University Academic Plan Renewal

What is the University Academic Plan?

Approved by Senate, the University’s highest academic governing body, the University Academic Plan (UAP) sets out academic priorities for a five-year period. It also affirms York’s mission, values, aspirations and vision. Normally renewed every five years, the contents of the UAP are determined through an intensive consultation process that engages faculty members, students, staff, and alumni. Readers of the plan will see:

• clear expressions of York’s mission, make-up, mandates, abiding strengths, emerging innovations, and social responsibilities
• strategic aspirations and pathways to their realization
• challenges and how they will be addressed and overcome
• opportunities and how they will be assessed and embraced

The UAP is organized around priority areas that are highly integrated. Each priority area icludes constituent objectives that identify tasks and commitments while providing a way of measuring progress. Quality is always an overarching theme and an animating imperative.

Why does York need a University Academic Plan?

Planning has played an important role in York’s history. The University was an early adaptor to academic planning. Coming out of a Task Force on Academic Planning, the Academic Planning at York (APAY) report established an annual planning cycle for the University and defined the linkages between academic and budgetary planning. The APAY report was approved by Senate in 1985. As required under the new APAY framework, the first University Academic Plan was developed and approved by Senate in 1986.

2025-2030 UAP Renewal