Overarching Themes in Responses to the Strategic Planning Online Survey
The following is an effort to synthesize comments received from an online strategic planning survey.
Strengths: |
Weaknesses: |
Challenges: |
| - Geography/Location |
- Institutional image |
- Recruiting, hiring, and retention of faculty and staff |
| - Academic Programs |
- Economics and political positioning (3) |
- Achieving diversity of people and ideas |
| - Faculty/ staff/ administration (1) |
- Geography/Location |
- Institutional image |
| - Centers |
- Bureaucratic structure and internal communication |
- Integration with university centers and community colleges |
| - Economics (2) |
- Academic offerings and availability |
- Increasing enrollment (4) |
| - Student Life |
- Teaching and advising |
- Relationships between the university and local communities |
| - Campus environment |
- Limited diversity of staff and students |
- Economics (5) |
Footnotes:
(1) Quality and accessibility
(2) Low cost, affordable
(3) Compensation; limited resources; limited endowment; cost of tuition, fees, room, and board; state funding.
(4) Maintaining enrollment gains; providing adequate housing, parking, classrooms, and course offerings
(5) Achieving more adequate resources from all sources - the state, a comprehensive campaign, etc.
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