UPEI Action Plan
UPEI Action Plan: Building a Culture of Trust, Safety, and Inclusion
The UPEI Action Plan: Building a Culture of Trust, Safety, and Inclusion is a critical roadmap for UPEI and our community members over the next five years.
The plan outlines a strong commitment to our community that we will work with an enhanced level of governance, transparency, and accountability to make the changes needed to improve campus culture by building trust, safety, and inclusion.
The UPEI Action Plan outlines numerous initiatives that focus on realigning our university’s actions with our institutional values. The plan has an intentional focus to support efforts that enable reconciliation.
Read the plan: https://files.upei.ca/publications/upei_action_plan_2024.pdf
Action Plan Goals
The UPEI Action Plan is structured around four key goals that aim to:
- acknowledge and demonstrate accountability for the issues within the University of Prince Edward Island Review;
- strengthen UPEI’s governance and leadership structure;
- improve UPEI’s campus culture; and
- put in place new policies and processes that focus on preventing and addressing discrimination, harm, and violence at UPEI.
It will take hard work and significant collaboration for UPEI to deliver on these commitments.
Annual Implementation Plans and Audit
To maintain a strong focus on meeting our goals, the University will prepare a comprehensive implementation plan for each year of the UPEI Action Plan.
The annual implementation plans will include the specific activities that will be undertaken in that year. Activities will be stated in an auditable (meaning measurable and observable) manner.
- Implementation plans will be added to the website as they are developed.
- Annual progress reports on the implementation plans will be generated.
- Audits of the annual progress reports will be conducted by the applicable practitioner to the appropriate national audit standard.
- Audit results will be shared publicly.
Action Plan Review
The University remains committed to implementing the UPEI Action Plan and continues to focus on delivering initiatives in a way that creates meaningful, sustainable institutional change. Entering Year 3 of the implementation, and in response to the Action Plan audit conducted by Deloitte, with the recommendation to “optimize the delivery of the Action Plan and align priorities with institutional capacity," UPEI has completed a midterm review of the plan.
The purpose of the review was two-fold:
- Confirm that the remaining initiatives are appropriate, properly sequenced, and realistically achievable within the established timeline.
- Increase efficiency by identifying redundancies and ensuring initiatives reflect current institutional priorities and capacity.
Importantly, the recommendations that result from this review do not alter the original goals of the Action Plan; instead, they refine the pathway to achieving them.
On March 3, 2026, the Campus Culture Oversight Committee voted to recommend the modified UPEI Action Plan: Building a Culture of Trust, Safety, and Inclusion to the UPEI Board of Governors and on March 31, 2026, the Board approved these changes.
Ongoing Campus Consultation and Feedback
In keeping with our goal of building a culture of listening, your feedback on ways to improve our campus culture continues to be welcomed and appreciated. You may email comments to president@upei.ca
Consultation with our campus members will continue in various ways. In addition, further consultation will take place to gather input from campus and community members on the progress of the UPEI Action Plan midway through plan implementation.
If you need support, visit our Community Supports page for a list of services available to the UPEI community.
