UNM Academics & Innovation

The world needs an endless supply of thinkers and doers with bright ideas to set plans in motion. To start businesses. To make everything run smoothly and more e¢ciently. The world needs people who understand people. People who can speak the language of numbers and organize chaos. Managers, leaders, accountants and entrepreneurs who can blaze new paths, order the disorder and move the whole world forward. It needs people like you to come here, then go out there and make a dierence. g o . u nm . e d u /m a n a g e m e n t g o . u nm . e d u /a r c h i t e c t u r e STUDENT PROF I LE B R I T T N E Y V A S Q U E Z Junior BBA Accounting She wasn’t sure if she wanted to go to college, so she didn’t. She went to the Air Force. And after years of training with advanced teams, she knew it was time to swap hangars for classrooms. Now she’s taking o as an accountant with a stratospheric 4.0 GPA. PricewaterhouseCoopers noticed and brought her in as an “elevated leader” in their intern program. Her story isn’t typical, neither is UNM. This is where you’ll learn to design and plan the future. Truly. Almost everything you’ll learn here will empower you to make an impact on how people will live and work tomorrow. And possibly for generations to come. How should people get from here to there? How will they interact with one another? How sustainable can they be? These are the types of questions we find solutions to every day. That’s what we do here. We teach you to be thorough. Thoughtful. Deliberate. To blend local perspectives with global ones. And then create the future. DEPARTMENTS: ARCHITECTURE | COMMUNITY & REGIONAL PLANNING | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 1 2 A C A D E M I C S & I N N O V A T I O N | 1 3 He’s a tribal member of Pueblo of Isleta, one of the state’s 19 pueblo communities. So, to him, New Mexico is more than just a big, beautiful state. It’s his ancestral home. And a place where he can make a real impact teaching indigenous design and planning principles—like the seven generations model—to a world that sometimes focuses more on its future than its past. THE SEVEN GENERATIONS MODEL: A holistic approach to design and planning that indigenous societies in the region have been utilizing for thousands of years. It requires simply that every detail be taken into consideration before choosing a course of action. FACULTY FOCUS T E D J O J O L A Distinguished & Regents' Professor, Department of Community and Regional Planning FACULTY FOCUS C L A U D I A I S A A C Professor of Community and Regional Planning To change New Mexico, you need to start small. At the local level, where she made her name. Bringing real change that isn’t talked about. Her work educates. Aordable housing, domestic violence: topics that slide into the dark, so she casts a light. Her work started on campus, but it’s featured on NPR and beyond. ALUMNI NETWORK GLOBAL EXECUTIVE MBA PROGRAM — CEO Magazine, 2018 TOP TIER 20,000+