For that reason, the fever associated with having a nationally ranked women s basketball team never truly caught on campus-wide. Faculty and staff achievements are seldom acknowledged and celebrated beyond the departmental context. We have a Student Center that is in theory the living room of the campus, where subgroups can come together. However respondents to our inquiries feel uncomfortable and not entitled to share this space together. External stakeholders to the campus observed that we have historically helped define boundaries as opposed to inviting the community to share our resources and to nurturing and caring for those around us.
Students perceive and experience it as apathy.
Staff and faculty call it a sense of fragmentation. In all, it would appear to our constituents that we have created an environment that restricts members to their own subcultures. The Task Force believes that our boundaries as a community are indeed well defined and necessary, but that these boundaries could be healthier if there was a heightened level of comfort in negotiating and crossing subculture borders. There is a desire for participation beyond subgroups, in campus wide events such as Welcome Week, convocation, commencement and the recent inauguration. These events were cited as highly valued.