MUW 20/20: Envisioning Our Future, Fulfilling Our Promise
Excerpt from President Limbert's August 13, 2007, Letter to Campus Announcing MUW 20/20
"As we prepare to celebrate our institutional past and the individual contributions that shaped us, we must also look with renewed energy and focus on the future. This institution (in fact, all public institutions of higher learning) currently faces many challenges-reduced financial support, changing student demographics, aging infrastructure, and greatly increased competition. It is imperative that we look squarely toward the future, face our challenges head-on, and determine which opportunities to embrace and how to do that most effectively.
"Therefore, over the span of this academic year, we will undertake an exercise designed to help us fulfill the promise and educational compact implicit in our mission. We will call it MUW 20/20: Envisioning Our Future, Fulfilling Our Promise.
"As an academic institution, we do not typically do things without thinking and, I think that you would agree, that something as serious as one’s future also demands a great deal of thought, thought that should not only involve the stakeholders from the campus community but also the stakeholders of our greater community, since we need to be both responsive to the needs of our greater community and be relevant to their success. We are tied closely together and that is the way it should be.
"The process itself will be broad-based. We will begin in October with a professionally facilitated creative visioning process session that will involve representatives from each group of our stakeholders to capture outputs in a holistic way to build clarity and shared understanding".
(To see President Limbert's Letter to the Campus on August 13, select Communications in the Menu).
