I'm glad these "listening sessions" actually resulted in anything positive. From my experience the "listening" at these meetings rarely results in action. I was

I'm glad these "listening sessions" actually resulted in anything positive. From my experience the "listening" at these meetings rarely results in action. I was in the final stretch of my phd when the administration decided to "reorganize" my department by splitting it up so they could take part of it and combine it with two other departments into a fancy "school" that they could use as a selling point. We had multiple "listening sessions" where we explained that maybe disbanding our interdisciplinary department wasn't a good idea. Guess what happened? They did exactly what they wanted and the professors I worked with are now spread to the four winds in different departments and some have left. But they got some multimillionaire to donate some money to put his name on the new school so they got what they wanted. Luckily, I got my degree before the changes went into effect.