2027 NMHEAR Conference
The Assessment Continuum: From Evidence to Impact
February 25 & 26, 2027
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The NMHEAR Conference brings together professionals from academic programs, career and technical education (CTE), student services, dual credit, institutional research, assessment, workforce development, and administration with a unified focus on improving student outcomes in New Mexico.
Registration and the call for presentation proposals will open soon.
What's New for NMHEAR 2027?
NMHEAR is introducing a new conference structure for 2027 in response to feedback from previous conferences. This year's conference will follow the assessment continuum through three connected tracks.
Track 1: Building the Evidence Base
What evidence do we have, and what evidence do we need?
Explore how institutions identify, locate, organize, and evaluate evidence related to students, programs, services, workforce alignment, and institutional performance.
Track 2: Turning Evidence into Action
What does the evidence tell us, and what should we do?
Examine how evidence can be analyzed collaboratively and translated into improvements in teaching, advising, student services, program design, and resource allocation.
Track 3: Demonstrating Meaningful Impact
Did our actions make a difference, and how do we know?
Consider how institutions determine whether evidence-informed actions produced meaningful improvements and how those results can be communicated effectively.
A New Conference Format
Rather than one plenary followed by a variety of breakout sessions, NMHEAR 2027 will feature three brief plenary sessions—one for each track—followed by breakout workshops aligned with that track's focus.
Together, the three tracks will move participants from identifying meaningful evidence, to using it collaboratively for improvement, to determining whether resulting actions improve student and institutional outcomes.