Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State President Susan Edwards on Friday told the university’s board of trustees her goal is regain the trust of the community.
“We have suffered enormous losses year after year and that is a result of a loss in confidence by our community in our institution,” Edwards said. “We have to make a lot of headway to win back that confidence. Trust is something that is earned and it takes 20 years to gain that trust. It takes five minutes to lose it.”
Edwards said the university will focus on the three R’s — recruitment, retention and relationships — over the next 20 months.
“Our situation does remain serious,” Edwards said. “Everything that we are doing around this institution will be focused in those three frames. It’s simple, it’s straightforward and it really gets us back to basics.”
The goal is to build the school’s enrollment, which has been declining for the past few years. Last fall Wright State’s enrollment reached a more than 37-year low. Around 13,742 students were enrolled at Wright State in the fall, around a 11.7 percent decline from 2018-19.
