Adding to the dashboard I created to compare Ontario Universities’ metrics in 2020-2025 Strategic Mandate Agreement (SMA3) I’ve created one for colleges as well. SMA3 will be governing Ontario publicly funded higher education provincial funding and includes performance-based metrics.
The colleges have 9 of the same metrics as universities, but swap in Apprenticeship-related (institution-specific) for Research funding and capacity: federal tri-agency funding secured, adding a second institutional-specific metric.
These weightings represent some interesting decisions by these institutions. What is not depicted here are the actual performance targets that each institution needs to hit, nor an indication of how much of a challenge that may or may not be.
When reviewing the weightings it’s important to keep in mind that SMA3 rewards constancy, not over performance, and will punish under performance of more than 1% (in most cases, depending historical data the band of tolerance could be greater than 1%). High weightings in the final years should reflect the College’s confidence in keeping that area consistent.
