Goal Three
Inclusive Excellence:
Utilize an equity and inclusion lens to expand opportunity, cultivate the potential of students, faculty and staff, create new knowledge, and provide service to all New Mexicans by leveraging our assets as a highly research-intensive university and health system.
Primary Initiatives:
Retention Gaps – Dashboard – Multiple initiatives aim to close retention gaps at UNM, including launching the Educational Equity Mini Fellowships (EEMF) project, efforts to expand NM Workforce Diversity Center of Excellence Programs (HRSA) through UNM HSC DEI, the Student Experience Project, other Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) development initiatives.
Strengthen Inclusive Excellence Infrastructure – Dashboard – Ensure UNM is inherently inclusive, accessible and readily accommodating to most by strengthening inclusive excellence infrastructure.
Increase Student Persistence and Improve Output of Terminal Degrees – Dashboard – Increase student persistence by improving learning environments & inspiring students at branch campuses to consider 4-yr degrees. Create equitable strategies to improve output of terminal degrees to all & URM* students.
Office of Health Equity –Dashboard – Address health equity and recognize that it must be embodied in all approaches to addressing health disparities and health outcomes across all population groups.
