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Campus Conversations Summaries

Oct. 26, 2006 8 am Facilitators: David Pringle and Joan Clinefelter

Group 1

Core Strengths

• Working collectively in collaboration with colleagues
  
• Recognition of needs and ability to problem-solve
  
• Creating opportunities at both faculty and administration level with administration encouraging, not interfering, with faculty initiatives
  
• Enhancing opportunities for communication

Seeing the Future

• More adequate staffing at all levels so people will have the time to do their jobs as best they can
  
• Better pay for retention of good-quality faculty and staff
  
• Effective and honest shared-government
  
• Care and funding given to basic maintenance and investment in facilities
  
• More effective concern for recruitment and retention of students
  
• Creative, effective, visionary leadership at the top of the university

Ways to Get There

Goal: Creative, effective, visionary leadership

• replace top management and particularly choose a provost who is an academic by a process involving faculty and staff in decision-making

Goal: Effective and honest shared government

• involving faculty and staff on decision-making; not just dissemination

Goal: More adequate staffing at all levels

• -administration take seriously program requests for staffing

Goal: Better pay for retention of good quality faculty and staff

• make faculty salaries and staff salaries the highest priority

Goal: More effective concern for recruitment and retention of students

• involve faculty, staff and students in retention efforts

Goal: Better and more active listening

• be sure this is a genuine dialogue and be sure there is a real agreement to establish a plan out of that dialogue
  
• implement the plan, and explain how

Goal: Care and funding of basic maintenance and investment in facilities

• -make this a priority

Goal: Establish a culture of trust on campus

• -implement above