During a year of unprecedented change, the Wilson College of Textiles has come together as a team to support our mission, especially the success of our undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to support each colleague within the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, the lives of everyone in the Wilson College community have been profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. And yet, we have made major progress in the past year in a number of key fronts by aligning our actions and resources around our revised strategic plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the engagement of the Wilson College community, we have begun implementation of our revised strategic plan, fully in line with the new NC State Strategic Plan, and have identified projects to implement in FY22. Our Strategic Plan Implementation incorporates flexibility to adapt to our rapidly changing environment to address both challenges and opportunities, and will form the basis of future reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A compassionate world in which textiles enhance sustainability and quality of life for all<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We exist to advance the success of our students, and the textile industry in North Carolina, the U.S. and around the world, through teaching innovation, research excellence, strong partnerships and service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Compassion | Equity | Collaboration | Innovation | Sustainability<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also fundamental to our success is our culture charter<\/a> that underpins our strategy. A key aspect of our effective operations the past 18 months has been risk management as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leadership, staff and faculty have lived by each of our core values by supporting each other and especially our students. One of our most proud accomplishments: we have no known transfer of COVID-19 virus as a result of operations within the Wilson College. We have achieved this whilst maintaining operations to support our mission. We established our Pack Planning Team and communication protocol to respond to the pandemic. Our staff, faculty and students have generally felt supported throughout the pandemic with over 75% of staff and faculty reporting that they felt they received timely and accurate information and that the college leadership is effective in supporting the college community during times of crisis. Expenditure allocations to protect and serve our community have been significant with greater than $210,000 of additional costs being incurred. The Wilson College is profoundly grateful to all who have supported the safety and well-being of our community: the chancellor and provost and the chancellor’s cabinet, and our more than 1,300 donors and friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the myriad challenges in adapting to the ever changing pandemic environment, we look back on with great Pack Pride in our accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This past year, the Wilson College demonstrated living by its recently adopted culture charter in meaningful ways that are helping to create a welcoming college with strong feelings of belonging and a demonstrated commitment to equity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Women of Wilson (WOW) program was established under the leadership of Associate Dean Pamela McCauley to help build a community of support for all women in the college. The college held multiple virtual Town Halls, Advance meetings, college-wide Pack Planning Team meetings and Coffee and Tea with the Dean meetings. These meetings fostered deep and respectful listening and sharing sessions regarding national racial unrest in support of our Black or African-American, Asian and other communities (for both colleagues and students), as well as candid discussions of concerns around COVID safety and serving our students. The college began implementing a professional development roadmap for all employees, as well as a new architectural master plan with the goal of establishing new collaborative spaces that showcase the excellent work of our students, staff and faculty and promote collegiality, partnership and creativity. We have also established a comprehensive Warm Wilson Welcome virtual onboarding process.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Student success has always been our number one goal beyond safety and well-being of all community members. Wilson College has been able to maintain a strong academic program throughout the pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite major changes in personnel, the Wilson College Research Office had a very successful year focused substantially on our effective research restart during summer 2020, as well as maintaining support for faculty in proposal development, compliance and administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilson College continues to work to reduce its reliance on state funds. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, many records were broken once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The college is increasingly utilizing philanthropic discretionary funds to fund strategic areas of need, especially where staffing is highly limited, as well as basic operations, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n These expenditures using private funds are just a fraction of the incredible impact that the Wilson Family gift and many other discretionary gifts are having on the Wilson College.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Our Zeis Textile Extension department is a unique unit that serves all of our students and faculty in their research endeavors, as well as hundreds of small and large industry partners, including entrepreneurs. <\/p>\n\n\n\nCOVID-19 Risk Management<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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