2012

SFU Vision Launch Remarks
February 20, 2012

Invest in Education
Op-ed article in The Vancouver Sun
January 27, 2012

2011

Statement on Virginia Tech Shootings
December 8, 2011

Convocation Address
October 2011

Statement on Famine in Africa
July 2011

Statement on the earthquake and tsunami in Japan
July 2011

Report to the Community 2011/12
June 2011

Convocation Address
June 2011

See future at SFU Open House
Article in the Surrey Now, May 26, 2011

SFU and Surrey : Envisioning Silicon Valley North
Remarks to the Surrey Board of Trade, May 10, 2011

Condolence message from President Petter
March  2011

envision>SFU: Shaping the Future of Canada's most Community-Engaged Research University
Remarks to the Vancouver Board of Trade, February 28, 2011

envision>SFU Launch Remarks
February 10, 2011

Simon Fraser University: the Making of an "Engaged University" – Remarks to the Global Civic Society's Public Salon, February 1, 2011

A New President Reflects on SFU's Present and Future Role in BC Higher Education – Your Education Matters interview January 2011.

Thar's gold in them thar hills (and downtown, too)
Article in the Vancouver Sun, January 18, 2011

2010

Candidates' post-secondary stance key
Opinion page of the Vancouver Sun, December 30, 2010
in collaboration with David H. Turpin, University of Victoria
and Geoff Plant, Heenan Blakie.

Installation Address
October 7, 2010