Archives: CL2

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Carleton Grads: More than their Degree (June 2020)

Despite learning valuable skills during their postsecondary education, university graduates are not always able to clearly articulate and market those skills for job opportunities. This can be a particular problem for students in the social sciences and humanities, and there is an increasing awareness about the need to address these gaps in the... More

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Getting the First Year Right (June 2020)

The transition from high school to university can be difficult for many students. Our strategic impact group explored the wicked problem of graduation rates by looking at newly admitted students to determine how they could “Get the First Year Right”. With support from OIRP and various stakeholders across campus, we looked to determine those... More

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Silos: Not Such A Bad Thing (October 2019)

The challenges facing higher education are too complicated, the speed of change too fast, and the path forward too uncertain for a single leader or leadership team to have all the answers. The way forward in higher education demands that we harness the collective capacity, intelligence, and resources of our full organization. Unfortunately,... More

Wednesday, October 16, 2019

“One conversation at a time”: Championing Sustainability Through Peer-to-Peer Communications (October 2019)

Our Strategic Impact Group (SIG) came together to address a pressing “wicked problem” that extends well beyond Carleton: climate change and sustainability. This topic feels particularly urgent at Carleton, not only in the global context of UN reports on the climate crisis and the collapse of biodiversity, but also given the local disruptions... More

Monday, May 6, 2019

Reputation…We Started From the Bottom, Now We’re Here (May 2019)

We come to this project as Carleton community members who believe that the unique characteristics of Carleton University are not being communicated in a way that leads potential students, faculty and staff to understand what makes this a great place to study and work. Our primary research question was: How can we define and... More

Monday, May 6, 2019

Lost in Good Standing (May 2019)

Our Strategic Impact Group chose to focus on one piece of the graduation rates puzzle. After reviewing the Pathways to Graduation report (January 2018) and seeking out information from OIRP and the Academic Advising Centre, we narrowed the scope of our study to students whose marks for completed courses would normally put them in... More

Friday, October 5, 2018

Bueller… Bueller… Bueller? Student Attendance & Engagement (Oct 2018)

  Our Strategic Impact Group tackled the wicked problem of student attendance as a measure of engagement and likelihood to graduate. Initially, our group quickly identified class attendance and how to measure class attendance as the focus of our project. Our goal was to devise a way to easily identify students with poor attendance... More

Friday, October 5, 2018

Mapping Connectivity: Building resilience by increasing points of engagement (Oct 2018)

We observe that engagement between senior management and faculty/staff can be strengthened at Carleton. Over the past few years, Carleton has experienced a number of critical challenges, both internal and external such as the recent strike mandates, which heighten the need for better collaboration and stronger trust relationships between members... More

Friday, September 28, 2018

Wicked Emails (Oct 2018)

Our Strategic Impact Group explored the “wicked problem” of “wicked emails.”  While email is a valuable communication tool within our Carleton community, and between Carleton and our many partners, it raises questions and challenges related to overload, miscommunication, inefficiency, hierarchy and relationships between faculty, staff and... More

Friday, September 28, 2018

Promoting and Enriching the Student Experience – Going one or two or three extra steps (Oct 2018)

Ensuring students have as rich and engaged an experience as possible while here at Carleton is essential as this has a tremendous impact on retention and graduation rates, academic success, personal student success, and career readiness, among many other areas. We started by exploring the literature that exists around the student experience, and... More

Friday, September 28, 2018

Destination Carleton: Applying as an International Graduate Student (Oct 2018)

This SIG is interested in the processes and supports Carleton provides for international graduate students and the experiences of these students before they begin their studies. We identified promising practices and opportunities to improve the international graduate student admission experience by considering the admission process from the... More

Thursday, October 5, 2017

“If we build it, will they come? Building an environment to foster staff and faculty connections (Oct 2017)

If we build it, will they come? Our SIG dives into the wicked problem of faculty and staff collaboration and communication, a topic explored by at least five other SIGs before us, highlighting its importance. After trying to address the problem as a whole, it became apparent that this wicked problem cannot be solved... More

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