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LEADERS’ FORUM May 12, 2005

LEADERS’ FORUM May 12, 2005. Dialogue and Presentations: How We Deliver Canada’s Top Student Experience. 2005 Ontario Budget. Reaching Higher: New Ongoing Operating Investments** ($ Millions).

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LEADERS’ FORUM May 12, 2005

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  1. LEADERS’ FORUMMay 12, 2005 Dialogue and Presentations: How We Deliver Canada’s Top Student Experience

  2. 2005 Ontario Budget Reaching Higher: New Ongoing Operating Investments** ($ Millions) ** Increase over 2004-05 base funding, which is the 2004-05 Interim excluding $200 million in expenditures provided for the Ontario Student Opportunities Trust Fund, endowments for graduate fellowships and faculty research chairs, and college stabilization. Source: Ontario Ministry of Finance

  3. How We Deliver Canada’s TopStudent Experience November 4 - Dialogue on Western’s Identity December 16 - Creative Cities February 10 - Attracting and Retaining Faculty and Leaders April 1 - Next Steps for Leadership and Culture May 12 - Student Experience

  4. How We Deliver Canada’s TopStudent Experience • Your stories: What you’re doing now to enrich the student experience • Challenges we face in delivering an exemplary student experience • One recommendation (per table) - one thing we need to do better to ensure UG and Grad experience is consistently excellent

  5. Graduate Enrolment Expansion at Western May 2005

  6. Why Increase Our Graduate Student Enrolment • Support our growth in areas of research strength, to which graduate students contribute • Help meet the growing need in Canadian society for Masters and PhD graduates in the academic, business and public sectors • Answer the increased demand for Masters’ programs to support entry to professional practice in a variety of programs

  7. Full-Time Master’s Enrolment at Western Forecast

  8. Full-Time PhD Enrolment at Western Forecast

  9. Full-Time PhD Enrolment as a % of Total Full-Time Enrolment: 2002-03 G10 Total

  10. Full-Time PhD Enrolment as a % ofTotal Full-Time Enrolment at Western

  11. Critical Issues • Maintaining and Enhancing the Quality of our Graduate Programs • Quality of Incoming Graduate Students • Quality of Programs and Courses • Additional Faculty • Space for Additional Graduate Students and Associated Research • Graduate Student Financial Support

  12. Tenured & Probationary Facultyat Western 118 Additional Faculty Planned over Next 2 Years

  13. Coordinator, Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention Recruitment: • Strategies for attracting the best and brightest graduate students • Promotional materials, Events (Graduate Recruitment Open House), Web Site . . . Retention: • working with other departments on campus to maximize effort, time and resources and ensure that graduate students are aware of available support services • Develop new services/initiatives that support current graduate students. (career workshop, welcome packages)

  14. Where We Are Now • 42 Doctoral and 54 Masters programs • Current Full Time Graduate Enrolment is 3,428 • Masters 2,307 • Doctoral 1,121 • International Students 535… 15.6% • At the Doctoral level, internationalstudents make up 21.9%

  15. Draws and Challenges Draws: Excellent Research Facilities and Faculty, Beautiful Campus, Competitive Funding, Outstanding Student Support Services, Wide Variety of Programs. Challenges: Recruiting Top Students (particularly external award winners), Building an International Reputation, New Program Creation.

  16. What we are doing: Connecting students with services already available on campus. Developing new strategies and services to support students. Working with all programs to ensure that they are supported in their efforts to assist students. What we need to do: More research into reasons for withdrawal. Graduate Student Retention

  17. The Impact of Graduate Students on the Undergraduate Experience

  18. Undergraduates want TAs who … • Explain concepts clearly • Evaluate fairly • Communicate well • Respond clearly and thoroughly to students • Are well organized • Are available for consultation *Based on online survey of 1420 UWO undergraduates

  19. Faculty want TAs who… • Have thorough knowledge of course content • Are able to facilitate tutorials • Are aware of diversity issues* * Based on the responses of 82 UWO faculty

  20. TA Programs for the best undergraduate learning experience… 19942 TA programs, 430 participants / year 200510 TA programs, 900 participants / year

  21. Developing Teaching Excellence • TA Training Program • Future Professor: Path to Teaching Excellence Teaching Across Cultures series Teaching with Technology series • TA Day • Theory and Practice of University Teaching • Speaking and Writing with Confidence workshops • TA Mentor Program

  22. New Initiatives in 2005 • TA Certification Program • Summer ITA Language Institute • Communication in the Canadian Classroom • Discipline specific workshop initiatives • Winter TA Conference on: Teaching in the Sciences Teaching in the Arts and Social Sciences TA professional development

  23. Dialogue Let’s identify at least one issue to address as we increase our graduate student numbers and maintain our reputation for the “best student experience”.

  24. Thank you for your participation… Have a great summer!!

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