In January, the Mission Review Committee began the process of reviewing Our Lady of the Lake University’s core documents (the Mission Statement, Vision Statement and Core Values). To maintain transparency, the committee would like to inform the OLLU Community of the current status of promising developments.
The Mission Review Committee has been meeting with OLLU constituents (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff, the President’s Council and the Congregation of Divine Providence) through focus groups to discuss the community’s input on the university’s current core documents since April 2021. The September session for the OLLU Board of Trustees will conclude the process for all focus group constituents. It is with sincere appreciation to all those that participated in the focus group process that the Mission Review Committee gives a heartfelt thanks.
Following the completion of the focus groups, the committee will reconvene in October to compile and organize the results from all nine sessions and hand them over to two esteemed colleagues — Robert Gibbons, PhD, Professor Emeritus, and Candace Zepeda, PhD, Associate Professor of English — for review and editing.
A completed draft of the revised core documents will be presented to President Diane Melby, EdD, and her council by early November. After their review, the statement drafts will then be distributed for comments to the OLLU Faculty Assembly, the Staff Senate, and the OLLU Community.
The final step in the Mission Review Process is to submit all finalized changes for approval. Any changes made to the mission statement must be voted upon and approved by the OLLU Board of Trustees and the governing council of the Congregation of Divine Providence by January 2022.
Questions concerning the Mission Review Process can be addressed to the chair and co-chair of the Mission Review Committee.
Chair – Gloria Urrabazo, Vice President for Mission and Ministry, gaurrabazo@ollusa.edu
Co-Chair – Waheeda Kara, MSW Student Support Specialist, wkara@ollusa.edu
