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MISSION/VISION/VALUES INITIATIVES SUMMARY

These comments are compilation of comments that were made in a wide variety of academic planning discussions and arrived via e-mail.   This includes comments from the Academic Council.

  • We need continual and vigorous faculty discussions about the how our disciplines might give witness, separately and together, "to the image of the trinitarian God revealed in Christ, hence in the image of the Logos who is eucharistic love", i.e., to God's holiness by our participation in God through Christ in our academic life. Perhaps set up another discussion/reading group on this issue.
  • Assign on of our committees the job of creating a plan to engage the faculty in discussions linking faith and discipline.
  • Use some faculty development gatherings to focus on the issue of forming connections between our faith and our academic disciplines and/or work with students.
  • Find ways to build transformational relationships between faculty, staff and students.  This is part of both our Christian identity and our heritage as a liberal arts institution.
  • Clarify the definition and distinction of the “university” as we use it in our name.
    • What is the relationship between the Point Loma campus and the other sites?
    • What is the relationship between undergraduate and graduate programs?  What are the distinctions between then?
  • Study the possibly unintended side-effects of dividing the university into schools.
    • e.g. fragmentation, segregation, diminishing creative interchange
  • Support a conversation about the “telos” of Point Loma - e.g. how does our identity as a Christian University inform our participation in Liberal Arts tradition?
  • Clarify our identity as a Christian Liberal Arts University.  Do we need to find or define models?
  • Who sets the “Vision Statement?” Leadership, Board, Faculty?
    • How can the faculty impact that? By what process?
    • Leadership’s job is to communicate, cast, and entice us to follow a vision.
    • We need further opportunities as a community to discuss the vision and hear from the leadership about the vision.
  • What are the definitions of prominence and voice?