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. 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.  

In our second year, we have welcomed new team members. We met with a consulting team and currently are working on establishing formal processes and criteria for developing and strengthening partnerships. 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. We also have 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, Kimberly Russell or Stephanie Krauth. 

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Written by the Strategic Plan Design Team