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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