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There is no place like Mount Allison.
These are the first words of our new Strategic Plan, and they could not be more on point.
They contain the extraordinary legacy of our University — nearly two centuries of impact in learning, research, and positive change grown by generations of faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
Our plan: Broad Minds. Bold Futures. Lifelong Connections.
Informed by extensive input from across the diverse Mount Allison community, the Strategic Plan reflects Mount Allison’s strategic priorities, shared responsibilities, and provides a framework for strengthening the University as a place to live, study, and work.
Mount Allison is a tight-knit community of approximately 2,500 students, situated within the interconnected lands of Tantramar, in Mi’kma’ki, where Indigenous and settler histories continue to shape our shared future.
Who we are Planning and engagement process
The plan includes four vision components, four guiding commitments, and four strategic directions — each with imperatives and strategies to achieve Mount Allison's shared vision.
Our vision
The “why” of the Strategic Plan is encapsulated in the vision: a future-ready institution where students and employees thrive and lifelong relationships flourish.
Future readiness
Students gain skills, curiosity, and adaptability to lead, learn, and thrive in a rapidly changing world.
Student thriving
Holistic growth through academics, research, experiences, well-being, and vibrant campus life ensures every student can succeed.
Employee thriving
Faculty and staff flourish when supported, empowered, and connected, enabling excellence and meaningful impact across the University.
Lifelong connections
Enduring relationships among students, alumni, faculty, and community foster mentorship, engagement, and lifelong learning.
Our commitments
As we move from vision to action, four commitments guide all we do and decide, focusing our choices and actions.
- A transformative student experience
- Reconciliation, accessibility, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism (DEIAR)
- Organisational excellence
- Fiscal and environmental sustainability
More about the plan, the vision, and the commitments
Our strategic directions
Driven by the University’s emphasis on a student-centred and thriving community, anchored in our four commitments, the plan lays out four strategic directions along with corresponding imperatives and strategies for the institution.
Student life and success
Deliver the best student experience in Canada: inspiring learning, nurturing well-being, and supporting personal growth.
Community, culture, and well-being
Nurture a culture grounded in belonging, transparency, trust, and pride in our community such that MtA is known as an outstanding place to work and live.
Future-focused liberal arts and sciences
Provide a liberal arts and sciences education oriented toward the future, rich in creativity, research, and exploration, empowering students to thoughtfully navigate complex realities as outstanding contributors in the world.
Operational and digital transformation
Engage in fiscally and environmentally responsible transformation that complements and enhances the capacity of our people and ensures a sustainable, vibrant future for Mount Allison.
More about strategic directions and imperatives
What's next?
In the coming months, working collaboratively across the University, we will turn our focus to action — to doing. To support, guide, and report on these strategic initiatives, Mount Allison will establish a Strategic Plan Implementation Group.
Land AcknowledgementWe respectfully acknowledge that Mount Allison is located within the Siknikt District of Mi’kma’ki, the unceded, ancestral, and present territory of the Mi’kmaq. We also respectfully acknowledge the Nations whose territories border Mi’kma’ki and whom along with the Mi’kmaq comprise the Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy) — the Wolastoqyik, the Peskotomuhkati, the N’dakina, and Penawapskewi. Mount Allison and its community’s relationship and privilege to live, work, and play within this place were agreed upon in the Peace and Friendship Treaties between 1752 and 1779. Because of this treaty relationship, we are all Treaty people and have a responsibility to respect the territory, its people and more-than-human elements, and the sovereign and inherent rights of these Nations. We also acknowledge and pay respect to those Nations whose territories encompass Turtle Island and lands around the world, whom we welcome as part of the Mount Allison community, and who bring with them histories and ways of knowing that enhance the institution. Mount Allison recognizes its role as part of the historical and ongoing structures of settler colonialism and its responsibility to take meaningful and specific actions, including with this Strategic Plan, to engage Reconciliation, Decolonization, and Indigenization. |
Questions? Email strategicplan@mta.ca.