Lambton College is set to move into the growing world of technology.
The college unveiled a new five-year strategic plan Thursday afternoon.
President and CEO Judith Morris said student and community success remain at the forefront of the mission, but going forward, there's a new a heightened vision to challenge boundaries in a world shaped by the impending Fourth Industrial Revolution.
"To be able to keep up to this, it's scary for some people. You know we have these roped jobs where you go to "A", go to "B", go to "C" that are no longer apart of our world," said Morris. "Those jobs that require us to collaborate, to be creative, to be innovative, to analyze, to synthesize, to have those different higher level skills, are the ones that are going to take place in the next five years and well beyond."
Morris said the presentation wanted to assure students at Lambton that opportunities will be there for them when they graduate.
"The college has a huge opportunity, all the colleges and universities do, because education can help people relieve the anxiety of perhaps job loss, and move right into job creation and preparing students for those new jobs," said Morris.
Morris said this strategic plan is much broader than the previous one.
"It allows people to interpret where we need to go. It allows people to take hold of the strategic plan in a much more focuses way than the other one," she said.
Morris said the college also wants to continue to be a leader in innovation moving forward.
"You know we're number one out of 145 colleges across Canada in applied research, and that means that we're actually number one in all of the mid-sized colleges in the number of students who are employed through research," she said. "We're number one in the amount of funding that we have for research and we're number one in the number of projects. Those are critical features because every project is linked to an industrial partner, and that means innovation in and of itself."
The college also unveiled plans to move towards indigenization of curriculum across all programs.
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