- Build and promote programming, infrastructure projects, and spaces that embrace a commitment to social, physical, cultural, and environmental wellness
- Increase openness, knowledge and capacity across campus to proactively support and empower the mental health, resilience, and well-being of our communities
Build and promote programming, infrastructure projects, and spaces that embrace a commitment to social, physical, cultural, and environmental wellness
Students’ and researchers’ health and well-being underpin their ability to conduct research and effectively teach and learn.
- Support students through increased awareness about Carleton’s Mental Health Framework and other support resources
- Explore, promote and support opportunities and initiatives for faculty/instructor/student ‘relationship-rich’ educational experiences through activities, such as creating opportunities for cross-disciplinary communities of practice, encouraging the scholarship of teaching and learning, and supporting collaborative syllabus, assignment, and rubric design
- Expand physical spaces for accessibility/wellness research, such as the Accessibilities Living Laboratory
- Use our unique location to partner with the NRC and NRCan to support the creation of large infrastructure to investigate sustainability problems, such as alternative energy, building efficiency, and the identification and measurement of environmental pollutants
- Capitalizing on our leadership in permafrost research and climate change in the North, play a lead role in the development of a national consortia for research in Canada’s North, evolving out of ArcticNet
- Enable scaled-up testing of building energy management software and monitoring through the Engineering Design Centre living lab
Additional information about Carleton’s activities in this area is available in the Students and Enrolment Strategic Plan; the Mental Health Framework; and the Campus Master Plan
Increase openness, knowledge and capacity across campus to proactively support and empower the mental health, resilience, and well-being of our communities
- Create learning bundles to focus on matters related to accessibility
- Review opportunities to increase programming in allied health disciplines as health sciences grows
- Infuse critical thinking, ethical leadership, cultural humility and awareness, and professionalization across academic programming and co-curricular activities
- Leverage our research expertise in topics such as work-life balance and mental health to inform our own practice.
- Support the Mental Health and Well-Being Research and Training Hub (MeWeRTH) to engage with researchers across all Faculties
- Ensure the Student Mental Health Framework is highlighted across campus at the beginning of every academic term and the recommendations are regularly reported on
- Include mental health and well-being awareness during new faculty orientation and academic heads orientation
- Continue to invest in Healthy Workplace activities
Additional information about Carleton’s activities in this area is available in the Coordinated Accessibility Strategy; the Healthy Workplace Strategic Plan; the Student Mental Health Framework; and the Students and Enrolment Strategic Plan