Our Saint Mary’s Accessibility Plan Update (2025-2028) aims to ensure everyone on campus knows they have a role in our commitment to accessibility. It aims to guide us in how we can contribute to ensure accessibility is achieved and our community gains the rewards that diversity and belonging bring.
To achieve these goals, our Accessibility Plan is aligned with our Saint Mary’s Strategic Plan (2024-2029). The aim of our is to provide a framework for inclusive excellence across all our faculties, departments and programs.
The plan names our Mission, Vision, and Values for our academic community as:
Vision
Saint Mary’s building on our strong tradition of scholarly excellence, accessibility and community engagement, will be the university of choice for aspiring citizens of the world. We will achieve this by:
Mission Statement
Saint Mary’s University pursues excellence in research, teaching and learning, while fostering an inclusive and diverse community dedicated to local and global engagement, collaboration and service.
Values
Our university values guide our daily commitment to our distinctive contribution to society, locally and globally. These values are expressed through everything we do, as we pursue:
In the new strategic plan, the University is committed to five priority areas, one of which is Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility. But the note on the bottom of the priorities is what holds a special message for our entire Saint Mary’s community. The line reads…
“We are a people-first institution that integrates EDIA into all we do, including all aspects of our teaching, research, operations and services. There is still much work to be done, which is why we include EDIA as one of our five priorities.”
The alignment of the Saint Mary’s Accessibility and Action Plans ensures EDIA is a priority in what we hold important and in all we do.