WSU System Strategic Plan
2020-2025
College of Arts and Sciences dialogue notes 3.18.19
Assumptions
- Income inequality increasing (and opportunity inequality)
- More pressure to move college into high schools
- More students to STEM and business
- Political polarization will continue
- More internships and practical experience expected
- Expectations to partner, collaborate for tackling social issues
- Birthdate will decrease 3-5% in college cohort
- Higher ed will serve a broader constituency
- Mixed picture for international students
- More Hispanic students
- Private schools closing at record rate
- Possible quotas
- State support will remain at 17% or drop further
- Other states’ difficulties could “help” us – students may want to come here
- Value of higher ed in question—especially arts and humanities
- Questioning fundamental science inquiry
- Increasing pace of automation will make certain fields replaceable – moving to a conceptual age from the information age
- AMSR trend
Mission
- Way more emphasis on outreach needed
- No sharing, collaboration; stealing of land from indigenous peoples—a one-way relationship
- Should discover, share and apply
- Should respect that we learn from others
- Need to include supporting communities (“citizens” is a colonial term)
- Importance of quality of life and economy
- Need to rectify social justice
- Should be synergistic
- No athletics in the mission
Values
- “Institution” is a product
- Civility
- Familial, community – a dangerous framing for those who don’t “fit”
- There is nothing distinctive in these values
- LISTENING
Drive to 25
- “A bad goal”
- No faculty support for this in our departments
- Audacious is good; ambitious is not
- Missing constituencies
- Missing how society has changed
- Technology, environment, diversity
- Re land-grant mission “engagement, stewardship, ethics”
- Structure of institution doesn’t facilitate
- Division of expectations
- Need partnerships
Other