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By acting thoughtfully, and jointly, the College of Arts and Science will renew, strengthen, and advance arts and science disciplines, programs, and research, scholarly, and artistic work, and collaborate, thereby setting strategic directions for the university as a whole.
Creativity is empowering and in the College of Arts and Science, creativity is in all that we do. It is encouraged, accepted, championed, and rewarded.
We will create and strengthen partnerships inside and outside the college and university, create diverse teams and nurture critical skills, set platforms for identifying local and global issues and solve complex problems.
Together, we will be innovative: taking measured risks and working dynamically.
With an enthusiastic and energetic approach to change, the College of Arts and Science will create innovative plans in anticipation of future issues, including infrastructure, funding, programs, research, scholarly and artistic work, enrolment (vision in what we do, and how we do it).
Our students will know that they belong, that this college is truly theirs, and that opportunities are unlimited.
Our college family comprises many valued strands of communities. We are enriched when we embrace all points of view, cultural diversity, and backgrounds: this is especially appropriate for a college as diverse as Arts and Science.
Internships offer a sort of safe space for you to put your learning into practice. They are a soft-launch into the working world where you can test your skills and put what you learn in class— often abstract concepts applied to theoretical situations— to good use, without the added pressure of doing it for money. Experiential learning is the best way to prove, even just to yourself, that you know what you’re doing and that there is so much potential for turning your degree into a career.
With an enthusiastic and energetic approach to change, the College of Arts and Science will create innovative plans in anticipation of future issues, including infrastructure, funding, programs, RSAW, enrolment (vision in what we do, and how we do it). Our students will know that they belong, that this college is truly theirs, and that opportunities are unlimited. Our college family is comprised of many valued strands of communities. We are enriched when we embrace all points of view, cultural diversity, and backgrounds: this is especially appropriate for a college as diverse as Arts and Science.
Guidepost:
Increase in student satisfaction, reflected in qualitative and quantitative ways
Growth of enrolment and retention rates
More inbound and outbound students participating in varied international activities
Guidepost:
Contribute to the university’s commitment to recognized Indigenous leadership at all levels of the academy, administration, and governance
Indigenous faculty are thriving in terms of merit, tenure and promotion
Address in real and tangible ways the underrepresentation of women scholars at senior ranks
Enhance our position as an institutional leader of diversity, equity and inclusion
Guidepost:
Empower and support our researchers, scholars and artists at all ranks to engage in RSAW activity, and to promote the value of their work
Become a partner of choice for national and international collaborators
Increase number of competitive applications and the success rates in all competitions, including Tri-Agency and other sources of funding
Guidepost:
Students attain skills for forming conclusions, judgements, or inferences from quantitative information; have a writing-intensive experience to achieve competency in writing; learn the context of the contemporary and historical position of Indigenous people, and in so doing also understand the need to challenge and transform core elements of settler colonialism
Faculty offer courses and programs that attract, and meet the needs of, a changing student population that is more diverse and mobile than ever before
The College will align its strategic commitments and related goals and objectives to the university’s ambition to be the university the world needs:
By 2025, the job market and technology will have changed, and the College of Arts and Science, through our students, staff and faculty, will ‘create the times’. A sustained breadth of knowledge-creation allows us to capitalize on existing and unpredictable questions and challenges of the future.
We will reach out more broadly across the college and see that the synergy of knowledge is bigger than the convergence of 21 major disciplines. We will use current and new frameworks for problem solving.
We need to work closely with the institution on risk mitigation for our top risks: academic program capacity and equipment age; financial reserves; cyber security; competitive, funded and in-compliance RSAW; communications; technological innovation; management structures; health and safety; post-secondary education competition; availability of information about critical operations and processes.
The college is an ecosystem, with students and researchers, scholars, and artists working across boundaries. The students who see boundaries as porous at the University are Arts and Science students. We are a college in tune with today’s problem-centric needs: our diversity is at the heart of why our college is such an asset to the province and beyond.
The College will align its strategic commitments and related goals and objectives to the university’s aspirations:
- Transformative Decolonization Leading to Reconciliation. The world needs a university in which Indigenous concepts, methodologies, pedagogies, languages, and philosophies are respectfully woven into the tapestry of learning, research, scholarship, creativity, and community engagement.
- Productive Collaboration. The world needs a university in which research and innovation are inspired by and accountable to community partners.
- Meaningful Impact. The world needs a university resolutely committed to measuring its own success in terms of the aspirations of the communities it serves.
- Distinguished Learners. The world needs a university whose graduates have the drive, the curiosity, and the humility to work with others in addressing the greatest challenges and opportunities the world faces.
- Global Recognition. The world needs a university that sets the standard in learning, research, scholarship, creativity, and community engagement.
By 2025, the job market and technology will have changed, and the College of Arts and Science, through our students, staff and faculty, will ‘create the times’. A sustained breadth of knowledge-creation allows us to capitalize on existing and unpredictable questions and challenges of the future.
We will reach out more broadly across the college and see that the convergence of knowledge is bigger than the convergence of 21 major disciplines. We will use current and new frameworks for problem solving.
We need to work closely with the institution on risk mitigation for our top risks: academic program capacity and equipment age; financial reserves; cyber security; competitive, funded and in-compliance RSAW; communications; technological innovation; management structures; health and safety; post-secondary education competition; availability of information about critical operations and processes.
The college is an ecosystem, with students and researchers, scholars, and artists working across boundaries. The students who see boundaries as porous at the University are Arts and Science students. We are a college in tune with today’s problem-centric needs: our diversity is at the heart of why our college is such an asset to the province and beyond.
