Major Directions And Goals
Strengthening our competitive edge
We want to offer our students an excellent education. To this end, we must build on our strengths and assiduously cultivate innovative fields, thus attracting the best students, creating a strong feeling of belonging, and offering a truly unique experience.
Goal 8 To embrace a modern governance model
- To ensure that community members take a more active part in the decision making process and are promptly informed of decisions affecting our future.
- To ensure that our structures and resource allocations at all levels allow us to reach our goals.
- To take action so that women play a leading role in university governance.
By 2010, this governance model will have included new communication tools for ensuring greater transparency, a change that should cultivate the team spirit we need to carry out our mission. The University will also have moved to an administrative model that facilitates interdisciplinarity and fosters the development of inter-faculty projects.
Main Initiatives Proposed
| Structure and interdisciplinarity |
Periodically review the roles and structures of all academic and research units to assess their continued relevance and to open disciplinary boundaries, particularly by facilitating joint appointments for members of the regular academic staff, thus promoting interdisciplinarity (VP Academic and Provost).
Effective immediately The Committee on Academic Planning will study governance problems concerning interdisciplinarity and will recommend a new funding model and specific incentives. |
| Complaints | Open a one-stop service point to receive complaints, explain procedures and refer issues to the proper authorities (Secretary). |
| Transparency and representation | Make public the minutes of faculty and University committee meetings; analyze the representativeness of the various university groups on these committees, and adjust practices accordingly (Secretary and deans). |
| Progress assessment | Post faculty and service strategic plans on the Web; design a scorecard measuring the extent to which our goals have been reached; conduct benchmarking to compare our institution with others; and report annually on our progress toward Vision 2010 (President, VP Academic and Provost, IRP). |
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