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 4: What would it actually look like if you were part of a university that actually lived out these values?

  • Package critical thinking.
  • Thriving and robust student body.
  • Great leadership and community support will seem as one.
  • Successful graduates will be diverse in scope and work and resemble more the community at large.
  • We have a diverse community but not diverse graduates.
  • Seamless transfer to WSU so the community is expanded to include the greater region of community colleges and technical schools and employers.
  • Success would see students stay here and work and enrich the local economic industry/engine as well as be alumni.
  • WSU would become part of the community seamlessly.
  • Interdisciplinary research.
  • Lean resources.
  • High utilization of expensive equipment.
  • A more robust economy.
  • Better instruction from collaboration with the community.
  • Cross-pollination.
  • High return on investment.
  • Having those community businesses on campus.
  • More students on campus and more distance learning opportunities.
  • More degrees.
  • More interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Make it easier to utilize various universities to complete a degree.
  • More community projects and collaboration where service is the focus.
  • Ownership by all.
  • Alignment from bottom up and outside in.
  • Strong desirable leadership.
  • Talking and doing on a world-class level.
  • Inclusion and relation building.
  • Skin in the game.
  • MIT of the plains -- how do we compete with KU?
  • University investment in the community and community investment in the university.
  • A world-class university recognized by everyone around the globe.
  • Jaws will be open!
  • Asking, what's in it for us?
  • I need to be asked to do things -- asked to be a part of things.
  • Shift culture of "me" to "we" and how do we get everyone involved.

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