Michael Gillespie

This Campus Improvement Plan outlines Sask Polytech's initiative to integrate game-based learning as an innovative educational tool, beginning with its commercial pilot program. The strategy aims to enhance student engagement and foster critical skills like communication and collaboration through active learning experiences, specifically in areas such as crew resource management. A key future objective is the development of a dedicated game-based learning center, providing advanced technology and expert facilitation to expand this innovative methodology across diverse academic programs.

The Indigenous Student Achievement Plan outlines a strategy to enhance the educational experience and success of Indigenous students. Its primary goals are to increase Indigenous student enrollment and achieve a 75% success rate. Key initiatives include providing comprehensive support services such as counseling, tutoring, and advocacy, fostering cultural connectedness, offering reserved seating, and establishing Aboriginal activity centers with dedicated advisors and counselors. These efforts aim to create a welcoming and supportive environment where Indigenous students can thrive academically and culturally.

The Technology Enhanced Learning Plan is designed to support and prepare learners for their futures through technology enhanced learning. The plan embraces, enhances, and extends learning and teaching to ensure the delivery of the best experience to learners. It focuses on integrating new technologies to shape the future of the institution and deliver meaningful experiences for learners, enhancing programming, and fostering innovation in teaching.

NSERC's Framework on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion aims to strengthen scientific and engineering communities by promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion. It focuses on identifying and mitigating barriers and biases within NSERC's programs and systems. Key actions include implementing gender-based analysis, collecting self-identification data, promoting EDI best practices in selection processes, providing resources to mitigate unconscious bias, encouraging the integration of sex, gender, and diversity considerations in research design, and updating evaluation criteria to recognize EDI as components of research excellence.

The Indigenous Student Success Strategy 2018-2023 focuses on increasing recruitment, retention, graduation rates, and overall success of Indigenous students across all programs. Key goals include ensuring Indigenous students are well-prepared for post-secondary life, helping them thrive, celebrating their success, preparing them for successful careers, and creating inclusive and respectful campuses where they feel a sense of belonging. The strategy aligns with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action and aims to foster good relationships through interconnectedness and respect.