Initiatives & Committees

University of Toronto Excellence Award (UTEA)

In partnership with the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation, the UTEA program was established to provide undergraduate students with funding to conduct summer research projects under the supervision of a University of Toronto faculty members.

Enrolment Services Hub

This new digital workspace, which was typically multiple paper-based processes, was implemented to improve the undergraduate student experience. This one stop web application (login required) also allows teams at Enrolment Services (Financial Aid and Awards, Admissions, Client Services), and clients and collaborators across the university to do their work in a streamlined and fully digital way.

Student Financial Aid Review

The University of Toronto financial aid programs (UTAPS) is driven by the provincial and federal government’s OSAP assessment of student costs, financial resources, and need. Changes to the OSAP program directly impact the calculations of UTAPS grants and can reduce UTAPS eligibility and/or the amount of UTAPS funding a University of Toronto student receives. The University of Toronto is actively reviewing the UTAPS program with a goal of making it more responsive to student financial need and less reliant on the OSAP need assessment.

Slate Implementation Project

This project revitalized and streamlined the various processes associated with undergraduate admissions. The implementation of the Slate CRM transformed how the University of Toronto recruits, assesses and admits new students. 

Development of Institutional Scheduling Principles

The Working Group on Scheduling Principles was established to review current scheduling practices and make recommendations to improve scheduling practices across the university of Toronto with a goal of developing a student focused academic schedule. A student focused schedule includes developing a schedule of classes that reduces conflicts for students, increases a student’s ability to register in the courses needed to complete degree requirements and provides a reasonable distribution of course options across the days of the week and times throughout the day.