Acadia 2025 in brief

First university in Canada to sign UN SDG Accord and to achieve Organic Campus designation

Co2

CO2 40% lower in 2021 than base line 2006

Over 100 environmental/ sustainability activities on campus

Inter-institutional cooperation agreement signed

Campaign for Acadia complete. $86 million raised–exceeding target by $11 million

Fourth in Canada among primarily undergraduate universities for 2021

Water consumption down 19% since 2019

33% increase in endowment payout since 2019

Caring For Our Students and Employees:

By Enriching the Acadia Learning and Working Experience

Goal: Transformational Student Experiences That Focus on Student Academic and Personal Success

• Acadia transitioned to Colleague Student which replaced Eden, a legacy student information system that had reached the end of its usability.

• Acadia joined its Maple League colleagues in signing an inter-institutional cooperation agreement that encourages students to take courses, with a focus on on-line and virtual learning communities, from any of the four universities that will be credited toward their degree at their home university.

Goal: An Inclusive and Supportive Campus Community Culture

• The Edwin Borden Awards are available annually to five Black students who demonstrate a history of community engagement, extracurricular activities and career and life-goals.

• Acadia’s new Black Student Success Navigator will develop and implement programs and services to support the academic and personal success of students of African descent.

• Acadia is one of more than 40 universities to sign Scarborough Charter which vows to redress anti-Black racism and foster Black inclusion in higher education.

Goal: A Campus Culture Passionate About Professionalism, Inclusion, Service Excellence, and Leadership

• Acadia released its Report of the President’s AntiRacism Task Force (PART) which builds on the work of the President’s Advisory Council on De-Colonization and several of the PART recommendations have already been implemented.

• Acadia joined the Canadian government’s $95 million Global Skills Opportunity program through the Maple League’s Nation to Nation: Building Indigenous Knowledge Across International Borders program that will provide 60 Indigenous students with an opportunity to travel to Belize to explore aspects of its Indigenous culture.

Goal: Caring For Our Community’s Safety, Health and Wellness

• The new Sexualized Violence Policy adopted in 2020 updates Acadia’s previous policy and expands the reporting and investigative processes to combat the prevalence of rape culture. The policy covers every student, employee, and visitor and applies to University property, events, and travel.

Goal: Msit No’kmaq - Advancing Acadia’s Contributions to Truth, Reconciliation and Decolonization

• Elder Dr. Joe Michael (’19) is Acadia’s first Elder in Residence and will apply his passion for educating youth to provide mental, spiritual, cultural, emotional, and physical health support to Acadia’s Indigenous students and faculty while helping to guide Acadia’s journey toward truth and reconciliation.