Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co-curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports.
Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co-curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports. Institutional Approach to Improving Student Experience In keeping with Algoma University’s special mission to focus on the unique needs and corollary demographic challenges of Northern Ontario, the university will continue to provide students, who typically would not have access to university programs, with the opportunity to study at the post-secondary level. Over the next three years, our work around improving the student experience will focus on helping these students achieve success at university. Currently, for many of our programs we offer admissions to students with an average between 65 per cent and 70 per cent. We also welcome mature students, some of whom have incomplete high school records, others of whom are returning to education after many years because they have lost employment, due to the downsizing or cessation of operations by major employers, such as Xxxxx Xxxxx. Algoma University also welcomes Anishinaabe (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) students from a wide variety of educational and work experience backgrounds. Our student population has historically included a high proportion of Anishinaabe students. The percentage of the student body identified as Aboriginal on admission through band sponsorship stands at nearly nine per cent, on average, from 2012-2013 through 2016-2017. We also seek to provide highly accessible pathways for college students to ease their transition from college to upper-year university courses. Extension programming in Timmins and Brampton was specifically established to support college pathway students, while raising awareness of Algoma University beyond the Algoma region. Over the next three years, we will improve our suite of academic services designed to support these students. We are transforming our University Library using the Learning Commons Model on both of its floors to provide students with convenient and friendly access to a variety of academic learning supports, including purpose built spaces, specialized equipment, and collaborative service points. We plan to increase use of these supports, as well as to encourage peer mentoring and group work, so tha...
Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co-curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports. Institutional Approach to Improving Student Experience As the third-largest university in Canada, York’s 55,000 student body is a microcosm of contemporary Canada, including: new Canadians, students from families of economic disadvantage, visible minority groups, first- generation university attendees, mature students, college transfer students, Indigenous students, and others. Providing a positive experience for these students is our first priority. Broadly, our approach to improving the student experience is through strengthening a tailored approach that focusses on the individual and leverages York’s distinct features to benefit the student and society. The student experience permeates all seven priorities in York’s University Academic Plan 2015‐2020 (UAP):
Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co-curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports. Institutional Approach to Improving Student Experience With an undergraduate entering average of 88.5 per cent, among the highest in the province4, admission to Queen’s is highly competitive and our academic programs are in high demand. Queen’s is proud of the high quality of its student experience at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and across its faculties and professional schools, as demonstrated by various student satisfaction, engagement and outcome metrics. According to the National Survey on Student Engagement (NSSE), 90 per cent of upper-year undergraduate students at Queen’s report good to excellent satisfaction with their entire educational experience. Similarly, the Canadian Graduate and Professional Student Survey (CGPSS) reports that 89 per cent of graduate students rate their academic experience as good to excellent. In addition, 96 per cent of Queen’s third-year law students said they would choose Queen’s again, compared to an average of 75 per cent for North American law schools5. The student satisfaction index in the School of Medicine is substantially above the mean for medical schools across the country.6 Over the course of this SMA, Xxxxx’s aims to maintain its leadership in delivering an exceptional student learning experience and in achieving excellent retention and completion rates at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university will do this by continuing to offer programs, services and supports that ensure a high-quality student experience and promote student success, including: ⮚ First-year transition programing to promote student success academically and personally, including peer mentoring for students with disabilities, international students, first-generation students and self- identified Indigenous students ⮚ Career services to get students thinking about their options early and to help develop workplace skills 5 Law School Survey of Student Engagement 6 Results of the Canadian Graduation Questionnaire (CGQ), Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada. ⮚ Student academic success services that develop skills in critical thinking, reading, learning, stu...
Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co-curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports. Institutional Approach to Improving Student Experience A key priority for the University of Toronto is to re-imagine undergraduate education. In building on this priority across three campuses and 20 academic divisions, U of T is developing an ecosystem of curricular and co- curricular innovation to enrich our students’ experience. The University of Toronto will continue to enhance programming and services to improve student experience and student outcomes. This will include focused efforts in: health and wellness services including mental health, preventing and responding to sexual violence and sexual harassment, study abroad opportunities, international student experience, and graduate student initiatives. On the final point, our priority is to support masters and doctoral students’ timely progression and to assist them in their consideration of a range of career options post- graduation.
Student Experience. Develop globally focused graduates who are rigorous scholars, capable of leadership and professional practice in an international community by:
Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co‐curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports. Institutional Approach to Improving Student Experience McMaster University strives to xxxxxx the creative and intellectual potential of our students, while also preparing them to build successful careers. An innovator in student‐centered, experiential education, McMaster is renowned for our evidence‐based approach, which takes inspiration from the problem‐based learning model pioneered by our medical school. This ethos now finds a home in the Xxxx X. XxxXxxxxxx Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching (the MacPherson Institute), dedicated to the scholarship of teaching and learning and to enhancing the student experience through leading‐edge teaching development, educational technologies, and pedagogical research. We are committed to engaging students at all levels in advanced research, providing effective experiential learning opportunities, and connecting these experiences to local, provincial, national and international communities. Our overarching vision is to continue to develop the distinctive, personalized, engaging, and sustainable student experience that is a McMaster hallmark.
Student Experience and Wellness series of projects focusing on supporting the student life-cycle by creating a conducive environment for academic success, personal development and life-long wellness. Also considers commitment to enhancing wider participation and easing the transition back to learning regime;
Student Experience. This section captures institutional strengths in improving student experience, outcomes and success. This section recognizes institutions for measuring the broader learning environment, such as continuity of learning pathways; retention; student satisfaction; co−curricular activities and records; career preparedness; and student services and supports. Institutional Approach to Improving Student Experience Waterloo attracts and retains bright and motivated students, from near and far, offering them the opportunity to become something more. Students are inspired in an environment of imagination, innovation and interdisciplinary endeavours. The confluence of remarkable classroom, campus and community experiences at Waterloo transforms excellent students into extraordinary alumni uniquely equipped to contribute to society and lead change. Waterloo is proud to be a global university, where top students from Ontario, Canada and around the world come together to share and expand their knowledge and perspectives with other students, faculty, staff and partners.
