Engagement Summaries
What We Heard
Your responses provided insight into what students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners felt about Nipissing University's past, present, future and identity.
From those responses, we identified six overarching themes of equal importance that offer a glimpse into who we are and what we value most. See summary below:
Focus Groups Share Back
The following six documents summarize the information shared with us during our in-person and virtual focus groups held at the beginning of May. These focus groups were struck to assist us in shifting our findings from the "What We Heard" document towards the future.
Strategic Planning Engagement Summaries
The Nipissing University Strategic Planning Steering Committee undertook numerous in-person and virtual engagements to solicit feedback from the campus community. The engagements focused on four key questions inspired by Justice Murray Sinclair:
- Where did we come from? (Past)
- Why are we here? (Present)
- Where are we going? (Future)
- Who are we? (Identity)
The following four documents offer a summary of the data collected from these engagements, structured to reflect feedback on these four questions. Each document is structured differently, reflecting the four committee subgroups that summarized the data.
The information in these documents reflects the feedback the University received as part of the engagement process and will be used as a launch point for the committee as we create the draft Strategic Plan.
Engagement Data Documents
Past
Where Did We Come From?
My initial review of all comments related to Question #1 were organized according to the content of the comments and my interpretation of their intent and purpose.
Present
Why Are We here?
The main theme that emerges across the responses is community. Respondents have different ideas about where community exists and what its role is, but it comes up time and again, and cuts across all categories.
Future
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