UCA: Campus Planning: Big Event Results

Big Event Results
During small group discussions at the "Big Event" on Friday, February 2, members of the faculty and staff were asked to compile lists of Values and Challenges to creating "The UCA Experience." Values were those attributes we wished to possess as a UCA community and the Challenges were those things that might prevent us from successfully achieving "The UCA Experience." The first group in each category indicates items that appeared at least two times. Those items, both values and challenges, that appeared only once on the lists follow in alphabetical order. Members of the North Central Steering Committee are currently working with the Student Government Association to hold a related student event in the near future.
VALUES Intellectual Curiosity- 6 Community - 5 Integrity - 5 Challenging - 4 Citizenship - 4 Involvement - 4 Professional development - 4 Creativity - 3 Diversity - 3 Respectful - 3 Enlightening - 3 Friendly/caring, - 3 Global awareness - 3 Personal growth - 3 Responsible - 3 Communication - 2 Competent - 2 Critical thinker - 2 Enthusiasm - 2 Ethics - 2 Fulfilling - 2 Life-long learner - 2 Marketable - 2 Maturity - 2 Mentoring - 2 Motivating - 2 Relationships - 2 Respect - 2 Safety - 2 Technically skilled - 2 Tolerance - 2 Trust -2 Varied opportunities -2 Academic achievement Adaptable Altruistic Articulate communicator Attitudes Belonging Better library resources Career preparation Career-prepared Caring/nurturing Challenging Character development Commitment leadership/service Contemporary "Customer" service Education Employable Empowering Enlightening Environment Equality Excitement Experience Facilities Fiscal Fitness Fulfillment Global, diversity Goal - oriented Health promotion Honest/ethical Informed Intrinsic Leadership Learning community. Life preparedness Life-long learning Lower teaching load Memorable Mind expanding. Multicultural Nurturing/personal development Open-mindedness Opportunities Personal qualities Physical Positive attitude Positive motivational leadership Prepared Proper orientation Provincialism Quality academic experience Recreation Reflective Resources- more technology, better support to faculty & students. Resources financial & human Responsibility for education Results Safety Self-disciplined Self-worth Smaller class size Socially conscious Stimulating Student focused services (streamlined processes). Support Teaming/collaborative Vision Well-rounded/balanced	CHALLENGES Lack of resources - 8 ¨ Money - 4 ¨ Time - 4 19 ¨ Technology - 3 Apathy - 12 Lack of communication - 5 Class size - 3 Financial resources - 3 Leadership - 3 Authoritarian leadership - 2 Cynicism - 2 Faculty-student ratio - 2 Lack of community feeling - 2 Retaining faculty/staff - 2 Student preparation - 2 Territorial issues - 2 Unrealistic and ambiguous expectation - 2 Work load - 2 Academic dishonesty Accessibility Administrative support Attracting qualified faculty & staff Board of Trustees needs to be involved Burdened with paperwork Bureaucratic Censure list - need off Challenges (to this triangle effort) Classes too big Community Commuters Compete Conflicting expectations Conflicting value systems Create better system of reward vs. punishment Creditability Cultural conflict Customer service communication Devalued learning Developing vested interests Development Diversity sensitivity (broadly defined) Division/Lack of coop Existing cultural values Expand recruiting & admissions Expectations/conflicts F/S/top down Facility & staff development Faculty mentoring of students & valuing by admin Faculty/staff valued Fear of triangle Forming partnerships General knowledge policies/procedures Geographic isolationism Government representation Human resources Improved advising Improved curriculum inconsistencies Inconsistent policies Inconsistent reward system (moving targets!) Information age Initiating and /or expanding student, faculty & staff mentoring Interaction outside of class Involvement Isolation Lack of appreciation Lack of image/identity Lack of independent living skills Lack of mentoring for new faculty Lack of ownership Lack of self discipline Lack of support (technology) for faculty Lack of technology Lack of trust Lack of vision by faculty/staff/admin Micro-management Need for reward system overhaul Need staff/faculty orientation No support for pursuing outside funding Organizational skills Past history-animosities Patience with process Planning Policy Priorities/goals Prioritize resources & needs first Provincialism Public image Rapidly changing technology Response & respect Self-interest Shared governance Size Society State undervalues education Stress issues (student, faculty, staff) Structure Student isolationism Student money woes Student priorities & attitudes Student relationships Student value system Students do not appreciate learning for learning Students vested in process buy in Subversion of academic standards Suitcase mentality Support for faculty/staff/student Teaching techniques Too few mechanisms for cross departmental interaction UCA image Unpredictable Us vs. them mentality

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