Education that shapes future-ready students
An exceptional, international student body. A global alumni community. A place in a multilingual city and a nation committed to diversity and openness. These are McGill’s greatest strengths and points of distinctiveness. Building connections to our communities – local and international – allows us to train students to thrive as creative and engaged citizens and leaders, while making a positive impact on the world around us. Here are the initiatives that will help us train future-ready students.
A trailblazing approach to campus wellness
McGill’s Student Wellness Hub is focused on awareness, prevention and early intervention and offers a full menu of wellness options:
- Clinical services, including appointments with counsellors, advisors, dietitians, nurses, doctors, psychiatrists, sexologists, and social workers, group therapy sessions and on-site blood tests.
- Health promotion activities, including workshops, art and animal therapy, peer support, a sexual wellness shop, relaxation, exercise, telehealth and virtual reality experiences.
- A collaborative care model that includes working with all faculties and units, as well as many campus groups, to promote a university-wide culture shift around wellness
- Expanded access to care by strengthening the Hub’s relationship with the Quebec healthcare system and by building partnerships with off-campus services
Building experiential learning and community experience into the fabric of student life
- Field study opportunities to put theory into practice
- Internships at organizations that complement students’ areas of study
- Academic exchanges at partner universities around the world
- Research partnerships across faculties, and collaborative learning projects to expand the student perspective
- Research, teaching and participatory projects with arts organizations, non-profits, institutions, governments and industry partners
Enriching support programs and embracing innovation in teaching
- Enhancing student advising
- Expanding career services and mentoring, with a special focus on under-served communities
- Developing and implementing new technologies and models that extend our classrooms to the digital sphere
- Connecting our students to a network of Professors of Practice recruited from among successful entrepreneurs, and enriching opportunities to learn from real-world innovators
Enhancing our Athletics and Recreation programs
- High-quality programs and facilities that contribute to student physical and mental health and wellness
- Enhanced world-class training and competition facilities
- Strengthened coaching support for varsity athletes
- Competitive funding opportunities for top student-athletes
- Creation of an innovative wellness program
- Holistic support for student athletes, especially women and under-served communities, including our groundbreaking Women in Sports program
- Recreational programming to engage students in physical fitness and well-being
Crafting novel approaches to social cooperation
Develop curricular and co-curricular programming to foster skills centred on resilience, empathy, understanding, and promoting healthy dialogue and exchange, including:
- Canadian Youth Building Empathy and Resilience (CYBER) (Faculty of Education)
- Foundation Year Program (Faculty of Arts)
- The McGill Third Century (M3C) Leaders Initiative, mentorship initiatives, and democracy lecture series
- Debate, dialogue, discourse skill-building workshops
