1: Quality and Relevance

High Quality, Societally-Relevant Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

Other Information:

Ryerson is known for the high quality of its undergraduate and graduate programs that link university study to professions, professional practice, and careers. Ryerson will continue to pursue this mission, with the aim of preserving and extending our reputation for outstanding quality. Particularly in areas of academic growth, it will also seek to balance discipline-based programs with cross-disciplinary programs that open up new channels of ideas and perhaps even new professions; that take an entrepreneurial approach to the creation and transmission of new knowledge. While universities sometimes continue to define canons of knowledge and practice along traditional lines, the world for which we are preparing students is seldom as engaged as we are by our disciplinary categories of knowledge and practice. Generally speaking, the world beyond is intrinsically more cross-disciplinary in its approach. In many arenas it seems that the boundary crossing, within the knowledge economy especially, is speeding up ever more. Ryerson is already connected to a number of lively external communities in many ways: scholarly, research and creative activities; experiential learning and outreach of all kinds, including national and international experiences; and its general accessibility as expert consultants to government, business, industry, and community based agencies in the GT A. These formal partnerships and informal connections play more key roles at Ryerson than comparable partnerships might play at other universities, and they greatly enrich Ryerson’s academic programs and opportunities for our graduates. They will continue to be nurtured and given a high priority.

Objective(s):

Strategy 1: Curriculum Evolution

Strategy 2: Knowledge and Skills

Strategy 3: Experiential Learning

Strategy 4: Graduate Student Enrollment

Strategy 5: Graduate Student Services

Strategy 6: Continuing Education

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