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![On Monday, Feb. 12, the university hosted an open forum on strategic planning. A campus-wide email from the Communications department was sent out in anticipation of the event.
The event is part of a series of forums related to the strategic planning process, dubbed “The Wright Path to 2025: Pride, Transformation, Potential.”
Through this series, the university intends to collect thoughts and facilitate discussion from any members of the Wright State community with input to share.
“This first set of open forums is designed to engage anyone interested in helping to define Wright State’s future […] While celebrating our past and current successes, the forums will focus on our university’s mission and purpose as we look to the future,” said President Cheryl Schrader in the email.
Individuals of varying backgrounds were involved in the dialogue, including students, faculty, staff, and community stakeholders. Participants were split off into separate tables, where they introduced themselves to one another and responded individually to four prompts:
Reflect on experiences with pride, transformation, and potential.
Explain how Wright State allowed those experiences to occur.
Provide recommendations for the university as it moves forward.
State points of interest to bring to President Schrader’s attention.
After reflecting on the prompts, attendees participated in group discussions to identify common values shared amongst the people at their table.
“The planning process will put our institution in a position to thrive in higher education's changing environment, help the university achieve financial sustainability, and foster a campus atmosphere that provides graduates with opportunities to excel in fields that define the future,” said Schrader in the email.
Open forums such as this event will lead up to a culminating event scheduled for April, in which the committee will reveal its updated mission statement.](https://snworksceo.imgix.net/wsg/4dcfc937-f6d3-4f3b-8a2c-051541b29336.sized-1000x1000.?w=1500&ar=16%3A9&fit=crop&crop=faces&facepad=3&auto=format)
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![Wright State currently has plans to redevelop the basement of the Russ Engineering Center into an innovation lab, which would be named the Ronald D. Bullock/Bison Gear Innopreneurship Laboratory.
The project, which will cost a total of two million, is to be funded in part by a philanthropic gift from Ronald D. Bullock, alumnus of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Given the recent budgetary situation the college does not anticipate direct university dollars to complete this project, according to Nathan Klingbeil, professor and dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science. It is seeking public funding to cover the remaining one million.
Bullock’s gift includes an endowed faculty position -- that means that curriculum would be designed around, and be taught by a faculty member trained in “the scholarship of design and innovation,” according to Klingbeil.
The lab will be “a design and innovation space where students can take concepts all the way from an idea to an actual product,” said Klingbeil. “The whole idea is to create a shared space for interdisciplinary projects.”
Another focus of the laboratory is to promote entrepreneurship. The College of Engineering has been developing the lab with the Raj Soin College of Business.
Through discussions with Bullock, the College of Engineering aligned its own needs with his passion “to produce the types of engineers that the manufacturing community needs: people who don’t just have books skills, but people […] with the ability to make, design, build, and even think about the business plan,” said Klingbeil.
The gift agreement was put into place since 2014. Designing phases of the lab were started shortly after the agreement was signed; the lab was originally expected to be completed in the summer of 2016. The delay has been caused by the university holding off on new construction projects, as well as the passing of the donor and the estate settlement process, according to Klingbeil.
Currently there is no definitive timeline for the completion of the project. Since it would be difficult to complete a project of this scale during the academic year, it is anticipated to be completed during the summer of either 2018 or 2019, according to Klingbeil. “It’s an exciting project [that] has been a long time coming,” he said.
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