ANNUAL REPORT 2024-2025

Collaborative Relationships & Partnerships

One of Student Life’s strategic goals is to foster a student-centric experience through partnerships within, across and beyond the University. Take a look at how we advanced this goal during 2024–2025.

Exploring identity through cross-unit collaboration

Collaboration is a helpful way for units to provide intentional, tailored programs and services to students. The panel on Gender Expansive Joy & Neurodivergence developed and moderated in partnership with the Sexual Gender and Diversity Office (SGDO), highlighted the overlap between neurodivergence and 2SLGBTQ+.

Representation matters

71%

of students registered with Accessibility Services identify as 2SLGBTQ+.

Supporting TAs to strengthen student learning experiences

Working with faculty members, instructors, academic units and librarians is another way Student Life can enhance the learning experience. In the Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) TA Training Pilot, teaching assistants learned about working with community partners, supporting group working and much more.

Turning out

83

faculty members

47

Staff Memebers

attended CEL Faculty Institute events

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Shaping the future of community-engaged learning

The Community-Engaged Learning Faculty Institute also supported a more integrated and student-centric academic learning experience with the theme of “What’s Next for CEL? Charting the Course for Transformative Change”.

Happy anniversary

20th anniversary

of the Centre for Community Partnerships marked in 2024.

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Enabling the Work Study program transition

Working together with OCAO, CxED and University Registrar’s Office, Student Success supported the move of Work Study from URO to Student Life.

Strengthening Indigenous student pathways

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The collaboration between SAGE (Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement) and ISA (Indigenous Student Association) resulted in the successful SAGE & ISA Student Symposium that explored themes related to Indigenous resurgence and liberation, while Indigenous Career Connections: Student-Employer Initiatives events brought together Indigenous students, recent grads and employers in the community.

Partnership & Infrastructure

Enabling collaboration through a centralized IT platform

Through partnerships with departments across Student Life, the IT strategic plan and IT SharePoint site launch strengthened relationships and created a sense of shared ownership, offering staff members a central hub for resources, updates and collaboration.

Improving processes through cross-unit collaboration

Another successful partnership saw Health & Wellness and the University Registrar’s Office revise the Verification of Illness Form and clarify the process for completing it.