CMU 2030, a visioning and planning process to chart CMU's ongoing entrustment into the second quarter of the 21st century—and of CMU life.
Four Strategic Directions
Relationships
Cultivate and build depth of connection and interdependence in church and society. Major initiatives:
- Strengthen alumni collaboration through mutual engagement
- Deepen and broaden inter-Anabaptist, inter-ecumenical, and inter-faith partnerships
- Grow the networks of communities and individuals who see themselves as part of CMU, promote it, and invest in it
- Re-stabilize enrolment and intra-cultural dynamism with students from across Canada and global locations
- Live into who we are as Treaty people; reconcile relationship with the land and all creation
Program Renewal
Respond to needs for people of character and competence. Major initiatives:
- Research, design, and launch new programs: social work, spiritual care, and at least two more
- Redesign the undergraduate curricular commons and the interdisciplinary interface for all students
- Strengthen and sharpen the CMU vision through program renewal and development across all fields of study, attending to transferable competencies and needed credentials
- Achieve an effective balance of undergraduate and graduate programs
- Leverage strengths and links across education and research in service of church and society
Lives
Facilitate healthy outcomes in the lives and livelihoods of students and alumni. Major initiatives:
- Renew residence and commuter programs with continued focus on learning by living together and living by learning together
- Enhance the interface of academic studies, co-curricular activity, spiritual life, and work-integrated-learning
- Extend education opportunities for non-traditional students
- Augment life-long learning opportunities for broader audiences
Reckoning... with life out of balance
Attend collectively to the betterment of society, extend the peace-justice imagination of the church, and implement tangible initiatives, measures, and outcomes. Major initiatives:
- Strengthen institutional resilience through stewardship and innovation: sustainable campus planning, diversified and strengthened revenue streams, affordability for students, and sustainable habits of life and work for students, staff, and faculty
- Cultivate a community of belonging, equity, and inclusion across diversity
- Confront our blind spots, honour the community's collective desire to be better neighbours and ancestors, decolonize education through our ways of knowing, doing, and being
- Refresh collective understandings of the CMU mission, attentive to the hope, concerns, and institutional transitions of this time
Major 2030 Projects: Highlights of Key Initiatives
- Redesign the undergraduate curricular commons (completed and implemented)
- Research, design, and launch a new Bachelor of Social Work and a new Master of Arts in Spiritual Care (completed and launched)
- Renew existing programs across all fields of study, undergraduate and graduate (underway)
- Research, design, and launch at least two additional academic programs (underway)
- Renew residence and commuter programs (underway)
- Enhance interface of academic programs, curricular activity, work-integrated-learning, and spiritual life (advising dimensions completed; further dimensions underway)
- Engage in campus-wide dialogue towards intercultural health and create an Equite, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) action plan (underway)
- Diversify and strengthen revenue streams (underway)
- Grow networks of church and community who see themselves as part of CMU through interdependent relationships (underway)
- Build and implement a sustainable campus plan (underway)
Primary Outcomes
- Confirmed the enduring resonance of CMU’s mission statement and four commitments
- Determined terms of scaffolding for initiatives of institutional renewal and advancement in the form of four strategic directions
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