Transformation Progress Tracker
- CompletedX Remove Completed filter
- In ProgressX Apply In Progress filter
- Not yet startedX Apply Not yet started filter
13 total
Career and Education Advisors are meeting with students to support career and education decisions
Anticipated Outcome
Career and Education Advisors work with students in Grades 9-12 and with youth aged 18-24 to support informed decision making regarding their education and career paths. These groups represent a significant portion of the NWT’s future workforce and their success is critical to the NWT’s economic success.
Student Service Desk hours expanded
Anticipated Outcome
Students are better served by a Service Desk that is more readily available during those times when students require them -- during the lunch hour and after 4 p.m.
Reflect a service oriented, learning centred approach in the 3-year Aurora College Strategic Plan
Anticipated Outcome
One of the four pillars in the 2020-2023 Aurora Strategic Plan is Learning Centred. The College Team are committed to providing learners with programs and services that are adaptive and can be tailored to help students meet their academic and personal goals. Work to strengthen Aurora College as a learning-centred institution will result in tangible improvement to the student experience and improved student outcomes.
Needs assessment of collaborative technology and social media platforms conducted
Anticipated Outcome
The institution supports students through the strategic use of technology and social media -- both in the recruitment and retention of students.
Training sessions for staff on protection of privacy and sharing of personal information have occurred
Anticipated Outcome
Mandatory training for all Aurora College staff will be scheduled and completed in this academic year to ensure awareness of the protection of privacy and sharing of personal information.
A Student Experience Model is developed
Anticipated Outcome
A Student Experience Model sets minimum standards that a typical student should experience when applying to, studying at, and graduating from Aurora College. The services and instructional elements of Community Learning Centres will also be considered as part of a Student Experience Model. This will support the development of the Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) Plan. This work was done by Aurora College as part of their efforts to enhance internal policies as they move towards a polytechnic university.
Policies related to records management reviewed
Anticipated Outcome
Working Groups established during phase 1 of transformation, reviewed policies related to records management to ensure all Aurora College policies related to records management are up to date and meet current standards.
Strategic Enrolment Management Plan developed
Anticipated Outcome
Developing a Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) plan will help the College focus its efforts where they are needed most in order to help all Aurora College students achieve success while at the institution and beyond. A SEM plan coordinates the College's core business functions such as student recruitment, student services, and academic program planning to make enrollment growth and stability something that can be predicted and is planned. This work is not a milestone committment, but important to enhancing the instution and preparing for transformation.
Strategic Enrolment Management Plan has approved resources
Anticipated Outcome
The Strategic Enrolment Management Plan will support student success and the success of the Plan will be realized when its implementation is included in the budgeting cycle.
Student Recruitment Ambassadors explored as part of the Recruitment and Marketing Plan
Anticipated Outcome
Student Recruitment Ambassadors may add to the success of recruitment activities with first hand experience. The added value of ambassadors will be identified in the Recruitment, Marketing and Communications Strategy 2021-2024.
A student resources quick guide is available
Anticipated Outcome
A student resources quick guide, supported by a section on the Aurora College website ,will provide students with an understanding of the services available to them, how to access those services and the standards by which they can expect responses from the service providers. The transformational aspect of this project has been completed and it will be operationalized through the implementation of the Strategic Enrolment Management Plan.
College application process standards in place
Anticipated Outcome
Application standards will ensure that every student entering a program has been assessed to ensure they have the prerequisites required to succeed in their chosen program. The transformational aspect of this project has been completed and it will be operationalized through the implementation of the Strategic Enrolment Management Plan.
Develop a coherent set of service standards that can be applied across all facets of the institution
Anticipated Outcome
A coherent set of Service Standards that can be applied across all facets of the institution will be drafted and provided to Aurora College for finalizing and implementation. This will serve as a baseline for many of the institutions key performance indicators (KPIs) to be featured in future Aurora College Corporate Plans. This will be a requirement in order to complete transformation.