Academic Staff Town Meeting
Tuesday, October 15, noon
Union South with Rosa Garner
- 30 participants -
Describe what you value most about yourself, your work, and the university.
Being a resource
Ethical behavior
Role in the education role of the university
Opportunity to make a positive contribution
Service learning
Effective use of change
Good listener
Contribution to something bigger than self
Appreciate public's value of institution
Provide excellence
Ability to work with students and their perspectives
Listen to students
Colleagues around the world
Learn from students being taught
Interaction with interesting people
Opportunities to solve problems
Interest in knowledge and its use
Freedom to explore a number of ideas
The chance to think about service learning for students
The richness of experiences
Being precise
Being organized
Being able to contribute to and help people
Being trustworthy
To value and promote diversity
Work on proposals that create national resources
Appreciate public perception of the institution
Opportunity to grow in the job
Educational and cultural contributions to state and country
Active thinking proactive people
Boss and colleagues are wonderful
A learning experience everyday
Being on a beautiful campus
Opportunity to be paid for being creative
Work that is rarely boring
Exploring changes in learning technologies
Input with altruistic outcome
Opportunity to participate in larger professional organizations
Opportunity to be a parent of student, alum, graduate student and staff
member of the institution - at the same time
If you had a magic wand and could create the best work environment
possible that would be an expansion of the best you have experienced in
your past, what wishes would you make for the University of Wisconsin-Madison?
Work with people who give others energy
Three season university - skip winter :)
Unlimited funding
Appreciative environment for all
Environment to allow progress toward right livelihood
Dissolve employee class system
Work in office with a window that opens
Increase participation in greater university community
More opportunity to work with colleagues at other institutions
Respect for everyone's job everywhere
Getting people involved outside work unit
Training and orientation for all employees at the right time
Fair and equitable treatment regardless of sex or race
Equipment to do work well
Equity in treatment of classified staff
Have academic personnel that truly supported staff instead of administration
More diversity of campus
Everyone pleasant and helpful all the time
More positive climate for fostering diversity
Environment with justice, kindness and humility
Job selections to be based more on capacity and interest that experience
Consideration the work life is part of whole life
Appropriate credit for contributions to the institution
All office required to have a window and that they open
100% tuition reimbursement and the encouragement of supervisors to take
advantage
State and federal leaders understanding the university
Divorce of the UW from the state government
More interaction between departments
More visible and substantive presence for academic staff governance
People able to realize full potential in the work place
Authority linked with responsibility
Students and staff working together to make university a better place
Being allowed to participate in activities beyond my title
A more cohesive, less fragmented university
Respect differences
University system become a digital library of products (what we do)
Other concerns:
Caste System
Being in the middle give us a unique opportunity to reach to both classified
and faculty
Staff needs a better understanding of the decision making process at all
levels
How does one become part of the whole on a fragmented campus?
How to allow for voices of differing power - wanted real vigorous conversation
Am I/are we invisible?
How do we empower ourselves without at the same time jeopardizing ourselves?
Inclusion in dept. governance
Stronger participation of instructional and research staff in governance