1.New Science Building

2. Greater Access for Physically Disabled

3. Air Conditioning for Public Use Areas

4. Improvement in Classrooms

5.New Website

6. New Library Building with Compact Shelves, Climate control, technology classes

7. Keep emphasis on small size in any classroom facilities improvement.

1. Increase Library Holdings

2. Hire Tenure-Track Positions: Women’s Studies, Psychology, Political Science, Theater, Chemistry, Philosophy, Religion, Non-Western History and others as determined by program needs.

3. Expand one-person departments

4. Make sure core areas of each discipline are covered

5. Technology Support

6.Greater Emphasis on Shared Research

7. Plan to have guest lecturer who is noted scholar every semester

1. Emphasize Lake for Curricular Athletic and Recreational Possibilities

2. Book Journal Acquisitions in Library

3. Add a Management Major to our Economics Program

4. Offer required courses annually

5. Establish 2/3 Program in Physical Therapy with Upstate Medical University

6. Integrate Business Course in Liberal Arts Curriculum

7. Add Hebrew as part of the Religion Program

8. Off-Campus Study for Professional fields

9. Build 4-5 year program in Nursing, Engineering, and Business

10. Become National Leader in Entrepreneurial Education

11. Strengthen Health Sciences and Values Minor 12. Increase Prominence and Support for Ethics and Science Major

13. Focus on Writing Across the Curriculum

14. Start online education program

15. Require internships in every major

16. Establish outdoor recreation degree

17. Increase academic program connections to Cornell University

18. Offer Masters in Education

19. Courses in global cultures and economics

20. Plan library growth holdings to support programmatic priorities

21. Center for Gender Studies

22. Develop Native American Studies Minor

1. More efficient updating of College Catalog

2. Assure Catalog Offerings

2. Annual outside review of the academic program of the College

3. Offer required courses annually.

4. Re-evaluate core courses

5. Hire First-Year Dean

6. Improve Library Resources, including materials budget (both print and electronic), staffing and staff training, allow for greater faculty input in collection development.

7. Ensure that small classroom culture continues to be a priority for Wells

INITIATIVES:

1.Founders’ Day Ceremony

2.Wells Women Hall of Fame

3. Preserve traditions that have always been important to women.

4. Annual trips to Seneca Falls

5. Use traditions for fun and for community-building

1.Establishing Endowed Chairs Named for Wells Women

2.1868 Society (Celebration and Fundraising themes focusing on Founding Year)

3. Tenure-track lines in Women’s Studies

4. Female Friendly "health club" workout space designed to give women a separate, private space from men

5. Strengthen connection with alumnae. Create opportunities for more direct connection.

6. New Faculty Hires in Women’s Studies

1..Establishing the Wells College Center for Research on Women

2. Foundation Course in Women’s Studies/History

3. Curricular Sensitivity to Women’s History

4. Include co-chair of WRC on committees regarding women-centered education.

5. Introduction to Women Studies as a College Wide Curricular Requirement

6. History of Wells class

7. Install program to insure continuation of a woman’s centered education.

8. Clearer, more specific definition of "women-centered."

9. Balance women-centeredness with welcoming environment for men

10. Invite successful alumni into classroom to share experiences

11. Preserve important traditions while allowing them room to evolve

12. Seek broad input to define "woman-centered"

13. Expand archives and access to preserve current material (digitize, tie to Book Arts)

14. Integrate local women educators into Wells extended history (ex. Howland).

1. Support the development and implementation of a community-wide diversity Plan

2.Make community standards statement a living document

3.Outreach to wider community and work with them to let them know that the signs posed against the Cayuga land claim are detrimental to the recruitment of Native American students.

4. Make Wells Website more inclusive

5. Design and intentionally build community

6. Fundraise for diversifying faculty

7. Post Community Standards Statement Around Campus

8. Require all members of Wells Community to sign the Honor Code

9. Mandatory Diversity Training for Faculty and Staff

10. Educate Dining Hall Staff Regarding Dietary Needs During Religious Holidays

11. Offer Domestic Partner Benefits to Faculty and Staff

12. More diversity items in the bookstore (cards)

13. Include widest range of needs, diversities

14. Diversity training for students

15. Institutional Definition of Diversity

16. Website and other marketing material updated for inclusiveness

17. Investigate Resources for will students and non-residents

18. Review policy for practices for accountability for bias

19. Work with community to take down UCE signage

20. Respond to UCE signage with more welcoming messages

1. Workshops and programming on diversity, ethics, awareness

2. More events that include all faculty, staff, students, and alumnae

3. Offer more educational forums on issues open to community and increase P.R.

4. Establish program to honor the land Wells is built on

5. Establish relationships with Native American Elders

1. Recruit more minority students

2. Fundraise for scholarships for students of color and LGBT students

3. Advertise more in the South to contribute to intellectual diversity.(Currently only 2 students from KY and W.Va.)

4. Focus more on recruiting non-traditional students

5. Create tenure lines specifically for the recruitment of faculty of color

6. Expand Diversity Sensitivity to include males

7. Review CCS to provide for it to be enforceable

8. Provide scholarship and expanded support for a wider range of students (i.e. WILL students).

9. Create visual environment to reflect diversity

10. Scholarships for Cayuga tribe members

1. Increase Faculty Salaries

2. Increase Technology Use and Access for Teaching and Research

3. Approve All Registered Tenure Lines

4. Revisit the idea of exchange programs between Wells faculty and other colleges

5. Maintain competitive faculty development fund

6. Establish faculty "perks": 10% discount ID card for bookstore, free or discounted lunch in dining hall, etc.

1. Greater Emphasis on Shared Research

2. Support Lecture series that highlights the contribution of Wells to different fields

3. Develop the Faculty in Residence or Faculty Fellow Program

4. More support for conference attendance

5. Release time for faculty to work on issues related to other goals (diversity, etc.).

6. Develop Assessment of Learning Outcomes

7. Establish spaces to informally discuss research with students and colleagues

8. Hire Director of Institutional Research

1. Additional support for philosophy department so that we can more honestly address our mission

2. Plan every semester to have lecture by noted scholar/researcher

3. Develop Study-Leave Program for faculty!

4. Provide (require) technology training for college community

5. Training and support for teaching and advising men

6. Provide support resources for curriculum development and external review

7. More training on AS400

8. More training on and access to Advising Module

1. Renovate one of the downtown properties as a Faculty Guest House

2. Need Forum/place for ongoing level-playing field communication between faculty staff, students, and trustees

3. More technical staff

4. Provide course release funds to faculty with demonstrated scholarly productivity

5. Secure more and better computer equipment for faculty

6. Guest house concept should be expanded and inclusive

7. Revised faculty evaluation form to include focus on learning/teaching style (consider electronic form)

8. More technical support in "smart" classrooms

1. Required courses in Experiential Learning

2. Encourage Service Learning

5. Student Shared Research Opportunities

6. Establish Center for Entrepreneurship Education within the Dean’s Office to formalize the dedication to this priority

7. Off- campus study for pre-professional fields such as landscape architecture, urban planning and design, physical and occupational therapy and art

8. Expand Study Abroad Programs to Include Science Majors

9. Internship for students in offices to gain working skills

1. More Internships—Corporate and Non-Profit

2. Individual Entrepreneurship Models

3. Evaluate and Improve Career Services

4.Support OCS, BAC, CU partnership initiatives

5.Initiate Writing Portfolio

6.Support for off campus study

7.Support and institutionalize the symposia

8. More investment in the career services position and experiential learning

1.Improvements to dormitories

2.Building a more useful and attractive physical education facility (window!, lights!, mirrors!, air!)

3. Increasing access and use of technology in learning

4.Laptops for all incoming students

5.I-tunes for all students

6.Academic Resource Center

7.Expand Study Skills Offerings

8.On-line classes/On-line blackboard

9. Expanding WILL program to include house where single moms could live with children

10. Female Friendly "health club" workout space designed to give women a separate, private space from men

11. Develop a plan for the social use of the college that respects academic spaces yet provides the opportunity for students to mingle and enjoy themselves.

12. Plan more attractive places for community members to hang out

13. Repair/Replace dish washing machine in the Dining Hall

14. More van destinations

15. Improve the locking systems (ID cards)

16. Develop a childcare center

17. Cable in rooms

18. Expand/Improve Athletics/Physical Education/Recreation Spaces and Equipment

19. Improve bookstore location

20.Improve post office facilities

21.Bathrooms in Dining Hall

22.Explore Alternative Dining Service

23.Create a centralized Student Services Hub (Library?)

24.Develop a base for one stop shopping

25. More functional spaces for students to congregate

1.Encouraging a smoke-free environment

2.Improve student health and wellness

3.Provide better access to surrounding attractions

4.Improvement in food service—less fried foods.

5.New campus card ID system

6.Design office or program to help students utilize Wells-Cornell connection.

7.Cross country skiing courses or intramurals

8. Diversity Training for Students

9.Implement program/procedures for problem-solving in student work areas (educate supervisors)

10.Better inform staff to address health and safety problems

11. More mental health support

12.Initiate Retention Effort Plan—(Integrated, Expanded)

13.Update judicial program

14.Expand paraprofessional and professional staff in residence life

15.Expand transportation program

16.Improve website Dining Hall

17.Improve meal plan structure

18.Training professional staff in residence halls

19.Work with local authorities and campus staff to improve understanding of building layout for emergency purposes

1.Increase Salaries

2.Smoke-free workplace

3. Reduce staff hiring of Wells graduates. "Admirable that alums return but results in incestuous relationship and breakdown in fundamental goals of strategic planning."

4. Performance review forms improved and updated

5. Merit raises tied to performance

6. Develop system for financial rewards and incentives for education and improvement of skills

7. Seek broad applicant pools for job openings

8. Address issues and perceptions of animosity

9. Flexible work schedules/job sharing/second shifts

10. Encourage flexibility in jobs to allow for advancement growth

11. Enforcement of Parking Rules

12. More support of staff forum by staff

13. More supervisory support for staff attendance at events on campus during work time

14. More support for educational/cultural conferences

15. Written policy for flex time.

16. Encourage a culture of respect for staff, faculty, and students

1.Staff development days

2. Training support for staff in dealing with new population of men

3. Program to Recognize employees by institution

4. Outside consultants to study reclassification of staff position

5.Training on AS400 for staff

6. Coordination between special activities on campus and cultural events in the village

7. Establish classes to teach current technology to Wells community

1.Air-conditioning of public spaces

2.Continued updates in access and use of technology in

3. Do something about ragged, dangerous pallet that is placed outside lower level of Macmillan

4. Air conditioning for offices

5. Improve parking

6. Childcare center

7. More hand rails

8.Increase and integrate tech staff

9.Added parking

1. Provide Conflict Resolution Teams

2. Training for Teaching in New Classroom Environment

3. Trainers to Facilitate the Transitions in Administration and Recruitment

4. Add Cricket to give college distinction and to attract international men

5. Big Sister/Little Brother program to foster good relations between men and women students

6. Require Introduction to Women’s Studies as part of College Wide Curriculum

7. Do not require all students to take women’s studies courses

8. Provide additional support for male students throughout the first year

9. Support all new male and female students

10. Campus-wide education as to what is the difference in departments (athletics, physical education, recreation)

11. Continued support for male students beyond the first year

12. All-student support for transition

13. Create new traditions

14. Training and collaborative leadership for students and faculty

15. Update ropes course

16. Have male mentoring program for new male students (Male Faculty/Staff mentors)

1. Ready Dorms for Men Students

2. Add Physical Education Teams and Facilities

3. Female Friendly "health club" workout space designed to give women a separate, private space from men

4.Better use of golf course

1. Involving Students in Recruiting

2. Update Meetings and Shared Communication

3. No Coed Dorms

4. Overhaul Admissions Effort to make new audience understand who we are and why we’ve changed.

5. Have open communication meeting once a month.

6. Don’t have co-ed dorms

7. Communicate with total openness to devoted alumnae

8. Make efforts to retain current students

9. Make Board of Trustees by-laws and resolutions available.

10. Inform next freshman class of all events and reactions that took place this year.

11. Do not withdraw from the endowment for co-education adjustments.

12. Create budget for transition and make it accessible.

13. Make a policy against Greek-life (no frats or sororities).

14. Establish a new/modified mission statement

15. Provide Clear Budget for how transition initiatives will be financed.

16. Housing committee and inter-hall board to make residence decisions

17. Focus on positive change to provide new opportunities

18. Transition elements in place within years 2, 3, 4 and 5, etc.

19. Need transition information on the website

20. Keep transition team in place

21. Create assessment and benchmarks for transition

22. Instruct all students about College Honor Code

23. Hire outside facilitators to come and work with feelings, challenges needs for transition.

24. Keep Honor Code emphasis on Social as well as Academic life

1. Campus "Green" Activities

2. Town and Gown Activities

3. Have Botany students design and plan a wildflower garden

4. Have Botany students build a nature trail

5. Village offerings that would appeal to men ( recreation/social)

6. Annual village mixer sponsored by college

7. Take Better advantage of Local Geographic Resources to improve student life: hiking, kayaking, birding, biking, cross-country skiing, fishing, etc.

1. New Sign for College Lawn

2. New Signage for College Buildings and for Trees on Campus

3. New Flower Landscaping and Design

4. Plaza with a Fountain to serve as Campus Center

5. "Welcome to Wells" Banners on Lamp Posts

6. Better use of the lake, including adding crew and sailing

7. A Trail from GP to the NW corner of Wells campus through the lawn

8. Develop large available space in front of Pettibone or/and lakeside of Route 90

9. A More Accessible Route from Morgan/Cleveland and Main back door to Library 21. 10.Woods Lot Area (Handicap Accessible).

11.Tear Down or repair green house attached to Southside of Macmillan. ("I’ve been here twelve years and the tarp has been up since I came.")

12. Improve Sommer Center lawn

13. Have a Campus Vegetable Garden

14.Improve campus sidewalks, Macmillan patio

15. Utilize Wallcourt

16.Gas pump in Aurora

17. Fitness Trail and Organized nature walks

18. New heating system

19.Improved pedestrian traffic

20. Energy efficiency on campus

1. Strengthen College Recycling Program

2. Contract Student Initiated Designs for Signage

3.Work w/village for a sidewalk to ball field

4.New Wells College Logo

5.Need affordable guest housing for college guests

6. Limit Automobile Access to central campus

7. Better signage throughout campus

8. Better security for our art.

1. Guard against duplicating spaces/services for men and women

2. Incremental Goals for specific areas of growth—enrollment and fundraising

3. Ongoing Assessment

4. Centralize Institutional Research Data

5. Form Partnership with other Liberal Arts Institutions to Promote Liberal Arts

6. Support the Marketing Committees Plan for Wells College

7. Bring in businesses on campus to present to students offering internships and recognition of Wells as a place to recruit and acquire matching funds.

8. More use of Phipps and Coordinator of Campus Spaces

1. Increase Major Pre-Professional Offerings—Teacher Certification, Nursing, Engineering, Business,

2. Target and Enhance Special Niche Areas: Book Arts Center, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 8. Summer Writers’ Workshops, Performing Arts Workshops.

3. Explore the spiritual/religious connections with communities

4. Start Campus Radio Station

5. Establish alternative schedule for graduate education

1.Increase enrollment by broadening national and international marketing and recruiting.

2. Increase enrollment by targeting specific groups well-suited for the location and mission

3. Use Wells’s small size to market as providing excellent preparation for graduation school. Highlight success stories of Wells graduate.

1. Begin a New Capital Campaign "Wells for the World"

2. Increase Alumni Giving

3. Increase Major Corporate Giving—Wells Fargo and American Express Especially

4. Build Wells Fargo fundraising link

5. Explore New Funding