The leaders of a committee tasked with helping to improve the campus climate say much progress has been made over the past few months.
“The committee has been hard at work to identify and implement steps to improve how we function as a campus community, with particular focus on shared governance, respect and communication,” Provost Martin Abraham said.
Abraham and Chet Cooper, chair of the Academic Senate, are co-chairs of the YSU Excellence Steering Committee, formed last year to evaluate suggestions coming out of the Great Colleges campus climate survey last spring.
Abraham and Cooper pointed to several examples of steps already taken to address concerns expressed in the survey, including:
The Great Colleges survey will be administered again on campus March 31 to April 14. Hillary Fuhrman, director of Assessment, noted that this time all employees will be invited to complete the survey. Last spring, only a sample of employees were invited.
“In keeping with efforts to create a more open and inclusive environment, we thought it was important this time to make sure that all employees had the opportunity to participate and be heard,” she said.