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- Ensure Academic Affairs is the driver in the University, including by stating that the Academic Plan is the most important document after the Institutional Strategic Plan in setting directions/priorities
- Maintain a strong emphasis on personalized learning within a principled framework around class size
- Need to encourage diversity at all levels
- Enhance transparency and meaningful communication in decision-making
- Reverse erosion in administrative support in Academic Affairs
- Increase efforts to have MRU broadly known as a place that encourages innovation, especially in work with students
- Emphasize experiential education, applied research, Community Service Learning, and record such activity on a co-curricular record
- Build community outreach/connections
- Marketing must emphasize the activities of Academic Affairs in external communications
- MRU must get into the Maclean’s ranking. Not being there says that we are not a university
- Build capacity in two High Impact practices. Don’t try to do all, as it will produce a generally mediocre/poor performance
- Increase awareness of and implement approaches to improve student mental health; raise MRU’s results on the National College Health Assessment
- Establish excellence in undergraduate research as core to Mount Royal
- Establish a coordinator position to facilitate and assist undergraduate research, including in dealing with HREB
- Push hard in getting new degrees
- Develop space to support sound pedagogy
- Aggressively pursue indigenization, ensure that it occurs in a meaningful manner, and is properly resourced
- Increase the percentage of full-time professors
- If learning outcomes are included, keep them focused on the program/discipline level, rather than institution-wide
- Internationalize the curriculum
- Seek accreditation with bodies governing standards respecting internationalization
- Ensure proper support for an increased international student body
- Ensure that expansion of student numbers is accompanied by adequate government funding
- Build MRU’s alumni
- Actively pursue Universal Design in Instruction
- Create a centralized exam centre
- Consider post-graduation certificates
- Improve transfer arrangements; ensure they work to MRU’s benefit
- Implement full-year registration
- Improve scholarships
- Retain centrality of General Education
- Increase the presence of Arts and Science as core to Liberal education
- Support research broadly
- Ensure proper support for those with learning challenges
- Make students in residence more aware of academic support programs
- Have all students work towards a capstone experience
- Enhance career preparation for students in partnership with career counselling
To comment on this part of the plan, please visit the discussion board. To comment anonymously, please send an email to academicplan@mtroyal.ca.
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