{"id":122981,"date":"2016-09-07T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adminfinance.umw.edu\/hr\/?page_id=122981"},"modified":"2017-09-05T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T15:47:12","slug":"presidents-message-steps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adminfinance.umw.edu\/hr\/employee-relations\/engagement\/communication\/presidents-message-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Message &#8211; Next Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From:<\/strong> Rick Hurley<br \/>\nUMW President<br \/>\nOffice 540-654-1301<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rhurley@umw.edu\">rhurley@umw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sent:<\/strong> Friday, May 27, 2016 1:56 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Subject:<\/strong> UMW 2016 Faculty and Staff Engagement Assessment<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Dear Colleagues,<\/p>\n<p>In February, we conducted the UMW 2016 Faculty and Staff Engagement Assessment.\u00a0 The results are in<strong>!<\/strong>\u00a0 With 49% participation, we can be confident that the results represent the views and experiences of our community.\u00a0 THANK YOU.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>We learned what works well:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strong\u00a0departmental work teams<\/li>\n<li>Support for work life balance<\/li>\n<li>Our commitment to our students and the liberal arts<\/li>\n<li>Pride in being part of UMW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; vertical-align: top;\"><strong>We learned what needs to be improved:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compensation<\/li>\n<li>Senior leadership\u2019s communication with the campus community<\/li>\n<li>Silo mentality<\/li>\n<li>Bureaucracy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Our Immediate Next Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, we want to connect with you.<\/p>\n<p>Your ongoing feedback and participation will guide our joint efforts to\u00a0support the\u00a0success and engagement of all faculty and staff.\u00a0 The Cabinet and the Faculty and Staff Assessment Committee received the detailed report earlier this month and have already met with our ModernThink Consultant, Rich Boyer, to review what we have learned.\u00a0This summer, we will prepare a plan for full and candid discourse.\u00a0 The campus community will be offered a variety of collaborative opportunities this fall to review the detailed report, help identify priorities and begin to develop strategic action steps. Additionally, when Dr. Paino arrives in July as our new president, he will share his vision for how to engage the campus community in a conversation about the results and how to determine next steps to support our continuing commitment to excellence.<\/p>\n<p>This assessment is not simply a one-time event.\u00a0 We now have a baseline for this critical work.\u00a0 The UMW strategic plan, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/provost.umw.edu\/files\/2016\/03\/UMW2020.pdf\">Mary Washington 2020: Excellence. Impact. Distinction<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">.<\/span>, states our commitment to regular assessments and to use the results to enhance the well being of all members of the University community.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again to the faculty and staff who served on the assessment committee for their support and involvement in this project.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><strong>Committee Members:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Terri Arthur<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Human Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Employee Relations Manager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Rosalyn Cooperman<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Political Science<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Associate Professor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Eric Gable<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Anthropology<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Professor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Sabrina Johnson<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Human Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Associate Vice President of Human Resources and Affirmative Action<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Scott Jones<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Dahlgren Campus<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Site Director<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Pam Lowery<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Human Resources<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Director of Technology in Professional Development<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Michael Morley<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">\u00a0Music<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\">Office Manager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: Rick Hurley UMW President Office 540-654-1301 rhurley@umw.edu Sent: Friday, May 27, 2016 1:56 PM Subject: UMW 2016 Faculty and Staff Engagement Assessment Dear Colleagues, In February, we conducted the UMW 2016 Faculty and Staff Engagement Assessment.\u00a0 The results are in!\u00a0 With 49% participation, we can be confident that the results represent the views and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"parent":122975,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[303],"content_audit":[],"class_list":["post-122981","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-employee-engagement","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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