Mohawk College continues to be committed to Accessible Media Production and to trying to meet the needs of the community.
The delivery of the program as a graduate certificate has not proven to be viable.
We will continue to deliver this content. However, the college has decided to deliver this curriculum in a different format, including through micro-credentials. We will offer micro-credentials that sequentially build upon students’ previous learning to ensure that training is complete through module-based learning. This will give more people access to the curriculum, with more flexibility in their learning, for those who want to pursue this important training.
We want to make this important training available to more people. Since 2017, there have been 41 graduates from the Accessible Media Program, including 11 through Continuing Education. This has not met enrolment targets and has not met the demand for trained workers for employers. For these reasons, we have suspended the program in its current format and will work with specialists and the program advisory committee to develop a program model that will attract more people to train in this area.
The review process for this program is similar to other programs. We often review how we are delivering programs and try to ensure that they are accessible to more learners. Especially when we have a low number of enrolments and graduates.
We have committed to exploring a new way to deploy the learning for Accessible Media Production and we continue to be interested in research partnerships, government funding and corporate training needs to see what we can do to move forward in a sustainable way.
It is a difficult decision, and we take it very seriously. But this specific decision, in no way, minimizes our commitment to this area of accessibility specifically, or the overall commitment Mohawk is making to diversity, equity and inclusion priorities.