1. Achieve new directions in faculty recruitment, hiring, retention, career development and leadership.
We want to renew our approaches to hiring and leadership development, enhance career development and mentorship programs and make sure our faculty members get the support they need at critical points in their careers.
2. Emphasize innovative delivery of educational programs and appropriate levels of student aid to improve access to underrepresented population groups.
Education should be accessible. This means better financial aid to those who need it, better support services that keep students on track to where they want to go in their careers and a better digital library that increases our knowledge base.
3. Ensure innovation in graduate students’ experience based on disciplinary and interdisciplinary research strengths and competitive funding.
Enhanced funding, improved supervision and reduced time to completion are all ways that McGill plans to attract, retain and better support its graduate students over the next five years and beyond.
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Develop and implement transformative research initiatives based on competitive advantage.
New interdisciplinary research opportunities with a high impact on our community, researchers who are better prepared to assume roles as research leaders and better recognition of the outstanding research that we do here will nurture a rich learning environment.
5. Develop a culture of “best practices” in support of academic endeavours.
We'll look at ways to use our resources even more strategically and effectively.
6. Enhance career development and mobility opportunities for administrative and support staff.
We want our world-class staff to grow their careers here at McGill. To help, we're going to get better at communicating and providing career/skill development opportunities and mentoring programs for our employees.
7. Implement new approaches to academic analytics, processes, tools and feedback loops.
An important facet of this plan is measuring its success. We want our progress to be transparent, analytical and measured University-wide.
8. Provide service to Quebec, Canada and the global community by means of activities and international collaborations with measurable impact.
As a research-intensive University, McGill has a responsibility to the world around it—to leverage the knowledge we create to improve the human condition. We want to give our grads the opportunities and experience they need to become key players in their communities.
9. Ensure and embrace the diversity in origin and ideas among students, faculty and staff with appropriate programs and services.
Over the next five years, we want to increase our efforts to recruit qualified students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds and under-represented minority groups. To do this, we’ll strengthen our outreach programs and better promote existing ones.
10. Attain pre-eminence in education for the professions in the 21st century by means of leadership initiatives.
Educating students for the professions means preparing doctors, dentists, teachers and other professionals to serve our communities.