Our Culture Journey Timeline 2024 2023 2022 2021 April 2024 Held a mini summit with key stakeholders to inspire unit level engagement with the values and share toolkit resources January 2024 Values Toolkit launched December 2023 President’s Leadership Team approved the example behaviors November 2023 Values Quick Start Guide launched October 2023 Conducted a poll to finalize behaviors for the values September 2023 Held a mini summit with key stakeholders to discuss roles in a values-driven organization July-August 2023 Conducted a poll to refine behaviors that represent and do not represent the values April 2023 Conducted three in-person community forums to obtain additional feedback from faculty and staff regarding which behaviors represent and do not represent the values March 2023 Conducted a poll to generate behaviors that represent and do not represent the values January 2023 President Ono announced the adoption of the six values October 2022 Conducted a pulse poll to gather feedback about the proposed clarifying statements for the values September – November 2022 Engaged faculty and staff stakeholder groups in discussions about definitions of the top values September 2022 Held a second Community Assembly to provide updates on our progress and to outline next steps August 2022 Gathered additional feedback about defining our identified values through a pulse poll and focus groups with faculty and staff June 2022 Submitted a progress report from the working group to executive leadership May 2022 Conducted a Community Assembly to share progress, obtain feedback and answer questions April 2022 Analyzed pulse poll and focus group data March 2022 The School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) created a video representing the most frequently cited values in the current values statements of U-M schools, colleges and units March 2022 Conducted 11 faculty and staff focus groups (86 participants) February 2022 Conducted a pulse poll of faculty and staff (4,625 respondents) October 2021 – April 2022 Conducted 24 information sessions with key faculty and staff stakeholder groups July 2021 Analyzed the 23 value statements provided by U-M schools, colleges and units to identify the most cited values to be considered for campus wide adoption (analysis by the Institute for Social Research (ISR)) July 2021 Convened working group with 21 representatives June 2021 Obtained values statements from U-M schools, colleges and units In the News Culture Journey challenge encourages focus on university values – May 6, 2024 Culture Journey toolkit helps apply university’s values – January 29, 2024 Community forums, poll to provide Culture Journey input – March 6, 2023 U-M adopts workplace values for Ann Arbor campus, Michigan Medicine – January 18, 2023 U-M leaders discuss campus culture values at assembly – September 28, 2022 Community assembly to gather input for U-M’s Culture Journey – September 6, 2022 University leaders share update on culture, values work – May 16, 2022 Headlines article: Culture Change Group Seeks Input On University Values – February 24, 2022 Culture change group seeks input on university values – February 17, 2022 Working group on culture change members – July 15, 2021 President outlines effort to improve campus culture – March 25, 2021