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Vision, Mission and Priorities
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is a research-led Faculty, educating the next generation of professional and academic leaders in Information, who join us in transforming society through collaboration, innovation, and knowledge creation.
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Vision
International excellence in research and education in Information.
Mission
The Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is a research-led Faculty, educating the next generation of professional and academic leaders in Information, who join us in transforming society through collaboration, innovation, and knowledge creation.
Priorities
1To maintain world leadership in innovative scholarship
- By establishing and executing a research agenda that reflects coherent and collaborative Faculty of Information leadership in Information research
- By acquiring external funding for Faculty of Information research and international research partnerships
- By managing effective knowledge transfer of Faculty of Information research
2To gain international renown for life-long, enquiry-centred education
- By observing that the Faculty of Information’s teaching, in all its forms, is affecting teaching and learning practices in Information education generally
- By producing graduates who have knowledge and values appropriate to their future exercise of economic, cultural, and/or social leadership
- By creating a life-long educational continuum that incorporates programs at the undergraduate, professional master’s, academic master’s, and doctoral levels, with associated professional and executive development capabilities
- By exploring distributed education program opportunities in Information
3To contribute to shaping the social space of Information in Toronto, in Ontario, in Canada, and internationally
- By being catalyst, conduit, and advocate, linking leading research in Information and innovations in professional and institutional practice, to practice changes in Information institutions and in the shaping of public policy
- By raising public awareness of Information and advocating for Information issues
- By enabling the life-long intellectual growth of our graduates, supporting them as they participate in shaping the Information society
4To foster initiatives that support sustainable social and economic development at local, regional, provincial and national levels
- By promoting awareness and recognition of the sectors in which the Faculty of Information’s graduates work and how their actions support prosperity development
- By educating graduates capable of facilitating innovation in the Information economy and society
- By fostering, where appropriate, the take-up of research (e.g. new Information methods and processes) that generate wealth
- By creating consultancy, partnership, and service initiatives to enable Faculty of Information outreach
5To nurture an enriching environment in which to study, research, and work
- By fostering an environment that encourages and supports innovation, creativity, and opportunity at all Faculty of Information levels, from students to leading researchers
- By providing superior support for faculty, staff, and students alike
- By creating teaching, learning, research, and communication spaces appropriate to our mission and goals
