Documents & Reports

All documents, reports, and policies, including Annual Reports, Strategic Plans, as well as Audited Financial Statements and other important documents can be found for both the current year and previous years.

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Strategic Plan

The Northern College Strategic Plan 2020-2025 has been approved. This document will guide our organization for the next four years, allowing us to achieve our New Vision and Mission, which are:

VISION
Empowerment through learning to build a better world.

MISSION
Building community across the North through partnerships and excellence in education.

MOTTO
Proud to be North. Proud to be Northern.

Strategic Directions of the College

Indigenous Education and Empowerment
Innovative Approaches to Access
Invigorating Northern Experience

Strategic Plan Measurement, Spring 2022

Academic Plan

As an institution, Northern College is known for high quality programming and a caring environment. Our small size defines our relationship with our students. The Strategic Plan emphasizes a vision of successful learning.

The Academic Plan for 2020-2023 addresses how successful learning is incorporated with three key elements:

graduates/students;
educational philosophy; and
faculty development.

Individual learning journeys will be supported through the implementation of this plan. Implementation of the academic plan is ongoing and will be evaluated yearly. The purpose of this plan is to provide a ‘road map’ for the integration of program delivery with Northern College’s Strategic Plan. Articulation of the plan, enhances program delivery while supporting faculty to ensure student success.

Business Plan

Northern College’s Business Plan for 2022-2023 has been approved by the Board of Governors on May 10th, 2022.

The Business Plan for Northern College’s 2022-23 Academic Year is developed with many changes, including a new President for the full academic year, a new Strategic Plan successfully launched, and ongoing innovative and adaptive learning with the unpredictable global pandemic.

The undertaking and completion of the Business Plan will bring the organization one step closer to its 2025 strategic destination. In its first year of the Strategic Plan, the actions to be taken within this plan are occurring during a rapidly changing external environment. Despite these changes, the solid engagement of employees and community partners, along with the determination and pride of students and graduates, sets up the organization for success in order to fulfill its commitment to learners and the workforce that awaits them.

Annual Report

Northern College’s Annual Report for 2021-2022 has been approved by the Board of Governors on June 14, 2022.

As Northern College looks forward at the years to come, it does so armed with the knowledge gleaned from an unprecedented and difficult year. The highs and lows discovered during these trying times will serve as a both a firm reminder of our obligation as educators and as a source of inspiration as Northern plots a path forward.

Northern College is committed to defining itself as an accessible educator that offers the best in post-secondary learning opportunities for all students, regardless of their individual needs. 2020-21 proved that Northern is an adaptable, forward thinking institution and the years to come will continue to reinforce that fact.

2020-21 was a few years defined by impossible circumstances, by strife and difficulty on a global scale, but amidst this uncertainty, Northern College found hope. Hope in the bright young minds of its students, in the capable hands of its faculty, staff and leadership and in the people who help to make its campus communities home for those from near and far.

Documents & Reports

Strategic Plans

Strategic Plan 2020 – 2025

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Business Plans

Business Plan – 2022-2023

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Annual Reports

Annual Report 2021 – 2022

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Annual Report 2020 – 2021 (PDF, 6 MB)

Strategic Mandate Agreements

Strategic Mandate Agreement 2020 – 2025

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Multi-Year Agreements

Free Speech Report

Free Speech Annual Report 2021-2022

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Sexual Violence Reports

Sexual Violence Report 2022

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Sexual Violence Report 2021
Task Force of Sexual Violence Initial Report 2021

Sexual Violence Report 2020

AODA and Accessibility

Please visit www.northerncollege.ca/accessibility for AODA Documentation: Access Services for Colleges and Customer Service Standards (ASC).

Key Performance Indicators

The Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development introduced the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) initiative to measure performance in Ontario’s colleges.

Since 1998, colleges have been mandated by the Ontario Government to collect and report performance data in five areas – Student Satisfaction, Graduate Satisfaction, Graduate Employment, Employer Satisfaction, Graduate Rate. Gathered by an independent research company, the KPI results show that Ontario’s Colleges achieve consistently high results when measured by students, graduates and employers. Based on themes of accountability and excellence, the KPI project is a collaborative venture between the colleges and the Ministry.

Key Performance Indicators measure:

Graduate Satisfaction
Graduate Employment
Employer Satisfaction
Graduate Rate

Results	2020 – 2021 Key Performance Indicators
Results	Northern College	Province
Student Satisfaction	not measured	not measured
Graduate Satisfaction	81%	78%
Graduate Employment Rate	87%	77%
Employer Satisfaction	100%	91%
Graduation Rate	64%	66%

Results	2016 – 2017 Key Performance Indicators
Results	Northern College	Province
Student Satisfaction	74%	77%
Graduate Satisfaction	73%	78%
Graduate Employment Rate	89%	80%
Employer Satisfaction	90%	91%
Graduation Rate	66%	67%

Of these five indicators, three of them are currently linked to funding. Graduate Satisfaction, Graduate Employment and Employer Satisfaction data are used to distribute government transfer payments amongst colleges. The amount of the performance based funding has remained constant for the last four years at $16.4 million and is distributed to colleges on a formula that reflects the size of the college and its KPI score.

How the Process Works

Student Satisfaction
Each year in early February, all students (excluding first-semester students and part-time students not enrolled in a post-secondary program) complete college-administered surveys as to their satisfaction with their college program and services. An external survey consultant then tabulates the data, while colleges calculate student graduation rates. Here is a copy of the student satisfaction survey.

Graduate Satisfaction and Graduate Employment
Graduate satisfaction and employer satisfaction data are collected electronically as well as through the telephone surveys conducted by an external consultant six months after the students graduate. The results of this survey provide valuable information on graduate outcomes and the graduates’ satisfaction with their college education.

Employer Satisfaction
Eight weeks following the graduate survey, and based on the graduates’ authorization, their employers are contacted by the same external consultant and surveyed as to their satisfaction with the colleges’ preparation of graduates in order to meet employers’ needs.

Graduate Rate
The college, using ministry-established guidelines calculates the graduation rate. It is important to note that numbers for programs are not available if program graduates are not within the calculation time frame set out by the ministry.

OSAP Performance Indicators
OSAP Performance Indicators provide additional information to students who are considering Community College programs in Ontario. For consistency and reliability, a common methodology is used by all Community Colleges to compile the data and calculate the results.

General information and COISL Default Rates for all 24 Ontario colleges may be obtained at the Ministry’s Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP).

Audited Financial Statements

Audited Financial Statements 2021 – 2022 (PDF, 2.45 MB)

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Policies

Board of Governors Policies