Mission Statement

Through Academic Program Review, faculty, staff, community, and external reviewers collaborate to improve degree programs and to provide a mechanism for programs to examine and reflect on their achievements, goals, and strategic plans for the future throughout a seven year cycle. The APR ensures that academic programs:

1. provide opportunities to learn that are of high quality and are in line with professional and national standards;
2. foster meaningful research;
3. engage with the life of the university; and
4. serve constituents or identified communities.

APR offers faculty, deans, and Academic Affairs the information necessary for considering the role of the program in the university and for exploring the program’s support of, and relation to, university strategic goals. Lastly, APR secures documentation to demonstrate the value of UNM’s programs to the state and the community while also satisfying criteria for Higher Learning Commission reaccreditation of the university as a whole.