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from the issue of November 18, 2004
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Verbatim: Forum to discuss core values, strategic planning is Dec. 2
This information on an open forum to discuss the university's core values is provided to all faculty and staff from Harvey Perlman, chancellor; Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs; and John Owens, vice chancellor of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
As you know, UNL is now engaged in a strategic planning process launched earlier this fall. This planning is focused upon identifying and confirming our core values and establishing academic program priorities that express these commitments. As part of our planning process, we invite you to participate in the first of two UNL forums dedicated to a campus dialog about our core values. The first forum will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec. 2 at the Nebraska Union.
In many respects, our campus community already has engaged in serious efforts to define and express our institutional values through the directed work of task forces, such as those that produced our "20/20 Vision" and "Transitions to the University" reports, and through college and universitywide initiatives, such as the Programs of Excellence. To assure that our strategic planning in this and succeeding years supports priorities that express our core values, we need to articulate these commitments specifically and assure that they resonate with all who contribute to our university community.
With this objective in mind and needing a good place to start, we collectively engaged our academic deans to produce a draft statement of our core values - a statement to help us direct our efforts to identify strategic priorities this year and to encourage campuswide discussion about the core values that these priorities address. This statement is repeated below.
We ask you: Does the draft statement reflect values that involve all of our UNL constituencies? Are there key commitments this statement misses? Do the stated values, in their current form, resonate with our faculty, staff and students? We hope that you will join us for the first forum on Dec. 2 to help us answer these questions. This discussion has been timed for the lunch hour to allow for maximum participation. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Coffee and other refreshments will be available. We look forward to hearing from you on Dec. 2.
Statement of core values
• Commit to an uncompromising pursuit of excellence
• Stimulate research and creative work that fosters discovery, pushes frontiers and advances society
• Establish research and creative work as the foundation for teaching and engagement
• Prepare students for life through learner-centered education
• Engage with academic, business and civic communities throughout the state and the world
• Encourage, support and challenge every member of the university community to make meaningful contributions to our core values
• Create a university culture that values diversity of ideas and people.
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Verbatim: Forum to discuss core values, strategic planning is Dec. 2
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