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Interested in affordable non-credit courses for lifelong learners at any age? Try the Lifelong Learning Program! Interested in getting into a degree program even though your high school or college grades are holding you back? Try the Enriched Support Program. At the Centre for Initiatives in Education, we have a 25 year history of innovation with post-secondary access, incubating diverse educational programming to make university more accessible and inclusive.
CIE Timeline 2023
| Enriched Support Program begins
– along with ESP workshops, ESP advising, and ESP coaching |
1996 – present |
| Centre for Initiatives in Education is created | 1997 – present |
| First ESP Honours student graduates from Carleton | 2000 |
| Learning in Retirement starts up in Alumni Services
2 offerings and 65 participants |
2000 |
| Bridging Program for Women | 2000 – 2014 |
| Nunavut Arctic BA | 2000 – 2004 |
| ESP mentor program starts | 2001 – present |
| ESP ‘tutoring’ is formalized as Academic Advantage Coaching Program | 2001 |
| Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) is started up and run by CIE before going to Student Services at Carleton | 2001-2006 – present (tsf to Student Services) |
| ESP admits 200 students for the first time | 2002 |
| Learning in Retirement is adopted by CIE from Alumni Services | 2003 – present |
| Indigenous Enriched Support Program (AESP) | 2003 – 2021 – present (tsf to CISCE at CU) |
| Bridging Program for Men | 2003 – 2014 |
| Indigenous High School Mentoring Program (AHSMP) | 2011 – 2021 – present (CISCE) |
| ESP & IESP streams to Business, Engineering, Science | 2013 |
| ESP January admission starts, along with CIED seminar | 2014 – present |
| Indigenous Leadership Pathways | 2015 |
| One third of Facils and Coaches are former ESP/IESP | 2016 |
| Welcome to my Classroom | 2016-19 |
| Motivational Interviewing training with Jonathan Lee | 2016 |
| ESP admits 300+ students | 2016 |
| Procrastination coaching | 2017- 2021 |
| Discovery University – partnership with Ottawa Mission | 2017 |
| Therapy Dog pilot program – went to OVPSE | 2017 – 2018 – present (tsf to OVPSE at CU) |
| AESP name updated to IESP | 2018 |
| LinR: 155 offerings and nearly 5000 registrations | 2019 |
| Learning in Retirement is re-named Lifelong Learning Program (LLeaP) | 2021 |
| Newcomer and Refugee Mentorship begins | 2020 – present |
| Academic Prep Course ‘How to be a University Student’ is piloted – with support from Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | 2022 – present |
| ESP Community Mentorship is formed | 2022 – present |
| FASS-inating Learning Partnerships | 2023 (in progress) |
| School Within a University & Dual Credit for students at risk of not completing high school | 2023 (seeking funders) |