Academic Unit Planning (AUP) is a unit-level process that helps to shape education, research and community engagement at Memorial University. The AUP process brings faculty, staff, students and community representatives together to reflect on current contributions and to explore exciting ways forward.

Units engage in AUP every seven years at the St. John’s Campus and Grenfell Campus, and every five years at the Marine Institute. However, the process may be initiated at a different time by the Academic Unit Planning Committee (AUPC) to align the process with an external accreditation cycle or upon recommendation of a Dean of Record or Vice-President (Academic).

The AUPC, a senate committee, establishes a multi-year review schedule in consultation with the Deans of Record. 

The following pages are available to support units in the AUP process

Timelines

You will find the master schedule for ongoing AUP processes, the AUP cycle, and the list of academic units which take part in the academic unit planning on the Timelines page.

Procedures

After a multi-year review and consultation process, the Academic Unit Planning Procedures were revised and approved by Senate. 

Resources for units

Units beginning or continuing the AUP process will find useful resources, including report and itinery templates, a standard student survey, guides for remote site visits, and common data sets.

Published reports

Published reports can be found via the AUP Reports page. Archived reports can be found via the Archived Reports (APRs) page.