Community ideas submitted in 2005

Organized by Date and Goal Area

(These are only ideas from community, to see the ideas from Marshall's faculty, staff and students please go to sharepoint site)

Date	Goal Area	Comments
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Establish a relationship with Fine Arts and Chruchs. Students could sing in the choir, play music, dance, establish contemoray services for youth, get to see what MU has to offer. Some churches might be able to pay others may not. teaching classes also.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Marshall University establish it's self as the University that provides Continueing Education for professionals needing hours of training for certifications, licensures Our company spends $1,500 per staff, those in needs CPA, ATC, PT, SLP, Nursing, HR, DR
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Offer advanced training and MSW to meet the needs of the state for professional social workers.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	establish "ditance learning" video capability at southern WV high schools for the community. Target people working in business, education and professions. Allow them to obtaing undergraduate and graduate course work in their communities.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Establish a "field trip" program for elementary/middle school students classes to visit an MU academic facility and attend an MU olympic sport contest free of charge. Provide students with a Marshall item and initiate their interest in MU and MU athletics
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Develop community-based learning to llift depressed potential among youth. Teach skills that will enhance student excellence, enable parents to effectively participate in achievement, encourage post sec. school educ. persuit., provide empoyees to busines
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	By developing a Law School near the Capitol, we will better serve the people of WV, plus have more of an impact on future legislative sessions and public policy as our alumni increase their role within WV government with less of a wvu-centric mindset.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	By getting the community involved with Marshall University, people will realize how wonderful most of the students are. This might even allow more job opportunities for students who are struggling to get a job. Jobs in our area seem to be concern!
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	By offering more on-line classes and/or on-line degree programs, Marshall will be able to reach a higher number of potential students, which would include those individuals who are employed full time and live over 2 hours away from the nearest campus.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Collaborate with Wayne/Cabell schools to develop a pilot project that establishes a "virtual" math/science/art design academy at MU for high school students. It should be scalable for expansion statewide and adaptable to encompass grades 6-8.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Expand 2 + 2 programs with the state Community Colleges to cover a greater variety of disciplines such as Sociology and Psychology.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Marshall should find ways to connect closer to the community to meet its needs. Academic programs should have community service as part of their curricula. More programs and courses for seniors--summer would be a great time. More camps for kids at risk.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Marshall University would be most improved by improving it's "front line" people. These are the people that the public first talks to when they contact the university in many departments such as financial aid, human resources, the registrar, admissions
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Require students to engage in immersion-type international learning experiences. Eventually, this expectation should become a graduation requirement. These experiences must be effective in broadening multicultural/global understanding and perspectives. They should emphasize non-English speaking nations where students must speak the language. Project-based learning experiences involving collaboration between American students and international students have been shown to be a powerful and highly effective approach in this regard.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Review current activities, programming and initiatives to assess their effectiveness and progress toward advancing institutional goals for inclusiveness and diversity. Clarify goals. Institute effective strategies for accomplishing them. Specify indicators accompanying benchmarks for monitoring progress and. Phase out ineffective programs and focus of programming that matters most for the future.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	Service activities of the University should be tied to other activities whenever possible to provide multi-use of resources. Resources committed to service activities should follow institutional priorities.
19-Dec-05	Community & Service	The "front line" employees are so important as the first impressions of MU. It begins with the Admissions, Financial Aid, Bursar, Registrar, student housing and ends with the Alumni. There is only ONE first impression of a higher ed institution for your child. Recruiting National Merit students and high achieving students to campus is not that difficult. It begins with communication, personal contact, extreme interest and a genuine concern. Quality students attract other quality students and become quality alumni. This should be the primary focus. Most all other goals will fall into place; research, donations, interest, intellect, growth, and community involvement. The university is up-grading the facilities of Old Main-wonderful. The front line offices must create a good first impression for visiting and prospective students. The first letter, call, the vision of the campus and hopefully the lasting impression. Reward the front line workers; there may never be a second chance to obtain that quality family to MU. Success breeds more and continued success. Consider removing the metro tuition rate. Draw a circle around the tri-state area and make it local; in-state. Quantity and quality students are at your back door. Show the tri-state community how to be the area leader in education; every day in every way- beginning in 2006.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Develop a Department of Creativity - a cross/inter-disciplinary program that studies the creative process and its application to meeting challenges in various disciplines. Students/Faculty develop strategies to meet specific challenges collaboratively.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Let West Virginia's universities, industries, and leaders be at the front in developing efficient small, home and business size turbines. Subsidy money can pay West Virginians to develop clean energy answers not outside companies to destroy our natural beauty. A West Virginian broke the sound barrier, another developed NASA rockets, and many are industrial leaders--we can lead the world and develop more efficient ways to harness wind. Challenge the technology, physic, and scientific leaders in this state to develop a new, smaller, and more efficient turbine that can be attached to homes and towering skyscrapers.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Establish a Marshall Research Institute (a la Georgia Tech Research Institute and Stanford Research Institute) in Bio-Technology, Ecology and Life Sciences. Opportunity for economic development and advanced study programs.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Obtain a "brown site" development exception to build a college baseball/softball complex in the former industrial sites north of third avenue in Huntington.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Create interdisciplinary groups of faculty who are given time to work collaboratively on activities like discussing and solving instructional and community problems and proposing and developing ideas for grants.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Develop a partnership between the athletic department and local schools and youth organizations Capitalize on the many opportunities to tie the classroom with athletics. Reware excellence in attendance and challenge students to strive for academic growth
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Develop virtual symposiums at which Marshall scholars and creators can present research and works in progress and engage in dialogue with interested colleagues.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	I believe that there should be a December graduation.What university makes their students wait till May to graduate. One graduation takes extremely too long and students dont want to wait till May if they are already finished in Dec. Come on MU...Step Up
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	MU should be creating oppurtunities for students to learn across disciplines and solve problems creatively. This is not possible without investing in our arts program.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	Provide funding for pilot projects. Grant funding requires preliminary data. There is no mechanism for funding pilot projects esp. at the Assoc and Prof level. Start up funds only help new faculty, need to support other faculty, cheaper investment.
19-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	To develop a financially self-sustaining, adaptive and self-generative model of research and creative activity at Marshall University, colleges need a way to give incentive rewards to faculty, such as reassigned time or awards for scholarly activities.
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	WV is made up of mostly small business MU either can be the premier institiution to develop circulum or develope consultative services of staff to develope exsisting business to grow. Research and seek out those business in trouble or behind and help
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	Not really EconDev, but a "Marshall Green Campus" program could identify energy initiatives with good ROI and short payback, i.e."VendingMisers" to reduce energy costs of soda machines,geothermal heat pumps in new construction,HiEff lighting rplcmts, etc.
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	Establish an MU "business directory" listing MU alumni, their business and their business address. Sell it to alumni to support MU, use it as source for fundraising contacts, encourage cross referrals for business development.
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	MU establish and administer a Higher Education and Applied Techniology Center in Huntington area bringing in courses of study/degree programs from other colleges/universities not available at MU. Tie to Velocity Center and business technology development
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	Economic development will only take place in a climate that encourages planned risk--where entrepreneurial programs and creative summer school options are promoted. Adopting a global perspective is a must, with a heavy focus on international linkages.
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	Problem 1: Marshall needs more money to expand. Solution 1: Increase number of students enrolled. Problem 2: How does MU increase the enrollment? Solution 2: MU must be the best choice academically, athletically, and socially. Tough, but possible!
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	Update how development is handled on campus. Each college should have a development person to help make connections and promote the college. Deans, Chairs, and others should spend time doing development activities and creating grateful givers.
19-Dec-05	Economic Development	WE NEED BETTER PUBLIC RELATIONS! Consider hiring some students from our fine program or have them work on this as a class project for graduation, but push our university name/image as the best in the state and region. WVU/OSU and others aren't better.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Marshall is in need of a law school. As a Marshall alum and a WVU College of Law graduate, I fail to see why WV has only one law school. Marshall was named for one of our nation's greatest jurists. Time to continue our growth & establish a law school.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	I think that if we are genuinely interested in maximizing the potential of our students, we need to provide as much time and support for the development of quality teaching faculty as we are in the development of quality researchers.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	It is my belief that a truly productive process would be begin with the formation of a well-informed group assigned to determine and implement the prudent and exact actions to be taken to achieve the goals pre-determined by the group. They could also assist in the selection of the most feasible of the suggestions received from the public. There is no doubt that the plans and actions of such an informed group would be of infinite value. PROPOSAL: The GROUP: Consists of two factions reporting to the President. ACADEMIC: Each member chosen for his/her full knowledge of, and lengthy experience in academia, teaching ... plus an awareness of definite actions required to improve the quality and growth of Marshall's academic programs. Marshall's faculty has many members that would qualify ... but in the past they have been held at arms-length or ignored. FINANCIAL: Each member chosen for his/her full knowledge of, expertise and lengthy experience in the past and present financial operations of the university. Some presently in Marshall's financial departments would qualify and there are many financial professionals in the area willing to consult and advise. Each faction meets weekly and reports to the President in a joint meeting every two weeks for full reports and discussion. The point made here is that the plans and specific actions required to benefit the university can best be determined by a consensus of fully-informed minds.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Based on co-op engineering models (Va.Tech, U of Cinn.) establish MU co-op study programs in bio-technology, health care and education. A new tool to bring in highly talented WV high school students.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	establish a Law School at Marshall. Initially as an adjunct to WVU school of Law. Leverage Tri-State lawyers to teach basic course work. Incorporate Paralegal course of study in the school. Initiall have basic courses at MU and follow-on courses at WVU.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Establish and Engineering School. an academic engineering course of study is needed in the Huntington area to properly attract high technology business. establish initially as an adjunct to WVU with initial courses at MU and follow-on at WVU.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	New Art Building- growing art department has a floor and half a garage. Art building is designed and promised for 5 years. Actively seek funding please. I am a grad of the program and want a better experience for those who come after me.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	All students should be provided all the tools to be successful in the new economies in the US and world, including foreign language requirements for all students, teaching critical thinking and innovation/brainstorming skills, better communication skills.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Brand ourselves, really establish who we are. We are Marshall but are we a liberal arts,professional technical college. find our niche ,market it. We have let some our potential department go , ot change with the times SLP for ex.;should be in Medical
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Establish "Michigan State-like" residential living-learning communities at Marshall. Some of the features include linked courses, integrated leadership and service opportunities, peer tutoring, community building and greater connections to faculty.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Establish an Honors College at Marshall.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Heavy minors/conc. in computer science could enhance many programs' graduates' attractiveness to employers and give them an edge in getting jobs. These programs would teach the discipline's computer applications and other specific skills(i.e.scripting)
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Marshall should give serious consideration to developing a school of law. Provide greater professional opportunities for WV, open new adult career choices , increase academic programs, attract out-of-state students & eventually give more legisla. members
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Marshall University needs to continue upgrading classrooms to "smart classrooms" according to the IT Strategic Planning Initiative . This will acheive better facility utilization and provide opportunities for faculty and students to utilize technology
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Mass Com students must pursue a 'generalist' career path to prepare them for future jobs. With content as king, they need to be able to use multiple mediums fluently. Make their content 100% web-accessible and the student will send it to parents/siblings.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	Revitalize the General Education program at Marshall, giving full consideration to eliminating the �distributed� and returning to the �core� general education program model. Marshall must be held accountable for developing and advancing the essential thinking/learning foundations, dispositions and ways of knowing in their graduates, which form the basis for lifelong learning.
19-Dec-05	Intellectual Resources	The BOG should be empowered even further to assure that future of our university is in the hands of some of the brightest and best thinkers/visionaries/business people in the Marshall "family." The BOG is a key piece of most decisions, and rightfully so.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	Expand both undergraduate & graduate offerings in Teays Valley and Charleston. Build a suitable facility in Teays Valley.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	Expand the teacher education program into a 5-year program and aid local schools by placing education majors into classrooms & afterschool programs where they can gain experience and allow the teacher to concentrate on teaching.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	MU can increase success for students who are parents (a considerable portion of current and future enrollment) by offering facilities such as a room where their kids can play while they work on papers, projects, etc. on campus computers.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	MU should offer more degree programs that can be completed entirely online. Leading institutions around the world like UCL, Utrecht & Lund are already doing so. Also, drop the fee that effectively doubles the cost of online classes for full-time students!
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	MU's biggest responsibility to the community is to graduate capable, educated, thinking adults. Secondly, continue to interact with other institutions in the area to use MU's human and material resources to their fullest.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	Both on campus and off campus event should be better publized. It seems like I only hear about events after they happen.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	Consider adding a community service requirement to the Marshall Plan.
18-Dec-05	Community & Service	From my point of view, Marshall is looked upon by many i know as a bad school as far as alcohol goes. If it could be possible to restrict or ban underage drinking, that would make the public image much better.
18-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	The entire idea of education is discovery & innovation.We need to foster creativity EVERYWHERE & invest more in arts which impacts across all disciplines.MU needs an arts vision & plan as it has the potential to deepen student's knowledge in all fields.
18-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	All suppervisors need training in employee managment. Some Directors are micro-managers. No decisions but his. This creates problems. Intimidation and observation do not promote professionalism. Good employees have transfered. Morale is low.
18-Dec-05	Discovery & Innovation	I think the future of Huntington and Charleston are intertwined, regionalism will happen. Marshall could be ready for this by building and expanding are resources in the Teays Valley area. Thats where the money and resources will be centered.
18-Dec-05	Economic Development	Establish a program to assist local firms with research and other support that can help them enter markets overseas.
18-Dec-05	Economic Development	I suffest lowering the metropolitan fees and tuition to the equality of in-state. The average household income in the metropolitan area is lower than that of the in-state area. Lowered mertro costs would equal more metro students applying to the school.
18-Dec-05	Economic Development	MU's biggest contribution to economic development is creating an educated workforce. Secondly, MU's ability to develop biotech research (as one example) can integrate with efforts of HADCO to attract biotech companies. This would be true in other areas.
18-Dec-05	Economic Development	Develop truly cleaner renewable energy--given the huge problem (scientist in New Zealand dared to say "human extinction" within 100 years!) of global warming and the ecological destruction of mountaintop removal, MU could really serve the community.
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