Campus Conversations Summaries

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Facilitators: Michelle Quinn and Joan Clinefelter

Group 1

Synthesize Our Strengths (core values):

  • -Teamwork
    • Attitude
    • effort
    • collaboration
  • -Excellence
  • -Resiliency
  • -Challenges
    • attitude
    • handling
  • -Learning
  • -Problem solving
  • -Service
  • -Work ethic
  • -Honesty
  • -Commitment

See the Future:

  • -Communication
    • accomplishments
    • struggles, challenges
  • -ALL students are:
    • valued
    • respected
    • supported
  • -Faculty
    • valued expertise
    • respected at all levels across campus
  • -Diversity valued and represented in all areas

Find Way to Get There:

Goal: Faculty support/compensation, etc (travel)

  • -redirect funds to salaries and support
  • -faculty need to attend more conferences

Goal: Excellence of academic programs

  • -teacher-scholars' vision explained
  • -communication of accomplishments and struggles
  • -formal acknowledgements of faculty and student accomplishments and activities
  • -encouraging collaboration across programs

Goal: Excellence (relevant) core curriculum

  • -infuse writing and reading and speaking
  • -timely, current, relevant curriculum
  • -improved assessment

Goal: Resources for program support

  • -increase OCE
  • -increase funding for travel

Goal: Student support in all aspects

  • -improve climate
  • -smaller classes
  • -advising targeted to diverse student needs
  • -travel funds for students

Goal: Increase diversity in all areas

  • -recruit students and faculty
  • -more scholarships
  • -systematic study of racial harassment

Group 2

Synthesize Our Strengths (core values):

  • -A great sense of accomplishment in close interaction with students
  • -Opportunity to contribute to our individual, professional fields at the regional. national and international level
  • -Interaction with faculty and other professionals (inc. staff) both within the "academy" locally and beyond the local arena
  • -Having a shared vision, sense of motivation, value of academic excellence
  • -Contributing to scholarship - student development, research, curriculum

See the Future:

  • -Retaining faculty and staff in healthy and productive careers improved compensation
    realistic, manageable workloads (decreased from present norms)
  • - Increased role of faculty and staff in decision-making
  • - Having a diverse, engaged community that not only mutually respects but also mutually celebrates who we are
  • -having a campus with great spaces --inside and out-- that meets our needs and fosters interaction
  • -Long-term. rational decision-making with shared goals reflecting the vision of ALL
  • -Committment to follow-through on initiatives

Find Way to Get There:

Goal: Faculty/staff/graduate student salaries reflect 95% of average salaries at peer institutions within 5 years AND 100% within 10 years

Goal: Realistic assessment of all workloads with consideration of workloads @ peer institutions, graduate student training, grant writing. Time line on implementation of changes to be determined as part of the assessment process

Goal: Establish ongoing mechanisms for faculty/staff and students in decision- making, in part with better/stronger observance of elected representative councils (Senate, SPEEC, PASC, SRC, GSA) but also in other arenas of campus governance

Goal: Seek overt ways to recruit diverse students, faculty and staff

Goal: See current diversity initiatives through to implementation

Goal: Seek to help promote higher education, its value, its place/role in society, its sustainability for the citizens of Colorado.

Goal: Commitment, commitment, commitment.

Group 3

Synthesize Our Strengths (core values):

  • -Become focused on core strengths ie music , business
  • -Profession al development opportunities
  • - Institutional investment to help student learning
  • - Collegiality
  • - Teaching moments

See the Future:

  • - Become nationally noted in strategically chosen areas
  • - Create a university community with a "campus feel"
  • - Competitive benefits and salary
  • -Facilities -technology useful for students; group room

Find Way to Get There:

Goal: Community feel

  • public/private commercial development

Goal: Mo' money

  • Investment in foundation with specific goals
  • Re-evaluate revenue sharing among units

Goal: Excellence in niches

  • strategic planning
  • Best practices

Goal: Facilities improvement

Goal: Motivated/incentivized faculty

How?? (money and other means)