Staff – Page 5 – Student Life Strategic Plan

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Student Engagement staffing updates

Student Engagement (which includes Clubs and Leadership Development, Orientation Transition and Engagement and Mentorship and Peer Programs) had a meeting of all student and staff supervisors to officially adopt the best practices set out in the CACUSS monograph “Working Toward Inclusion:…

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Centre for Community Partnership events

The Centre for Community Partnerships is supporting other units by offering Community Engaged Learning (CEL) experiences as a way to increase our reach with limited resources.  The team built a third stream of co-curricular work, focused on social activism and…

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5 ways to well being for international students

Healthy U Crew outreach

The Healthy U Crew made an effort to reach out and partner with other peer groups at U of T. Their goal was to work with teams who already have trusting relationships with students. One such partnership was with the Centre…

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TCard improvements

The TCard Office worked with Student Life IT and partners at ITS, UTM, UTSC and UTL, to review current technologies and implement new technologies (when relevant) that enhance current operations, support future integration needs and support a positive student experience. …

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Ongoing adaptation to COVID restrictions and guidelines

The Quarantine program successfully adapted to changing requirements, with 7,048 students registered in the program in 2021-22. Vaccine requirements were successfully integrated into residences’ supplementary residence application, with effective data security.

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Virtual Career Fair

Here are some findings from the inaugural U of T Virtual Career Fair: 1,311 Career Fair visits   Average time spent on platform: 18 minutes 57 seconds   19,822 page views   2,400 student/employer conversations   236 student showcases made in the talent zone…

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Communicating UTORid activation

The TCard Office implemented a new communications plan to help students learn more about UTORid activation. The campaign video garnered more than 13,000 views on YouTube, while more than 27 partners/departments shared the message with their audiences. Thirteen departments used…

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Multi-Faith spaces

The Multi Faith Centre underwent a review of its processes related to space management, access and safety, partnerships, and overall governance. In addition to efficiency, the review focused on improving transparency in these areas.

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Epilepsy Education Modules

Working with Accessibility Services, Student Success developed free, online resources to help staff and faculty learn more about the basics of epilepsy, so they can feel safer and more confident supporting students and colleagues.

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Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) staff

In 2021-22, funding was secured for two important positions within the Division of Student Life, specifically aimed at advancing our strategic goal of active inclusion and belonging. Student Engagement followed up on the 2020-2021 Black Student Engagement Report by creating…

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Publications

Academic Success committed to contributing to the learning specialist scholarship by publishing their insights and findings in peer-reviewed journals. Publications from 2021-22 include: Postsecondary Education: Pedagogical Lessons from Somatic Psychology and Physical Culture Somatechnics Volume 11 Number 3 Janelle Joseph…

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Program Design Institute

Student Engagement launched an annual Program Design Institute to give staff protected time to engage in professional development around program design. This is now embedded in the annual planning process Over three days, this initiative explored program design directly related…

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Housing innovations

This year, Housing processed 683 access-related requests. Five training and capacity-building webinars were developed and facilitated in 2021-22, which were attended by 50 tri-campus residence staff (30 unique visitors, with 20 attending more than one). ServiceNow was launched in May…

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Health and Wellness in-person peer support

As restrictions from COVID-19 eased in the late winter and early spring, Health & Wellness saw a need for more social connectedness between students, so they partnered with Robarts Library to provide in-person peer support.

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Indigenous Career Fair

This event welcomed 40 students (undergraduate and graduate) and recent graduates from the University of Toronto, York University, Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), Trent University, Centennial College, Seneca College and Humber College. Students represented the following programs of study…

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Frontline Staff Group

Students suggested that physical and virtual spaces should be more welcoming and inclusive for students, so a working group has been created to include all front line and reception staff for the Division of Student Life. The group meets monthly…

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National standard for mental health and well-being

Health and Wellness participated in creating the National Standard for Mental Health and Well-being for Post-Secondary Students. This tri-campus initiative worked with the Mental Health Commission of Canada to create a set of flexible, voluntary guidelines to help post secondary institutions…

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5 Ways to Wellbeing

5 Ways to Wellbeing is a tri-campus program that teaches participants how to use simple, evidence-based actions in a variety of ways to promote positive mental health and well-being while practicing physical distancing and managing new stressors related to COVID-19.

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Navi

Navi is U of T’s student mental health wayfinding virtual assistant (chatbot). The development of the tool coincided with findings from U of T’s Presidential & Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health, which found that while there are supports…

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Creation of new Community-engaged learning programming

In summer 2020, following the global shutdowns in response to COVID-19, we were forced to rethink our traditional catalogue of community-engaged learning (CEL) programming. One of the ways that we responded to the pandemic was to send a survey to…

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