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Friday, September 28, 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
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
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
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Our Strategic Impact Group focused on space and the widely held view that space is at a premium in the existing buildings on campus. We investigated the use of space in study areas and offices (leaving aside classrooms) and determined that space is not always used optimally. Graduate study and work areas may go... More
The Research Development Centre (RDC): Advancing Carleton’s Reputation as a Research-Intensive University Research is a critical component of the mission of Canadian comprehensive universities. Despite Carleton’s excellent reputation as a teaching university, it has never achieved a similar reputation in research. As the new Strategic... More
Monday, January 15, 2018
By Maria McClintock Photos by Mike Pinder Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 5 seconds Carleton Leader celebrated five years of bringing faculty and staff together to explore leadership and giving life to a leadership community of more than 300 on campus. The five-year milestone was marked with a special event on Nov. 23 in Fenn... More
Thursday, October 5, 2017
The Enriched Support Program (ESP) is a proven “pathway” to university for many students who do not meet Carleton’s regular admission requirements. We propose that any Suspended BA student with fewer than 9.0 university credits completed towards his or her degree be given the opportunity to apply to ESP during his or her year... More
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
Building and strengthening community at Carleton begins the very first day new employees arrive on campus. Whether a new faculty member, regular staff member, or a casual employee, how new employees are brought on board – how they are (or are not) welcomed into the Carleton family in the first hours, days, and weeks... More
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Please join us for ‘Tea Time at Carleton’ Tea time at Carleton has a very rich history. The tradition of tea time dates back to the late 1950s when the wives of faculty members would gather to socialize. Tea Time represents much more than coming together to sip on a hot beverage. It represents many... More
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