MarCom Staff Envisioning Session

¶ 1 Leave a comment on paragraph 1 0 Strategic Plan – Big Questions (PC200) –
Marketing & Communications Staff – 1/27/2017, 9:00 am

¶ 2 Leave a comment on paragraph 2 0 Q1: If Providence College were to be best known for one thing only within the next 10-20 years, what should it be?

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Accessibility to faculty
Focus on humanities, liberal arts
World-class instruction
Quality of curriculum
Discussed plusses/minuses of being best known for business education
Best known for what we teach and how we teach it (academic excellence)
Focus more on how we teach (not what we teach)
Tenure/promotion – too much value on publication
Faculty!
Engaging classes, notable research, great mentors
“Humanities based education that gets results” (results = student outcomes)
Authenticity! – must be authentic in whatever we do
Students have access to rich experiences, in part, because PC is small enough to allow for it
Signature work – at the institutional level

¶ 4 Leave a comment on paragraph 4 0 Q2: What should the College be doing in the next 10-20 years that it isn’t doing today?

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More educational experiences not for credit; i.e., shorter-term, certificates, “one skill”
More direct relationships/partnerships with business, industry, not-for-profits, other colleges/universities, etc (for student placements, to share knowledge, to generate knowledge/research); also, can build revenue and/or decrease costs
Becoming more “green” (composting, solar, reducing waste, etc) and telling the story
Students learn how to tell their own stories (e.g., communications courses, communications major, journalism, etc)
Environmental studies/science – should be teaching it

¶ 6 Leave a comment on paragraph 6 0 Q3: If you had $100M+ new dollars to spend, how would you spend it?

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Endowment for financial aid – meet 100% of students’ need (be sure to provide support for students with need while at PC)
Adding faculty (endowed faculty lines), in core areas of strength – “rock star faculty”, or investing more in current and replacement faculty (not necessarily new lines)
Small business incubator (“PC powered kickstarter”)
More/better science resources
Fix website ($500K)

¶ 8 Leave a comment on paragraph 8 0 Q4: What should be the most important measure or indicator of the College’s success? Why?

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“Culture of gratitude” (rather than transaction) – gifts honor people, honor institution
Highest fund raising participation rate of any institution like PC

¶ 10 Leave a comment on paragraph 10 0 THEMES