SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
OBJECTIVE 3.1
Integrate sustainability across the institution in a holistic manner that includes economic, social, and environmental sustainability.
3.1.1: Achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 following UWO’s Climate Action and Resiliency Plan.
3.1.2: Leverage and promote programs that position UWO as a leader in research and sustainability practices.
3.1.3: Be a conduit to rural communities across the region in promoting sustainability, resilience, health care innovation, and educational access.
OBJECTIVE 3.2
Ensure financial sustainability through stabilizing enrollment, diversifying revenue streams, and maintaining fiscal discipline.
3.2.1: Strengthen recruitment and retention by adopting the latest analytical, predictive, and precise data-driven practices, technologies, and marketing tactics.
3.2.2: Rebuild UWO’s development unit to embrace analytics and best engage stakeholders in collaboration with all UWO-affiliated Foundations, Advancement and Alumni Relations teams, to include the launch of a landmark capital campaign focused on growing student scholarships.
3.2.3: Bolster and help sustain pursuit of staff and faculty extramural grants and contracts.
3.2.4: Explore the strategic addition of new athletics programs that can support the recruitment and retention of new students.
3.2.5: Leverage AI and related tools to achieve measurable operational efficiencies and improve processes.
OBJECTIVE 3.3
Develop and implement a plan that imagines, pursues and builds next-gen UWO facilities.
3.3.1: Complete a forward-focused master plan aligning academic and co-curricular aims with new facilities and space to accommodate them while ensuring accessibility for every learner, employee, and guest and advancing our sustainability goals.
3.3.2: Implement a self-funded, deferred maintenance and equipment modernization program to address and prioritize long-standing issues.
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Opportunity
Enhancing Opportunity, Innovation, Sustainability and Distinction by 2030