Quality Assurance and Curriculum Vitality

The University of Winnipeg is committed to continually assessing and tracking its progress towards mission fulfilment and student success. Two key components of this commitment are quality assurance and curriculum vitality.

Quality assurance is a cyclical review process of academic programs to drive and measure continual improvement, encouraging innovation and alignment between curriculum and research strengths.

Embedded in quality assurance, curriculum vitality means that academic programs are developed, regularly reviewed, and modified to evolve and align with societal changes, student needs, programmatic accreditation requirements, and advancements in technology and research.

Academic Unit Plans

To work towards quality assurance and curriculum vitality, the Office of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, initiated a unit planning process for all academic units in 2024. Academic unit plans provide an opportunity to reflect on strengths, challenges, opportunities, and new initiatives. This planning process will also support departments and faculties in reviewing and refining their program learning outcomes and evaluating the success of students in achieving these outcomes.

The Provost met with all individual departments from November 2024 to April 2025 to discuss their challenges, opportunities, and innovative ideas. An important part of the initiative was the development of unit-specific enrolment dashboards, which will be shared with Chairs and Deans in May 2025.

Look out for a report on what we heard in Fall 2025.