Imperative: 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.
Our strategies:
- Advance excellence in faculty and student research and creative activities, supporting groundbreaking contributions to the community of scholars.
- Proactively design, adapt, and resource in-demand academic offerings, leveraging the excellence of our liberal arts and sciences tradition.
- Expand on the University's proven success in facilitating complementary professional programs and credentials.
- Strategically support opportunities to reimagine academic program delivery and organisation.
- Engage collaboratively in examining and integrating the tools, resources, and supports for the responsible adoption, critical evaluation, and ethical use of digital technologies and AI in our programs, pedagogy, and research, equipping students for success.
- Pursue digital innovations that advance our academic mission and accelerate research.
- Invest in curriculum development and pedagogical support, including Decolonization and Indigenization, accessible and inclusive practices, and instructional design support that facilitates continued excellence in teaching and learning.
- Develop adaptable pathways for students to navigate degree requirements and to design personalized learning journeys.
- Promote and enhance in-demand lifelong and continuing education opportunities for alumni, early-mid career professionals, and community members.
- Create opportunities to widen access to the Mount Allison community through life-long and extended learning.
- Invest in communications, marketing, and recruitment initiatives that articulate the essential value of, and generate demand for, a liberal arts and sciences education.
Why this direction?
Mount Allison University is synonymous with academic excellence and rigour.
Outstanding faculty deliver a vibrant learning environment that prepares students to succeed in a time of rapid social, political, economic, and technological change. Mount Allison faculty engage in boundary-pushing research and creative activity, bringing students into the heart of academic exploration. Through dynamic and inclusive curricular and co-curricular opportunities, students engage with diverse perspectives and ways of knowing that enable them to think critically, solve problems, and fully engage with the complexities of our world — broad minds, bold futures.
Our strengths as an institution uniquely position us at the intersection of liberal arts and sciences, complementary professional studies, and lifelong learning. Learners enter with varied and complex lived experiences, and we are committed to fostering the intellectual, creative, and ethical growth of our students in an interdisciplinary and intersectional environment.
A Mount Allison education must be inclusive and accessible to diverse learners, including mature, community and non-degree students. Our story includes providing the resources to regularly examine and adapt our academic programming, provide professional development opportunities, and maintain comprehensive resources to support the campus community.
We also understand that many students require specific support with the transition to university, as well as with articulating the transferable skills they’ve learned. Focused university preparedness and orientation initiatives will help prepare students for success.
It is crucial that we articulate our defining values to prospective students, parents, employees, governments, and partners. Mount Allison’s future-focused liberal arts and sciences education prepares graduates to meet the world as capable, thoughtful, inclusive, and engaged members of society, prepared for careers, entrepreneurial ventures, advanced studies, and wherever their lives may take them.