Education dialogue notes

College of Education dialogue notes 3.18.19

Assumptions

• More diverse
• Student population needing more support for mental health
• Good collecting of data required to access easily to articulate needs and successes
• Need to justify higher ed
• Q re role of liberal arts degree
• Pseudo data about higher ed – myths
• Focus on job attainment
• Traditional research expectations of some value – other types e.g. online
• More take longer to the degree
• Student expectations of technology and skills and its use in teaching; a challenge
• Spaces: Expectations for maker spaces etc; competition
• Spark v PACCAR – balance? Access to other campuses?
• Multidisciplinary spaces

Mission

• Too long – need to be able to recite
• verbose

Values

• Freedom of expression; crosswise with diversity
• Accountability – we haven’t met that ideal
• What is quality? What is excellence?
• Leadership needs to be accountable
• INCLUSIVENESS
• Aspirations v core values
• “Ethics” not here

Drive to 25

• More $ across the board
• More citizens in WA better ID us from others in state
• Broader support for WSU
• More prominent in the legislative mindset
• More awareness
• More robust job opportunities for graduates
• More people seeking out our graduates
• Ability to attract
• More doctoral students – at all campuses
• More researchers, faculty
• Applicant #s up – risk of exclusivity; must be careful
  • g. med school’s holistic model for admissions is great
• Hear Go Cougs a lot more
• Show differences made in communities

Short-term goals

• Higher ranking #
• More UG students – they must fund rad education
• Growing in all kinds of ways
• More research expenditures
• More private funding
• More inclusion of UG and G in research
• BUZZ about WSU – news stories
• More robust communication team e.g. web team
• Great pedagogy – really engage learnings across broad array of access points
• Mentor and coaching for teaching; diversity of innovative practices
• Level playing field for all colleges
• Less OR and more AND
• More resources equitably applied
• Role of central admin- e.g. Phil is highly appreciative