Principles of Growth and Change

The glitter of the personality ethic, the massive appeal, is that there is some quick and easy way to achieve quality of life -- personal effectiveness and rich, deep relationships with other people -- without going through the natural process of work and growth that makes it possible It's symbol without substance. It's the "get rich quick" scheme promising "wealth without work." And it might even appear to succeed -- but the schemer remains.
To guide planning we have identified seven core principles that taken together lead to strategies for adapting to a changing educational environment.

• Mission: Hold firmly to our mission as the major research institution of the Pacific Northwest -- an institution with a unique and crucial role to play in education social well-being and economic development.
• Quality: Increase quality -- increase our ability to fulfill our mission -- through the selective allocation of new resources in ways that enhance our special strengths. Focus resources on enhancing the unique characteristics of a research university.
• Efficiency: Increase efficiency through resource allocation, program development and education practices. The dividend produced by greater efficiency should be reinvested in ways that increase quality of education.
• Relevance: Ensure relevance by growing in ways that are responsive to the workforce needs of the state and region.
• Flexibility: Respond holistically through flexible distribution of resources, and increased coordination across the academic and administrative units within and between each of our three campuses.
• Complementarities: Promote complementarities in program development within and among our three-campus system.
• Balance: Manage growth to ensure that an increase in students does not inadvertently distort the mission or function of academic units.