Foundational Commitments
Throughout the consultations, common themes emerged around processes and practices whose enhancement will augment efficiency and allow people to achieve their goals more effectively.
Effective, consultative, and data-driven progress on these foundational commitments will empower all of us to tackle ambitious institutional, regional, and global challenges collectively. Improvements will also enable us to focus more on strategic directions and less on reactive responses. An ongoing emphasis on improvement to foundational commitments is key to how we become an increasingly nimble university where everyone thrives.
Six themes have been identified
Establishing and Implementing an Institutional Data Strategy
- Develop, implement, and monitor a data strategy that will focus on data necessary for tracking, analyses, accountability, and recognition with an emphasis on enhancing the clarity, consistency, and availability of campus data related to our strategic priorities and institutional vision. These efforts will align us with the cutting-edge of post-secondary institutional efforts to operationalize responsive, equitable, integrated, and engaged data use for effective planning
Foster Resilience and Institutional Learning through Connection, Reconnection and Collaboration
- Build inclusive cross-campus collaboration, leadership, and innovation networks to enhance our institutional capacity to learn, lead, and innovate together and as individuals
- Expand social engagement spaces and opportunities for employees, students, and communities, with a focus on inclusion and belonging
- Improve and enhance community and industry partnership engagement through increased and strategic outreach, development, tracking, support, and growth strategies
Continue to Foster and Build Welcoming, Inclusive and Engaging Physical and Virtual Spaces
- Engage cross-campus and community partners to focus on the safety and accessibility of campus spaces and virtual platforms
- Continue the process of ensuring that planning, building and maintenance of campus infrastructure is transparent, equitable, consistent with our values, aligned with institutional priorities, and responsive to stakeholder engagement
Ensuring that Faculty and Staff Have the Skills and Support to Maximize Impact, Growth, and Engagement
- Foster equitable, inclusive, and just campus environments and processes
- Establish and implement campus mental health and employee engagement strategies
- Consultatively enhance positive work environments, for example through the exploration and development of safe and responsive feedback and conflict mediation mechanisms, strengths-focused performance review tools, succession planning, and a learning-focused approach to change management within the University’s labour and policy context
- Continue to build inclusive and broad-based talent recruitment, career, and leadership development programs
- Implement strategies to foster greater diversity in leadership teams and governance bodies
Telling Our Stories and Sharing Our Knowledge
- Build and implement effective reputation building communications strategies focused on campus, partner, and alumni success stories
- Create systematic and engagement-oriented neighbourhood, regional, alumni, and global outreach strategies that reflect institutional priorities
- Improve internal communication channels to facilitate knowledge mobilization, campus engagement, and campus feedback loops for students, staff, and faculty
Improving Institutional Processes and Coordination of Services
- Build on and enhance user engagement in process development and review
- Reduce duplication of efforts through enhanced transparency and process analyses, and the systematic streamlining of processes, interfaces, and practices