Innovation and Leadership
The University of Toronto is a place where students and faculty inquire, discover, experiment, and speculate. It is also a place where students develop the skills they need to succeed in a fast-paced and changing world.
Innis College takes pride in its ability to encourage and promote innovative leaders. At Innis, you will learn in an environment both receptive to and supportive of student engagement. If you want to make a difference during your undergraduate career, Innis could be right for you.
Through its parity governance system, innovative programming, outreach courses, informed activism, student micro-enterprises, and a residence that stresses independent living in a neighborhourhood context, Innis College has created a community in which students can flourish academically and socially.
Innis Innovation
1964 The first Writing Centre in any Canadian university
1967 The first student representation in any governing council of the University of Toronto
1970 The first parity governance structure, featuring the equal represenation of students and staff/faculty, at the University of Toronto
1974 The first college-based interdisciplinary program (Urban Studies) at the University of Toronto, including the first experiential learning course in the Faculty of Arts and Science
1994 The first suite-style undergraduate residence at the University of Toronto
1999 The first student-produced and university-endorsed forum (askastudent) to serve as an inter-student online communication network
Tomorrow's Leaders
The University of Toronto recognizes student leadership through its most distinguished student award, the John H. Moss Scholarship. Seven Innis College students have received this prestigious award honouring the superior all-round graduating student.
Innis College also offers a number of leadership awards, including the Alumni Scholarship, the E.M. Davidson and H.R.R. Davidson Scholarship, the Harold Innis Foundation Memorial Award, the Taddle Creek Residence Scholarships, and the Larry Wasser Student Leadership Awards.
Innis College aims to link students' university experience to the world beyond. Students are encouraged to translate their knowledge and skills into action, and the vitality of the Innis College community confirms the success of this approach.
For more information on distinguished Innis alumni, visit the Innis College Alumni Network and watch this video.
Parity Structure
Innis is the only undergraduate college at U of T that ensures equal representation of faculty and staff and students on all of its decision-making bodies.
"The parity system at Innis College enhances the opportunity for the staff-student interaction, creates a strong sense of shared purpose and community, allows students to develop leadership skills, and ensures that the college remains attentive and responsive to student ideas and concerns." - John Browne, past Principal
Work-Study Opportunities
Library: 3 positions
Office of the Registrar: 4 positions
Principal's Office: 1 position
askastudent
askastudent is a web forum for students to ask questions, voice concerns, and make comments about university life to other students. The webservice also offers a key to the resources available to students at the U of T, complete with opinions, impressions, editorial comments, and advice. It is entertaining, informative, and delivered from the perspective of students.
Sarcastic, witty, irreverent. Check it out.
