Campus Conversations Summaries
October 23rd, 2:00-3:00pm Facilitators: Kim Black and Marcus Embry
Strengths:
- Mentoring and encouraging
- Impact on students
- Broadening circles of connection
- Genuine caring for students
- Flexibility to create; be innovative
- Helping students meet their own needs so they can be successful
- Commitment to student success
- Commitment to one another and success as a team
- Satisfaction of working with multiple units to support students and staff
- Knowledge of what exists on campus so students don’t get run around
- Time and energy to care for students needed
- Partnership and strong communication across divisional lines
- Common direction and strong communication
- Common understanding of what students need to be successful
Seeing the future:
- All freshmen involved in learning community
- Focus on student engagement, learning and success rather than retention
- More cross-divisional partnerships
- Single unified identity so we’re on the same page
- Have a vision for university that is clearly articulated
- Coming from within rather than external
- Something good about UNC on front page
- Campus communication
- “brag about what is going well”
- Making employees feel valued
- Staff available to make partnerships available
- Reduce understaffing
- Buy-in and support from administration for collaborations/partnerships
- Competitive compensation
- Not just more staff and faculty but the right ones
- Diversity and representation
- Expected way to work is through partnerships
- Rich research environment
- Faculty and students engaged
- Opportunities for active learning
- Service, research and internships
- Environment reflective of mission and values
- Better interaction with larger community
- Appreciation for diverse perspectives while also working towards common goal
- Celebrate success as a university
- Support for faculty involvement for working with students
- Recognition and rewards
- Focus on creating life long learners
- Relate co-curricular experience to what they’re learning academically
- True capital campaign to move forward with structural and resource needs
Goals:
- Increase collaboration across campus
- Learning communities for all freshmen and transfer students
- Focus on improving student learning
- Implement international structures for students at every level
- Freshmen-graduate
- Facility improvement/investment
- Articulate the vision/mission clearly
- Intentional goals for campus composition- employees and students
- Ideal- employee composition that reflects and supports a representative student population
- Be leaders within larger community
- Issues around race- leader in creating more inclusive conversations
- Commitment to responsibility to prepare students to be leaders in effecting change
- Particularly around issues of race
- Define institutional understanding of students success
- What are hallmarks of UNC graduates
- Have a goal that defines five things every student should have in portfolio before graduation
- Co-curricular transcript
- Appreciation for diverse perspectives while also working towards common goal
- Celebrate success as a university
- Support for faculty involvement for working with students
- Recognition and rewards
- Focus on creating life long learners
- Relate co-curricular experience to what they’re learning academically
- True capital campaign to move forward with structural and resource needs
Goals:
- Increase collaboration across campus
- Learning communities for all freshmen and transfer students
- Focus on improving student learning
- Implement international structures for students at every level
- Freshmen-graduate
- Facility improvement/investment
- Articulate the vision/mission clearly
- Intentional goals for campus composition- employees and students
- Ideal- employee composition that reflects and supports a representative student population
- Be leaders within larger community
- Issues around race- leader in creating more inclusive conversations
- Commitment to responsibility to prepare students to be leaders in effecting change
- Particularly around issues of race
- Define institutional understanding of students success
- What are hallmarks of UNC graduates
- Have a goal that defines five things every student should have in portfolio before graduation
- Co-curricular transcript