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Strategic Enrolment Planning Guidelines

The following guidelines, drawn from the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Long-Range Strategic Enrollment Plan (2021-2027)provide an institution-wide framework for developing enrollment goals, strategies and tactics, while recognizing that enrollment priorities will vary across academic units:

  • Anticipate targeted growth in areas consistently in high demand and through new programs aligned with market factors, while maintaining ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s commitment to broad-based education to develop informed citizens and meet the needs of society.
  • Admit a highly qualified and diverse body of students who are likely to be retained and successful.
  • Embed equity, diversity, and inclusion principles within enrollment planning.
  • Acknowledge the important role that graduate and undergraduate students play in enhancing ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s research mission, while recognizing that many students enter ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV to seek the enhanced career opportunities afforded to those with advanced degrees.
  • Increase the participation and broaden the program registration of Indigenous students.
  • Seek to broaden the countries of origin and ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV program destinations of our international student population, diversifying our student body and mitigating the institutional risk of relying on attracting a significant portion of our international students from relatively few countries of origin.
  • Recognize that strategically managed growth of our student body plays a critical role in sustaining the fiscal environment needed for ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV to pursue its strategic vision.

Improvements in graduation rates and times to degree completion also feature prominently in the plan.