Why Thompson Rivers University
TRU is a comprehensive, learner-centered, environmentally responsible institution that serves it’s regional, national, and international learners and their communities through high quality and flexible education, training, research, and scholarship.
TRU’s five priorities include:
- Increasing student success – TRU will prioritize academic engagement and programs which fully develop our learners’ knowledge and skills and support student career success.
- Increasing intercultural understanding – TRU will prioritize programs and practices that support diversity, inclusion and intercultural understanding between our Aboriginal, local, regional and global communities.
- Increasing research capacity – TRU will prioritize the development and mobilization of scholarship, research, training, teaching innovation, professional practice, and creative capacity for the benefit of people.
- Increasing entrepreneurial capacity – TRU will prioritize entrepreneurial collaboration and social enterprise that mutually benefits the university and the communities we serve.
- Increasing sustainability – TRU will prioritize initiatives that mutually benefit the university and the communities we serve.
