Goals Summary
Following presentations by the group leaders, Dr. Davenport asked for the retreat participants to identify those goals that seemed to come up most frequently in the group discussions. Those that were
mentioned most often include:
- Marketing plan
- Diversity (students, faculty, staff)
- Graduate education
- Fund raising
- Process of shared governance
- Enrollment management
- Distance learning
Goals Discussion Group Notes
Group 1
Values:
- Focus on quality programs
- Build trust, community
- Integrity and respect
- Support student needs; "students first"
- Sense of being part of University community
- Civility
- Diversity
Goals:
- Evaluate campus space for use to best support/enhance learning
- Technology/knowledge and use
- Student "gathering/study" areas
- Classroom, labs and clinics
- Increase visibility and presence of MSU
- Institutional perspective for plan and implementation
- Institutional marketing plan
- Legislators/Chancellor's Office
- Create a positive/collaborative environment for issue acknowledgement and resolution
- Mediation
- Grievance resolution
- Increased communication
- Increase internal and external partnerships
- Internal collaboration and relationships
- External
- Fundraising
- Grants
- Expertise
- Enrollment Plan
- How many? Who-NEF, transfer, non-traditional, undergraduate, distance learning, off-campus
Group 2
Values:
- Value diversity in faculty/staff/administration (leads to appropriate role models)
- Value student/faculty achievement
- Value use of appropriate technology
- Value support for specific workforce needs (Chancellor's goals)
Goals:
- Attract, retain faculty/staff/students of color, consistent with national availability
- Increase funds raised for:
- Scholarships, talent grants for qualified students
- Professional development opportunities for faculty/staff/administration
- Hire full-time Directors of Development for each of six colleges/library/graduate school
- Hire Director of Planned Giving
- Establish MSU guidelines for E-Learning, followed by appropriate training
- Market existing programs in Elementary Education and Health Care careers to meet workforce needs
- Long-term goals:
- Open Communication
- Honesty
- Positive working relationships between/among bargaining units, administration, governance
Group 3
Values:
- Student Center Focus
- Honesty and integrity
- All inclusive diversity-GLBT, ethnic, international, physical disabilities
- High quality education
Goals:
- Ambitious and obtainable
- Support programs which bring faculty, staff and students to accomplish meaningful work
- Honesty and integrity
- Create an environment in which members of the campus community can be open and honest without fear of retaliation
- All inclusive diversity
- Increase diversity among faculty, staff and students
- High quality education
- Nurture, publicize and continue to support our high quality programs, and develop a wide range of graduate programs
Group 4
Values:
- Excellence in education
- Opportunities and experiences
- Quality of student life
- Total student development (academic/social/cultural)
- Global citizenship
- Systemic integrity
- Honest, open communication
- Academic integrity
- Accountability
- Regional Stewardship, "sharing ourselves as a resource"
- Outreach
- Applied scholarship
- Private/public partnerships
Goals:
- Enhance academic excellence
- Measures and standards
- Department standards established within two years
- Perceived by students as a "value-added" institution
- Direct marketing toward this effort
Increase endowment support to students (50% in two years)
- Increase graduate student opportunities
- Technology to enhance education/learning
- Increase University presence in this community (integration, outreach)
Group 5
Values:
- Honesty, integrity, respect
- Shared and timely decision-making is transparency of process
- Collaboration/working as a team
- Open-Mindedness
Goals:
- Establish and execute a marketing plan
- Make master plan a living document
- Enhance integrity of academic programs and student services through measurable outcomes and assessments
Group 6
Values:
- Diversity-encompassing all areas
- Quality of student growth and development
- Civility-integrity and respect
Goals:
- To develop and assess a new mission statement which reflects a systematic inherent philosophy
- To establish and evaluate our priorities in:
- Diversity (all areas)
- Student growth
- Civility
Group 7
Values:
- Celebration, appreciation, and support for diversity of people and ideas
- Committed to student success
- Learning is pervasive among all at the University
- Integrity
- Institutional actions are congruent with professed values
Goals:
- Public ally recognize and celebrate individual student successes, regionally and statewide
- Promote diversity on campus, locally and beyond
- Promote "many academic choices"
- Identify and meet changing needs of students
- More diverse hiring of faculty and staff
- Increase enrollment by identifying and supporting excellent graduate programs
- Increase external partnerships to benefit our students and programs
- Increase professional development activities for faculty and staff
Group 8
Values:
- Integrity
- Quality programs and services
- Civility
- Leadership
Goals:
- Clarify and internalize mission (focus/follow-through)
- Assess programs and services; identify and promote strengths (fewer/better)
- External Resources
- Internal restructure/reallocation resources and facilities
- Bring MSU community together in small cross-divisional groups more frequently
- Develop more university/community traditions
- Establish marketing structure
- Expand media/marketing efforts
Group 9
Values:
- Inclusiveness
- Safe environment
- Service (lifelong learning)
- Collaboration
- Pride
Goals:
- Increase marketing
- Confirm/implement our Campus Master Plan
- Increase diversity
- Evaluate our governance structure
- Establish and/or promote traditions
- Explore distance education
