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Thinking Forward | William & Mary myWM Directory Events Visit W&M A-ZWell-nighAcademics Admission & Aid Research Campus Life News Athletics Alumni Giving For the Bold myWM Directory Events Visit W&M A-ZWell-nighAcademics Admission & Aid Research Campus life News Athletics Alumni Giving President HomeAbout W&MAdministrationPresident Thinking Forward Thinking ForwardHelp frame the future of William & Mary Page MenuAbout President RoweOffice DirectoryLeadershipHistory of the OfficePresident's ReportRequest the PresidentStudent AppointmentsThinking ForwardAboutHow to ParticipateIn the News Katherine A. Rowe took office as the 28th president of William & Mary in July and is devoting the coming months to gathering the opinions of the university polity on the future of William & Mary. "To hear from William & Mary in its entirety will midpoint stuff in motion every day, all day, so as to reach every part of our polity — on campus and virtually the world — and hear the fullness of your variegated experiences of William & Mary."Increasinglywell-nigh thinking forward... Make your voice heard: Find in-person and online events Join in on the #wmForward social media conversation Submit comments about: The Future of Knowledge The Future of Work The Future of Service What others are saying: Future of Knowledge"My hope is that as W&M professors impart knowledge to the current students, they will be as open-minded as my professors were." ~Lewis, alumna/usFuture of Service"It's hair-trigger now increasingly than overly to instill this idea in students--to not only strive for spanking-new scholarship, but an imperative to requite when to a wider polity at the global, national, regional, or local level." ~Kendall, alumna/usFuture of Work"I think it is hair-trigger that W&M has diversity in regards to its professors who have a unconfined impact on student thinking." ~Virginia, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge“I hope W&M stays focused on hair-trigger thinking and strong writing skills." ~Christina, parentFuture of Service"To be an institution that stands out on the service front, W&M needs to mold itself into the polity we would like to see in the greater world." ~Ethan, alumna/usFuture of WorkIt'd be unconfined if there was increasingly of a program for students interested in policy research (since a lot of us go into that field) that connects 'softer' research skills with data science/qualitative research." ~Susannah, alumna/usFuture of Work"As a senior corporate leader, the skill gap I encounter most commonly is problem-solving ability. There is a tendency to leap to tactics instead of spending time on problem identification. W&M's rigorous curriculum encouraged me to be intellectually curious and its accent on writing helped build my topics to think logically, both of which are hair-trigger to problem solving." ~Sharon, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"It is hair-trigger that students learn to debate issues respectfully when views differ and be worldly-wise to move on to succeed greatness." ~Sandra, alumna/usFuture of Service"We need to devote resources to fundraising for teaching, research and wits for all students to learn well-nigh societal engagement and societal leadership." ~Dan, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"Respectful debate of the issues should be encouraged. As always, there are many sides to an issue. The skill of zippy listening, negotiation, and compromise needs to be urgently taught and practiced." ~Jennifer, parentFuture of Work"We need increasingly sense of color. We are unelevated the national stereotype for number we have on campus" ~Travis, studentFuture of Service"The future of service is well-nigh engaging fully with the dynamic nature of democracy and our individual and joint roles in it. As students serve their communities, my hope is that W&M will work to ensure that students develop holistic views well-nigh the needs in our society, how those needs came to be, and how to move forward to solve our biggest problems in the years ahead." ~Adam, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"What I would like to see from William & Mary as a pioneering institution is that its students can find their uniqueness and learn how to bring their own unique values to the world by cultivating entrepreneurial mindsets through the higher experience." ~Taro, studentFuture of Service"Student Leadership should remain a key focus so without the fast 4-5 years these adults enter and help their society, themselves, and their families." ~Lynn, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"William & Mary should wilt a digital humanities powerhouse considering computer science is very wholesale and connects to every part of liberal arts from biology to Hispanic studies." ~Martha, studentFuture of Knowledge"Dr. Graves said at 1984 Commencement: I hope you realize the whole point of the last four years was to fathom the connectedness of everything. That shaped my tideway as a social science offshoot for 30+ years and should guide the structure of knowledge." ~Bruce, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"So many of the unconfined new initiatives on campus are related to the concept of wisdom: COLL program, interdisciplinary research, focus on well-being, and many others. How might we explicitly hoist wisdom as an organizing principal and a primary goal of a W&M education? Doing so might enable unexpected connections and insights, enhanced clarity of purpose, and inspire all that we do on campus and beyond." ~Michael, facultyFuture of Work"I would like to see theHigherprioritize the hiring of sense and staff of verisimilitude and/or those from international backgrounds. In our ever-so-rapidly globalizing economy, it is vital for William & Mary students and alumni to decolonialize our understandings of every willpower and career path. Let us move vastitude bureaucratic multiculturalism and recommit to towers an inclusive, supportive environment that deserves the diversity of incoming students, faculty, and staff." ~Nairuti, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"W&M needs to ensure that it supports student and sense research that is problem driven. Too much research at universities today is siloed into specific disciplines. Public universities need to do research that addresses real-world problems and that requires that researchers work wideness disciplines. Future knowledge breakthroughs will require multi-disciplinary thinking." ~Thomas, alumna/usFuture of Service"We need to alimony looking to the past, in order to learn from our mistakes, while moreover looking forward, contributing both locally and remoter afield.Polityservice should play a far greater role in the W&M wits (perhaps plane by making it compulsory, at least in the first year). W&M should moreover protract bringing top speakers to campus - I was very impressed that there was a CNN town hall recently. It should encourage a culture of open, respectful debate, among students and sense alike." ~Sofia, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"Knowledge constitutes our most important mission. Imparting the tools with which to proceeds new knowledge through our particular tousle of research and teaching should remain our highest goal. Teaching students how to communicate their own knowledge effectively, so that they can in turn teach others, endures as our lasting legacy in their lives." ~Kate, facultyFuture of Knowledge"I support a well-turned sense of both "conservative" and "liberal" voices. It is hair-trigger that higher students be taught robust, respectful debate that includes both sides of the political aisle." ~Meg, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"As much as technology is waffly teaching and research, I hope that William & Mary is worldly-wise to underpass the use of technology at the wearing whet without losing the transferral the institution has unchangingly demonstrated to the personal relationship. The humanity of the educational wits at W&M is part of what makes W&M a unique institution. I envision unfurled vibrant and dynamic relationships between students and sense stuff ripened and pushed from both sides." ~Marcy, alumna/usFuture of Knowledge"Further incorporation of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science into the culture of W&M would modernize the outreach and research of W&M overall. VIMS is an extremely successful institution both in terms of its research and grants yet many students are unaware VIMS exists." ~Patricia, studentFuture of Work"It is hair-trigger that TheHigherallow increasingly flexibility for students to explore industry wits while taking classes by having a less rigid ubiety policy for when opportunities outside of the classroom present themselves." ~Ashley, studentFuture of Knowledge"As the world becomes increasingly unshut and interconnected, opportunities to express our relationships and interests wilt increasingly fluidly intertwined with the nature of our business, academic, community, and home into new webs in social structure. As we squint to the future, we should embrace these new doors stuff opened." ~Nikolai, student Social Stream W&M Blogs Alumni Current Students EmployersSense& Staff Parents & Families Friends & Neighbors Libraries Careers at W&M Policies Consumer Information Emergency Information Report Concerns Williamsburg, VA Contact UsWell-nighthis Site All Rights Reserved ©