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Shayan Sharif
Department of PathobiologyOntario Veterinary College
Vision for the Office of Graduate & Post-doctoral Studies
Credentials• DVM (Tehran)• PhD (Guelph)• PDF (Western Ontario, The John Robarts Institute)
Experience and accomplishments• Full Professor since 2011• Pfizer Award for Research Excellence• Vice Chair- Pathobiology• Acting ADRI – OVC• Research Program Director – OMAFRA Partnerships with UofG• Mentorship of over 60 HQP• Over $10 million in research grants (industry, government)• Over 130 papers • Editor-in-Chief of the top journal in Veterinary Immunology• Evaluation Group member for NSERC Discovery grants
Leadership• Leader- Poultry Health Research Network (phrn.net, Twitter: PHRN_)• Leader - Multi-institutional research team: Biology and control of AIV• Leader – Network for studies of climate change impact on animal
health and production• Leader – Vaccine development for control of poultry diseases in the
developing countries• Animal Health Informatics Collaborative Graduate Program
University-wide initiatives• Strategic Renewal • Food from Thought • Strategic Research Plan• Precision Agriculture (Smart Animal Health Management)
Strategic Renewal
Vision for Graduate Studies at the University of Guelph
• Synergy between Graduate Studies and University’s research enterprise and administration
• Enrolment targets
• Quality of education
• Student experience
• Skills development
Vision for Graduate Studies at the University of Guelph
Propose to create a task force to engage the University community including faculty, student, staff and leadership.
Mandate
“Hear”, “Analyze” and “Advise”:• Institutional aspirations • Variables and barriers• Performance indicators• Differentiators of UofG programs • Solutions
0 5 10 15 20
Western
McMaster
Toronto
Carleton
Victoria
Simon Fraser
Waterloo
Guelph
Percentage % of graduate student enrolment to total student enrolment
Graduate student enrolment
Variables and barriers• Capacity (physical space, faculty DOE)• Government policies• Culture within units• Competition locally and globally• Demographics• Economic trends• How many enquire and how many apply?• How many met the requirements?• How many were offered admission?• How many accepted?• What funding models?
Vision for Graduate Studies at the University of Guelph:A case for operational intelligence
Variables and barriers• Capacity (physical space, faculty DOE)• Government policies• Culture within Colleges and departments• Competition locally and globally• Demographics• Economic trends• How many enquire and how many apply?• How many meet the requirements?• How many are offered admission?• How many accept?• What funding models?
Vision for Graduate Studies at the University of Guelph:A case for operational intelligence
Source: Establishing realistic enrolment goals- A white paper produced by Strategic Enrolment Management
How many, how often, where?
What happened?
Where exactly is the problem?
What actions are needed?
Source: Establishing realistic enrolment goals- A white paper produced by Strategic Enrolment Management
Empowering the decision making process with Data
Reactive decision making
Std.Reports
Ad hocReports
Query Drilldown
Alerts
ProactivedecisionmakingWhat’s the best that can happen?
What will happen next?
What if these trends continue?
Why is this happening?
Optimization
StatisticalAnalysis
Forecasting
PredictiveModeling
The progression from reactive decisionmaking to proactive decision making.
Degree of Intelligence
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Meeting enrolment targets while propelling the research enterprise
• Identify disciplines/areas of growth Food from Thought
• Empower disciplines
• Marketing strategies (resources)
• Integration of undergraduate students into research programs – from Yr1?
• Proactive recruitment: cultivate the best and the brightest 3rd and 4th year
UofG students
• Active recruitment of top PhD scholars (e.g. by competitive funding)
• Funding role of industry partners, AA&D and Catalyst Center
Meeting enrolment targets while propelling the research enterprise
• Combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees (4+1 or 3+1 model)
• “Chimeric” Master’s + diploma degrees
• Doctoral stream master’s enrolment
• Hybrid programs (on campus + online) --- SFU and UT
• Innovative interdisciplinary collaborative programs (e.g.
Precision Agriculture, Digital Humanities, Animal Health
Informatics etc…) funded through CREATE or similar programs
• Increase diversity
• Aboriginal students
• International students
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Western
McMaster
Toronto
Carleton
Victoria
Simon Fraser
Waterloo
Guelph
Percentage % of international student enrolment to total graduate student enrolment
International graduate student enrolment
Source: Resource Planning and Analysis, University of Guelph
Differentiators
Performance indicators
Current indicators: Graduation rate, employment and OSAP default
Other performance indicators to consider:
• Learning outcomes (OCAV expectations: depth & breadth, research & scholarship, application of knowledge, professional capacity, communications skills, awareness of limits of knowledge)
• Student experience (accessibility, satisfaction with quality of education, mentorship, environment): Graduate and Professional Student Survey
• Soft skills development and job readiness
Skills development
• Collaborative interdisciplinary graduate programs collaborative
courses promoting cross fertilization
• Career counselling
• Career days role of alumni database for tracking alumni
• Experiential learning opportunities (Future of the PhD in humanities)
• Mygradskills.ca and skills development seminar series, bootcamps
• Stakeholder/employer engagement
• Internship opportunities (OCE, Mitacs and others)
• Entrepreneurship CBaSE and ABCInnovate
• Community engaged scholarship model
Outcomes driven funding model
“We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist . . . using technologies that haven’t yet been invented . . . in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet.”
The Jobs Revolution: Changing How America Works
Richard Riley
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