The Purposeful Partnership Initiative contributes to Texas Woman’s vision by establishing and strengthening our strategic relationships with current and potential collaborators beyond our campus boundaries. This initiative aims to ensure these partnerships are genuinely purposeful, bi-directional, and mutually beneficial to students, faculty, staff, the university at large, and our wider communities. Our Purposeful Partnership Team is actively searching for partners who can bolster Texas Woman’s University through philanthropic support, research opportunities and dollars, or other high-engagement experiential opportunities. The development of these strong relationships benefits members of the Texas Woman’s community, which in turn better positions us to give back and strengthen the communities in which our students and faculty work and live.  

During our first year, we developed a Purposeful Partnerships Guiding Questions matrix, which enabled the team to define “purposeful partnership” and categorize the different types of partnerships. This matrix provides guiding questions as evaluative criteria when searching for, identifying, creating, or developing partnerships that are purposeful and mutually beneficial.

In our second year, we have welcomed new team members. We met with a consulting team and we are currently working on establishing formal processes and criteria for developing and strengthening partnerships. We have also been exploring potential intake processes and database development options.

The next steps for our team include creating an effective intake form and database, and formalizing processes for incorporating these items into practice throughout all our campuses.

For more information, contact initiative champions Diana Elrod, Robin Head, or Stephanie Krauth.

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Written by the Strategic Plan Design Team