Themes Sorted by Prompt: I Wonder...

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I Wonder...

1. Implementation: Curiosity about how to get started, how individuals can contribute and some concern about ensuring a successful implementation  

Column B in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • I wonder how to start with this. What is step 1?
  • How quickly might we see results.
  • How to keep our work rare and relevant to WMU when our competitors are facing the same challenges.
  • How?
  • If this will be a game changer
  • I wonder if we are ready for the disruption ahead.
  • Who will lead the Gallup Strengths Initiative?
  • I wonder if we really can be flexible.
  • I wonder, too soft?
  • What we can accomplish with a plan
  • What role will values play? Will we develop a values statement?
  • I wonder what I can do to help adoption?
  • How this gets actualized. What changes have to happen?
  • I wonder how you get this to stick and spread.

 

2. Change Management:  How will we manage this change and the campus culture development required to succeed?

Column H in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • I wonder if we can really create change.
  • If we collectively have the strength to sustain  
  • How long will it take to change culture?
  • If faculty will embrace this excellent Think Big idea
  • Will we avoid the pitfalls of toxic positivity while focusing on 麻豆传媒 mental health?
  • I wonder how the 鈥渙ld guard鈥 will be managed?
  • How do we boost areas that are struggling with just rewarding areas that are doing well?
  • How do we change the status-quo mindset?
  • How does united and cohesive allow for difference and healthy dissent?

 

3. Clarifying the Research: Curiosity to learn and understand more about the research data

Column N in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • I wonder why faculty and staff are less optimistic about WMU being on the rise and a good value. 
  • Why grad 麻豆传媒 opinions of WMU are so much lower than UG 麻豆传媒s  
  • What鈥檚 the plan for school counselor perception?
  • What are parents鈥 opinions of WMU for enrolled 麻豆传媒s?
  • I wonder if our athletic image is tied to our overall image.
  • Is there a connection between familiarity and opinion?
  • How are we going to convince the public that we are different?
  • How can we shake our mid-major label?
  • What makes Western special? Still don鈥檛 know. I wonder what it is.

 

4. Organizational and Structure Implications:  Wondering about the implications of the strategy on current organizational structure and initiatives

Column J in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • How effort will be de-duplicated across colleges/departments
  • Structural changes to fit the vision? Financial aid, admissions, etc.  
  • If our new budget model will help or harm our goal of unifying and breaking silos  
  • I wonder how this fits with RCM.
  • If services are the new amenities  
  • University College. Wonder what it is, exactly.
  • How will career services integrate into this new state of being at WMU?
  • How are we going to have the flexibility without extending graduation time?
  • I wonder how the first-year experience will allow 麻豆传媒s to develop affinity for their individual college. 
  • How will 麻豆传媒 success services involve various departments of 麻豆传媒 affairs?

 

5. Student Experience: Thoughts about how the 麻豆传媒 experience will be impacted or improved  

Column P in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • Will all first-year 麻豆传媒s enter the 鈥渦niversal鈥 college or all new 麻豆传媒s to WMU?
  • Wonder: don鈥檛 major changers still leave 鈥檚afety net鈥 and college services? Or is advising centralized?
  • We would recognize there is very little difference between traditional, transfer, and nontraditional (contemporary) 麻豆传媒s.
  • Is there a plan for graduate 麻豆传媒 success?
  • I wonder if it is too simplistic to reduce 麻豆传媒 needs to one simple idea.
  • How do we adapt when 麻豆传媒 鈥榩urpose鈥 goes dim?
  • How transfer 麻豆传媒s fit into this?
  • Are we still recognizing some 麻豆传媒s need to work 40+ and need to take 5+ years?
  • I wonder how 麻豆传媒s of color and their distinct experiences will fit into this model.

 

6. Faculty/Staff Impact: How will the vision impact staff in terms of skills, accountability and job responsibilities?

Column S in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • I wonder how we re-skill existing employees to work with the new framework/model.
  • I wonder how this will impact non-麻豆传媒 facing jobs/employees.
  • [I wonder] about faculty and staff wellness.
  • How overworked staff can be more responsive?
  • I wonder how this will impact staff jobs (restructuring)?
  • I wonder how we will redesign performance metrics (hr) for employees.
  • If staff will be involved to assist in programs
  • If the faculty will become advocates for the big idea
  • How can this be built into every staff and faculty鈥檚 job? Set the bar.
  • Where this intersects with employee engagement?
  • Where my department and its program fit?
  • How does this impact people daily?

 

7. Academic Rigor: Questions about how the strategy might improve or impact academic rigor and quality

Column E in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • University College for technical degrees鈥攑re reqs!
  • I wonder where academic rigor is in a wellness focus .
  • How can we adapt the major changing strategy to intense lock-step majors like nursing?
  • How will the integration of general education be worth it?
  • Research 麻豆传媒 with professors
  • I wonder if we aren鈥檛 perpetuating outdated ways of teaching and need to modernize.
  • I wonder how we develop courses that involve real world experience. 
  • I wonder if the 鈥渓ack of linear鈥 is too far?
  • How will this be integrated with well-established majors?
  • How this fits with our research mission. 
  • How these ideas are implemented in the classroom?

 

8. Marketing and Communications: What are the steps that Marketing and Communications is taking to better promote WMU and how will these new ideas be promoted?

Column G in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • How we will get message out to alumni?
  • I wonder how to get counselors in HS more aware of WMU.
  • I wonder what marketing we can do to reach parents and counselors about our brand promise. 
  • Wonder: how can we communicate more with parents?
  • How this will be communicated in marketing materials
  • How we will showcase this visually
  • I wonder if we will standardize our visual colors, logo, etc.
  • If the communication will improve these concepts across campus  
  • Get the message across the uni?
  • Wonder how branding will focus around need a liberal arts degree
  • Who will we market to?

 

9. Prospective Students/Enrollment: Questions about if and how the strategy will impact recruitment, retention and overall enrollment

Column A in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • If staff had more flexibility, if we could help with recruiting and retention.
  • How fast our enrollment will increase!
  • I wonder if the value proposition will actually translate to having more promoters as parents and counselors. 
  • Can we really change our enrollment numbers?
  • Will this impact retention?
  • I wonder what our goals should be as it relates to future enrollment.
  • Who do we want to attract? We will attract what/who we are?
  • I wonder how quickly prospective 麻豆传媒s will understand/get excited about this approach.
  • How do we make prospective 麻豆传媒s (and parents) 鈥渂elieve鈥 in this new brand?
  • How 麻豆传媒s will view meta-majors if that will make them choose us over MSU/GVSU

 

10. How to Pay for It: Curiosity about how changes will be financed and how it may impact the cost of attendance  

Column L in the spreadsheet

Representative Comments

  • I wonder who will pay for a better U with fewer 麻豆传媒s?
  • How do you balance budget limitations and the services we need to offer to implement these goals?
  • I wonder about the cost of attendance and where that fits with 麻豆传媒s not choosing/leaving WMU.
  • I wonder should financial literacy also be included in university college?
  • I wonder how we can do this with budget cuts.
  • Capital Campaign Efforts
  • I wonder: where鈥檚 the money coming from to implement 鈥淭hink Big?鈥
  • Wonder how much the initiatives cost?
  • Will we devote new recourses or is this a 鈥淏udget Rebrand?鈥
  • How are we going to accomplish all this in current fiscal situation?
  • Is increased mental health services going to raise tuition costs?
  • How does this work with the new budget model?