Pushing Through the Wall
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When we set a clear and audacious vision, we get to tell stories of success on the journey. The work is hard and you will hit a wall. In this video, a university president explains how driving toward the vision will push you over the wall.
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Reflection Activity
- Why is hitting the wall inevitable?
- What is the most important thing to do when you hit the wall?
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and then this is also cool if you’re
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wondering how much money has Marrero
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spent on this we spend about 250,000
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dollars a year on engaged West our
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budget when we started was a hundred and
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fifty nine point six million dollars
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when I take away some of the that’s
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that’s recurring real budget that
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doesn’t have any of the building budgets
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or the one-time dollars that we get in
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our budgets really about two hundred and
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forty million but that’s just the
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hardcore recurring Eng and the set
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auxilary is based on fees and an
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allocation three to one revenue to debt
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ratio that’s pretty good and 22 percent
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increase in for you so we were a hundred
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and fifty nine point six I said now two
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hundred and four million
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so let’s look at a return on investment
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in four years we’ve spent about a
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million dollars on engage West we now
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have a budget that’s forty four million
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dollars greater than it was four years
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ago that’s a pretty good investment and
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a return on investment of what we’re
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trying to cheap but even more important
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than that is the student success record
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four-year graduation rate record
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five-year graduation rate record degrees
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conferred that’s when we really start to
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tell a great story of the outcomes of
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what we’re trying to do together so it’s
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not easy first year was a honeymoon
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period second year reality sets in third
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year pushing shove so Natalie it’s gonna
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be a fun journey for you I can’t wait to
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get some calls and we can talk through
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it but it’s hard because this is when it
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really reality not only sets in but then
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where you really are revealed where the
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functional areas on your campus are not
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on board and what are you gonna do about
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it are you gonna make tough decisions
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and leadership are you gonna give them
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every opportunity to succeed there’s
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incredible leaders on my campus right
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now that are making that decision in
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their head if they want to really
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continue in this process with us because
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it’s not easy and it’s not inherent to
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what they believe we should be doing and
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those are decisions that have to be made
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but it can’t hold you back as you
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continue so what does that look like we
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call it the wall and you’re gonna fill
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it and if you don’t continue to drive
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your results will decline
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you will go back and much faster than
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you can ever anticipate you have to keep
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driving forward so we’re pushing through
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that wall this year
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that’s our goal hopefully when I see you
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on a year I can say we’re on top of that
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wall we are in a certain areas of our
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campus but not throughout and so I
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encourage each of you on your journey
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know that it’s not going to be easy
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you’re gonna push along that way you’re
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gonna feel more and more pressure and
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even if we get to the top of that wall
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then we do a whole new program of
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sustaining and legacy and that’s why we
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call this year the legacy or as we’re
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building that through so