Archived Academic Plans
TMU's 2020-2025 Academic Plan aims to advance the ambitious vision and significant successes of its predecessor, Our Time to Lead. By building on this foundation and ensuring alignment with our (PDF file) Strategic Research Plan, (PDF file) International Strategy and (PDF file) Campus Master Plan, we will continue to deliver innovative, career-oriented education that disrupts the status quo on local, national and international stages.
Incorporating extensive feedback from students, faculty and staff, this plan articulates our community’s commitment to the university’s evolution. With a focus on steady improvement, it will serve as the blueprint for informed and focused decision-making so that, together, we can chart the new path towards our aspirational goals.
This is a pivotal moment in our university's development. Sustaining the momentum that has brought us this far, we must continue to take the kind of calculated risks that allow us to confront Canada’s most pressing challenges with our scholarly, research and creative (SRC) activities. Similarly, we will embrace new approaches to experiential education and continue providing exceptional student experiences. Throughout, we must remain true to our values and to how we engage with the world.
To this end, it is equally important that we stay mindful of the special place we hold within the city of Toronto, and of our obligations to the communities that we serve. Together we will chart a new path towards our aspirational goals.
Our Time to Lead
The five-year academic plan establishes the university’s vision to become Canada’s leading comprehensive innovation university. It builds upon our proud traditions and expands the university’s strengths for relevant programs and SRC activities, its engaging and diverse learning and teaching environment that integrates theory with practice, and strong relationships with external communities.
Over the next five years, we will focus on four interconnected priorities:
- Enable greater student engagement and success through exceptional experiences;
- Increase SRC excellence, intensity and impact;
- Foster an innovation ecosystem; and
- Expand community engagement and city building.
A set of 29 strategies support the priorities and gives ample opportunity for the university’s faculties, schools, departments and administrative units to interpret and activate the plan locally. Our Time to Lead is also our first academic plan to include a set of 14 values. They range from academic freedom and sustainability to lifelong learning and inclusion.
Shaping Our Future
Shaping Our Future aimed to build on and expand our strengths by largely preserving the university’s current priorities as established in the Quality Agenda: student engagement and success, growth in Scholarly, Research and Creative (SRC) activity, graduate growth, and reputation enhancement. The plan envisioned not radical change, but constructive change and growth intended to support the university’s journey along its own distinctive path.
Shaping Our Future proposes five principal priorities:
- High Quality, Societally-Relevant Undergraduate and Graduate Programs
- Student Engagement and Success
- Learning and Teaching Excellence
- SRC Intensity
- Reputation
