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 Equity and Inclusion Infrastructure – Dashboard – Ensure UNM is inherently inclusive, accessible to most and readily accommodating to most by strengthening the equity and inclusion infrastructure.

Increase URM Doctoral Enrollment – Dashboard – Increase URM graduate student persistence by improving the learning environments at UNM.