THE STUDENT SUCCESS ISSUE The Student Success Issue p.3 Foreword by the President Deane Discusses the Honourable Bob Rae Future of Student Success p.14 What Students Want: p.20 The Benefits of p.10 Results of the Ontario Student Survey Teaching-Oriented Faculty EDUCATED SOLUTIONS | Welcome PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE:
[email protected] Somewhere between measuring the classroom so that students graduate with the knowledge and student-to-faculty ratios, deferred skills that will ensure their success throughout their lives. This means maintenance bills, and post- re-examining our reliance on the traditional lecture method of teaching graduation employment rates, what and placing greater emphasis on active learning techniques. It means is meant by a “high-quality post- recognizing the role that volunteering, community involvement, and secondary experience” has for a long international experiences play in shaping a successful graduate. And while been difficult to pin down. Now it means ensuring that strong student supports are in place to provide there are indications that the tide is turning, thanks to the emergence assistance when it is needed most. of a new way of looking at this age-old question, through the lens of While we welcome a growing focus on student success, this shift also student success. Student success takes the issue of quality and focuses places greater responsibility on us, as students, to define what it is that it squarely on the student. Rather than defining quality by simply we want from our higher education system. This edition of Educated tracking inputs, such as resources from the government, it asks what Solutions examines a number of ideas that are central to the notion of traits should a successful student embody, and what role each of us student success, and it is my hope the diversity of opinions presented must play in promoting this success.