Casa San Ysidro Case Study

In order for Casa San Ysidro to be relevant in the community it serves and ensure that it is on people’s radar, we recommend that Casa San Ysidro forge local partnerships. One of the ways that this can be accomplished is by getting involved with the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College (CNM). We recommend building relationships with professors at both institutions that can then create assignments that welcome students to visit Casa San Ysidro. Students would then write a paper or give a presentation to their classmates about their visit to Casa San Ysidro. This program can help raise awareness of the museum as well as encourage students to invite their family and friends in the future. This is similar to how Astronomy classes create extra credit assignments to visit the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico, Art classes
In addition to encouraging students to attending Casa San Ysidro, the relationship with the educational institutions can be further expanded to include internship opportunities. Student can both learn to further their education and they can also give back to Casa San Ysidro by providing their insight on any of the functions that Casa San Ysidro needs help with. For example, a marketing student can be recruited to come up with promotional material for future events as well as manage the social media pages. Anderson’s website provides a portal to submit the internship opportunity here: https://goo.gl/d3I96P. Other examples include inviting students from History courses to Casa San Ysidro to help interpret and find ways of telling Casa San Ysidro’s story. Students can also be tasked with putting together an exhibit if new items are donated to Casa San Ysidro or put together proposals to move items around and create more interactive