Feb. 28 Town Hall Meeting
The four value statements that have been formulated to date are:
- dynamic educational opportunities
- inter-professional collaboration;
- innovation and scholarly engagement; and
- excellence in teaching and public service.
Question 1: How do these statements resonate with you?
- Dynamic is the only action verb.
- Tremendous difference in the way we engage the community (positively).
- These are not really values, rather expectations.
- Proposed core values: dynamic, responsive, community, prosperous, integrated.
- Who are our stakeholders?
- What about technology transfer outcomes?
- Are these core values? Appears goal is to train more people.
- Appears narrow in scope -- almost as if from faculty.
- No. 2 is too broad and confusing, No. 3 and No. 4 are too similar.
- Resonate greatly with "innovation" -- others agree.
- WSU is identified with innovation and dynamic.
- Dynamic has changed dental and aviation.
- Quality of life and No. 4 public service phrases are missing something.
- No. 1 should read dynamic learning communities/environment.
- No. 2 inter-professional collaboration should not be part of the mission.
- Student centered education.
- Adaptive, but high fidelity systems.
- Industry/university/state collaboration.
- Cutting edge opportunities such as working in the community, educators doing internships in the real world, educators who have been in the corporation world, use of incubator programs with money waived.
- WSU as an economic engine.
- Broad and vague -- what do they mean?
- What about community connection?
- They are all great but without more detail we are unsure what they really mean and apply to.
- Values need clarification -- too vague.
- Support and encourage.
- Innovate, not replace or supplant.
- Do not convolute the mission/vision.
- Need a public value statement -- who we are, what we do, for whom, how and why?
- How: This is the question we need to answer.
- Why: Provide a trained/education workforce to the region to facilitate the cycle of population retention and family building (said nicely).
- Innovation a tired word.
- Does inter-professional collaboration mean internships?
- An urban university -- makes us different.
- What are the values from the student's perspective?
- Students benefit from internships and coops with the diversity of businesses in Wichita and this should support diversity of colleges.