Offer your thoughts here as Dr. Laurie Bernotsky embarks upon a campus-wide listening series to start her tenure as the 16th President of West Chester University.
President Bernotsky's first priority is to listen, hear, and understand the perspective of WCU's community.
Here, she invites students, faculty, staff, families, alumni, community members and local leaders and partners to share their hopes and aspirations for WCU's next chapter.
Provide your input below to help inform President Bernotsky's leadership.
Themes for Discussion
- Housing/Facilities: Address our housing demand in both short-term and longer-term ways and deferred maintenance/renovation needs as part of a campus-wide master facilities plan.
- Student Success: Improve success for all students by erasing equity gaps, enhancing student support structures, and evolving to meet the needs of future students.
- Financial Sustainability: Increase financial degrees of freedom by defining/maintaining a strategic enrollment sweet spot and strengthening revenue streams.
- National Identity: Embrace and build our identity as an R2 (high research activity) and flagship institution beyond this region by thinking differently about our "peer" institutions and aspiring to be national leaders.
- Environmental Sustainability: Continue our commitment to environmental sustainability both in terms of our institutional practices/resource constraints and how we prepare our students as future leaders and global citizens.
