the most attractive places in Canada to live, work,
situation as well as increasing revenues and, where
learn and play. Acadia’s growing partnership with the
appropriate, reallocating resources to move forward on
Mi’kmaw communities of our region is one of the most
our strategic directions and goals.
exciting areas of development as we seek to make our contribution to truth and reconciliation.
I wish to thank every member of the extended Acadia
As a learning community, we care deeply for our
assumptions, and helped develop this plan. Acadia 2025
students, our employees and our planet. Environmental
will provide the guidance and direction that will ensure
stewardship has always been a fundamental value of
that the liberal education that has been the central
Acadia, and in today’s growing climate emergency,
core of the Acadia experience for over 180 years will
it has never been more important to ensure that we
continue to be relevant to educating students for the
learn, teach, and practice our commitment to the
rapidly changing world of the 21st century, and that the
environment and sustainability of our world. Developing
transformative experience that characterizes an Acadia
and implementing a strategic plan in a time of financial
education will flourish well into the future.
community who contributed their ideas, challenged our
stringency is very challenging, but without a strategy the task of identifying priorities to direct scarce resources is difficult and often results in simply treading water rather than moving ahead. We are very conscious that everything we do going forward must adhere to fundamental principles of balanced budgets and no increase in debt. Therefore, we have identified priorities
Dr. Peter J. Ricketts
for directing our efforts within the current financial
President and Vice-Chancellor
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