Principles and Practices to Ensure Success and Sustainability (12-09)

• Commitment to being open to risk, and avoiding "nay saying"
• Commitment to getting to know our counterparts at the other Ohio5 schools
• And to actively share best practices, epiphanies and struggles
• There is no place for competition and judgment with the five college team
• Commitment to remembering SUSTAINABILITY -commit to figuring it out-
• Hone people skills, respect, reply, inform , help others to improve, encourage
• Regular meetings - video conference to share what we're doing and what works, bests practices
• Training for all staff
• Requires a coordinator
• Non-judgmental accountability
• Don't feel that the work has to be useful permanently. The learning may be in the doing, not the keeping
• How to define success - useful to more than one person