At SFU, educational goals (EGs) for programs were introduced beginning in 2013 as part of the external review cycle for academic departments. EGs were recommended by the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Working Group “as a means of promoting continuous improvement of courses and programs,” in response to the 2010 call of the Task Force on Teaching and Learning recommending that SFU should “identify and promote a set of attributes that every SFU graduate should possess or be able to demonstrate.”

In 2018, the Educational Goals/Learning Outcomes Working Group (comprised of faculty, staff, and students) was tasked with proposing university-wide EGs for all students, in response to the calls of these earlier committees. Their version was based on commonalities identified in program-level EGs.

The proposed EGs have gone through a number of revisions involving deans, the Senate Committee on Undergraduate  Studies (SCUS), the Senate Committee on University Teaching and Learning (SCUTL), and Senate; feedback suggested that they should be more aspirational and should seek to capture what is unique about an SFU education.

An upcoming community consultation will be used by SCUTL to finalize a version of the EGs that will be presented to Senate. Your feedback—whether you are a faculty member, student, or staff member—is instrumental to this work.

Download a text version of the proposed educational goals

Stay tuned for the consultation link