Academic Plan (2023 - 2026)
Academics
Current Academic Plan Progress
Events
Keeping Our Promises, Living Our Mission
| Initiative | Status |
|---|---|
| Build a plan for a unique “SJU Start” First Year Curriculum/Experience |
In progress |
| Teaching Excellence (a) Address amongst ourselves how we engage in practices that incorporate peer and learner feedback |
In progress |
| Teaching excellence (b) Pursue teaching awards |
In progress |
| Teaching Excellence (c) Broaden communications strategy to include more teaching content |
In progress |
| Teaching Excellence (d) Departmental Discussions about Equity/Experience strategy |
In progress |
| Create Wellness Implementation Team [WIT] (a) Translate McMurray report into specific action plans within Student Affairs |
In progress |
| WIT (b) Explore additional collaboration between student-support units and academic departments (e.g. Well-Link, SMF) |
In progress |
| WIT (c) Develop strategies for supporting faculty and staff who find themselves on the frontlines of new and challenging student mental health and accessibility challenges |
In progress |
| Implement SJU EDI Action | In progress |
| Plan recommendations that fall under VPAD office | |
| Work with Indigenous Advisory Circle | In progress |
| Leverage Indigenous Reading Collection partnership | In progress |
| Address Human Sciences/Catholic Studies Program Reviews (if not addressed by SJU Start program) |
In progress |
Leveraging Our Strengths to Reach New Audiences
| Initiative | Status |
|---|---|
| Micro-credentials (a) Using feedback from Advisory Committee develop at least one micro-credential that is formally recognized by Diocese of Hamilton |
In progress |
| Micro-credentials (b) SMF - Summer Certification for Practitioners |
In progress |
| Micro-credentials (c) Other areas where there is an interest |
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| Partnerships with ACCUC on shared courses | |
| Work Integrated Learning in MCT | |
| SJU Library materials for micro-credentials | |
| Investigate a Living Learning Community (LLC) | |
| Summer Institutes (a) Tie micro-credentials to summer institutes |
In progress |
| Summer Institutes (b) High school student camps etc. |
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| Summer Institutes (c) Service learning for graduate students, alumni, and other community members |
In progress |
| Lecture Series (a) Fundraise to establish Health Humanities series |
In progress |
| Lecture Series (b) Fundraise to establish Bridges series |
In progress |
| Lecture Series Fundraise to establish Lectures in Catholic Experience series |
In progress |
Enriching Lives Through Research
| Initiative | Status |
|---|---|
| Commitment to Research (a) Explore whether internal funding can be used to buy out time rather than offset expenses |
In progress |
| Commitment to Research (b) Develop internal opportunities for successful grant recipients to support those who have not yet applied for or received funding |
In progress |
| Commitment to Research (c) Ensure our commitments to decolonization and indigenization include adequate consideration for alternative forms of knowledge in our internal funding allocation processes |
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| Investigate creation of a Research Centre as an umbrella research hub | In progress |
| Enhance opportunities for students to learn about and participate in faculty research and faculty-student collaborative research (a) Encourage external funding applications |
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| Enhance opportunities (b) Fundraise for scholarships to fund students interested in working with a faculty mentor for a semester |
In progress |
| Enhance opportunities (c) Consider mechanisms for recognizing faculty who take on significant mentorship work |
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| Enhance opportunities (d) Establish culture of student-meet-prof events |
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| Transform SJU Archives into site of expanded scholarly activity | |
| Create a process and framework for creation and periodic evaluation of Centres, Labs, and Institutes that wish to be housed or continue to be housed at SJU | In progress |