Is that a program?

Good Stewards protect public funding from these 3 types of "Programs"

Check the Box Program

Activity that meets superficial goals, but does not create meaningful impact (think of statistical significance without clinical relevance or jumping through accreditation hoops without relevant student impact)

Smoke and Mirrors Program

Activity that is so superficial (or just a brochure without any activity at all?) ... this borders on or exemplifies fraud. 

A La Carte Program

Activity that occurs without anything leading up to it or occurring after it ~ perhaps a one day speaker program or a workshop that doesn't connect with any pre/post strategy or impact.  

Again ... where are we getting our news?

And, when do we do our critical thinking?

We are at great risk of not understanding what is happening around us and wasting our time on us-them arguments that prevent us from finding a better/the actual truth together.

A good question to ask ...

What's in it For My Students ?

What is a hostile workplace?

Perspective:  Hostile ?

Hostile Workplace  

"Harassment becomes unlawful where 1) enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or 2) the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive"  (US Equal Opportunity Commission)

For more information on protecting your organization and/or yourself:
US Department of Labor

Notre Dame on Flourishing in Service ...

Research from Workwell at Notre Dame

Flourishing in Service:
A Guide About the Science of Wellbeing for Humanitarian & Global Health Workers

While this work is focused on those in care-giving positions, how can these insights guide all of us toward engagement and meaning in the workplace?

https://workwellresearch.com/media/images/Wellbeing%20at%20Work_JLKKeOX.pdf

Pathways: Past and Future

Do not go where the path may lead,

go where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Discussion:  Share an example from the past and one you imagine in your future

$ - what happens next ...

Paradigm Discussion Prompt Set 1: 

Bureaucratic Academics (only?) spend resources

Entrepreneurial Academics (often/only?) leverage resources


Paradigm Discussion Prompt Set 2:

What is our entrepreneurial identity?

What might our challenge question be?



(see discussion instructions)