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Faculty of Applied ScienceStrategic Plan
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    • University for the future
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    • Inclusive leadership & respectful engagement
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Act with intention

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Environmental action

Support leadership in environmental sustainability, climate and planetary health

Environmental Action

  • Weaving nature back into cities through strategic design
  • Delivering high impact collaboration while reducing carbon footprint

Weaving nature back into cities through strategic design

Delivering high impact collaboration while reducing carbon footprint

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Promote agency

Promote advocacy and agency to effect change in partnership with local and global communities

Promote Agency

  • Investment in strategic student-led activities
  • Community portal to tackle challenges in context of needs
  • Grassroots initiatives that scale

Investment in strategic student-led activities

Community portal to tackle challenges in context of needs

Grassroots initiatives that scale

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Inclusive respectful leaders

Build competencies required to be inclusive leaders and create spaces for respectful engagement

Inclusive Respectful Leaders

  • Integrated inclusive leadership & respectful engagement principles throughout APSC programs
  • Resiliency developed through failing forward
  • Insight into power, privilege & cultural context

Integrated inclusive leadership & respectful engagement principles throughout APSC programs

Resiliency developed through failing forward

Insight into power, privilege & cultural context

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Truth & reconciliation

Demonstrate an authentic commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and value traditional ways of knowing

Truth & Reconciliation

  • Co-developed curricula which respects Indigenous traditional knowledge
  • Community of trust developed via dialogue and knowledge sharing
  • Indigenous partnerships grounded in respect and land-based learnings
  • Traditional ecological knowledge supporting environmental health

Co-developed curricula which respects Indigenous traditional knowledge

Community of trust developed via dialogue and knowledge sharing

Indigenous partnerships grounded in respect and land-based learnings

Traditional ecological knowledge supporting environmental health

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Tel 604 822 6413
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