Campus Conversations Summaries

Friday October 20, 2:00-3:00 pm Facilitators – Marcus Embry and Robbyn Wacker

Strengths:

  • Commitment
  • Caring- Faculty care about students success; working with students to help them get where they need to be
  • Size of UNC- good size
  • Collegiality of faculty and students; faculty are supportive of each other
  • Alumni- lots of students who in turn support our current students (as mentors, internships, supervisors)

Future:

  • Good funding- with a little more we could be even better;
    • not grow above 15,000 students- grow strategically
  • School of music is right size
    • Maybe a little growth
    • Btu we need more facilities (eg. teach students how to listen in a real recital hall; need a little e more money to huge programs)
  • Faculty workload needs to be relieved- negative impact on teaching , ect/ FT, TT faculty will make a difference and help us do what we need to do better; care about students, etc.
  • Faculty supplied with tools they need to be successful in teachings/research-scholarship
  • Creative student learning
  • Faculty staff , students proud to be a part of UNC
  • Need to advertise the good things we do; need a better image

Goals:

  • Work for stable funding (on state levels, etc)
  • Work with community to work enhance “image” of Greeley
  • Recruit/retain good faculty
  • Enough resources so faculty are not over stretched
  • Listening to faculty; establish trust
  • True support for shared governance
  • Work environment (eg. Salary, workload, collegiality, support)