Imperative: Deliver the best student experience in Canada: inspiring learning, nurturing well-being, and supporting personal growth.
Our strategies:
- Elevate accessible and integrated ecosystems that foster student success in four areas: 1) career and life-skills, 2) academic success, 3) student wellness, 4) extracurricular engagement.
- Create sector-leading first-year programs that recognize and develop students’ diverse strengths, identities, and prior learning to ensure every new student is prepared for life and studies at Mount Allison.
- Develop students’ capacity to engage critically, ethically, and responsibly with emerging technologies and artificial intelligence by offering dynamic pathways toward digital literacy, fluency, and mastery.
- Expand places, spaces, and opportunities for students to create meaningful peer connections outside the classroom.
- Co-create sector-leading community and educational programming through innovative residence life structures and practices.
- Invest in data-informed recruitment and retention initiatives, engaging future Allisonians from across the country and around the world.
Why this direction?
Fostering student thriving is our shared responsibility, our reason for being.
From outstanding faculty to exceptional staff, we understand that our purpose is to support students on their learning journeys, nurture their well-being and personal growth, and facilitate their evolution as capable, thoughtful, and successful people.
We understand that student success includes:
- academic achievement
- co-curricular engagement
- career and life preparedness
- mental and physical well-being
- a strong sense of belonging and inclusion.
As an intentionally small institution that values personal relationships, we create a student-centred experience rooted in care, equity, and excellence. The Canadian higher education landscape reflects increasing pressure to improve retention, build career success, provide compassionate supports in an uncertain world, and ensure students from all backgrounds can succeed.
We are excited to pursue even greater coordination among student support services, continually enrich our vibrant co-curricular learning environment, elevate the immersive residential experience, and champion the integration of DEIAR, accessibility, and Indigenization principles throughout our institution’s practices.
We see how our student's lived experiences shape their engagement on our campus and understand that our commitment to learning, listening, and collaborating across and beyond campus is ongoing as we strive to provide the best student experience in Canada.
Attending Mount Allison is transformative; in and out of the classroom our students discover who they are. When they come to Mount Allison, they become part of the community for life.