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Campus Conversations Summaries

Thursday, October 19, 2006, 10:30am Facilitators: Michelle Quinn and Joan Clinefelter

Group 1

Synthesize Our Strengths (core values):

• Collaboration
  
• Satisfaction in serving students
  
• Seeing project through to completion
  
• Freedom to be encouraged and encourage the heart

See the Future:

• Campus seen and acts as a whole instead of individual groups
  
• Value, respect and trust
  
• Provide leadership in all issues
  
• Holistic results

Find Way to Get There:

Goal: Improve accountability of leadership on campus

• Allow personnel to evaluate administrators

Goal: More communication about feasibility of major decisions; reality check, charting the future, Div. I

• Consult personnel who do the work as well as the students
  Goal: Retention (quality); across the board, faculty, exempt, staff and students
  
• Talk to units for a plan and budget accordingly
  

Goal: Holistic approach to eliminate barriers

• Better representation from all units/personnel

Group 2

Synthesize Our Strengths (core values):

• Commitment to educational process at all levels
  
• Genuine and tangible recognition of effort (al all levels)

See the Future:

• Autonomy
  
• Balanced and reasonable workload
  
• Full faculty and staff investment in UNC
  
• Close student-faculty interaction

Find Way to Get There:

Goal: Competitive compensation in all faculty and staff

Goal: Full faculty and staff autonomy enabled by both administrative and personal initiative

Goal: Investment in facilities, including new buildings

Goal: Administrative structures that foster collaboration and end balkanization