One-time funding spread out over three years supports three key areas. The first is student development of career competencies sought after in the scientific sector, the second is mastering the business and leadership skills for successful science careers in the knowledge economy and the third is empowering students to design lives and careers that are meaningful to them.

University Area
Faculty of Science

Funding provides the technology and staff needed to improve the accessibility of websites affiliated with the university and to meet AODA Web Compliance legislation.

University Area
University Technology Services
Equity and Inclusion Office
Communications, Marketing and Public Affairs

Funds are used to expand a pilot program that supports McMaster educators in creating, adapting, adopting, and reviewing Open Educational Resources (OERs) — learning, teaching and research materials that are released under an open licence. They will also contribute to building campus capacity among educators and staff and to the promotion and advocacy for OERs and OER funding opportunities.

University Area
McMaster University Library
The MacPherson Institute
McMaster Students Union

The hiring of a professional archivist lays the groundwork for the establishment of a formal university archives program in support of the teaching, research, service, and administration interests of the university and the communities it includes and represents. The Archives will collect, preserve, and make available records documenting the operation, history, life, and people of McMaster University by acquiring, managing, preserving, and making accessible the records and information assets of the university in any format that have enduring value to the institution.

University Area
McMaster University Library
Health Sciences Library
University Secretariat

Funding supports the experiences of international students through three complementary initiatives. The first is a collaboration with Faculty partners to provide a personalized and memorable McMaster experience for international students, the second is building a guided undergraduate international student journey that communicates and amplifies wraparound programs and supports, and the third is increasing access to service through a 24-hour chat model.

University Area
Student Affairs
Student Success Centre

A two-year contract position will examine the current curriculum in Humanities disciplines offering a PhD at McMaster (Classics, CSMA, ECS, French, History, Linguistics, & Philosophy). The aim is to consider the structure of these programs with the intent of making recommendations that will promote the quicker completion of dissertations in Humanities.

University Area
Faculty of Humanities

The addition of three paid student roles increases the capacity for prospective student outreach and creates new engagement opportunities in relation to both domestic and international prospective students. The ambassadors will also be available through an online platform to field questions and chat with prospective applicants to the Faculty of Humanities.

University Area
Faculty of Humanities

Funding supports hiring staff with expertise in technological tools and partial backfill for School of Graduate Studies’ staff to identify and implement a set of tools and processes. The goal is to streamline and integrate existing functions to create a seamless student experience from admission to graduation. This will include ensuring that changes to the student record are reflected immediately and funding is recalculated in close to real time.

University Area
School of Graduate Studies
University Technology Services
Human Resources
University Registrar

This one-time funding will fully arrange and describe the Hamilton Academy of Medicine (HAM) donation to make it available for scholarly use. The Ham collection includes rare books about local illnesses and treatments in the 1800s, documented women physician experiences, particularly from the 1970s onwards, and materials from Elizabeth Bagshaw, director of Canada’s first birth control clinic. Arranging the collection will result in the creation of a detailed digital finding aid. It will also digitize and conserve “at?risk” materials, such as rare sound recordings and photographs, to ensure they are available for future use and scholarship.

University Area
Faculty of Health Sciences
Health Sciences Library

Through the hiring of an International Undergraduate Student Coordinator, the Faculty will launch a Peer Support program and an International Student Advisory Board with the goal of removing barriers that international students may face, even before arriving on campus.

University Area
Faculty of Engineering

Medical laboratory technologists (MLTs) represent the third largest group of healthcare workers in Canada after physicians and nurses. In Ontario, there are five training programs, none are in the west or south-west regions of the province. Four are advanced college diploma programs and only one is a university undergraduate program. Funding will support the creation of a full university degree program by developing a capital/infrastructure plan and creating the necessary curriculum so that the program is ready to launch.

University Area
Faculty of Health Sciences

Funds are used to implement and evaluate various approaches to support learners in the Faculty of Health Sciences from equity deserving groups to be successful over the course of their educational studies.

University Area
Faculty of Health Sciences

This project sees the development, implementation and evaluation of various approaches to cultural safety training programs within the FHS, as well as the exploration and development of an Indigenous health graduate certificate/diploma program as part of a broader vision for inter?professional Indigenous health programming within the FHS.

University Area
Faculty of Health Sciences

Two postdoctoral positions jointly across Engineering and Social Sciences are collaborating on the design of an executive education curriculum. One is a postdoctoral fellow with engineering expertise and the other is a postdoctoral fellow with social science expertise — both are housed within the Digital Society Lab.

University Area
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Social Sciences

This collaboration between the Faculty of Engineering and the Student Case Management Office, Student Affairs, is a three-year pilot program to support the mental health and wellbeing of students in the Faculty of Engineering.  Let’s Talk is an evidence-based best practice model of counselling support that is being delivered across more than 50 Universities in the United States and is unique in that there is no paperwork for the student to fill out to get access to a mental health professional.

University Area
Faculty of Engineering
Student Affairs

The Faculties of Science and Engineering are collaborating to expand and strengthen efforts to increase research revenue through a pilot program that includes new hires to help support research groups, faculty commercialization of research, and student innovation.

University Area
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Science

This pilot supports two staff positions to focus on projects aimed at strengthening the ability to recruit and retain Humanities undergraduates. The two positions are Educational Developer and Experiential Programming and Outreach Manager.

University Area
Faculty of Humanities

The Office of Undergraduate Research in the Faculty of Science promotes excellence in undergraduate student, and faculty-led, collaborative research and scholarship in all disciplines. The aim is to make research an integrated component of the undergraduate experience for all by breaking down barriers to engagement, facilitating access and outcomes and creating communities of practice.

University Area
Faculty of Science

A data-driven approach will be used to determine the graduation rate profile for individuals and groups in Science. This will inform if and how outreach programs should adapt or adjust. This will also complement efforts to increase recruitment and success of Indigenous students across the institution.

University Area
Faculty of Science

Co-op programs are highly effective at assisting a student’s transition to the workforce and enhancing overall career success. Further, offering a co-op program will attract applicants with higher entrance averages and further enhance the quality and reputation of the degree programs.

University Area
Faculty of Social Sciences

Funds are being used to develop a graduate student internship program, facilitated by the Faculty of Social Sciences’ Community Research Platform (CRP), whereby graduate students take up a ‘Researcher-in-Residence’ position with one of the CRP’s five local community partners. This program serves the dual purpose of creating new research, training and career advancement opportunities for graduate students and building research capacity of local community organizations to generate and use evidence when responding to critical societal challenges.

University Area
Faculty of Social Sciences

One of three main stressors for post-secondary students is finance and money. Funds for this initiative have been used to hire a program coordinator to offer one-on-one coaching appointments (priority given to students in crisis) and for the development of a financial literacy series.

University Area
Student Affairs

This initiative fills a gap in career counselling support for graduate students. Funds support employment readiness, career planning, industry connections and the development and implementation of career resources and tools.

University Area
Student Affairs
School of Graduate Studies

An additional Academic Skills Specialist (with a writing focus) and additional Academic Writing Advisors with a focus on supporting the needs of graduate students have been hired.

University Area
Student Affairs
School of Graduate Studies

The purchase of accessibility software improves access for many different user groups, especially students and staff with disabilities. This ensures timely and open access to information tools for a broad audience of users as opposed to depending on the individual accommodation process.

University Area
Equity and Inclusion Office
McMaster Accessibility Council

Funds were used to create a professional development series designed to equip people managers to action EDI priorities through their leadership practice. The asynchronous online modality has made it possible to reach more managers across campus.

University Area
Equity and Inclusion Office
Human Resources

Funds are used for academic policy development through support for the portfolios of the deputy provost and vice-provost, Teaching and Learning. This initiative includes strengthening coordination among university units such as the Student Success Centre, the MacPherson Institute and the Office of Community Engagement and for building institutional capacity for experiential learning supports in the classroom.

University Area
Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning

This initiative catalogues recent and historical donations and purchases to make them available for research, teaching, and study. This is accomplished through hiring a Distinctive Collections Cataloguing Librarian on a two-year contract and result in approximately 2,000 volumes being made available for research by students and faculty from McMaster as well as other institutions. Description also lays the groundwork for digitization of these materials, making our holdings readily available to a global community.

University Area
University Library

This three-year project builds a more connected, capable, and user-focused approach to digital research support. It improves access to systems, services, software, and training for researchers throughout the institution. It builds on existing digital research support at McMaster and identifies gaps so that complementary and shared services can be developed.

University Area
Office of the Vice-President Research
University Technology Services (UTS)
University Library

Funds support McMaster’s first integrated wellness and healthy living strategy through two key initiatives. The first is MACtivate, an exercise and Wellness program for mind, body and spirit. The second is #MACmoves, “a movement driven by movement” to have McMaster become Canada’s most active campus.

University Area
Student Affairs
Athletics and Recreation

Three initiatives are supported, the first is the Latin American Student Mentorship Program, which introduces graduate program coordinators and student mentors. The second is the Latin American Student Experience and the third is the Latin American Outreach Fund, which provides workshops, outreach and community activities.

University Area
Office of the Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning
Latin American Network at McMaster University (LANMU)