LEADERS

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LEADERS FORUMMay 12, 2005

• Dialogue and Presentations
• How We Deliver Canadas Top Student Experience

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2005 Ontario Budget
Reaching Higher New Ongoing Operating
Investments ( Millions)
2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 CummTotal
Student Financial Assistance 150 192 241 282 314 358 1,537
Operating Grants to Colleges Universities 50 447 732 932 958 1,156 4,275
Training Apprenticeship Other Initiatives -- 44 62 86 87 87 366
Total New Investment 200 683 1,035 1,300 1,359 1,601 6,178
Increase over 2004-05 base funding, which is
the 2004-05 Interim excluding 200 million in
expenditures provided for the Ontario Student
Opportunities Trust Fund, endowments for graduate
fellowships and faculty research chairs, and
college stabilization. Source Ontario Ministry
of Finance
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How We Deliver Canadas TopStudent Experience

• November 4 - Dialogue on Westerns Identity
• December 16 - Creative Cities
• February 10 - Attracting and Retaining Faculty
  and Leaders
• April 1 - Next Steps for Leadership and Culture
• May 12 - Student Experience

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How We Deliver Canadas TopStudent Experience

1. Your stories What youre doing now to enrich the
   student experience
2. Challenges we face in delivering an exemplary
   student experience
3. One recommendation (per table) - one thing we
   need to do better to ensure UG and Grad
   experience is consistently excellent

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Graduate Enrolment Expansion at Western

• May 2005

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Why Increase Our Graduate Student Enrolment

• Support our growth in areas of research strength,
  to which graduate students contribute
• Help meet the growing need in Canadian society
  for Masters and PhD graduates in the academic,
  business and public sectors
• Answer the increased demand for Masters programs
  to support entry to professional practice in a
  variety of programs

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Full-Time Masters Enrolment at Western
Forecast
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Full-Time PhD Enrolment at Western
Forecast
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Full-Time PhD Enrolment as a of Total Full-Time
Enrolment 2002-03
G10 Total
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Full-Time PhD Enrolment as a ofTotal Full-Time
Enrolment at Western
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Critical Issues

• Maintaining and Enhancing the Quality of our
  Graduate Programs
• Quality of Incoming Graduate Students
• Quality of Programs and Courses
• Additional Faculty
• Space for Additional Graduate Students and
  Associated Research
• Graduate Student Financial Support

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Tenured Probationary Facultyat Western
118 Additional Faculty Planned over Next 2 Years
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Coordinator, Graduate Student Recruitment and
Retention

• Recruitment
• Strategies for attracting the best and brightest
  graduate students
• Promotional materials, Events (Graduate
  Recruitment Open House), Web Site . . .
• Retention
• working with other departments on campus to
  maximize effort, time and resources and ensure
  that graduate students are aware of available
  support services
• Develop new services/initiatives that support
  current graduate students. (career workshop,
  welcome packages)

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Where We Are Now

• 42 Doctoral and 54 Masters programs
• Current Full Time Graduate Enrolment is 3,428
• Masters 2,307
• Doctoral 1,121
• International Students 535 15.6
• At the Doctoral level, internationalstudents
  make up 21.9

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Draws and Challenges
Draws Excellent Research Facilities and
Faculty, Beautiful Campus, Competitive Funding,
Outstanding Student Support Services, Wide
Variety of Programs. Challenges Recruiting Top
Students (particularly external award winners),
Building an International Reputation, New Program
Creation.
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Graduate Student Retention

• What we are doing
• Connecting students with services already
  available on campus.
• Developing new strategies and services to support
  students.
• Working with all programs to ensure that they are
  supported in their efforts to assist students.
• What we need to do
• More research into reasons for withdrawal.

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The Impact of Graduate Students on the
Undergraduate Experience
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Undergraduates want TAs who

• Explain concepts clearly
• Evaluate fairly
• Communicate well
• Respond clearly and thoroughly to students
• Are well organized
• Are available for consultation
• Based on online survey of 1420 UWO undergraduates

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Faculty want TAs who

• Have thorough knowledge of course content
• Are able to facilitate tutorials
• Are aware of diversity issues
• Based on the responses of 82 UWO faculty

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TA Programs for the best undergraduate learning
experience
19942 TA programs, 430 participants / year
200510 TA programs, 900 participants / year
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Developing Teaching Excellence

• TA Training Program
• Future Professor Path to Teaching Excellence
  Teaching Across Cultures series
• Teaching with Technology series
• TA Day
• Theory and Practice of University Teaching
• Speaking and Writing with Confidence workshops
• TA Mentor Program

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New Initiatives in 2005

• TA Certification Program
• Summer ITA Language Institute
• Communication in the Canadian Classroom
• Discipline specific workshop initiatives
• Winter TA Conference on
• Teaching in the Sciences
• Teaching in the Arts and Social Sciences
• TA professional development

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Dialogue

• Lets identify at least one issue to address as
  we increase our graduate student numbers and
  maintain our reputation for the best student
  experience.

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Thank you for your participation

• Have a great summer!!