Ryerson’s Vision Statement for the Church Street Development
Vision Statement: Creating connections for a healthy city.
The Vision Statement will guide and inform the design process, ensuring that decision making reflects key aspirations of the entire Ryerson community.
Ryerson’s planning Objective and Goals for the 270-288 Church Street Development
Identity: A hub for interdisciplinary collaboration, celebrating a holistic approach to health and wellness.
Experience: A welcoming and inclusive home for new communities of living and learning.
Legacy: A catalyst for innovation and excellence, transforming education and the city (CSD Vision Statement & Guiding Principles, Ryerson, 2013).
Purpose
The purpose of this RFP is to communicate to
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For instance, the university academic, administrative and retail portion of the building will occupy seven-to-eight floors (36 to 48.5 metre high) located in the podium at the base of the building, while the residential proportion will comprise of 100 student residential units with a total of 332 beds (Teixeira, 2014).
Substituting the existing parking lot into a mix use building will help address the need for more residence space and improve the issue of density within the area. The new development includes approximately 250 student residence spaces in keeping with the university’s goal to provide an additional 2,000 new residence spaces by 2020 (Ryerson, News & Events,
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It is both visionary and practical. The Master Plan is shaped by Ryerson's commitment to excellence and sustainability, and the need to address its academic goals. It is not a building plan or an architectural plan, nor does it focus on the allocation of space within the University. Rather, it establishes three broad goals and a comprehensive set of principles that form a framework within which the University will evaluate future opportunities and make decisions about campus growth to benefit students, faculty and staff for decades to come (Ryerson Master Plan,2014).
We evaluate every Ryerson Builds project according to the Master Plan’s three main goals of:
• Urban Intensification
• People First: Pedestrianization of the Urban Environment
• A Commitment to Design
Academic plan
Ryerson’s Academic Plan, establishes the university’s vision to become Canada’s leading comprehensive innovation university. It builds upon Ryerson’s proud traditions and expands the university’s strengths for relevant programs and Scholarly Research Creative (SRC) activities, its engaging and diverse learning and teaching environment that integrates theory with practice, and strong relationships with external communities (Our Time to Lead, Ryerson’s Academic Plan,
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objectives vital to the successful completion of the project (history would prove otherwise). In addition,
A mission statement is a powerful message that companies or organizations set to be the focus and reason behind why or how they manage things. They are used to help their potential members, employees, or buyers understand their passion. It is of great importance that the mission statement is upheld or it becomes ineffective. These statements are written differently, but they are used for the common objective. The mission statement at Spring Hill College is a well written statement that uses effective style, has a clear focus, and can be interpreted by a varying audience.
The art institution I have chosen to write about within this paper was the Rodman Hall Art Centre located near Downtown St. Catharines. Rodman Hall, in my opinion, serves the purpose of bringing an art culture to a region that does not have much option when it comes to art institutions. Especially prior to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts opening, there was not many art centers within our region, to my knowledge. Then, once I got into applying to universities and discovering more about Brock, I came across the new and upcoming MIWSFPA and learned that Rodman Hall is under Brock’s ownership. Rodman Hall was built in 1862 by Thomas Rodman Merritt which means that this art institution is 155 years-old (“Historic Rodman Hall“). Considering the age of the building, it is very well preserved and serves a purpose of showing our heritage and culture. When entering the building, one of the first things I noticed was that the original flooring and classic detailing on the ceilings, both were stunning. The old and very large front door of Rodman Hall was beautiful and all the white snow outside definitely made it stand out.
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At this time in Canada, the public education system was somewhat limited. The limits of the educational system were the budgets, teachers, and what was taught in class. The Ryerson report addresses many of the issues of the Canadian education system in the form of reforms. This section of the paper will discuss idea in which proper teaching could be achieved, while also discussing some of the realistic difficulties related with this reform. According to Ryerson, one of the key components of creating better teachers in the education system is more educational training. Presently, the proper training of teachers is a given, but at the point of time in which the Ryerson report was created, the training of teachers was limited. Through the further
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“Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind” a famous quote about our goal by Seneca. It is a metaphor about the achievement goal and objectives by good planning skills. One has to plan for what one wants to achieve and where one wants to go. One of the most important things is to have good planning, before taking any project the first think you should do is to create project plan. Planning can be defined as preparing a sequence of action to achieve specific goals and objectives. According to Kerzner (2009), “project planning is desirable that the project manager is involved from project conception through execution. It must be systematic, flexible to handle, closely disciplined through reviews and control and capable of accepting multi functional inputs (pg. 412)”. The importance of planning a project is to describe the work so that it will be easily identifiable to the project team member.
In 2013, Architect Magazine, ranked MIT’s Architectural program #2 among graduate schools in the USA. As it builds up its prestigious reputation in Architecture, MIT has tried to inspire its students to be creative and fanciful in their projects through the unique buildings that they have on campus. The Stata Center, an academic complex designed by Frank Gehry , originally got a lot of attention, because of its novel appearance. Critics said it was a good act of self-expression, and its complex design was a good representation of the intellectual capacity of the scientists that were going to be working there. Likewise, Simmons Hall -a residence hall designed by Steven Holl- finally got the entire freshman class to live on campus, which was something MIT desperately needed. These buildings, among many others at the MIT campus, are built precisely as inspirations for their architectural students. As Thomas P. Hughes - a professor at MIT- once noted, MIT has celebrated their buildings as “expressing the inventiveness, energy, and excellence of the people within them.” However, it certainly seems as though the buildings were built solely focused on their appearance, as they have turned out to be neither efficient nor cheap. These two buildings have caused so many problems that they have not proven to be a good representation of the innovative minds at MIT. Even though the appearance of the buildings represents forward-thinking architecture, they nevertheless result in extra construction time, cost inefficiencies, and experiential and structural malfunctions.
Creating a vision, carefully crafted, can help the team know who they are and who they are not. Miranda was able to get buy-in to her vision through her reputation and strategic thinking. Creating a vision for Runway proved to be very effective for Miranda to motivate the organizational member and get them to perform well.
This vision statement effectively communicates JPMorgan Chase & Co values, purpose, identity and primary business goals.
Vision and mission statements play a vital role in the strategic planning of an organization. Aguinis (2013) states defining an organization’s current and future identity are a key component of the strategic planning process. Strategic planning creates a blueprint to chart an organization’s goals and to aid in the division of resources to properly achieve the established goals (Aguinis, 2013). Properly communicating the goals and identity of an organization are essential if employees are to completely understand their purpose and mission to the organization. A review of the vision and mission statements for Harley Davidson reflects certain insights into the identity of the organization but also reflects some areas of improvement in adequately including the eight characteristics of an ideal mission statement.
During my years at Babson College I have effectively generated change. I accomplish this by leading and participating in the practice of process development and improvement as it pertains to, event planning, data planning, inquiry outreach, and new program roll-out within Graduate Admissions. The practice of change management relates to larger higher education issues because it is needed in for the continued success of higher education.
This was a long-term design project, and everything was fresh to me. Patience was the crucial and essential factor that was needed in such a long project in my view. Fortunately, I learned and gained the patience. Besides, communication was another extremely significant factor. It was essential to communicate and discuss with the pathway tutors and the course mates regularly, for the information of the tutor was the most useful advice in the process of major project. Overall, I achieved these two important factors which also could be described as strengths.
Mission Statement: As an educator I will provide for students the opportunity to make a positive difference in their lives to help them accomplish unexpected goals. I will enhance learning to support my students in achieving their highest potential by integrating technology into the curriculum. I will integrate conceptual technology learning techniques that will implement concrete knowledge of technology that will emphasize mastery of understanding. Through committed support from educators, faculty, staff, parents, and the community, I will advance learning to support my students. This will allow students to become confident, creative, motivated, technology-ready students. I will provide leadership to achieve these standards of excellence each student deserves for a technology driven society.