Share Your Vision | Faculty of Public Affairs

Send your thoughts, ideas and questions related to the FPA strategic planning process by filling out the form below or email us: FPAStrategicPlan@carleton.ca

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Share your vision for the Faculty of Public Affairs.

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1. What do you think FPA is best known for and what do you want FPA to be known for?
2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the FPA student experience? How could these weaknesses be addressed?
3. How are the strengths of the FPA student experience and how could FPA better support you as a student or improve your student experience?
4. Do you think that being a student in FPA gives you access to interesting talks and guest speakers, to useful networking opportunities, and/or registration for courses outside your major field of study?
1. What would you like to see as the FPA’s strategic future? (What would you like FPA to be known for?)
2. What kind of opportunities or support could help faculty to meaningfully manifest that strategic future?
3. Is there anything holding the FPA back from what you see as the ideal strategic vision?
1. What do you enjoy most about working within the Faculty of Public Affairs (and/or Carleton University)?
2. What high-level issues or trends are you seeing across universities/society that may impact FPA over the next few years? a. Asking about: Where can FPA students, faculty, researchers and staff make an impact? b. Prompts: climate change, EDI, digital media, social justice
3. What are some of the more specific opportunities/challenges/issues you see affecting FPA students and staff? a. Asking about: What are you seeing at the student and staff levels? b. Prompts: new programs, accessibility, AI, experiential learning, work-life balance, recruitment and retention
4. Do you have any ideas on how FPA could work together to address the issues mentioned above? a. Prompts: shared core courses (political theory)
5. Anything else you’d like to add?
1. Looking back on your time at Carleton and with the Faculty of Public Affairs, what are some memories and experiences that stand out? For instance, your classes, your fellow students, professors, the staff, the campus?
2. When you graduated or left Carleton, and moved on to further studies, a career, or other, in what ways did your time in FPA prepare you for this transition? Is there anything that could have better prepared you for your next steps?
3. What issues, trends, gaps, opportunities or concerns are you seeing in society and/or in your current role(s), that current and future FPA students should be prepared to understand and address?
4. How can FPA (programs) help current and future students better prepare for these changes?
5. Anything else you'd like to share with the Faculty of Public Affairs?
1. How are you currently engaged with one of Carleton's Faculty of Public Affairs units or programs? What does this look like?
2. Are there additional supports or services Carleton could provide to enhance community engagement and partnerships?
3. Are there additional ways — e.g. workplace experience, research, mentoring, special projects or other — you can imagine your organization collaborating with Carleton and its students?
4. What issues, trends, gaps or concerns in society are you seeing that current and future students in Carleton's Faculty of Public Affairs should be better prepared to understand and address?
5. Anything else you'd like to share with the Faculty of Public Affairs?