Carson College dialogue notes

Carson College of Business dialogue notes 2.20.19

 

Recommendation: Jeff Selingo, The Motivated University

Assumptions

• More segmentation

Mission

• Says nothing about who we are
• Creativity at risk

Values

• Cougs take care of Cougs (community)
• Missing notion of the system
• Too generic
• Add OPPORTUNITY
• Remove quality and excellence (generic, bad)
• Need accountability to values
• Trust is not enough. Also need transparency
• Make values distinctive
• Culturally we are different in the Pac NW e.g. civility
• Lack of mutual reciprocity
• What would be an outsider’s perspective of WSU?

Vision

• Prioritize: Upward mobility
• Do better at living mission to change the world
• Equity
• Making a difference for students – “Delta ranking”
• Underdog mentality – move to a winner mentality.