Transform

We embrace curiosity, accessibility, and empowerment.

The third pillar in our strategic plan, “transform”, embraces the transformative potential of academic inquiry and higher learning, grounded in the values of curiosity, accessibility, and empowerment. 

Our programs and research transform students, issues, policies, governance, and communities through collaborations, innovation, and respectful disruption.  

But we want to do more. We want to underscore our unique place within the Canadian Higher education landscape and commit to developing this awareness beyond Ottawa to the rest of Canada and internationally. 

We want to fully embrace the changing technological landscape by approaching teaching with new lenses, timelines and pedagogical tools. We will address the desire and need for innovation, especially for increasing the accessibility of university to students for whom a face-to-face education, in the traditional timelines, is not an option.  

We want to commit to reconciliation and repair by transforming our courses, processes, and structures to include previously excluded ways of knowing and imagine new approaches to being in community with each other.  

We want to create global classrooms by continuing to bring scholars and researchers from around the world into our classroom – and to send our students around the world. 

We want to encourage a culture of respectful dialogue amongst our students, staff and faculty through public events and initiatives.  

All of this falls under our third pillar of Transform.