Strategy 17: Academic Funding

The Provost, with the Vice Provost, University Planning and the Deans, will review Ryerson’s academic funding models.

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Funding models -- Ryerson is committed to fair and transparent strategic resource allocations to support high quality academic programs, and to being a good steward of its extensive facilities and infrastructure to the best of its financial capacity to do so. Funding models must reflect these basic principles and ensure appropriate accountability for the use of scarce resources. Ryerson’s current funding models for academic programs were established to support Ryerson’s curriculum structure, and have served it well. As schools and departments seek to develop course offerings for students outside their programs or to work with other schools and departments, particularly outside of their own faculties on initiatives such as inter¬discip¬linary collaborations, changes to the funding models will be considered. Ryerson’s curriculum structure also assumes a very efficient scheduling of classes, with little flexibility in student timetables. As program models evolve, and more student choice is proposed, there will be more need for course offerings outside of the normal semesters and times. Evolution of the curriculum model will require that the ways in which undergraduate and graduate programs are funded be reevaluated.

Stakeholder(s):

• Ryerson University Provost


• Ryerson University Vice Provost


• Ryerson University Planning


• Ryerson University Deans

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