Campus Conversations Summaries

Oct. 26, 2006 2pm Facilitators: Brian Luedloff and Joan Clinefelter

Group 1

Core Strengths

  • Joy of teaching
    • working with students
    • seeing learning happen
  • Make a difference
    • connections w/ students
    • personal connection
  • Opportunities for development
    • team teaching and other types of teamwork
    • creativity and autonomy
  • High standards
    • self and students
  • Change and challenge
    • flexibility

Seeing the Future

  • Funding
    • higher salaries
    • more resources
  • Collaborative effort
    • given time to make connections or funding
    • improve discourse
    • cross disciplinary efforts
  • #1 undergraduate institution
    • solid liberal arts education core
  • Recognize and support faculty
    • Liberal arts education especially
    • ALL faculty need to feel valued
  • Support innovation and change
    • prepare students to become change agents
    • working on developing active learners and citizens
    • more TIME to be w/ students

Ways to Get There

Goal: Time to do what we need to do

  • funding increases
  • more faculty

Goal: Higher salaries/more resources for teaching

Goal: #1 undergraduate institution

  • support collaborative efforts
  • high expectations
  • develop change agents
  • ensure admin. support of faculty effort - gen ed

Goal: Valued faculty

  • open discourse
  • develop a valued community

Goal: Support for curriculum development

  • academic freedom
  • ability to make changes
  • collaboration

Group 2

Core Strengths

  • Cooperation - with colleagues, students, staff
    "Great accomplishments come from unified vision and direction"
  • Developing students engaged in independent thought, lifelong learning, prof. development
  • Hard work
  • State- and nation-wide impact (eg education graduate programs)

Seeing the Future

  • Culture
    • value what faculty and staff bring to UNC
    • more open communication
    • collegial atmosphere
    • celebrate what we do well
  • Faculty
    • reasonable workload (equitable)
    • fair and competitive compensation
    • continue focus on teaching and students (teacher/scholar model)
  • Students
    • intellectually engaged, curious students
    • establish areas of excellence

Ways to Get There

Goal: Regional university of excellence

  • attract and retain faculty that are tops in their field
  • appropriate compensation and support for faculty
  • buy-in from all university constituencies and the broader community
    - change expectation of students to attract quality (rigor in expectations)

Goal: Inclusive campus culture

  • understand what faculty, programs and students represent
  • accept differences; learn to value
  • communication among and across campus constituencies that adds value

Goal: Focused academic programs

  • acknowledge and fund graduate programs and students
  • implement strategic planning and thinking (ie what are the priorities)

Group 3

Core Strengths

  • Students" commitment to and support of students as life-long learners
  • evaluation of ideas based upon the idea - not who presented it (not related to status)
  • Focus on continuous quality improvement with positive reinforcement, affirming and opportunities for improvement rather than punishment
  • Trust: our competence, collaboration, integrity, communication
  • Commitment to teaching and creativity
  • Commitment to the society at large

Seeing the Future

  • Collaborative, meaningful shared governance
  • Positive energy and sense of community across students, colleagues, community
  • We want to be, feel like, a small, personal high quality college
  • Nationally known for set of high quality programs
  • Faculty respected and taken seriously, trusted
  • Shown value by being paid what they are worth
  • UNC exemplifies the best practices in teaching and innovative practices as exemplified and research outcome data

Ways to Get There

Goal: Shared governance

  • follow procedures

Goal: Develop quality programs

  • data driven
  • regional and nat'l recog. measure them, analyze them
  • estab. priorities
  • examine internal strengths, external demands and leverage them

Goal: Student engagement; research, collaboration, "small college" feel

  • physical spaced - dorms
  • learning communities

Goal: Faculty support and compensation; research, salary, workload

  • salary models
  • funding projects
  • funding priorities

Goal: Respect faculty

  • change attitude

Goal: Development common goals

  • institution, programs