SFU's Office of Community Engagement:
Supporting people.
Supporting partnerships.
Building SFU’s institutional capacity for teaching, research and creative activity that results in community impact.
About SFU's Office of Community Engagement
We know – navigating SFU’s ecosystem of “community engagement” can be daunting. Luckily, that’s mostly because there is so much incredible work going on here. It’s easy to get lost in a forest of awesome.
We work to strengthen SFU’s institutional capacity for building sustainable and equitable partnerships, ones that mobilize teaching, scholarship, and creative activity towards meaningful outcomes and impacts.
One of our primary responsibilities is to steward and shepherd the emergence of SFU's Strategic Community Engagement Plan, ensuring it enables and aligns community engagement work across the institution in ways that live up to our top level aspirations to have real-world impact through terms and partnerships developed with community.
But that's not all we do. Please explore our work and the values & principles we're guided by, get to know us, stay in touch, and get involved.
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February 10, 2021
When SFU Galleries’ three spaces closed in March 2020 in response to COVID–19, staff there...
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January 11, 2021
To ensure we are doing everything we can to keep ourselves and each other safe during COVID-19, SFU...
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December 17, 2020
Another year has almost passed. A year like no other. Masks have become the new accessory. Hand...
A community-engaged campus acts bravely, committing itself to equity, diversity, and inclusion by embracing collaborative practices of knowledge creation, teaching, research and creative activity.
It remains accountable to shared values and principles, ready to respectfully and compassionately "walk the talk" of transformational change and Reconciliation.
LATEST NEWS
Updates and information about our initiatives.
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February 10, 2021
February 10, 2021
The Burnaby Food Hub Collaborative (BFHC) is offering a bi-weekly grocery card to SFU students experiencing food insecurity. The first 80 students to register will receive a supplemental top-up worth $30 to help with food expenses.
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January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021
The Burnaby Festival of Learning would like to feature your project at our community festival in May 2021! Deadline for submission: January 31st, 2021!
TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
SFU Vice President, External Relations, Dr. Joanne Curry, invites your thoughts and input on SFU's Strategic Community Engagement Plan.
Compiled with input from staff, faculty, deans and community partners, the plan offers a vision and set of values and principles for building local action plans and strengthening a common purpose for SFU community engagement.
It will be better with your voice.
We'll be offering multiple ways to engage with this material. To get ready, please download and read the plan, then sign up for our newsletter so we can let you know how to provide your thoughts about SFU community engagement.
You can also send feedback to us directly, anytime, by emailing: community@sfu.ca
GET INVOLVED
There are lots of ways to get involved with Community Engagement at SFU. From taking part in funding programs to support a community partnership to providing feedback on SFU's Strategic Community Engagement Plan, your involvemnet is crucial to our success! Get involved with us now.
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