Examples of Institutional Initiatives. Institutional policies and structure • Creation and implementation of service standards designed to improve the quality of services offered to students • Creation and promulgation of an institutional policy on sexual violence and harassment • Creation of an Aboriginal Resource Centre that organizes social activities and support indigenous students coping with academic challenges • Creation of a standing institutional retention working group within the framework of the SEM plan • Increased offerings of spring/summer courses to offer more flexibility in course choice to students • Improvement of the teacher-student ratio by hiring 60 new tenured or tenure-track full-time faculty members • Merger of the Career Development Centre with the Co-operative Education Plan for better synergy in preparing students for the labour market • Co-op learning at international and domestic sites. Administrative support • The workflow within the undergraduate student advisory offices has been reviewed and a staff training program is currently in development to improve access to academic advisors and increase retention • The Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctorate studies has been dissolved; most transactional operations and student advising have been transferred under the responsibility of the academic faculties, thereby increasing the proximity of graduate students to faculty and programs as to improve cohort spirit and academic progression • A central Quality Assurance Office was created to harmonize undergraduate and graduate cyclical review processes and stimulate an institutional culture of continuous improvement of programs • The University of Ottawa provides regional student mentors to help their peers integrate into the university • uOttawa has implemented a new Student Information System to increase student autonomy (through better self-service) and to facilitate a wide variety of operations, from admission through progression toward graduation Infrastructure • New student spaces were created, including a dining room open round the clock, seven days a week and four new residences, which increased student housing space on campus by 33 per cent • A Learning Centre, to open in 2018, will provide significant additional innovative space for students to study and socialize; the Learning Centre will enable the offering of modern active learning classes and case-based approaches to enhance the student learning experience • A STEM building will be opened in 2018 with teaching and research labs for students in science, engineering, and innovation. The design includes dedicated entrepreneurship space, which will support the development of an entrepreneurial culture and provide resources for students from any faculty who are interested in entrepreneurship Pedagogy • Increase in hybrid education and distance learning opportunities • Improved access to research experiences for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students, with the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), as a high-impact initiative that fosters interest in graduate studies and directly involves undergraduate students in real-world research • Expansion of co-op programs: uOttawa now has the second-largest offering in Ontario; however, to continue to expand co-op offerings within and across programs, the co-op office requires additional financial support to engage additional employers and administer co-op placements • Capstone projects are now available in many programs (e.g., Engineering, Management, Public and International Affairs) • Simulation labs, combined with real-life community-based applied learning, the inter-professional clinic and testing centre in Health Sciences and the INSPIRE Lab at the Faculty of Social Sciences, enable students to train in real-world situations without leaving the campus. In addition, the Finance Research and Learning lab and the Capital Market Development Program, train uOttawa students in portfolio management and allows them to manage a real fund • The Writing Centre helps students to develop their writing skills • The University of Ottawa offers sheltered academic courses for students for whom English is their second language • The University of Ottawa offers a French immersion program for English-speaking students wanting to study and learn in an immersion setting • The University of Ottawa has implemented a new learning management system (LMS) that will improve learning monitoring, encourage independent learning and support portfolio development; it will also ease the transition to competency-based programs and learning outcomes measurement • The University of Ottawa implemented a new tool (uoSyllabus) in 2016 to xxxxxx the development, implementation and communication of course and program learning outcomes; it is already in use for almost a thousand courses Community-based activities • Internationalization efforts to facilitate student mobility and create an open and globalized learning environment are a pillar of uOttawa’s strategic plan and are actively supported. One example, is the Xxxxxx School of Management, which sends over 150 students annually to 51 elite postsecondary business schools in 24 countries and facilitates international internships and international field trips at the graduate level. In addition, 150-200 students in the Faculty of Social Sciences annually participate in classes abroad, field trip courses, student exchanges or United Nations simulations. • The residence life experience has been enhanced with the launch, in 2016-2017, of a series of Living Learning Communities (LLCs), where over 200 students have been presented with opportunities for connection and development beyond the classroom. An LLC is a dedicated space in the university residence where residents are grouped according to their interest in a particular area. Programming for LLCs focuses on these areas of interest, and offers enhanced opportunities for connection and development beyond the classroom. Various LLCs have been organized on the campus, offering a variety of opportunities for students, including: o Students in STEM can join a STEM community o Canadian and international students who are interested in developing intercultural communication skills, while having an enriching student experience in residence, can be part of a community dedicated to these interests o One LLC offers volunteer opportunities, (e.g., working with children in an elementary school, helping promote health initiatives at a local Community Health Centre. Metrics and Targets System-Wide Metrics 2019-20 Target Proportion of fourth year students with two or more High-Impact Practices (HIPs) (from the National Survey of Student Engagement) 53% or 1.78 HIPs per student Year 1 to Year 2 retention (from the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange) 90% Proportion of operating expenditures on student services, net of student assistance (as reported in the Council of University Finance Officers data) 3.2% Institution-Specific Metrics 2019-20 Target Learning space per student FTEs [m2/FTEs]1 10% increase end of SMA2 Number of co-op work term placements2 Maintain current level
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Examples of Institutional Initiatives. Institutional policies and structure • Creation and implementation of service standards designed to improve the quality of services offered to students • Creation and promulgation of an institutional policy on sexual violence and harassment • Creation of an Aboriginal Resource Centre that organizes social activities and support indigenous students coping with academic challenges • Creation of a standing institutional retention working group within the framework of the SEM plan • Increased offerings of spring/summer courses to offer more flexibility in course choice to students • Improvement of the teacher-student ratio by hiring 60 new tenured or tenure-track full-time faculty members • Merger of the Career Development Centre with the Co-operative Education Plan for better synergy in preparing students for the labour market • Co-op learning at international and domestic sites. Administrative support • The workflow within the undergraduate student advisory offices has been reviewed and a staff training program is currently in development to improve access to academic advisors and increase retention • The Faculty of Graduate and Post-Doctorate studies has been dissolved; most transactional operations and student advising have been transferred under the responsibility of the academic faculties, thereby increasing the proximity of graduate students to faculty and programs as to improve cohort spirit and academic progression • A central Quality Assurance Office was created to harmonize undergraduate and graduate cyclical review processes and stimulate an institutional culture of continuous improvement of programs • The University of Ottawa provides regional student mentors to help their peers integrate into the university • uOttawa has implemented a new Student Information System to increase student autonomy (through better self-service) and to facilitate a wide variety of operations, from admission through progression toward graduation Infrastructure • New student spaces were created, including a dining room open round the clock, seven days a week and four new residences, which increased student housing space on campus by 33 per cent • A Learning Centre, to open in 2018, will provide significant additional innovative space for students to study and socialize; the Learning Centre will enable the offering of modern active learning classes and case-based approaches to enhance the student learning experience • A STEM building will be opened in 2018 with teaching and research labs for students in science, engineering, and innovation. The design includes dedicated entrepreneurship space, which will support the development of an entrepreneurial culture and provide resources for students from any faculty who are interested in entrepreneurship Pedagogy • Increase in hybrid education and distance learning opportunities • Improved access to research experiences for third- and fourth-year undergraduate students, with the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), as a high-impact initiative that fosters interest in graduate studies and directly involves undergraduate students in real-world research • Expansion of co-op programs: uOttawa now has the second-largest offering in Ontario; however, to continue to expand co-op offerings within and across programs, the co-op office requires additional financial support to engage additional employers and administer co-op placements • Capstone projects are now available in many programs (e.g., Engineering, Management, Public and International Affairs) • Simulation labs, combined with real-life community-based applied learning, the inter-professional clinic and testing centre in Health Sciences and the INSPIRE Lab at the Faculty of Social Sciences, enable students to train in real-world situations without leaving the campus. In addition, the Finance Research and Learning lab and the Capital Market Development Program, train uOttawa students in portfolio management and allows them to manage a real fund • The Writing Centre helps students to develop their writing skills • The University of Ottawa offers sheltered academic courses for students for whom English is their second language • The University of Ottawa offers a French immersion program for English-speaking students wanting to study and learn in an immersion setting • The University of Ottawa has implemented a new learning management system (LMS) that will improve learning monitoring, encourage independent learning and support portfolio development; it will also ease the transition to competency-based programs and learning outcomes measurement • The University of Ottawa implemented a new tool (uoSyllabus) in 2016 to xxxxxx the development, implementation and communication of course and program learning outcomes; it is already in use for almost a thousand courses Community-based activities • Internationalization efforts to facilitate student mobility and create an open and globalized learning environment are a pillar of uOttawa’s strategic plan and are actively supported. One example, is the Xxxxxx School of Management, which sends over 150 students annually to 51 elite postsecondary business schools in 24 countries and facilitates international internships and international field trips at the graduate level. In addition, 150-200 students in the Faculty of Social Sciences annually participate in classes abroad, field trip courses, student exchanges or United Nations simulations. • The residence life experience has been enhanced with the launch, in 2016-2017, of a series of Living Learning Communities (LLCs), where over 200 students have been presented with opportunities for connection and development beyond the classroom. An LLC is a dedicated space in the university residence where residents are grouped according to their interest in a particular area. Programming for LLCs focuses on these areas of interest, and offers enhanced opportunities for connection and development beyond the classroom. Various LLCs have been organized on the campus, offering a variety of opportunities for students, including: o Students in STEM can join a STEM community o Canadian and international students who are interested in developing intercultural communication skills, while having an enriching student experience in residence, can be part of a community dedicated to these interests o One LLC offers volunteer opportunities, (e.g., working with children in an elementary school, helping promote health initiatives at a local Community Health Centre. Metrics and Targets System-Wide Metrics 2019-20 Target Proportion of fourth year students with two or more High-Impact Practices (HIPs) (from the National Survey of Student Engagement) 53% or 1.78 HIPs per student Year 1 to Year 2 retention (from the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange) 90% Proportion of operating expenditures on student services, net of student assistance (as reported in the Council of University Finance Officers data) 3.2% Institution-Specific Metrics 2019-20 Target Learning space per student FTEs [m2/FTEs]1 10% increase end of SMA2 Number of co-op work term placements2 Maintain current level
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Samples: Strategic Mandate Agreement, Strategic Mandate Agreement
