- The President
- About Joy
- Priorities
- Conversations
- Statements
- 2022
- Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson named ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s first Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion
- Chris (Syeta’xtn) Lewis joins ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV in advisory role on Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation
- A World of Difference: How universities must evolve in a post-COVID world
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What's Next?
- Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples day
- Please join us for the annual appreciation BBQ
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV begins process to become Living Wage Employer
- Staying engaged in an increasingly polarized world
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What's Next? - Message from the President to Faculty and Staff
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What's Next? - Message from the President to students
- Search Announcement: Provost and Vice-President Academic
- Statement from the VP, PEI: Addressing Racism and Hate at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- 2021
- Welcome new ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV students
- UPDATED Jan. 6: My response to Dec. 11 event in ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV dining hall
- Celebrating Black History Month
- The University’s Role and Contributions to a Just Recovery Over the Next Decade
- Inspired by meetings with ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Faculty and Staff
- Looking forward to Summer and Fall
- Opinion: This is why ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV is backing the Burnaby Mountain gondola
- External Review of December 11, 2020 Event
- Facing the future with hope
- President's statement on TransMountain Expansion Project and support for a fire hall on Burnaby mountain
- The road ahead
- Stronger Together: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV, the pandemic and lessons for a better future
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV to observe moment of silence at 2:15 PM today
- Taking action: Reconciliation at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- Join ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV President Joy Johnson for a tour of Burnaby campus
- Message from the President: Residential school findings
- Dr. June Francis appointed Special Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism
- My response to the open letter from ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV faculty and staff
- Resources and ways to support scholars in Afghanistan
- BC Vaccine Card
- Masks required on all ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV campuses, vaccine card required for residence, athletics, dining, events and others
- Vaccine declaration and follow-up screening at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV
- Return to campus planning updates
- Welcome Back
- Work to review contract vs. in-house cleaning and food services
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV and SFSS united in commitment to climate action
- Inclusion benefits us all
- Moving forward with kindness
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV commits to full divestment from fossil fuels
- Safety on ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's campuses
- Thank you!
- Temporary shift to remote learning January 10 – 23, 2022
- 2020
- Statement on academic freedom
- Welcome back faculty and staff
- Welcome back students
- Statement on scholar strike
- Reflections on my first 30 days
- Taking care of ourselves, taking care of each other
- Equity, diversity and inclusion commitments
- Statement on ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV's Athletics Team Name Change
- Finding connection in times of adversity
- Wishing you a safe and restful holiday break
- Op-ed: ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV helping drive social, economic innovation in time of crisis
- 2022
- President’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award
- Strategic Plan
- Approach
- How to participate
- What we're hearing
- April 4, 2022: Updates and reflections
- April 19, 2022: Updates and reflections
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What’s Next? phase one results now available
- Research assistants shape ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What’s Next? analysis
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What’s Next? – Message from the President to Faculty and Staff
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What’s Next? – Message from the President to Students
- Search announcement: Provost and Vice-President Academic
- ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV: What’s Next? Phase 2 results now available
- Executive
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There is more to ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s success than rankings
Rankings are often looked to as a measure of a university’s reputation and success.
With this in mind, we at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV can take considerable satisfaction in having again been named Canada’s leading comprehensive university in the – the 11th time we’ve held top spot in the past 12 years.
The Maclean’s ranking confirms what we already know – ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV is a great university. However, it does not begin to tell the full story of our success.
That story includes the vibrancy of our research enterprise, measured both in terms of research income (up 60 percent over the past seven years to $161 million) and research impact (best in Canada among comprehensive universities according Re$earch Infosource). This research record is a testament to the growing strength and productivity of our research faculty, as well as to our ability to attract new investments in research infrastructure.
¶¡ÏãÔ°AV has also made major strides diversifying and expanding our educational programming. Some recent examples include: the development of Canada’s first Bachelor of Environment degree (with a newly added Planning Stream); the creation of interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate ; a major expansion of (up 25 percent over the past five years); and the launch this year of a Sustainability Energy Engineering program, a first of its kind in Western Canada.
We are also making significant progress expanding and upgrading our three campuses. Construction projects announced or underway on Burnaby Mountain include: a new ; a ; 850 units of undergraduate student housing plus dining commons; 90 units of housing for graduate students and students with families; an art museum; a biomass energy utility; and extensive renovation of campus infrastructure. Our Vancouver campus has grown to , making it the largest post-secondary presence in the downtown. And the we recently opened in Surrey has already won for its visionary and sustainable architecture.
So, while good rankings are always welcome, we must not lose sight of the fact that it is the continuing commitment of our faculty, students and staff to improving the university in these and others ways that provide more meaningful evidence of our success.