As the Wisconsin Union worked toward bringing a close to a 10-year process of rebuilding Union South and renovating Memorial Union, an incredible opportunity was seen for creating an ever more positive impact on our community. Our Thinking Forward Together process, completed in 2017, sought to engage that community in a dialog to help determine the ways the Union could maximize that positive impact.
Using a variety of methods, and hoping to connect with as many constituents as possible, the Union worked to identify strengths, the ways that it might build on those strengths, and co-author with the community, how those strengths and opportunities could inform what the Wisconsin Union should aspire to be in the future, and then to create results measures—otherwise known as the the SOAR process (Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results). The results measures take the form of our initiatives, which will be renewed each year.
