{"id":142,"date":"2012-09-18T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/Insights\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-09-19T11:09:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T16:09:20","slug":"we-are-a-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.winona.edu\/insights\/we-are-a-community\/","title":{"rendered":"We are a Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my Welcome Week\"Winona<\/a> address to campus I reflected on ways to develop shared purpose within the WSU community.<\/p>\n

This has two meanings:<\/p>\n

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  1. The community within: those of us who study and work at Winona State.<\/li>\n
  2. The community without: those whom we serve in the community and across the state through partnerships, service learning, volunteerism, and so on.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Let\u2019s talk about the Community Within.\u00a0 We need to seek a common understanding of our purpose and direction.\u00a0 This will help us continue our leadership role.\u00a0\u00a0 How do we do that?\u00a0 How do we promote the best possible community within?\u00a0 Here\u2019s how I believe we do that:<\/p>\n

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    1. Sharing Governance \u2013 the best ideas are out there, not in here.\u00a0 Together we will find them.\u00a0 I\u2019ve only had three really great ideas ever and one of them was to marry Kelley and another was to move here.<\/li>\n
    2. Promoting Transparency \u2013 we owe it to each other to be open and honest.<\/li>\n
    3. Embracing Dissent \u2013 I believe in the utility of the Hegelian dialectic: truth is revealed through the encounter of different diverse perspectives that synthesize.\u00a0 Disagreement is not just okay \u2026 disagreement is essential!\u00a0 According to the research of Charlan Nemeth at UC Berkeley, creativity is enhanced by debate and disagreement.[1]<\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Honoring civility, even amidst dissent — it\u2019s okay to challenge ideas, but it\u2019s not okay to attack people. No ad hominem <\/em>attacks, please.\u00a0 This is not easy but we HAVE to get this right!<\/li>\n
    5. Valuing Diversity \u2013 this is a challenge for us, something the HLC recognized as a weakness.\u00a0 If we believe in the marketplace of ideas and believe in dissent and debate, then we need to have different voices and perspectives around us.\u00a0 In addition to a strong moral component, diversity has a strong practical component.<\/li>\n
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      [1]<\/a> Nemeth, C. (2012).\u00a0 Creative problem solving: <\/em><\/strong>Outsiders, dissenters, heroes and rogues.\u00a0 Unpublished presentation at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Summer Meeting, Santa Fe, NM.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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