Day:
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Time:
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location:
Manchester, Mezzanine Level
First Learning Outcome: An approach to the design of a graduate SEM plan
Second Learning Outcome: Insight into some of the potential side benefits of the SEM development process
Third Learning Outcome: An overview of a SEM plan that received wide acceptance
Core Competencies: Collaborative Decision-Making and Consensus-Building, Leadership and Management
Proficiencies: Enrollment Management: SEM Leadership, Enrollment Management: Staffing Leadership
Intended Audience: Faculty, General Audience
Our Journey Toward a Graduate SEM Plan at the University of Victoria
Category
Session
Description
The University of Victoria is consistently rated as one of Canada’s top ‘comprehensive’ universities, and offers a broad range of graduate credentials through its discipline Faculties, Research Centres, Continuing Studies, and Division of Medical Sciences. Located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, UVic is seen as a destination university with well over half of the graduate cohort recruited from outside the Greater Victoria area - which in itself poses a challenge not shared by our comparator institutions located in large urban areas. As would be found at many institutions, one barrier to the development of a graduate SEM plan was the truly stark differences in graduate education philosophy across the campus, which vary from a strict mentor-apprentice model to one where the student develops a separate research identity from the beginning of their program. However, while this did limit the number of common approaches, the graduate SEM process itself opened a new window in program-to-program communication and collaboration. Finally, while UVic is seen as a leader in Canada in reconciliation with Indigenous peoples it is clear that a great deal of work remains, and we developed strategies and tactics with an Indigenous focus at the graduate level in addition to those developed by other committees as part of the University’s overall Indigenous enrolment goals. The presentation will examine how these and other challenges were identified and the consultative processes by which many of these differences were ultimately bridged as graduate SEM goals, strategies and tactics were proposed, developed and refined to yield a plan that achieved uniform consensus.
Submission ID:
7809
Presenter(s):
Stephen Evans University of Victoria
Winner Status
- Session