The Strategic Framework is also available as a downloadable PDF.
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Purpose
- Contexts
- Priorities, Commitments and Accountabilities
- Continuous Planning
Purpose
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UTM’s Strategic Framework provides focus for our campus and partners. It expresses core priorities that will strengthen consensus, inspire action, and guide investment. But it also designs room for change, giving our community the flexibility to realize our priorities in many ways—including in ways we haven’t yet imagined.
Contexts
- Founded in the late sixties as a small college in a small town, UTM has grown into a catalyst of creativity, innovation, and positive social change for Canada’s largest cities. We’re now the second largest division of Canada’s top-ranked university, leading game-changing research and teaching that lifts up our students, our region, and our world.
Priorities, Commitments and Accountabilities
Truth, Openness, and Reciprocity
- Listen and act with kindness, transparency, and evidence-based honesty.
- Answer calls for truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in every aspect of campus life.
- Deepen reciprocal relationships with Indigenous nations and communities.
Foster Student Success
- Recruit and retain outstanding and promising students and graduate engaged global citizens.
- Lead effective innovations in undergraduate, graduate, and professional teaching and learning.
- Promote student flourishing through curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular supports.
Empower Research Discovery and Impact
- Attract and support leading faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate student researchers.
- Enable disciplinary insight, interdisciplinary collaboration, and artistic creativity, curiosity, and critique.
- Champion research inquiry and partnerships that strengthen U of T’s commitment to inclusive excellence and deliver benefits regionally and globally.
Encourage Collaboration and Belonging
- Connect diverse teams to share diverse expertise across UTM and U of T.
- Enact anti-racism and anti-oppression work as collective responsibilities and shared actions.
- Align approaches to campus safety, accessibility, and physical, mental, and social health.
Build Efficient and Sustainable Operations
- Design green buildings and spaces that enhance belonging, biodiversity, and operational resilience.
- Foster sustainability across our teaching and research programs and our external engagements.
- Identify and implement evidence-based approaches to take care of our environmental, infrastructural, and financial resources.
Embrace Our Place
- Incorporate Mississauga’s history, culture, and priorities into campus identity and planning.
- Support community-engaged learning, research, and service in our City and Peel Region.
- Ground UTM’s contribution to U of T’s global reputation in positive local impact.
Continuous Planning
UTM’s Strategic Framework is open-ended rather than time-bound.