President and Vice Chancellor
Carleton University

As one of the 2023 Top 100 Employers in Canada and a Top 25 employer in the National Capital Region, Carleton University is one of Canada’s most resourceful and productive hubs of learning and research, fueling a rich talent pipeline that is supporting social and economic renewal. Carleton University is a leading post-secondary institution, one that has provided a unique educational experience to more than 140,000 graduates over 75 years.

The university provides an excellent education and experience to its nearly 30,000 full- and part-time students at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Its more than 875 academic staff are recognized internationally for their scholarship and cutting-edge research in more than 50 disciplines.

Carleton is recognized annually as a top regional employer and is a recipient of the Canada Awards for Excellence, Healthy Workplace Order of Excellence and Platinum Level Certification for Mental Health at Work. Situated on unceded Algonquin territory and bordered by the Rideau River and historic Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Carleton is just minutes from the heart of our nation's government and G-7 organizations, providing opportunities for staff and faculty to make a positive impact in our community and around the world.

Shape The Future

The University’s Strategic Integrated Plan 2020-2025, outlines three strategic directions inspired by the unique triangular shape of the beautiful Carleton campus:

1. Share Knowledge, Shape the Future

2. Serve Ottawa, Serve the World

3. Strive for Wellness, Strive for Sustainability

Highlights of the three strategic directions include:

1. Share Knowledge, Shape the Future

The Campus Master Plan Update (CMPU) builds on the Strategic Integrated Plan and its aspirations which reflect the university’s natural and cultural location bound by the Rideau River and Rideau Canal, and its surrounding community. This comprehensive plan highlights five “Big Moves” – Green Ribbon and Geological Time Trail; Flexible Campus Streets and Gateways; Natural Features and Stormwater Management; Tunnel System; Pedestrian Pathways; and Potential Development Sites.

2. Serve Ottawa, Serve the World

Carleton continues to expand its community-based research and communtiy-based pedagogy, to fulfil its vision to extend it's influence beyond campus, inspire students to be engaged citizens and strengthen meaningful community partnerships. In alignment with SIP, the university's has implemented its first Strategic Plan for Community Engagement (SP4CE) outlining the strategic goals to meet these aspirations.

The International Strategic Plan (ISP) celebrates Carleton's diversity of international initiatives. The ISP's aspirations are embedded in the five Goals contained in the plan:  International Research & Funding; International Students; International Teaching, Knowledge & Expertise; International Mobility & Experiential Learning; and Internationalization at Home.

3. Strive for Wellness, Strive for Sustainability

Kinàmàgawin (Learning Together) is about the future. 

Following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report in 2015, many post-secondary institutions worked to revitalize, support and bring Indigenous learners and Indigenous knowledges into classrooms. In October 2018, Carleton joined this collective movement and formed the Carleton University Strategic Indigenous Initiatives Committee (CUSIIC), which published the Kinàmàgawin Report in 2020.

Kinàmàgawin includes 41 Carleton-specific Calls to Action that encompass an overarching goal of making the Carleton campus a safer space for current and future Indigenous students, staff and faculty members.