Learning Framework
Student Affairs puts student success at the centre of all we do. In communities of care, we share power with students and support their journeys as they create their own meaningful experiences. We ensure the voices and experiences of all students are heard and incorporated into our services, events and programs, and we work with students to co-create a more just, equitable, and inclusive experience for all at TMU.
Goals and Outcomes
The Student Affairs learning framework reflects the goals and outcomes we strive to support students in achieving when they engage with our offerings.
Students will explore their passions, goals, and develop their agency.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will identify their passions and goals.
- Students will recognize what motivates their actions.
- Students will identify their personal, academic, and professional needs.
- Students will identify resources that can help them meet their needs.
- Students will explore opportunities related to their passions and goals.
Students will develop self-awareness of their academic, personal, and professional identities.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will identify their values, beliefs, perspectives, and biases.
- Students will recognize who they are and who they want to be in their academic, personal, and/or professional lives.
- Students will explore different ways to celebrate facets and intersections of their identity.
- Students will reflect on how their own identities shape their experiences at TMU and other communities.
Students will develop and integrate transferable skills.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will identify their strengths and transferable skills that will support their physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.
- Students will explore opportunities and resources that can support them in developing their strengths and transferable skills.
- Students will develop transferable skills.
- Students will identify how to integrate their strengths and transferable skills into curricular and co-curricular experiences.
- Students will describe their strengths, skills developed and areas of growth from curricular and co-curricular experiences.
Students will develop connections with individuals with diverse identities and perspectives.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will identify what respectful and empowered relationships look and feel like.
- Students will describe their boundaries to others in various interpersonal relationships.
- Students will explore different methods of respectful self-expression in relationships.
- Students will identify resources and opportunities that can support them in sustaining respectful and empowered relationships.
Students will feel valued at TMU and engage in the communities that support their sense of belonging and wellbeing.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will feel welcomed, accepted, and valued as members of the TMU community.
- Students will identify communities to which they belong or would like to belong at TMU.
- Students will engage in various communities to create meaningful connections.
- Students will describe how the communities they belong to at TMU positively impact their well-being.
- Students will learn about how they can contribute to a welcoming and respectful environment at TMU and beyond.
Students will co-create communities at TMU that are more just, equitable, and inclusive for all.
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will identify systemic barriers to equity and inclusion.
- Students will recognize how barriers are experienced differently by students holding different identities.
- Students will reflect on their experiences and desires for changes in their communities.
- Students will lead spaces for themselves and peers to self-advocate.
- Students will co-create communities that are reflective of the diverse student population.
The goals do not represent an order of student development, but rather it is a way for Student Affairs staff (and others) to think about the ripple effect of our work on the experience of students.