Attention to civility, compassion, and caring improves the working lives and productivity of every member of the campus community. Along with personal values, ethics and integrity set the tone and quality of professional conduct on our campus. We must continue to reinforce the need for the highest standards at all levels of interaction on our campus. Sustaining excellence at UCSF is contingent upon its ability to respond to change. Flexibility, adaptability and willingness to change must be required of every organization and every individual in the organization.
Academic institutions are traditionally slow to change.
The administrative culture of the campus must be more responsive to the need for change. This will, in turn, lead to long-term, sustainable administrative service and improvements. The task group established the fact that outstanding administration is integral to a university's pursuit of academic excellence. Refer to Appendix C for excerpt from the abovementioned document. Subsequently, the campus responded with a set of administrative improvement initiatives in 1994.