UWM Accreditation: Acquisition, Discovery and Application of Knowledge

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Acquisition, Discovery and Application of Knowledge

Currency and Relevance in UWM's Educational Programs

Criterion 4c: The organization assesses the usefulness of its curricula to students who will live and work in a global, diverse, and technological society.

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UWM�s curricular connections to the larger world are grounded in the vision of UWM expressed in the preamble to Investing in UWM�s Future and summarized in the bolded text.

Great cities need great universities. In 1986 a community-based report, UWM and the Future of Metropolitan Milwaukee, stated, �The people of the Greater Milwaukee Region are determined to take charge of their future. They see a major doctoral research university as a powerful and necessary resource to help them achieve that future.� Since that time, UWM has taken large strides to advance its goal to achieve recognition as a major urban institution of higher learning and at the same time has established a myriad of linkages with the community. Considering that Milwaukee is the ethnic/international, cultural and artistic, manufacturing, financial, and population center of the state, it is imperative that UWM continue to grow in stature and to enhance and renew its symbiotic relationship with metropolitan Milwaukee.

UWM mission statements make clear that together with its objective to become an outstanding research university, UWM is also called upon to take the leadership role within the UW System in addressing the intellectual needs of cities, beginning with the Milwaukee metropolitan area and extending out to embrace those needs on a global level.

	UWM Mission
	Appendix 3. Faculty Interaction with Students
	Appendix 7. Professional Program External Requirements

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