Chancellor shares plans, addresses concerns at town hall

[Coach Andy Mac]

Chancellor Michael R. Williams made appearances at the university, UNT Dallas, UNT Health Science Center and more for his “listening tour” town halls.

At the HSC town hall on Sept. 12, Williams presented his final address as the HSC president, and his successor Sylvia Trent-Adams spoke about Williams’ accomplishments. Williams was named chancellor in December 2021, and this year will be his first serving in the role. 

“I am excited that we will be implementing the values-based culture across the entire UNT system,” Trent-Adams said. “I think this is primarily one of the main reasons I came to HSC. The impact that Dr. Williams has had on the community, the students, the faculty and the staff is immeasurable. I want to thank you for your service, for making HSC a better place to work and we all wish you continued success in your role as UNT system chancellor.”

The Denton campus event welcomed students and faculty to hear Williams and President Neal Smatresk speak on new plans for the university system, which include values such as trust, care and creating a “people first” culture.

“We have done these exercises over the years even since I have been here,” Smatresk said at the UNT Denton campus town hall. “Prior to that, there were strategic plans, mission statements and values that were selected kind of like magnetic refrigerator poetry. Groups of people got together and threw a bunch of words against a wall, wrote them down and then forgot about them.” 

Smatresk said being a value-driven organization means saying things they believe in and following through. He emphasized “caring” as being an important word to the university at this time. 

“Every university in the country says they are a caring university,” Smatresk said. “I happen to believe that for us — that rings true.”

After the introduction from the president, Williams took the stage to address the crowd, primarily faculty members, that nearly filled the chairs in the Union Emerald Ballroom. There were also about 200 people attending the event virtually.

“The first thing that has to happen in a values-based culture is building a culture of trust,” Williams said. “I have been in the system now for 10 years. I was a board member before that, and I have heard repeatedly and felt that trust was lacking in the organization as a whole.”

He explained trust takes years to build, and it takes not just himself or Smatresk to do it, but everybody in the organization. The chancellor then shared a new vision statement.

“We’re focused on students and their families,” Williams said. “There’s an emphasis on excellence, and what I mean by excellence is excellence in the ordinary. It means that with those daily things we go through […] we stop and think, ‘How can I do this in the most excellent way?’”
 

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[southsideguy]

Trust does take years to build but only takes minute to break the trust.

[ADLER]

Ah, Trust. Like when the University of North Texas had an osteopathic medical school in Fort Worth called the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Like when the University of North Texas partnered with TCU to become a full medical school.

Like when TCU was then able to split with North Texas, and use our assets to create the TCU College of Medicine while the insignificant North Texas portion was relegated to being "the hsc". That's right, this non-entity is not mentioned as affiliated with the University of North Texas, has it's own black, teal, and avocado colors, and it's not even capitalized.

It is a matter of trust, and we have clearly entrusted our assets to the wrong people. We got swindled. Now Michael R. Williams has somehow been promoted to Chancellor.

The "system" has been reduced to a loosely affiliated collection of components, and those have systematically been marginalized.

I do trust him to do something, but that something isn't good.

Edited October 28, 2022 by ADLER

[UNTLifer]

1 hour ago, ADLER said:

Ah, Trust. Like when the University of North Texas had an osteopathic medical school in Fort Worth called the University of North Texas Health Science Center.

Like when the University of North Texas partnered with TCU to become a full medical school.

Like when TCU was then able to split with North Texas, and use our assets to create the TCU College of Medicine while the insignificant North Texas portion was relegated to being "the hsc". That's right, this non-entity is not mentioned as affiliated with the University of North Texas, has it's own black, teal, and avocado colors, and it's not even capitalized.

It is a matter of trust, and we have clearly entrusted our assets to the wrong people. We got swindled. Now Michael R. Williams has somehow been promoted to Chancellor.

The "system" has been reduced to a loosely affiliated collection of components, and those have systematically been marginalized.

I do trust him to do something, but that something isn't good.

https://www.unthsc.edu/

Exactly.  This should reflect our logo with the title "Health Science Center" beside it.  Instead, it doesn't reflect UNT at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnett_School_of_Medicine

This was a total fleece job by TCU.