Challenge Boundaries
STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS:
Challenge Boundaries and Inspire Curiosity
We bring curiosity, imagination, and courage to our activities, creating spaces, systems, and opportunities for interdisciplinary teaching, learning, research, and creative activity to flourish.
We challenge traditional boundaries between academic disciplines, communities, cultures, and sectors to learn from each other. We create connections that make each of us, and our work together, stronger and more impactful.
Supporting Goals
Expand Perspectives
We value courageous conversation, respectful debate, and participation from all campus members. We learn from each other’s knowledge and experiences, and actively promote the safe, respectful, open, and accessible exchange of ideas.
Weave Indigenous knowledges and cultures into all we do
We integrate Indigenous perspectives into curricula, research, and services. We empower all community members to engage confidently with Indigenous history and ways of knowing, with an emphasis on building and maintaining strong relationships that acknowledge interconnectedness and reciprocity.
Inspire boundless, interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and research
Across our exemplary teaching, learning, and research, strong disciplinary expertise and rigour inform valuable interdisciplinary exchanges, connections, and discoveries.
In teaching and learning we take a liberal education approach, foregrounding breadth and integration across academic disciplines, and combined with our strong commitment to experiential learning and undergraduate and graduate research, this enables critical insight, curiosity, and student-driven learning, empowering skilled graduates to lead and succeed in a rapidly changing world.
Our leading-edge research and creative activities work to actively benefit and inform society, cultures, and communities by embracing intellectual curiosity, creating new knowledge, challenging norms, and partnering and contributing to the knowledge economy across sectors.
