Energizing Community
Goal #1
Strengthening the Vibrant Socorro Community through shared experiences, partnerships, and opportunities.
Key Objectives
- Support cooperative educational and life-long learning opportunities for all community members
Potential Tasks
- Expand capacity of STORM FORCE** to coordinate NMT-Socorro collaborations and partnerships (including leveraging existing programs to increase and measure impact)
Key Objectives
- Foster a collaborative effort among community leaders to enhance economic development and opportunities
Potential Tasks
- Develop a unified communications platform where a combined calendar can be viewed and a subscription communications is available to the entire community
- Identify existing or create strategic group for shared marketing (eg. MRGEDA) & create shared branding
Key Objectives
- Strengthen the community and the University by working together to build a more vibrant environment for everyone
Potential Tasks
- Expand and develop new community engagement programs and events to build on existing cooperation that emphasizes that the University is part of the Community and vice-versa
- Support the 100% Socorro initiative by creating sustainable support personnel/infrastructure for community-wide coordination of services for Surviving and Thriving (Food, Housing, medical/dental, Behavioral Health, Transportation and Early Childhood Education, Parent Support, Community Schools, Youth Mentoring, Job Training) for the general Socorro community, including NMT Students, Faculty and Staff
- Increase access to technology, skills to use technology, and infrastructure to everyone in the community
- Support strategic initiatives and partnerships that address known challenges for our students, including Housing and Transportation.
Goal #2
Cultivate a sense of belonging for students, faculty, and staff to build an inclusive and engaged community at Tech.
Key Objectives
- Develop workplace culture that respects all employees
Potential Tasks
- Create or enhance events that build the relationships between students, staff and faculty (such as mixers and special events), and encourage staff and faculty participation by recognizing these as job contributions
- Allow for staff voices to be heard by forming a staff council
- Create “Culture” workshops to share best practices for developing a strong work culture.
Key Objectives
- Develop an open and inclusive student culture
Potential Tasks
- Create regular opportunities for students to engage with administration in a casual dialog.
- Coordinate with “Empowering Student Success” and “Enriching & Engaged Learning” to leverage outreach activities in recruitment and student persistence (e.g. participant/volunteer for Science Olympiad, Combat Robots, etc).
- Encourage and broaden open engagement between isolated constituent groups (students, faculty/staff and administration).
Key Objectives
- Create a tradition of belonging and service
Potential Tasks
- Create and renew/refresh events that built Tech Spirit and pass on traditions such as 49ers, Spring Fling, FullMoon and Freshman Hikes, intramural sports, etc.
- Create opportunities and promote participation in community service projects so students, clubs, faculty and staff can cultivate a sense of belonging and engage with each other and the broader world.