WSU System Strategic Plan
2020-2025
Honors College dialogue notes 2.20.19
Assumptions
- Technology essential to university ability
- Decrease in standard student – more from CCs, international
- Legislative: progressive policies – we should lead not react
- Potential for disruption so we need to be innovative in goals and we should measure their progress
- Give’t $ will decrease – tuition policies must be flexible
- Have to be entrepreneurial
Drive to 25
- Measures some “old” things – not innovative
- Plan should be as bold and exciting
- Student learning difficult to measure but crucially important, and student outcomes of value
- More integration of work-life, not just respond to the past
Mission
- Cookie cutter, formulaic
- “knowledge” is so narrow
- Social mobility
- Include support economy of state
- We have most USDA $ in nation, and Boeing, and Medicine
Values
- Too many
- Some are statements, not core values
- Some use value to define itself
- Hiring needs to assess how people exemplify the values
- Honors values could be the same for WSU:
- Compassion
- Respect
- Teamwork
- Excellence
- Should be consistent with Coug spirit
Drive to 25
- “I’ll’’ be retired” and looking from the outside
- Not more PhD students etc might be relevant
- Think of “25 things I was part of” that university has done
- DT25 seems hollow
- Think of impact we can have with Joe Harding, Guy Palmer—and if Joe’s $ came through WSU it would have a huge impact; Cliff German
- More faculty who are synergistic
- Attract best students
- Banner outcomes that benefit everyone
- Make world healthier
- Strategy to attract pkgs for couples – e.g. child care
- Can offer programs we don’t currently offer bc more funding for programs that enrich student experience, not necessarily big funding
- Improved social mobility prospects for average student
- Big Fundable Idea should be to provide every student a scholarship – ex. Our old $1.2B could go a long way
- Better students, more impact, more access, different student experience
Short-term goals
- Budget position positive
- More faculty support
- More faculty
- Sensible investments
- NOT cutting sections of classes, no more 500-seat classrooms
- g. concern that cutting foreign languages counterproductive with global vision and hurts honors students to fulfill requirements
- Dept should be able to schedule courses for majors with 8-9 students if course is central to the major—right now these are cut, hurting students