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Student experience and student success funded projects

These projects focused upon embedding student success and student retention strategies within undergraduate degree programs.

There are four funding categories.

  • Category I: Pan-University Projects
  • Category II A: Curricular Innovation Projects
  • Category II B: Category II B: Curricular Innovation Grant-Innovative Course Prototyping
  • Category III: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Projects

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2021-present

Phase 4

  1. Mentorship and Mutual Support for Graduate Students in STEM
  2. Project PATHS: Pedagogy that Aids Transition for Health Students
  3. YorkU-LMU Virtual Journal Club (Year 2)
  4. Expanding University 101
  5. Developing a Culture of Academic Honesty: Online Modules for Academic Honesty Education and Cultural Development at York
  6. The "SDGs-in-the-Classroom" Curricular Innovation Hub: A Pan-University Interdisciplinary Scaffolded Strategy to Incubate and Accelerate the Infusion of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals into York's Classrooms
  7. Equity, Diversity, Decolonization and Inclusion in Teaching and Learning Community of Practice Speakers Project
  8. Collective Inclusion Pathways to Access (CIPA)

Curricular Innovation Grants were open to full-time and contract faculty members.

  • Grants for eLearning course support redesign incorporating blended learning, fully online learning or the flipped classroom.
  • Grants for EE support the embedding of three (3) EE strategies: Classroom-focused, Community-focused, and Work-focused (work-integrated learning).
  • Grants for Internationalization support the embedding of international perspectives/opportunities.

A full list of grants that were awarded can be found here.

  1. Making the Design Academy Accessible
  2. The Audio-Visualization of Time: Strengthening One of the Pillars for Self-Regulation and Student Academic Success
  3. How to Effectively "Layer" a Multi-year Interdisciplinary Classroom To Facilitate Student Engagement, Co-Mentorships and Leadership Identity Development Summer Cross-Campus Capstone Experience

2018 - 2021

Phase 3

  1. Student Resiliency, Learning Skills and Well-Being
  2. Outcomes Assessment System
  3. Geospatial literacies for all: Enhancing student learning and multidisciplinary teaching and research with digital maps
  4. The Development of Generic Skills for Student Success
  5. BetaSpace: Fourth Year Media Incubator Course
  6. YU ROC! (York University Research on Campus Network)
  7. Toward an Integrated International, Bilingual and Competency-Based Open Education Curriculum
  8. Medical History and Humanities in Transnational Context: Building a pan-faculty certificate in medical history and humanities
  9. Implementing Generic Skills for Student Success in the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design
  10. Graduate Students and Career Success: Individualized Professional Skills Development
  11. A Multidisciplinary experiential-education resource to support the communication needs of students with disabilities and instructors in placement
  12. Using and Adaptive Online Learning Environment to Assess and Improve First-Year Math for Economics
  13. The Development of a Sustainable First Year Experience Program to Improve Mathematical Preparedness
  14. Envision YU
  1. POSSIBLE FUTURES: Supporting Undergraduate Students with Fourth-Year Transition Anxiety through On-Line Alumni- Mentorship Videos
  2. Implementing learning success strategies in a large, fully online first year course
  3. Investigations on the Relations Between Temperament and Academic Achievement
  4. Corroborating the Curriculum: A framework to help students connect graduate outcomes to the Learning activities undertaken along the way
  5. Student perceptions of first-year engineering tutorials
  6. Maximizing Prime Time: New Tools for First-Year Theatre Students
  7. Academic Literacy in Kinesiology: Examining Perception of Competence among KHS Students and Faculty

2015 - 2018

Phase 2

  1. Creation of resources and support structures for faculty members to optimize students’ First Year Experience (FYE) in the classroom
  2. Early Alert: Individualized Pathways to Success in First Year Biology
  3. First Year Transition Course Supported by Experiential Learning and eLearning: A 3 pronged approach to enhancing the First Year Experience
  4. York University Online Digital Badging System

2011 - 2014

Phase 1

  1. Enhancing the First Year Experience of Mature Students through a Voluntary First- Year Experience Course
  2. Fine Arts Summer Intensive
  3. Fostering First-Year Student Engagement, Academic Success through the HealthAid Network: Course-Based Peer Mentorship Program 
  4. Healthy Campus (Phase I) - Mental Health Outreach, Education & Awareness 
  5. JumpStart – Successful Transition to University 
  6. Lions Achievement Initiative
  7. Math Bridging and Supplemental Instruction at Bethune
  8. New Student Enrolment Appointment Online (Advising) 
  9. Residence Theme Floor Living-Learning Communities Peer Academic Support
  10. Science-First – A learning community for first-year students 
  11. Stong Academic Springboard: Supplemental Instruction for Students’ Success
  12. Supplemental Instruction Training
  13. Supporting Academic Literacy Instruction within Courses
  14. Supporting learners, enhancing success through communities of learning
  15. Swim to Survive Engagement and Tracking Study
  16. Teaching and Learning through the Performing Arts: Fostering a Unique Cultural Student Experience
  17. Transitions
  18. Voices in Contact: Cultural Outreach In and Beyond York
  19. York University Incoming Student Transition Initiatives 
  20. YU Start 

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