As I shared with you, we are hosting a series of events for the university community to hear more about our new strategic vision. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, March 22 at 3:30 p.m. and join Provost & Vice-President Dr. Craig Monk for a look at the tactical choices that will move the academy forward in pursuit of Teaching Greatness.

What would you like to know about Teaching Greatness? Email provost@macewan.ca ahead of a town hall on March 22, and your question will inform Dr. Monk’s presentation.

Teaching Greatness: Strategic Vision 2030 gives MacEwan University an extraordinary opportunity to grow to meet the demand for post-secondary education in Alberta while serving the community of which we are a proud member. The support for the vision at both the Board and at GFC reflects a balance of what we aspire to be with an emphasis on how we seek to achieve these things: honouring our place O-day’min means pursuing our goals in a sustainable fashion so that these next years position MacEwan for the decades to come. It means growing with the equity-deserving members of our community and incorporating different perspectives in our work. It means an openness to new partnerships and rooting our influence in downtown Edmonton to be a force for good in the world beyond.

The provost visited each Faculty and School Council and attended staff meetings hosted by academic associate vice-presidents over the past two months. He heard about our ongoing commitment to instruction, the focus on teaching that defines us as a university. But he also found a desire to reimagine what it means to teach in the 2020s, to use the best of the tools and approaches that allowed us to sustain ourselves during the pandemic to thrive in a world changed by it. He found an eagerness to deliver our programming in different ways, incorporating more and more of our own research into our evolving curriculum. But he also found a desire to seek beyond the classroom the kinds of experiences that enrich our students with a depth and breadth of knowledge. Above all else, he heard that we must all seek to provide our students with an education that truly cannot be achieved elsewhere, one that begins with a commitment to this place but uses our partnerships to prepare students to thrive in the twenty-first century.

I hope you can join us on March 22.  A calendar invitation will be sent to you in the next few days with a link to the event.

Dr. Annette Trimbee
President and Vice-Chancellor

Originally distributed by GlobalMail on March 10