Strategic Planning Meeting Results – December 13, 2010

Team 1 – Brandon Webb, Kelly Gregory, Mary Ann Chambers, Karen Rudolph, JoAnn McMillan and Lisa Barrientos

  • Improve the campus visit experience by locating the most in demand offices together.
  • Admission Services
  • Campus Visits
  • Financial Aid
  • Update and modernize the buildings on campus that are most in need.
  • Neill Morris
  • Castellaw
  • Mary Gibbs Jones FCS
  • New buildings for expansion of popular programs will help with recruiting.
  • Business
  • Communications
  • SUB

Notes:

  1. Baylor would benefit greatly from a new building housing all the programs that prospective students need.
  2. Remodel Neil Morris, Castellaw & Mary Gibbs Jones, FCS
  3. Need new communications building.
  4. Business School expansion
  5. Master Plan – Admissions, Campus Visits, & Financial Aid together in one building.
  6. New building for Financial Aid, Campus Visits, Admissions, New Student Programs, and Campus and Campus Living and Learning.

Team 2 – Lauren Robb, Deidra Salmons, Sheila Gosselin, Jessica King-Gereghty, Charissa Bush, Chris Munson and Hannah Sprague

  • Baylor needs to become the most prominent, unapologetically Christian university in the world. This vision can be achieved by hiring teaching faculty who embody the vision and by embracing students of backgrounds with Christian hospitality.

Notes:

  1. Embrace itself as the largest Christian university and focus on providing the best Christian experience in the world.
  2. Improve endowment.
  3. Figure out what our size should be
  4. Embrace where we are in the top 100.
  5. Determine to what degree we want to be a Christian university.
  6. Convey to students that Baylor is accepting of students from other religions; Christian hospitality.
  7. Focus on being best teaching university.
  8. Faith should be and increased priority in faculty recruitment.

Team 3 – Ross Vandyke, Andrew Summersett, Josh Lassiter, Bridget Humphrey, Pam Diaz, Kelly Devoe and Audrey Long

  • Baylor needs an on-campus Stadium (coliseum)
  • Unify Baylor and Waco community
  • Heighten sense of awareness for athletics
  • Increased attendance at games
  • Build student recruitment
  • Raise the program’s morale
  • Increased revenue
  • Presence in the Big XII Conference
  • Increase football recruitment
  • Location to host various events
  • Increase revenue for the city of Waco

Notes :

  1. Build new football stadium. (See drawings)
  2. New football stadium close to campus.
  3. I would donate money to athletics.
  4. Need an on-campus stadium.
  5. Build stadium on campus: increases student participation and improves Waco Community and the neighborhood.
  6. The Baylor Nation/Empire needs a new coliseum in with to RISE UP to create wealth for the university.

Team 4 – Anis Quorzal, Josh Sims and Jennifer Carron

  • The undergraduate curriculum needs a common experience. With the evident retention increase through Line Camp we suggest enhancing this effort by incorporating a mandatory study abroad.
  • Happy students = increased retention, happy alumni – happy donors.
  • Increased retention
  • Global citizens
  • Global partnerships
  • Grants
  • Increased international recruitment
  • Increased job placement in extremely international market
  • Conclusion: Mandatory study abroad equal benefits for all!

Notes:

  1. Mandatory Study Abroad
  2. Pay for student study abroad, off campus experience
  3. Establish Global Presence

Team 5 –Cene’ Griffin, Jonathan Evans, Amanda Ramirez, Walker Talbert, Della Jasso, Veronicka Thompson and Joey Aviles

  • Aggressively grow the endowment so that we can increase current scholarship and add new scholarships.
  • Engage more you alum to inspire giving.
  • Create “tradition” of giving for current students.
  • Add recognition incentive for donors. (even small donors)
  • Return to “named” endowed scholarships vs. “general” scholarship fund.
  • Not RISE UP, “Pay Up” Campaign.
  • Scholarships should match tuition increase. If tuition goes up 7%, the President’s Scholarship should increase 7% for example.
  • Make religion scholarship non-denominational and make Baptist scholarships significant.
  • Re-shift (or delete) small merit –based scholarships to high-ability awards (Provost or President for example). No paltry Dean’s Scholarship.

Notes:

  1. Remove paltry Dean’s scholarship and re-shift to schollies for high-ability students.
  2. Make money available for scholarship to those that need it.
  3. More endowed scholarships.
  4. Increasing the endowment would benefit both students and raise the academic profile of
  5. Baylor University.
  6. I would like to donate to student scholarship fund.
  7. More scholarship dollars for nursing students.
  8. Increase endowment.
  9. Endowment
  10. Tuition lower
  11. More scholarships for middle class students.
  12. New scholarships directed at students involved in domestic missions, i.e. social work,
  13. Education, etc.
  14. More scholarships to apply for.
  15. Scholarship fund for multicultural initiatives.
  16. Reinvestment in liberal arts and sciences. Increasing faculty, increase salaries, & more
  17. Scholarships.
  18. Cost of education – how can we keep it affordable?
  19. Aspire to never increase tuition percentage above national average of previous year.
  20. Guarantee that merit based scholarships increase with tuition increase every year.
  21. Aspire to go beyond “business models” for financial decisions. Be more than just competitive in the market.
  22. Slow down increasing tuition.
  23. Aggressively grow the endowment so that we can increase current scholarships and add scholarships.
  24. Funds directly for specific scholarships . . . Education and Social Work.
  25. Add non- Baptist scholarships for students of other denominations.

Team 6 – Kevin Nall, Shirley Bradshaw, Diana Ramey and Mary Reinhardt

  • Establishing reasonable retention and graduation rates and accomplishing them through early career development processes, line camp and campus housing opportunities (aligning major and career choices, and creating community

Notes:

  1. Campus housing for transfer students
  2. Fund Baylor Line Camp
  3. Graduating students is 4 years and students that are ethical
  4. Finding true graduates and retaining students.
  5. More career development from the beginning.
  6. If I had a large sum of money I would invest in residence halls.

Team 7 – Helen Moss, Melissa Taylor and Lauren Vordekunz

  • Baylor Academic-Community Connection
  • In keeping with Baylor’s mission and Christian identity this initiative would provide academic opportunities to not only Baylor undergraduates, but also a primary education with the marginal students within Waco’s borders. This allows a preparation for academic success, encompassing primary/secondary programs throughout the educational career for these area students. The current success of seed/model schools would benefit not only Baylor, but the community. Some of the benefits would include observation and research for SOE students and faculty, increasing hope and well being for potential leaders in Waco, TX and abroad.

Notes:

  1. Baylor should become more environmentally conscious, clean the river and promote the Environmental Sciences programs.
  2. Pursue a model K-12 school for Waco area and combine with Waco’s neediest for research and teaching.
  3. Program in WISD on career choices and how to pursue it.

Team 8 – Lana Waden, Rhonda Kieff, Margaret Whiteside, Mary Ann Sanders, Gwen Sparkman andColleen Ostrom.

  • Community service hours required in area of degree required for graduation
  • Evaluation at end of freshman year
  • Certain groups
  • Scholarship incentives and work study
  • Bring Waco in
  • Community ties
  • Office to know needs to be met
  • Servant’s heart

Notes:

  1. Strengthen community – Baylor-Waco-world
  2. Develop a partnership with careers in health, nursing, doctor, community health, (needy community of Waco).
  3. Baylor needs a new program or office in which students learn to implement their ideas for service. To become leaders and servant leaders.
  4. I would like to help disabled member of the community gain job skills, etc.
  5. New office for service implementation.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS NOT ADDED TO TEAM DISCUSSION:

  • If I had all the money I could spend question:
  • Ramps, hand rails
  • More handicap access
  • More scholarships for middle class students and more handicap access
  • If I had all the money I could spend, I would put hand rails in the Ferrell Center
  • Ramps, hand rails, scholarships, residence halls, stadium on campus

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