{"id":161,"date":"2020-02-24T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/?p=161"},"modified":"2020-12-10T11:02:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T16:02:51","slug":"getting-ready-for-sma3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/2020\/getting-ready-for-sma3\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for SMA3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Ministry of Colleges and Universities are finishing their bilateral discussions with colleges and universities towards the establishment of SMA3.  Consultations have largely concluded with sub-institutional stakeholders and now SMA3 drafts are circulating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SMA3-development-timeline-1024x552.png\" alt=\"SMA development timeline. Completion March 31, 2020\" class=\"wp-image-162\" width=\"768\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SMA3-development-timeline-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SMA3-development-timeline-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SMA3-development-timeline-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SMA3-development-timeline-1536x828.png 1536w, https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SMA3-development-timeline-2048x1104.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Image source  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/strategic-mandate-agreement\/sites\/uwindsor.ca.strategic-mandate-agreement\/files\/sma3_timeline.pdf\">The University of Windsor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/laurentian.ca\/assets\/files\/Policies\/SMA\/2020-25-Timeline.pdf\">Laurentian University<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>March 31st, 2020 is when SMA2 expires and SMA3 is finalized. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/strategic-mandate-agreement\/\">The University of Windsor has an excellent Strategic Mandate Agreement 3 (2020-2025) Process web site<\/a>, which includes the timeline above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some casual searching of the web yields drafts by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/secretariat-docs\/documents\/Senate%20Meetings\/2019%20-%202020\/Agenda\/2020-02-12%20Senate%20677%20Consent%20Agenda.pdf\">Brock University (PDF, pages 103 to 138)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/content\/dam\/provost\/PDFs\/SMA3_Instrument_Universities_DOCUMENTA.pdf\">Ryerson University (blank)<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ryerson.ca\/content\/dam\/provost\/PDFs\/SMA3Overview_B_1oct2019final.pdf\">useful commentary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwo.ca\/univsec\/pdf\/senate\/minutes\/2020\/m20JANsen.pdf\">Western University has shared their draft<\/a> and has an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/strategic-mandate-agreement\/\">Strategic Mandate Agreement 3 (2020-2025) Process<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwindsor.ca\/strategic-mandate-agreement\/sites\/uwindsor.ca.strategic-mandate-agreement\/files\/sma3_instrument_-_university_of_windsor_revised_draft_feb_3_2020.pdf\">The University of Windsor&#8217;s  Provost &amp; Vice-President (Academic) presented to their Senate (PDF, pages 9-22)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><small>List updated: Tuesday March 3, 2020<\/small><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>With just those three examples it is clear that SMA3 is much more standardized than SMA2 and provides much less opportunity for institutions to describe their programs, partnerships, visions, missions and goals than SMA2 did.  Separate from SMA3&#8217;s ability to realize policy goals, they will at least be much easier to compare than the previous SMAs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Colleges and Universities are finishing their bilateral discussions with colleges and universities towards the establishment of SMA3. Consultations have largely concluded with sub-institutional stakeholders and now SMA3 drafts are circulating. March 31st, 2020 is when SMA2 expires and SMA3 is finalized. The University of Windsor has an excellent Strategic Mandate Agreement 3&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/2020\/getting-ready-for-sma3\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Getting Ready for SMA3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,15,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-sma3","category-university"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/pse-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}