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2025 English, Culture and Communication Program Cyclical Programme Review Implementation Plan Update of Cycle 2

Implementation Update Plan

Recommendation	Proposed Follow-up and Resource Implications	Responsibility for Leading Follow-up	Timeline for Addressing Recommendation
1. Restore faculty strength to level prior to 2018. Develop strategic priorities for hiring that reflect the ECC’s commitment to educating ethical leaders and in relation to urgent new directions in the discipline of English literary studies.	Restore hiring process for two previously approved positions	Approval: CDA; Commandant; Principal, Vice-Principal, Academic; Vice-Principal, Finance. Execution: Department Head, ECC.	The department put in significant effort towards this recommendation: department members brought in an EDI expert who presented on best practices to avoid biases in hiring processes, determined a shortlist of candidates to interview for the World Literatures position, contacted the candidates, and scheduled interviews. However, the positions were cancelled before interviews commenced. Recommendations of the CMCRB report have stalled ECC hiring processes in areas critical to the EDI goals RMC. These positions in World Literatures and Indigenous Knowledge and Culture were conceived to help meet RMC EDI goals and gaps and to contribute to developing ethical leaders. The Indigenous position in particular was a targeted Indigenous hire.
2. Continue to refine curriculum and program requirements in response to crucial and ongoing disciplinary shifts (BIPOC literature, Indigenous and decolonial studies, gender and sexuality studies) through the hiring priorities that the department has established.	Initiate curriculum review.	Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Curriculum Committee and departmental faculty. This process necessarily includes new positions in World Literatures and Cultures and Indigenous Literatures and Cultures.	Suspended As a result of the stalled hiring processes and the recommendations of the CMCRB report, the ECC programme has been paused and a review of SSH programmes is ongoing.
3. Redress workload imbalance between ECC and other units on campus	Approve five credit course load for ECC	Vice-Principal, Academic	Incomplete This equity measure is a larger SSH equity issue, and it has not been met, despite the terms of the Letter of Understanding signed as part of the last round of bargaining.
4 Continue to build experiential learning opportunities (perhaps with library and special collections) and creative writing offerings as resources allow. Consider making creative writing part of the strategic hiring priorities	As part of curriculum review in recommendation 2, (a) review ENE4XX and ENE4XX to introduce experiential learning using library archives and (b) review writing courses as programme requirement.	Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Curriculum Committee.	Suspended As a result of the stalled hiring processes and the recommendations of the CMCRB report, the ECC programme has been paused and a review of SSH programmes is ongoing.
5. Clarify and expand the opportunities for ECC majors within the CAF in recognition of the many ways a degree from ECC contributes to RMC’s mission to educate ethical leaders	Renew contact with Public Affairs and Intelligence. Revisit bilingual communications minor. Develop graduate certificate in Equity and Diversity. Possibly establish formal and regular coordination with MOSID representatives.	Dean, SSH; Department Head, ECC. Department Head, ECC, in consultation with Department Head, FLC. Department Head, ECC, and ECC faculty in consultation with Heads of SSH and Dean of Graduate Studies. Vice Principal, Academic	Suspended The recommendations of the CMCRB report have jeopardized the Public Affairs (PA) military faculty position (6622). The CMCRB report recommends assigning this position to an instructional position in the Advanced Leader Development Programme (ALDP). Adopting this CMCRB recommendation would squander a five- year investment in academic expertise in rhetoric, military responses to artificial intelligence, and new media. These areas of research and teaching expertise will be invaluable to developing programming at RMC that meets the changing security threats and opportunities facing the CAF. . Potentially integrated into multidisciplinary programming as part of SSH programme review.. Winter 2025 (if new positions in place) The lines of communication are unclear while SSH programmes are under review.
6. Continue to build transparent and consistent practices at both departmental and institutional level around course assignments, service commitments, and course remissions	Develop departmental course loading criteria, principles, and processes in accordance with the recommendations of the workload committee report.	Department Head, ECC, in coordination with Dean, SSH, VPA, and Principal.	Suspended As a result of the stalled hiring processes and the recommendations of the CMCRB report, the ECC programme has been paused and a review of SSH programmes is ongoing.
7. Improve RMC / ECC’s website and internal communication of course offerings and departmental information. This will aid in enrolment and recruitment	Adapt existing publicity material to online footprint. Expand publicity and program information for ECC.	Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Web representative. Department Head, ECC, in coordination with departmental Web representative.	Suspended Reductions in departmental human resources have necessitated suspending this priority in favour of regular service duties. Reductions in departmental human resources have necessitated suspending this priority in favour of regular service duties.

Date modified:: 2025-12-12