Checking the pulse

March 16, 2023

In 2019, the college's Academic Leadership Group agreed on five-year goals that expressed our collective aspirations for the state of the College of Arts and Sciences in 2024.

In 2024, the College of Arts and Sciences has:

• A robust, deep culture of shared governance
• A diverse, talented, highly-qualified, and appropriately supported community of interdependent students, faculty, and staff
• High-quality, distinctive, and compelling academics

To measure our progress, each year we set and track specific annual outcomes that support these goals.

And we also use several tools to ask you how we are doing.

We host Constituency Team meetings, for example. Two years ago, those took the form of individual departmental listening sessions with me. The CAS Council of Advisors (CASCA) then distributed a spring 2021 pulse survey as part of a review that I asked them to conduct.

This week, CASCA and I ask your help once again. We agree that it's a good time to check the pulse of the college. How are we doing? What progress do you see towards the college's 2024 goals? Where are we falling short?

Watch for an e-mail pulse survey this week, then please help us by providing your confidential and honest reflection.

David Mengel