Our consultations yielded rich insights, drawing on the experiences of hundreds of students, employees and partners to construct a plan right for the times. In the spirit of the consultations, where we posed questions to engage the participants in conversations about our strategic purpose and direction, here are three questions about our strategic direction and our responses.
Our work starts with an enduring commitment to our students: Whatever your educational aspirations or entrepreneurial ambitions, however far along you are in your search for a career that you can be passionate about, Seneca will help you define your future. We do that through high-quality programs delivered by outstanding faculty working with outstanding, supportive staff. We prepare you for the accelerating pace of change and tomorrow’s world of work by offering programs with a wide range of experiential learning opportunities, a cross-disciplinary approach and our key core literacies underpinning the curriculum. We have a broad range of support services including tutoring, mentoring and leadership development available to our students. We will help you get ready.
Our consultations underscored the importance of equipping our students with a broad set of skills and experiences to be successful. Whether it was employers describing the ideal graduate, or faculty emphasizing the importance of ethics, professionalism and the core literacies, the words of our founding president Dr. William T. Newnham ring as true today as they were 50 years ago: “The Seneca graduate will make an informed and perceptive citizen.”
In virtually every conversation we had there was emphatic support for continuing to stress Seneca’s core literacies, a group of 10 key areas of knowledge that comprise the essential skill set for the successful graduate. It is part of the tool kit that will help our students not simply navigate but thrive in a world of change.
At Seneca, we believe in collaboration. Even in a highly competitive higher education market, we are proud to be the leader in transfer agreements and pathways with colleges and universities because they help students achieve their goals, whether locally or abroad. Partnerships with employers are important to creating expanded experiential learning opportunities and developing applied research projects, equally benefitting the communities we serve. Collaboration with our students is vital to understanding how we can enhance the learning and campus community experience. And, it is the collaboration among our employees, within departments and across the institution, that creates the respectful teaching and learning environment that enables us to achieve our shared goal of supporting our students’ success.
All of this rests on a solid financial base where our approach to enrolment and revenue growth create opportunities to invest in our people, services and facilities. That is how we lead – by working with others, by bringing true value to our partnerships – both inside and outside of Seneca – and by always continuing to improve what we do.
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