Lead in our areas of expertise and work with other organizations to support New Mexico's quest for the creation of high paying jobs and wealth.

At Anderson our passion is New Mexico. We are committed to doing more than educating the next generation of New Mexico's business leaders. We are building stronger ties between our University and the entities dedicated to advancing the economic development of our State.

We will work with our students; the State's policy makers, large and small business and civic organizations to improve the quality of life in New Mexico.

In doing so, we will build better quality of life in New Mexico by grounding our constituents in the core principles of reasoned business analysis and in skilled stewardship of our cultural and economic resources.

Governor Richardson's stated: "Universities should be the core of economic development." Governor Richardson, Albuquerque Journal - 3/20/04. We support this statement.

Anderson will advance the economic development agenda of New Mexico through:

• Supporting analysis for Economic Development policy decisions
• Modeling growth opportunities
• Building stronger ties among development advocates
• Promoting economic development education
• Providing incentive structure analysis and advocacy

The Anderson School of Management Endowed Chair in Economic Development will have a measured teaching load and will teach courses that relate to some aspect of economic development. The majority of the Chair's time will be spent, with the support of other Anderson faculty and resources, accomplishing the goals outlined below:

1. Supporting analysis for economic development policy decisions
2. Modeling growth opportunities
3. Building stronger ties among development advocates
4. Promoting economic development education
5. Providing incentive structure analysis

The Economic Development Chair is a permanent investment in the future of New Mexico. As outlined in this proposal a lot of work is needed. The Chair in Economic Development and the Center for Support of Economic Development will be the catalysts for mobilizing the Anderson School's direction toward a major return on investment in economic development in New Mexico.

The Center for Support of Economic Development is the umbrella organization that will work with the Creative Enterprise program, the Small Business Institute, The Management of Technology program, faculty in other programs to establish ways in which the expertise of the faculty can be applied to solving problems that require such expertise.

Entrepreneurship Program Strategic Planning

The Anderson School of Management is currently in consultation with the UNM Gallup campus and Northern New Mexico College with the aim of developing Entrepreneurship Program Strategic Plans for these two campuses. More information can be found by clicking here.

For more information, please contact Sul Kassicieh at sul@unm.edu or 277-8881.