SFU's Strategic Community Engagement Plan

Why this might be important to you.

Building respectful, equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships is hard. And when you do it right, it’s also personal. We want this document to be an evergreen tool that helps you advocate for the resources, support, new systems and recognition you need to do excellent community engagement – we want to empower you to constructively engage prevailing systems to make space for the kinds of relationship-building and knowledge work that lead to meaningful community impact.

If you're a student, we hope you'll find the values and principles inspiring, and hope they can help you challenge the institution to enrich your experiential and community-engaged education by strengthening its partnerships.

If you're faculty or staff, this document might provide the framework for building the internal networks and adovcating for the appropriate resources to do deep, brave parternships work in teaching, research and creative activity. If it's not – please tell us how it needs to improve.

If you're an existing partner, we hope you can help us with this document as a framework for honouring your needs and establishing mutual trust and accountability with your SFU partners.