But for the community of colleagues and students whose energy, insight, creativity, and hard work over these past weeks offered constant reminders of why universities in general and this one in particular can be great? A+ (7/7)

#KeepDalStrong

By every meaningful metric I can think of, though, the lockout was just an old-fashioned flop and farrago. Grade: F

Or am I thinking of the wrong clients and KPIs? If we ignore lost tuition and research revenue, the salary savings from this transformational ‘targeted cost-reduction strategy’ might seem a strong point on a CV, to be leveraged to secure bigger contracts for key change leaders. (5/7)

Igniting the ‘burning platform that unite[s] stakeholders behind fundamental change’? Not in the way the lockout’s proposers might have intended, anyway. (4/7)

Reputation? We sure have a new ‘brand’, though I’m not sure it counts as a *good* ‘value proposition’. (3/7)

Presumably not anything related to the interests or well-being of employees or customers (aka ‘faculty’ and ‘students’) nor the quality of the product (‘education’). Definitely not recruitment and retention, previously high on lists of institutional strategic priorities. (2/7)