Oct. 30 Town Hall Meeting

Question 4: What type of culture will it take at WSU to make even more progress on things that we think are most important?

  • Encourage teamwork.
  • Participative management (everyone have opportunity for some say.)
  • Encourage risk taking, do not punish failures.
  • Outcomes/results oriented vs. policy-driven.
  • Inter-professional/inter-disciplinary/inter-collegiate mind-set.
  • Reward what you say you want.
  • Inter-collegiate mind set, no silos.
  • Caring less about restrictions than getting the right goal.
  • Adaptive, inclusive, flexible.
  • Service oriented.
  • Risk taking, entrepreneurial that thinks holistically rather than in silos.
  • Marketing the value of education at WSU.
  • Inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary.
  • Enough resources to experiment.
  • Reflects the environment that we live in and be more adaptable.
  • Stop looking at others and just define ourselves.
  • Passionate, strong staff and university community.
  • Encourage innovation.
  • Organizational chart not as important as the personalities of the people. People in leadership fostering questions, challenges, and risks.
  • Get to yes.
  • Free thinking.
  • Decisive culture.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit.
  • Getting answers quickly.
  • Support the students at the center.
  • Being student centered.
  • Recognizing and rewarding risk.
  • Common goal and direction. Getting everyone on board, inclusive, everyone proud of goal and direction.
  • Nudism.
  • Bottom up approach, not top down. Reach out to everyone, get all involved.
  • Empower the smart people in WSU to do what they do best.
  • Better communication on what we think most important.
  • Overcoming our apathetic/second-class attitude.
  • Encourage risk.
  • Encouraged team work vs. individual work.
  • Participative management.
  • Culture of trust, empowerment, and autonomy for people at all levels to be successful and try new ideas.
  • Need to have full investment in the change by all across the university.
  • Good system of evaluation that's applied across the colleges, and the freedom to establish appropriate measurable parameters for purposes of tenure and promotion, retention, etc.
  • Unified vision/mission with people (faculty, staff, Wichita community) - getting on board or getting out of the way of progress.
  • Encourage a culture of acceptance of new ideas.
  • Recognition that past performance does not dictate future success.
  • Forgive failure and reward success.
  • Close interactive communication on all levels through all departments.
  • Incentives.
  • Engagement of staff and faculty to do more than just a job.
  • Be open-minded, positive thinking, team work, willing to change.
  • Open to change, remove restrictions/barriers.
  • Putting students first, serving students, helping others on campus.
  • Caring more about doing the right thing than doing it right.
  • Stop accepting poor performance.
  • Need to be able to have some freedom to reward faculty/staff with department funds. In the world around us they're not restrained by that medieval culture.
  • A culture where risk taking is both internally and outwardly to the community, is rewarded and celebrated.
  • Financial constraints don't stop us from competing with the world around us.
  • More transparency between administration and faculty/staff.
  • More risk taking.
  • Willingness to work together for the common good.
  • No tenured faculty.
  • If each department could ask “how can we help you” make your job easier.
  • We need to figure out what our identity is and then work toward recruiting those students.
  • Less hierarchy. An entry level person can't go right to the source but has to go through a bureaucracy.
  • Need an interaction between faculty and staff that can create working relationships.
  • Strong identity.
  • Willingness to take risks.
  • Leadership that encourages stepping outside comfort zone.
  • Support for being willing to take risk.
  • Culture of respect and optimism.
  • Cultivating hope and a more clear vision.
  • Face some loss and make hard decisions.
  • Reward working across the silos/colleges.
  • Reward behavior change across campus - opportunities should be open to everyone, especially groups.

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