Institutional Research and Planning

What We Do:

• We define, collect, analyze, maintain, and disseminate institutional research, information, and data about the performance and effectiveness of all aspects of the University.
• We provide information, options and assessment to serve the planning and decision-making needs of the University administration.
• We are responsible for reporting official data to faculty, staff, students, provincial and federal government, external institutions and agencies and the general public.

Mission Statement:

• Actively uphold the values and commitments of the university by fulfilling and adapting to the information needs of decision makers.
• Efficiently support planning and decision-making through anticipation, collaboration, innovation, timeliness, accuracy and integrity.
• Provide value-added information that is accessible, reliable, unbiased, consistent, relevant, useable, and user friendly.
• Consistently pursue a well-rounded knowledge of emerging issues in higher education, both within SFU and in the world around us.

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