Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Are we meeting our students’ expectations fully? (part 2) Mario Coniglio, Associate Vice-President, Academic

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship No – we are not Will we ever meet our students’ expectations fully? Realistically no – we won’t. Students change, constantly! Are we moving toward meeting our students’ expectations? Yes, definitely – and it will set us apart Are we meeting our students’ expectations fully?

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Session will focus on two strategic themes: Outstanding Academic Programming Goal: Offer leading-edge dynamic academic programs Goal: Be a leading provider of technology-enabled learning opportunities Experiential Education for All Goal: Be a world-leading university in co-op education and other forms of experiential and work-integrated learning

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship DIVERSITY Main challenge Undergraduate students Graduate students

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Undergraduate Students Co-op Regular Professional General Honours BEFORE DURING AFTER Domestic vs. international Traditional vs. non-traditional English as 1 st language Financially well-off Engaged Experience research Experience internationalization Graduating into workforce or more PSE

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Domestic vs. international Traditional vs. non-traditional English as 1 st language Financially well-off For masters – workforce vs. PhD For PhD – academic vs. non-academic For international – returning vs. staying? Graduate Students Research-based Course-based Professional Masters PhD BEFORE AFTER

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Broader stakeholder group is also diverse Undergraduate Students Graduate Students Instructors Research Supervisors

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Initiatives to promote high quality teaching Instructional development : In 2014/15, the Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) provided 220 workshops to nearly 3,000 instructors and had nearly 6,000 consultations with more than 1,200 instructors Enhanced graduate student supervision : In 2015 CTE and GSO developed a 2- day graduate supervision series to assist new faculty in gaining ADDS status (30 participants in F2015) Quality teaching and learning space : ~$6M was committed to improve existing classrooms and develop new active learning spaces A Teaching and Learning Space Committee will soon exist

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship Enhancing graduate professional and transferable skills: Waterloo developed 3 of 18 online modules for MyGradSkills.ca as part of a multi-institutional provincially- funded project Communications skills initiatives: Our Writing Centre was a partner in developing the first three writing modules for WriteOnline.ca Course evaluations : An institutional strategy document on student assessment of academic courses is forthcoming Initiatives to promote high quality teaching

Preparing our students for 21 st century citizenship PRESENTERS Related to the Experiential Education theme: Rocco Fondacaro, Acting Exec. Director, Co-operative Education and Career Action >> Co-op 2.0 and Experiential Education at Waterloo Judene Pretti, Director, WatCACE >> EDGE, Experiential Education Certificate Related to the Academic Programming theme : Aldo Caputo, Interim Director, Centre for Extended Learning >>Online Learning: Enabling Transformational Change