Why the SRI Matters

To maintain our status as one of the world's top universities, we need to find ways to work more efficiently and bring in new resources. And at its heart, the Strategic Reframing Initiative (SRI) matters because McGill's mission matters.

We need to provide a more supportive environment, to help our incredible students fulfill their potential.  We need to give better aid to talented but financially disadvantaged students. We need to help our researchers find the funding they need to put great ideas to work serving society. We need to find better ways to exchange knowledge and expertise with our local, national and international communities.

We aren't changing our goals. The objectives laid out in our various plans – the “Achieving Strategic Academic Priorities” White Paper; the Principal's Task Force on Student Life and Learning; the Principal's Task Force on Excellence, Diversity and Community Engagement; the Strategic Research Plan; Campaign McGill and the Master Plan – still hold. But the SRI will give us the resources – human and monetary – we need to achieve those goals. 

We need this deep, systematic investigation of how we work – and an action plan for how we can work better – to ensure McGill can continue to excel at teaching and scholarship, to serve society, and to hold ourselves to the highest international standards. The SRI is focused on resources – how to bring in more funding and make better use of the dollars and people we have – but we know money is just a means to an end. And that end – our mission, and support for the people who carry it out – is what really matters.