How to align with administration, trustees, and community

stakeholders

David Kotz, Danielle DickRumi Chunara, David Conroy, Sandeep Gupta, Susan Hood,

Camille Nebeker

Stakeholders’ diverse interests

• Administrators & trustees• Faculty• Health professionals• Students• Parents• local community

• Also diverse cultures, races, genders, generations

Parents and students

• Communicate (separately) to parents and students before they arrive on campus

• Engage parents in the study so they understand the benefits to their child

So what? benefits and risks

• Recognize the different interests and concerns of each group of stakeholders

• Answer the bigger “so what” question• Identify potential benefits• Recognize and explain the risks (and non-risks)

in non-technical terms• Listen – and adapt, strengthening the project• Costs – and benefits to the university

External pressures

• Can help– example of Gallup report “Great Jobs, Great Lives”• emphasizes student well-being and workplace

engagement and economic outcomes

– student well-being is a competitive advantage in the era of MOOCs and online alternatives

• Can hinder– universities pressured by academic rankings– faculty pressured by competitive environment

http://www.luminafoundation.org/files/resources/galluppurdueindex-report-2014.pdf

Health as a central mission

• Health should be part of the university mission• Whole campus community affects student health• Create a model of healthy environment• …requires changes to campus culture– student culture and faculty culture– faculty need to model healthy behaviors

• …requires changes to incentive structures– for faculty culture and reward systems

• culture of collaboration rather than competition

Create a shared model

• Jointly develop a model for student-focused mHealth initiatives– identifying benefits– addressing risks– respecting privacy– securing data

• Extending benefit through multi-university data sharing and peer comparison

Communication

• Share the vision, and the positive outcomes• creative and multi-media approaches

Technical challenges

• Scalable, secure data collection• Data anonymization for privacy and utility• Systems – management, validation, auditing

• Need to create a culture of ethics in STEM – not just our project — and communicate those ethics to the broader campus and to our STEM students

Summary

• Recognize the diversity of stakeholders and their disparate interests

• Answer “so what” to each constituency• Recognize and address risks• Recognize external pressures and leverage

external opportunities• Build shared model and shared benefits• Emphasize value of wellness as part of mission