Executive Leadership Team
- Red turf
- Accessible/best value in WA
- First generation concentration
- STEM focused
- Large education alumni base
Directors and Administrators
- Highest number of Pell eligible grant students and lots of upward mobility potential
- First generation serving
- Community loves us and wants to partner with us
- Lowest tuition cost
- Stronger brand identity/red turf
Faculty Group 1
- Student population (first gen, non-traditional, parents, working students, etc.)
- Almost HSI
- Near Spokane but also lots of rural schools
- We provide opportunities for students who might not find them elsewhere
- Low pay for faculty and staff / pay discrepancies / adjunct faculty
Academic Deans
- Institute for Public Policy and Data Analytics
- Have established a strong reputation for workforce preparation
- The Arts
Faculty Senate Leadership
- Strong professional programs
- Active faculty (within community research) / dedicated faculty – strong programs
- Alumni – especially ones that are experienced and are able to achieve their goals because of their transformative experiences at the university
- Community relationships – communities and community-based education
- Libraries
Community Diversity Leadership
- A commuter-school-inviting to students
- Faculty involvement in the community
- Campus upgrades
- Addressing / removing barriers to historically difficult programs (nursing)
Community Townhall/Forum
- Red football turf
- Focus on first gen students
- Focus on regional business communities
- Only university to have all 4 health professions
- Cyber security
Staff Group
- Cybersecurity / nursing
- Affordability / Scholarships and Aid
- Athletics / red turf
- Location
- First gen serving
- Prairie restoration
Athletics
- High percentage of first gen college students and student diversity
- Accessible
- Low tuition cost
- Unique niche, unexpected
- Small community with big city close by
Student Leaders
- Affordability
- Location
- Diversity week
- Job opportunities
- Unique leadership opportunities
Internal Diversity Leadership
- Biology
- American Indian Studies (first program in country)
- Use of Indigenous language in education
- Affordability
- Reading program (social work, online learning, communication studies, entrepreneurship)
- Urban planning majors, important to cities and rural areas
- IEP for International students
- CAMP program
Department Chairs
- High concentration of Eagles in metro area
- DPT / and multiple of Health Sciences programs
- High connection to first generation
- Computer disciplines
- Affordability / accessibility / accessible faculty
Alumni Association Board
- Academic programs offered (Cyber Security, Engineering, STEM)
- Tight knit community
- Eagle Pride/spirit
- Athletics/Big Sky Champs
