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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan plays an important role in advancing our academic mission as a leading research university and upholding our vision and values presented in â€¯What’s Next: The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Strategy. â€¯Led by our values, including the values of academic freedom and critical thinking, the Academic Plan and individual Faculty and Unit multi-year plans ensure our teaching, research, engagement and service activities are well-positioned to achieve our collective goals and continue to deliver significant societal benefits in the years ahead.

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan provides strategic context that will inform multi-year enrolment, faculty renewal and budget planning over the duration of the plan. In addition to annually monitoring and updating the resource assumptions of the plan as circumstances evolve (in consultation with applicable governance bodies), progress reviews in 2027 and in 2029 will assess whether planned actions are advancing goals effectively and identify opportunities for improvement. 

Focus Areas

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan identifies the following focus areas that will guide institutional and Faculty/Unit planning:

• Program Development and Curriculum Renewal
• Research Excellence
• Decolonization and Indigenization
• Inclusive Excellence and Access
• Internationalization and Global Engagement
• Institutional Effectiveness

In recognition of the link between teaching and scholarly activities, the Academic Plan also embeds ´óÏó´«Ã½ Strategic Research Plan (2023-2028) priorities and implementation plans alongside other research-related goals associated with teaching and learning. 

´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Senate strongly endorsed the Academic Plan at its October 2025 meeting.

Faculty and Unit Academic Plans

Faculties/Units within the Provost’s portfolio have prepared individual multi-year plans that align with the focus areas of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan (2025-2030) and convey what each Faculty, Department/School or Unit wants to achieve over the duration of these plans.

• Faculty of Applied Sciences
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
• Beedie School of Business
• Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Environment
• Faculty of Graduate Studies
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Library
• Lifelong Learning
• School of Medicine* 
• Faculty of Science
• Community Engagement and Dialogue* 
• Internationalization and Global Engagement* 
• Learning and Teaching* 
• Student Services

 *Forthcoming multi-year plans.

Academic Planning and Consultation Process

The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan (2025-2030) was developed through a consultative and iterative planning process carried out in accordance with Senate Guidelines for Academic Plans. 

Early in the planning process, each Faculty/Unit in the Provost’s portfolio prepared a priorities matrix that considered the intersection between the framework for action in What’s Next: The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Strategy and the focus areas of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan. 

Themes identified across Faculty/Unit priorities and through broad-based consultation with deans and academic leaders, senior administrators, senate committees and senators, board members, student councils, and a wide range of individuals and groups across the university community helped shape the goals and resource intentions of the final ´óÏó´«Ã½ Academic Plan, which was presented to Senate and the Board of Governors in Fall 2025.