support alumni sponsored internship programs that are sustainable by the local community.
Many of the fourteen New Mexico interns are Yale students from New Mexico. Other students came from Colorado, Texas and New York as well as other areas.
Among the sponsoring organizations are the New Mexico historian's office Digital History Project, THINK New Mexico, a non-profit think tank, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Outside Magazine, the International Folk Art Market, the Georgia O'Keefe Museum and Amigos Bravos, a non-profit environmental protection agency in Taos.
For more information, contact Bulldogs Across America Program Coordinator, Ann Curtis, ann.curtis@yale.edu , 502-459-3876, or Bulldogs Founder & Director Rowan Claypool '80, rowan@aya.yale.edu , 502-599-5061.
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