Along with our portfolio Mission, Vision and Values, our work is guided by UBC’s 5-year Student Strategic Plan, which reinforces—and is reinforced—by the important work being done through the university to provide exceptional student experiences, both within and outside of the classroom.

Students at the Centre

Informed by student input, the Student Strategic Plan supports all UBC’s student-focused initiatives included within the following:

Over the next several years, we have prioritized building a strong foundation from which to advance the Student Strategic Plan and the core tenets of our portfolio vision: Truth and Reconciliation, Equitable Access, and Wellbeing. We will build this foundation through our portfolio action plan, focusing initially on goal areas in Learning & Development, Operational Excellence, and Equitable Access.

Focus areas 

Learning & Development

Invest in staff learning and development as a key strategy to safely achieve our portfolio’s vision.

Goals

  • Develop a deeper understanding of students’ experiences
  • Understand the experiences of historically, persistently or systemically marginalized students and staff
  • Build education and awareness of the ongoing truth of colonial experiences and systems; anti-racism; equity, diversity and inclusion, decolonization and social justice; and wellbeing and sustainability.

Alignment with Student Strategic Plan Strategies

  • 4.0 Advancement of social justice through anti-racism and sustainability
  • 5.0 Student health and wellbeing
  • 6.0 Indigenous engagement and decolonization
  • 7.0 Access to student experiences

Operational Excellence

Build capacity through operational excellence. 

Goals

  • Support the successful implementation of Workday Student
  • Data-informed decision making
  • Strategic alignment of resources (human and financial)

Alignment with Student Strategic Plan Strategies

  • Strengthens the portfolio’s ability to advance all nine Student Strategic Plan strategies

Equitable Access

Goals

  • Improve students’ ability to navigate the UBC system and make informed choices about their UBC experience
  • Expand career and experiential learning supports and programming for students
  • Expand targeted programming and supports for marginalized or underrepresented students

Alignment with Student Strategic Plan strategies

  • 2.0 Student Advising & Career Preparation
  • 4.0 Advancement of social justice through anti-racism and sustainability
  • 5.0 Student health and wellbeing
  • 6.0 Indigenous engagement and decolonization
  • 7.0 Access to student experiences
  • 8.0 Student life and communications

How are we doing?

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We respectfully acknowledge the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples, in whose traditional, ancestral, unceded territory UBC Okanagan is situated.