UWM Accreditation: Engagement and Service

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Engagement and Service

Organizing Values and Structures

Criterion 5a: The organization learns from the constituencies it serves and analyzes its capacity to serve their needs and expectations.

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The overall conclusion of this Self-Study is that, as called for by its mission, UWM identifies its constituencies and serves them in ways both value. Hence, the Self-Study report specifies the ways in which engagement and service are specified in mission and planning, as well as the many ways in which UWM�s community partnerships provide important, significant, and valued services to both UWM and its partners.

Critically related to this point is a review of highlighted sections in the UW System mission statement:

The mission of this system is to develop human resources, to discover and disseminate knowledge, to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses, and to serve and stimulate society by developing in students heightened intellectual, cultural, and humane sensitivities; scientific, professional, and technological expertise; and a sense of purpose. Inherent in this mission are methods of instruction, research, extended education, and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition. Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth.

Relevant to UWM as a UW System �doctoral cluster� institution and to UWM as an urban campus are the following highlighted mission components.

The Doctoral cluster institutions shall:

(d) Promote the integration of the extension function, assist the University of Wisconsin-Extension in meeting its responsibility for statewide coordination, and encourage faculty and staff participation in outreach activity.

(e) Encourage others in the University of Wisconsin System and in other state and national agencies to seek the benefit of the unique educational and research resources of the doctoral institutions.

(f) Serve the needs of women, minority, disadvantaged, disabled and non-traditional students and seek racial and ethnic diversification of the student body and the professional faculty and staff.

(g) Support activities designed to promote the economic development of the state.

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