New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is a world-class educational institution and New Mexico's premiere research university.

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Mission

New Mexico Tech is an institute of higher learning that serves the diverse population of New Mexico by integrating education, research, public service, and economic development through emphasis on science, engineering, and natural resources. Its mission is multi-fold:

1. helping students learn creative approaches to addressing complex issues;
2. acknowledging state and national diversity of students and developing an inclusive learning environment;
3. creating and communicating knowledge; and
4. solving technical and scientific problems.

INSTITUTIONAL VALUES

The people who comprise the community that is New Mexico Tech are guided by certain values as they perform their daily tasks. More than mere rules or operating procedures, our institutional values are qualitative and idealistic. They are our most fundamental touchstones that measure the worth of what we do.
They are: creative excellence, integrity, collegiality, service, leadership, and commitment to economic prosperity and technological development.

Creativity
Creativity is possible in virtually all endeavors. It calls for curiosity, adaptability, and resourcefulness. It requires imagination and often diligence. But whether the task is being performed by a carpenter, a secretary, a graduate student, or a regent, creativity is an expected part of this value.

Excellence
Excellence speaks for itself. New Mexico Tech is known for the high quality of its education and research, but we aspire to a new level of excellence in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At this new level, we expect that creative excellence will be rewarded at New Mexico Tech.

Integrity
Integrity is honored as a fundamental value at New Mexico Tech. Dishonesty, cheating, and plagiarism have no place in a respected institution of higher education. But real integrity goes further than these negatives; integrity means having the courage to defend the truth, to act fairly and honestly in all our endeavors, and to be responsible citizens of the community.

Collegiality
New Mexico Tech is a place where people care about each other. That sense of caring we call collegiality. It means being open with others, sharing with them, and collaborating with them for the good of the Institution. Collegiality also means mentoring: acting as a guide and advisor to a colleague, a student, a fellow staff member. It means caring about the community—the campus community, the community of Socorro, the larger community of the State of New Mexico. And collegiality means valuing diversity, realizing that persons of a race or gender or ethnicity or nationality different from our own have importance both because they are human and because their experiences are different from ours and are therefore valuable.

Service
As a community of learners, New Mexico Tech also acknowledges a responsibility to serving society, especially since learning helps meet not only individual needs but also those of the larger community. Service is a source of motivation and inspiration to those who practice it, reflecting both a capacity for relating to others, as well as deep-seated concern for the quality of human life. The social benefits of service are further fulfilled through the expansion of knowledge by teaching, scientific investigation, technology transfer, and economic development.

Leadership
New Mexico Tech has been, is, and will continue to be at the forefront of science and engineering research and education. Creating an open environment which also develops and fosters tomorrow's leaders in those and other fields is of paramount importance. Leadership involves moving everyone toward a shared perception of our university's vision, mission, and outcomes, toward a common understanding of where New Mexico Tech is now and where it should be heading, and toward an increased commitment to those ends. By engaging, enabling, and empowering others throughout the university, members at all levels and in a variety of areas can take on the leadership roles. Strong, effective leadership is best exemplified not through methods of control, but through positive influence.

Economic Prosperity and Technological Development
New Mexico Tech brings its academic and research resources to bear on key issues in promoting regional and state economic prosperity and technology development. In addition to preparing the workforce of tomorrow through academic rigor and practical research experience, the university provides strategic support, technical assistance, technology transfer, and development and implementation of bold new research initiatives, enabling technologies, and training programs to bolster both public and private sector success and competitiveness. Furthermore, New Mexico Tech is committed to integrating diversity into all facets of its work, since the intrinsic value of understanding and respecting similarities and differences among all groups is central to fully achieving the university’s comprehensive academic, research, and outreach goals and objectives.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

New Mexico Tech has established the following learning objectives for its undergraduate students and continuously assesses whether its students meet these objectives.

1. New Mexico Tech students will gain expertise in their chosen field of study.
2. New Mexico Tech students enrolled in bachelor of science programs will gain competence in science and mathematics by developing analytical and quantitative skills.
3. New Mexico Tech students will be able to communicate to different audiences in multiple forms.
4. New Mexico Tech students will gain an appreciation of their role as citizens in diverse human societies and cultures.
5. New Mexico Tech students will learn responsible values and ethics in their professional and personal lives.
6. New Mexico Tech students will learn to be life-long learners who reason well and can evaluate and apply information learned.