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Mission Statement Creation And Dissemination In Service Organizations: Reaching All Employees To Provide Unified Organizational Direction, Julie L.G. Walker
Mission Statement Creation And Dissemination In Service Organizations: Reaching All Employees To Provide Unified Organizational Direction, Julie L.G. Walker
Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota Journal
Scholars extol the virtues of crafting effective mission statements and the importance of its frequent communication. Especially in nonprofit business settings, mission statements can be an important way to provide goals and purpose for an organization’s staff. Creating and conveying mission statements to unify a staff whose tasks span a broad range is a difficult but important part of visionary leadership. This study explored mission statement dissemination at a university to understand its impact on staff whose tasks included limited academic work with students. Analysis of questionnaires found nonacademic staff members were not exposed to the mission statement often and …
Strategic Planning Steering Committee Minutes - December 2, 2015, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Strategic Planning Steering Committee Minutes - December 2, 2015, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Minutes from the December 2, 2015 Strategic Planning Steering Committee meeting.
Strategic Planning Steering Committee Minutes - October 28, 2015, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Strategic Planning Steering Committee Minutes - October 28, 2015, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Minutes from the October 28, 2015 Strategic Planning Steering Committee meeting.
Strategic Planning Steering Committee Minutes - September 23, 2015, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Strategic Planning Steering Committee Minutes - September 23, 2015, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Minutes from the September 23, 2015 Strategic Planning Steering Committee meeting.
Integrated Academic Planning: Developing An Intentional Path Forward, Marilyn J. Wells, Lynn D. Akey
Integrated Academic Planning: Developing An Intentional Path Forward, Marilyn J. Wells, Lynn D. Akey
Academic Affairs Publications
This presentation will focus on successful completion of Phases 1–3 of an integrated academic planning process, with engagement of 180+ degree programs and four extraordinary education task forces. Presenters will discuss successful and provocative elements, including consensus building, community involvement, data utilization, shared governance, and transparency.
Nu Strategic Planning Framework 2014-2016, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness
Nu Strategic Planning Framework 2014-2016, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness
Student Learning
The University of Nebraska is a four-campus, public university which was created and exists today to serve Nebraskans through quality teaching, research, and outreach and engagement. We strive to be the best public university in the country as measured by the impact we have on our people and our state, and through them, the world. To do that, we must compete effectively with other institutions around the world for talented students and faculty. The future of Nebraska is closely tied to that of its only public university, and this framework guides university-wide and campus planning to help build and sustain …
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Response Impact On Graduate Students, Sean Eric Kil Patrick Gay
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Response Impact On Graduate Students, Sean Eric Kil Patrick Gay
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The roles that universities played in the response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster were significant and varied; however, there was limited study on participating graduate students. The purpose of this study was to understand the impact of disaster response on graduate students' personal and academic development. This study examined research questions about the perceived impact on academic and personal identity development. Empowerment, cognitive content engagement, general systems theory, and utilitarianism formed the theoretical foundation. This study used a transcendental phenomenological approach to examine the subjects' experiences in the context of involvement in disaster response. The primary source of data was …