Suggested External Opportunities

  • Collaboration with small businesses, competing universities, McConnell AFB, and community organizations.
  • Extend reach of online learning for nontraditional students and increase enrollment.
  • Seizing opportunity to engage and recruit our local diverse students.
  • Right in the center of I-35 corridor.
  • WSU is the state's only urban university.
  • Relatively education work force that can transition.
  • Marketing to out of the area.
  • Cost at WSU compared to other universities.
  • Location.
  • Evaluate needs - do we need a dental school? A law school?
  • Fill the Boeing hole.
  • International students, influx from China.
  • Cooperative education opportunities.
  • Internships.
  • High school partnerships.
  • Concurrent enrollment.
  • AACSB accreditation.
  • Attracting high quality students.
  • Increase outside funding sources.
  • Closer ties to the community.
  • Location.
  • Location.
  • Strong engineering college
  • Good reputation with arts community.
  • Health Sciences center of region.
  • Diverse community.
  • Barton School has good reputation.
  • Develop area around WSU.
  • Increase distance learning.
  • Create a physical presence in the Middle East.
  • Marketing.
  • Globalization - opportunities to expand past Wichita.
  • Growing importance of image and branding in higher education.
  • Availability of funds for special programs.
  • Reach out to international students.
  • Create a community relations position or centralized office that can be a single contact for community organizations.
  • Allow community organizations the opportunity to cheaply reserve physical space on campus and create a community-friendly culture that would let them reserve all needs through a single office.
  • Create partnerships with private developers for business residential development in physical space near campus.
  • Use the new leadership to form new partnerships in the community.
  • Seek out business leaders to use for consulting.
  • Integrate corporate offices within the campus.
  • Create partnerships with other higher education institutions for research and funding opportunities.
  • Form more bonds with school districts all along the I-35 corridor.
  • Create a level of excitement on campus that is pervasive with students and faculty and staff.
  • Be creative in publicizing our excellence.
  • Better marketing of program.
  • Belong to community.
  • More personal student focus.

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