Campus Conversations Summaries
Wednesday October 18 Facilitators: Keiko Krahnke and David Pringle
Group 1
Synthesize Our Strengths:
- Listening
- Being taken seriously
- Your voice is heard
- The change we seek in communication is education
- Be present apart from ego
- Intellectual change
See the Future:
- Collaborative leadership
- A future without unit level competition for resources
- We recognize value in others and feel they recognize our value
- We don’t reduce “value” to dollars and cents
Find Ways to Get There:
Goal: Collaborative Leadership
- Defining leaders’ roles and responsibilities
- Inclusive decision-making
- Develop clear process for dialogue where all voiced are valued
Goal: Adequate Resources
- New resources
- Accountability
- Not competitive
- Autonomy of discipline areas
Group 2
Synthesize Our Strengths:
- People on campus, teamwork, collaboration
- Personal satisfaction
- Appreciation, trust, free reign to do our work
- Sense of community
- Being listened to rather than just heard
- Student success (light bulbs)
- Realization of our efforts
See the Future:
- Everyone valued and genuinely recognized in meaningful way
- Long range planning that is inclusive, given the necessary resources and the time to be realized
- Academic disciplines are recognized as separate entities and trusted to manage resources
Find Ways to Get There:
Goal: Competitive Compensation for Staff and Faculty
- Consider salary at the beginning of the budget process
- Collaboratively identify and publicize the peer group and maintain it for five years
Goal: Collaborative leadership rather than imperial