Students should be partners and active participants in the learning process, eliciting their deep curiosity to explore beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Let’s foster a community that is motivated by the passion, meaning and deep joy found in teaching a diverse and inclusive community.

Whether in an online, face-to-face or blended format, we must use learning spaces with deep intention and purpose.

Students are a central part of the McMaster community and it is critical that we consider how they engage with their individual learning experiences.

The three-year McMaster University IT Strategic Plan will deliver technologies that befit a 21st century institution, where individuals are excited to engage with the delightful technologies and complex digital systems and experiences that surround them.

An EDI Strategy is roadmap to ensure an intentional approach to identifying and achieving institution-wide equity, diversity, and inclusion priorities and goals.

McMaster’s EDI Strategy: Towards Inclusive Excellence includes:

• an EDI Framework for Strategic Action, with four pillars and areas of focus and impact;
• six Principles for Best Practice to guide planning and implementation; and
• a 2019-2022 Action Plan, with detailed tactics to achieve six strategic objectives.

Over the last year, President David Farrar has engaged McMaster community members to inform a new strategic plan for the university. In February 2021, he announced a new vision for the university. Teaching and learning has been identified as a priority area for the University’s strategic plan.