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To be a global leader in applied education, you have to be bold.
Five years ago, SAIT set a new course for the future -- to reimagine the workforce of tomorrow through applied education.
Today (May 28), we launch Bold Futures, a three-year strategic plan to take us further.
Let's talk future #HereAtSAIT
The world is changing at an incredible pace -- and it's showing no sign of stopping.
The economy is becoming more diverse thanks to new industries and shifts in traditional ones. Disruptive technologies are affecting every job in every industry.
Change brings new challenges, new problems to solve, and more demand for people with the skills, attitudes and experiences to do the solving.
Bold Futures will prepare SAIT and SAIT grads for the reality of ongoing change.
The plan supports our continuous evolution -- transforming SAIT to deliver even more advanced applied education. SAIT will ensure learners have the access, skills, networks, practical experiences and confidence they need for successful careers and lives. This is our commitment to building bold futures.
"High quality applied education and applied research at SAIT have the power to make industry more innovative and our region more competitive," says Dr. David Ross, SAIT President and CEO. "Bold Futures is about driving forward and building on our strengths. We're a community of doers, and this is an investment in our learners and Alberta's future."
SAIT exists for learners
Bold Futures centres around a renewed focus on learner and graduate success. It strengthens our academic quality and operating systems and builds innovative connections and economic impact.
Through Bold Futures, SAIT will train a future-ready workforce with more advanced technical, professional and entrepreneurial skills for a more complex world of work.
We will elevate academic excellence to deliver world-class learning experiences in a world-class physical environment. While, our commitment to innovation leadershipwill drive more firsts, nexts and new connections.
We will deepen the engagement between our learners, researchers, faculty and industry partners on campus. We will build new collaborations with academic and innovation partners around the world.
The goals in these three strategic pathways are informed by a series of foundational commitments central to how we work and learn #HereAtSAIT:
- learner success
- valuing our employees
- industry engagement
- a supportive learning and work environment
- Indigenous engagement
- health, safety and well-being
- responsible governance.
These always-on, core commitments are an opportunity for ongoing growth and action well beyond the timeframe of SAIT's 2025-38 Strategic Plan.
SAIT beyond 2025: Making Bold Futures
Bold Futures was shaped by more than 1,600 employee, alumni, industry and student voices.
Consultation with the SAIT community kicked off in early 2024. Through a variety of engagement tools, we explored topics ranging from SAIT's competitive landscape to changing learner expectations, economic development and digital technology.
In total, we analyzed about 4,000 unique data points to build Bold Futures.
Bold Futures, SAIT's 2025-28 Strategic Plan was approved by the Board of Governors in March.
SAIT works here -- and everywhere
For more than a century, SAIT has grown and evolved in partnership with industry.
Eighty-five years ago, SAIT served as a Royal Canadian Air Force Wireless Training School during the Second World War. Two years ago, SAIT launched Canada's first remotely-piloted aviation training centre.
Transformation is essential to SAIT's story and to every journey that starts or shifts #HereAtSAIT.
Today (May 28), we're partnering with Indigenous communities to develop sustainable infrastructure for the Canadian Arctic. We're growing Alberta's aerospace sector through a pipeline of work-ready professionals in collaboration with global aviation giant Lufthansa.
Major investments from our community are helping turn ideas into action and blueprints into buildings to support experiential learning, health and well-being on campus.
"SAIT has always been a multiplier a catalyst for growth, innovation and impact," says David Erickson, Chair, SAIT Board of Governors. "Through Bold Futures, SAIT is building the kind of expertise, experiences and infrastructure that get noticed, drive investment and get government and industry working together."
SAIT connects people to the digital skills they need to transition in their careers, builds capacity for health-care delivery through our paramedic, respiratory therapy, diagnostic and imaging programs, trains the people building homes here in Calgary through our trades programs, and almost everything in between.
Our city and province run on SAIT people at work.
SAIT's 2025-28 strategic plan, Bold Futures is fueled by SAIT's Real Futures fundraising campaign.
