Strategic Action Plan

Support the pursuit of financial sustainability and fiscal strength by strengthening budget practices, generating revenue growth, containing costs, mitigating risks and monetizing assets where appropriate.

Net income ratio

Total expenditure per student

University debt per student

Successful implementation of Laurier’s Digital Strategy that enhances the way that students, faculty, and staff learn, teach, research and work at Laurier.

Percentage of projects completed on Digital Strategy Roadmap (2024-2029)

ICT Effectiveness Index Rating

Optimize the value, efficiency, condition, accessibility and sustainability of space university wide.

Space per Full Time Equivalent student

Facility Condition Index (FCI)

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Maximize revenue generation and sustainability of ancillary operations, while maintaining or enhancing the Laurier community experience.

Ancillary net income

Campus student satisfaction Index³

Recruit, hire and retain diverse faculty, contract teaching faculty, and staff with the needed skills, knowledge, and competencies to support the achievement of university and departmental goals.

Turnover rate

New Hire Diversity rate²

(EDI 2.1 & 2.2; Inclusion Indigenization in Indigenous Strategic Plan)

Encourage and support learning, professional growth and career development and create an engaging and fulfilling employee experience.

Intention to Leave⁴

Employee Promoter Score⁵

Support workplace health, safety, wellbeing, and work-life balance and foster an equitable, inclusive and healthy culture where all can thrive.

Absenteeism rate

Vacation Utilization Rate

Offer academic programming that meets the needs and interests of a diverse student body.

Percentage of diversity within student body across key demographics

Proactively support all students in achieving academic success, while maintaining high academic standards.

Undergraduate retention rates from year 1 to year 2

First Step: Retention-focused curriculum assessment

Undergraduate and graduate graduation rates

First Step: Retention-focused curriculum assessment

Purposefully expand existing efforts to decolonize and diversify the curriculum.

Percentage of programs with embedded decolonial, and/or inclusive curriculum and traditional knowledges

(Decolonization section of Indigenous Strategic Plan, EDI Strategic Plan 6.1 and 6.2)

Attract and admit students who have the potential to succeed academically who do not have the traditional high school markers associated with university-level success.

Number of undergraduate students admitted through new process

First Step: New process development and pilot for Fall 2025 recruitment

Recognize and value the service/leadership commitments of faculty members.

Percentage of departments/programs that adopt service transparency guidelines

First Step: Draft service transparency guidelines

Develop resources and implement supports for faculty, librarians, and contract teaching faculty with regard to freedom of expression and academic freedom in the classroom and their research.

Number of resources and supports developed

Percentage of faculty engaged with resources

Ensure equitable recognition and assessment of faculty members’ service and scholarly contributions as part of the recruitment, promotion and tenure processes. (EDI 3.1; Inclusion Indigenization in Indigenous Strategic Plan)

Percentage of assistant, associate and full tenured faculty who are from underrepresented groups at Laurier

First Step: Establish process for identifying faculty members in underrepresented groups

Develop a culture of continuous development in teaching.

Percentage of faculty and contract teaching faculty who engage with Teaching Excellence and Innovation resources

Continuous successful progress in implementation of new procedures for evaluation of teaching

First Step: Draft new procedures for evaluation of teaching

Strengthen student support and success practices to increase engagement and retention of undergraduate and graduate students.

Number of inclusive/diverse student services and supports

(EDI 1.4 & 1.5 Inclusion Indigenization in Indigenous Strategic Plan)

Respondents who indicated Satisfied or Very Satisfied on CUSC Question “Satisfaction with Concern Shown by University”²

Respondents who indicated Excellent or Very Good on CGPSS Question “Your student life experience at this university”³

Advance communication strategies and delivery methods to create efficient pathways to access student services and supports.

Satisfaction results from student communication survey

Maintain and enhance multi-campus physical infrastructure to ensure we can provide exceptional opportunities for students to be engaged and connected to a community and promote wellbeing.

Student non-curricular space per full time equivalent student by campus toward new benchmarks (to be determined)

Facility condition index for athletics/recreation

Facility condition index for student housing

Enhance research culture at the institutional, faculty and departmental levels and improve post-award support for researchers.

Question in Chapter 8 of the Research Culture Survey Report 2022: Laurier provides a strong research environment that meets or exceeds my research needs.

Question in Chapter 8 of the Research Culture Survey Report 2022: Reflecting on the past five years, do you think that the research culture has improved at Laurier?

Expand research partnerships and community-based research.

Number of new community-based research partnerships established through the Laurier Hub for Community Solutions and other Faculty and University research centres and institutes

Number of externally funded research partnerships and partnership projects

Number of institutional relationships with Indigenous communities (Reconciliation in Indigenous Strategic Plan)

Integrate our innovation and entrepreneurship activities to better showcase our successes.

Increase research funding support through external sources.

Tri-Agency funding

Non-Tri-Agency funding

Increase fundraising results and meet annual fundraising targets.

Revenue targets achieved

Number of donors

Donor retention

Cultivate and facilitate strategic partnerships among students, alumni, community and government to advance top institutional priorities.

Number of partnerships among stakeholder groups, including students, alumni, and community

Number of government visits (municipal, provincial, or federal) on Laurier campuses

Strategically grow Laurier’s reputation among its key stakeholder audiences through media relations and integrated communications.

Earned media coverage of positive, strategic priority-aligned news

Engagement among key internal and external stakeholders with reputation-building stories

Build awareness and engagement among prospective undergraduate 101 and 105 students through integrated marketing campaigns to support the achievement of enrolment goals.

Awareness: Advertising impressions to prospective students during recruitment and admissions cycle (May 1, 2024 to June 1, 2025)

Engagement: Advertising clicks to Laurier website during recruitment and admissions cycle (May 1, 2024 to June 1, 2025)