Goal Four

Sustainability:

Create long-term sustainability and ensure the necessary resources —human, financial, and physical— to achieve our aspirations while protecting the natural environment that supports all people of the state and the world.

Objectives:

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Updated Benefits & Professional Development Models–Q4 Dashboard – A strategic and proactive approach to evolve, modernize, and enhance compensation and benefits in order to maintain a stable and high-quality workforce.

School of Medicine Compensation andBenefits–Q4 Dashboard – The School of Medicine is reviewing recruitment, hiring, and retention and referral bonuses to increase employee retention within their department.

Office of Sustainability–Q4 Dashboard – The Office of Sustainability will contribute to a sustainable world through multiple initiatives, including exploring of a geothermal utility project, improving on an investment-grade energy audit, enhancing energy efficiency and developing renewable energy on UNM’s South Campus.

Assure Financial Stewardship and Sustainability –Q4 Dashboard – The need to maintain the quality and effectiveness of recurring sustainable financial resources has resulted in a plan to evaluate UNM’s Treasury function and create a better way to manage cash and investments.

Assure Financial Stewardship and Sustainability at HSC –Q4 Dashboard – Assuring Financial Stewardship and Sustainability at the Health Science Center will set expectations for upfront collections, implement scorecards to know vendor performance, and have accountability discussions to improve the Health System fund flow.

Comprehensive Fundraising Campaign–Q4 Dashboard – This campaign will invite the entire UNM community to embark on a transformative journey to raise over $1 billion to shape the future of higher education, accelerate research projects, expand healthcare capacity, and provide opportunities to the student population.

Integrated Campus Plan–Q4 Dashboard – The Integrated Campus Plan focuses on facilities, grounds, and physical assets of the institution to support the goals supporting student experience, educational innovation, and advancing research and economic development.

Advancing Sustainability–Q4 Dashboard – A proactive group that lays the groundwork for sustainable practices that will include network infrastructure, computers, facilities, and employee recruitment, retention, and DEI for long-term resource planning and allocation.

Safe Campus–Q4 Dashboard – The UNM Police Department is implementing multiple initiatives to enhance campus safety and wellbeing.