WSU System Strategic Plan
2020-2025
Student Success Council dialogue notes 2.20.19
Assumptions
- Cost of education will continue to increase
- Increasing competition from others for education: industry, online, competency-based
- Changing and more expansive expectations about higher ed: what it will provide
- Women and faculty of color will continue to be challenging to hire and retain
- Increasing expectations for inclusivity
- Students jumping from place to place – adaptive, flexible locations and schedules
- Expectations for work-life balance
- Challenges to capture research/education data will continue
- Implications for funding etc.
- Perceptions about higher ed for job readiness
- Focus on efficiency to get students out
- Exit ramps on increase; also pathways for re-entry lifelong learning
- ROI focus – students expect high-impact practices while at WSU
- Accountability expectations will be high
- Funding and sustainability planning necessary
- CC’s entering into 4-year degree space
- Growing distrust of higher ed and role data play (distrust of data)
- Combined higher expectations for data along with mistrust of data
- Need for 3rd-party validation of data
Mission and Values
- Inclusive community seems missing
- Could be made more clear
- More on student experience—prioritizing their needs
- Redefine land-grant ideals
- Diversity and global citizenship – vague and broad
- Humanity (v. world view)
- Social mobility
- Education (seems to be missing) –teaching and learning
Drive to 25
- Seems like a contradiction
- Gives university advantages
- Increase engagement with people who care about you and community that is passionate
- Need to measure community impact
- Access, community impact is our mission and priority
- Helps with recruiting faculty
- Seems like a shifting target
- We can achieve whatever we set our minds to
- What is collective goal?
- Can do but at what cost?
- Community, connectedness, excellent work “in mileu in which people are seen and heard and fully valued,” accessible
- Universal teaching to more diverse population
Short-term goals
- # of international students
- # of first-gen students
- Diversity
- Alumni engagement
- Increased UG and G applications
- Metrics in annual reviews; community engagement
- Need identity for teaching and learning
- Research is coming first
- Show why and how research and teaching go together