1. Inspire collaborative leadership throughout our community
  2. Identify talent and encourage individual potential
  3. Create opportunities for innovation and knowledge sharing
  4. Develop sound and systematic approaches to service excellence, process, and continuous improvement
  5. Ensure the strategic and sustainable use of resources

Inspire collaborative leadership throughout our community

  • Continue to enhance academic offices and services to provide responsive, meaningful, and high-quality programs and services to the university community
  • Offer cutting-edge pedagogical training and opportunities to experiment with emerging pedagogical approaches

Identify talent and encourage individual potential

  • Offer research development support that leads to improved research outcomes, including grants, honours and distinctions, publications, partnerships, and impactful scholarship
  • Encourage professional development of staff members and their participation in developmental programs, such as Carleton Leader

Create opportunities for innovation and knowledge sharing

  • Continue to recognize and celebrate teaching and research excellence through internal and external teaching and research awards and honours
  • Continue to recognize and celebrate teaching excellence through internal and external teaching awards and honours
  • Continue to award internal Achievement Awards and promote and celebrate external teaching and research awards and honours
  • Promote a “humanized” approach to teaching, which considers whole-person teaching and the importance of mental health and well-being in teaching and learning

Develop sound and systematic approaches to service excellence, process, and continuous improvement

  • Reconfigure graduate studies to ensure that graduate programs are fully supported by the Faculties
  • Conduct timely cyclical program reviews as outlined in Carleton’s Institutional Quality Assurance Process
  • Consult with Faculties regarding internal administrative barriers to research
  • Review a full life cycle approach for research grants and contracts to identify challenges

Ensure the strategic and sustainable use of resources

  • Promote adaptable and agile teaching practices, which include creating resources for scalable activities and assessments that transcend modality and foster student success
  • Ensure researchers are aware of available services on campus for pre- and post-award support
  • Ensure campus spaces accommodate diverse teaching approaches; leverage off-campus learning spaces
  • Ensure new and innovative tools, such as artificial intelligence, are used intelligently and ethically

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