Nov. 5 Town Hall Meeting
Question 3: What visionary goals should WSU be considering? What would make WSU a WOW university?
Responses to what visionary goals should WSU be considering:
- Create some type of institutional funding for "middle-of-the-road" students.
- Look out to 10 years in future and determine what the employment/job needs will be.
- Campus-centered university with small college shopping area.
- Showcase things on a national level, e.g., Gordon Parks, Centers of Excellence around campus.
- Uncover the gold mine.
- Excellent customer service with money back guarantee if you don't graduate in six years. Implies excellent advising.
- Be community focused.
- Be a partner.
- All on campus working together.
- Expand diversity brand.
- Create industries.
- Maybe expand the WSU footprint throughout the city campuses.
- More research and grants.
- Closer ties to the private sector, medium to small size businesses.
- Don't let tradition become a roadblock to the future.
- Internship programs to more if not every student.
- Pick an area and excel.
- Increase enrollment to 20,000 by 2020.
- Become the college of choice for completing your degree.
- Four-year dental school.
- Research and innovation transfer incubator.
- Build a stronger sense of belonging for commuter students.
- Athletics - join the big 12/football.
- Develop a better Greek system (promote, more options).
- Expand and diversify brand of WSU beyond Engineering into other academic and research areas.
- Becoming more reactive to changing demographics.
- Become a driver of an industry other than aerospace for the Wichita community.
- Take the athletics model for recruitment, retention, and graduation rates, and expand that to the entire university.
Responses to what would make WSU a WOW university:
- Create an environment whereby we advertise the number of students who attend WSU and graduate/get jobs/be career-focused.
- Football.
- WSU reach out with community service/paint the town day and involve all 14,000 students.
- Create as many patents as the rest of the country.
- Success with composites (CIBOR and NIAR).
- Make WSU visible on a global focus.
- A national championship.
- Money back guarantee.
- Excellent customer service.
- Lean on city to make the perimeter around WSU better.
- Produce as many patents as the state on a consistent basis.