1. Provost Café University of La Verne Greg Dewey 12/1/10 Visioning and Core Values

2. Creating a Common Vision: More than a WASC mandate What the WASC Report actually said: “Identify a clear and focused shared vision with the full collaboration of all university constituents, addressing the fundamental question of ULV’s distinctive purpose in higher education and the students and communities that it seeks to serve.”

3. The Big Words: Mission, Vision and Strategic Planning Strategic Planning Vision Mission

4. How Do Comprehensive Universities Step Up? Above the Pack Back of the Pack Middle of the Pack

5. How Do Comprehensive Universities Step Up? The basic ingredients for “stepping up” Quality of faculty Quality of students Quality of services Physical plant

6. How Do Comprehensive Universities Step Up? Need more than basic ingredients, need: Distinctiveness- how are you differentiated from your peer institutions? Distinction-what do you do better than anyone else?

7. De-constructing who we are The University of La Verne is a private comprehensive liberal arts university with a faith-based heritage that educates a diverse community of traditional undergraduate, professional and adult learners

8. Our Core Values Values Orientation Community and Diversity Lifelong Learning Community Service

9. A Distinctive Combination Community Engagement Community Engagement Research and Scholarship Research and Scholarship Education

10. Building on Excellence