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Values and Principles
Healthy relationships
We care about our relationships, from personal to institutional. We are flexible and adaptable; we live our values in all stages of our partnerships.
Sustainable approaches
We design for complexity and the long term; we approach activities through a systems lens, focusing on process as well as outcome, resourcing for implementation and sustainment, and recognizing our personal agency as well as our institutional footprint.
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Mutual respect, trust and accountability
We commit to transparency, shared purpose, shared ownership, and shared accountability in our work; we build measurement, evaluation and reflective practices into our collaborations for collective impact.
Inclusion and diversity
We practice deep respect for culture, language and history, personally and institutionally at all scales, from internationalization to local knowledge; and we foster the interconnections among diverse knowledge systems, traditional, personal, formal and informal.
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Equity
We recognize power relations in university-community relationships and enable equitable partnerships; we listen; we create and respect space for people to speak for themselves, in their own voices.
Knowledge creation
We enable community engagement as a method for teaching, learning, research and creative activity, and we work with community to co-create and cultivate knowledge and understanding for the purpose of achieving positive social change.
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Learn more by downloading the SFU Strategic Community Engagement Plan
These values and principles were put forward as part of the SFU Strategic Community Engagement Plan. The plan is intended to be a living document, and we are planning to begin what we hope will be ongoing conversation about its vision, principles, goals and recommendations beginning in the Fall.
Please download the plan, and then sign up for our newsletter so we can notify you about when and how to contribute to the evolution of this framework.
You can also send feedback on the Plan to us directly, anytime, by emailing: community@sfu.ca
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