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Strategy 1: Grow enrollment year over year to match or exceed the local population growth

Strategy 2: Be located/relocate to a local population that is in decline

Strategy 3: Maintain enrollment levels, start a campaign to drive the local population to move elsewhere

As initially introduced in the SMA3 template, each institution SMA3 includes a paragraph in the skills and job outcomes section that gives some preliminary information about the skills and competencies metric: For the skills and competencies metric being initiated for performance-based funding in 2022–23, the Ministry of Colleges and Universities… Read More »SMA3 Metric: Skills and Competencies

This metric begins to answer the question how differentiated is each Ontario university, according to each university? Because each institution nominates its own area of strength, while the data source and proportion of enrolment measure are consistent, this metric begins to provide a common differentiation measure in SMA3, where SMA2 mostly provided different measures.

Strength and Focus Looks Different in SMA3s Than on University Web Sites

Universities Know This Metric Measures Macro-Economic Factors, Not Them.

There is evidence to suggest that graduation rate is not an output of a university that is predominantly affected by the student’s experience at the university, rather it is predicted by student backgrounds and experiences that occur before a student even applies to university.

Without the mitigations against anti-access selectivity found in established PBF programs this metric has the potential to do twice the harm to student access goals while being generally redundant to the established graduation rate metric and possibly the similarly untested year 3+ metric graduate employment earnings.

MCU published the Ontario university and college SMA3s on November 26, 2020. These documents described the targets that had been negotiated individually with the MCU and each institution, as well as the weighting of each PBF metric over each year covered by SMA3. Unlike most other PBF programs, each metric… Read More »The How of SMA3 Measures, Targets & Weights