UNIVERSITY NEWS

STAYING ENGAGED DURING POLARIZED TIMES

Reflecting on her recent trip to Singapore, SFU President Joy Johnson shares thoughts on SFU's nuanced approach to global engagement and how the university is creating space for dialogue and critical enquiry around the world.

SFU ALUMNUS AND AUTHOR MERCEDES ENG LAUNCHES 2022 WRITER-IN-RESIDENCY

As a former SFU student, Mercedes Eng turned to many of the previous Ellen and Warren Tallman writers-in-residence for advice on her work. She describes their guidance as “pivotal” in terms of her development as a mixed-race writer. Now, she’s returned to follow in the footsteps of her mentors as the Department of English’s latest writer-in-residence.

RESOURCES + OPERATIONAL UPDATES

WELCOME DAY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Staff and faculty support is needed to assist with event logistics at the Fall 2022 Welcome Day. This one-day orientation event for new undergraduate students happens on Tuesday, September 6. This is an important and exciting opportunity to welcome students to their campus and faculty and allow them to connect with fellow peers.

SFU WELCOMES NEW DIRECTOR, LABOUR & EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

Christine Palak joins SFU's Labour Relations team on August 29, bringing experience as a human resources and labour relations leader in public and private sectors.

TASC 1 CLOSED FOR HVAC MAINTENANCE

This Saturday, August 27 and Sunday, August 28, maintenance will be conducted on the HVAC system in TASC1 between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Please email Michelle_lin_3@sfu.ca with any questions.

NOTICE OF RESIDENCE WEST PARKING CLOSURE AND ANTICIPATED NOISE ON BURNABY CAMPUS

On Saturday, August 27, between the hours of 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. the SFU Rocketry student team will be performing a stationary test of a rocket engine in the Residence West parking lot. Access to the parking lot will be restricted between Friday, August 26 at 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, August 28 at 1:00 a.m. During the test, a loud noise may be heard on Burnaby campus for approximately two to three seconds. The noise is not a cause for concern.

FEATURE EVENT

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: ENHANCING TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES IN POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS

September 1 | Hosted by Centre for Educational Excellence

Join speaker Jacqueline Ottmann, president of the First Nations University of Canada, as she shares stories of the complexities, wonder and beauty that comes from weaving Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives.

Teaching and learning through Indigenous perspectives, pedagogies and methodologies entices all our senses, requires reciprocal relationality that creates and contributes to renewal, restoration, re-energization and rejuvenation, has one actively engage in “coming to know” self in relation to creation and the cosmos, and engage in dynamic creativity as one anticipates seven generations into the future.

For Indigenous peoples, learning and creativity are spirits, so they are very much alive. How do we revive, spark and nurture these entities in our personal and professional lives?

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ABOLITION FEMINISM: DREAMING A NEW REALITY

September 15 | Hosted by SFU Public Square

Hear from renowned scholars/activists Angela Davis and Gina Dent as they share from their groundbreaking recent book, Abolition. Feminism. Now. and reflect on the urgent necessity of abolition as a practice and a step toward new social realities. This keynote is brought to you by The Circle Project and produced in partnership with SFU Galleries.