 New Mexico Highlands University is a diverse comprehensive
quality university serving the global community by integrating
education, research, public service, and economic development,
while celebrating our distinctive Northern New
Mexico cultures and traditions. We achieve this through a
university-wide commitment to quality student-centered education,
recognition of the growing importance of the Spanish
language to our nation’s interests, and an acknowledgement
to our many responsibilities to residents of Northern New
Mexico as the principal educational institution in the region.
As a student-centered, publicly supported, regionally based,
comprehensive university offering programs in liberal arts,
sciences and professional disciplines the University brings
together students from distinctive cultural, socioeconomic,
linguistic, geographic, religious, and educational backgrounds.
New Mexico Highland University is committed to programs
that focus on its multi-ethnic student body with special emphasis
on the rich heritage of Hispanic and Native American
cultures that are distinctive to the State of New Mexico and
particularly to Northern New Mexico.
The University clearly
perceives that its success depends upon an appreciation of
the region’s cultural and linguistic identities. By reinforcing
cultural identity and encouraging the use of these assets, the
University seeks to empower students and the region’s ethnic
populations to achieve full involvement in the activities of
society.
The University emphasizes graduate and professional programs, and a balanced curriculum promotes undergraduate
study that is firmly grounded in the liberal arts and sciences,
emphasizes excellence in teaching and individual attention
to students, and prepares students for lifelong learning, for
graduate and professional schools, and for present and future
occupations. The University remains true to its legacy of
emphasis on teacher preparation, interdisciplinary programs
involving the Hispanic world, and programs that contribute
to meeting social needs. In essence, there is an emphasis on
developing broadly literate citizens and leaders, educated in
analytical and critical thought and in the appreciation of the
arts and sciences. In addition, through collaborative arrangements
with other campuses, research agencies, government
agencies, and the corporate world, the University aspires to
develop and deliver new models for baccalaureate and graduate
programs in additional programs such as engineering,
forestry management, watershed management, bilingual programs
in the professional schools, and programs that clearly
acknowledge that a university that fully takes advantage of,
and prepares its students for, creative application of technology
to improve the quality of life, is a university that will
prosper, grow, and be relevant. In support of its mission the
university has adopted the following strategic goals:
STRATEGIC GOAL A: Develop a learner-centered
environment that promotes the improvement of learning and
personal development of students from first-year courses
through degree completion.
STRATEGIC GOAL B: Enhance the long term strategy
for university engagements in community and regional
partnerships.
STRATEGIC GOAL C: Become the premier Hispanic
Serving Institution (HSI) in the country.
STRATEGIC GOAL D: Align New Mexico Highlands
University technology with institutional priorities, be on the
leading edge of technology developments in higher education,
provide faculty, students, staff and administration, and
the communities the University serves convenient access to
information needed for learning, research, teaching, administration,
and communication.
STRATEGIC GOAL E: Achieve a competitive position
with peer institutions in research and scholarship in targeted
areas that promote the achievement of the university mission.
STRATEGIC GOAL F: Maintain the adequacy and quality
of the physical campus environment.
STRATEGIC GOAL G: Develop effective and efficient
academic and administrative processes, systems and structures
that support continuous improvement
STRATEGIC GOAL H: Communicate the image and
reputation of the University to the general public and to
students with a focus on its high quality. |
