Notes from August 25 meeting

Introductions

Review tenetative work plan

• Discuss proposed meeting times
• Entire committee met once per month on Tuesdays at 8 AM
  • Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Nov. 11, Dec. 9

Working groups for core components will meet as needed, probably 1-2 times between committee meetings

Group listing of thoughts on two questions:

1. What characteristics would you like UWM's to have in the future?
   • Continued successful community involvement.
   • Significant portion of research focused on applications to local/regional/state community/environment.
   • Greater student diversity.
   • Real trust across constituency groups throughout campus.
   • Increased student, faculty and staff satisfaction.
   • Research activities relevant to and communication with the world outside campus.
   • Improved match between university's infrastructure and goals for excellence.
   • Increased resources.
   • Growing the base of externally-funded scholarship.
   • Majority of courses taught by faculty who know about student learning.
   • Sustain and expand interdisciplinary courses and programs.
   • Graduate programs that are nationally ranked.
   • Campus values inclusive of community involvement.
   • Better congruence among institutional, department, and individual values.
   • Better student learning experience.
   • Emphasis on teaching and learning.
   • Speical undergraduate experiences to attract students.
   • Improve follow-through between first year and graduation.
   • To be a real ranked research institution.
   • To have an array of recognized doctoral programs.
   • Better parking (10-story structure?).
   • Preparing for increased student enrollment.
   • Employee of choice.
   • Improved venues for delivery of services.
   • Outstanding communication with stakeholders.
   • Continuously improving administrative technology.
   • Communication/education of internal and external audiences.


2. What processes do we need to make these changes?
   • Ability to evaluate costs and benefits of what we do.
   • Ability to match budgeting and resources with goals.
   • Administrative stuctures in place to support evaluations.
   • Ability to know why people (students, staff, and faculty) stay or leave.
   • Mechanisms to agree on common visions and goals.
   • Non-adversarial and effective planning process.
   • Effective imiplementation process that allows campus to institutionalize innovations.
   • Budgetary processes that facilitates innovation.
   • Streamlined approval processes
   • Ability to "read" on-going politics aht afffect UWM.
   • Improved shared governance as it impacts planning.
   • Campus becoming more proactive.
   • Ability to leverage campus' core resources more effectively.