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- SFU's Strategic Community Engagement Plan
- Canadian Pilot Cohort of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification
- SFU's Community Engagement Initiative
- Food Security
- Warren Gill Award for Community Impact
- SFU Student-Community Engagement Competition
- SFU Surrey - TD Community Engagement Centre
- Thoughtexchange
- Community Engagement Directory
- COVID-19 Community Resilience Network
- SFU Community Free Fridge (redirect)
You are the brave people carrying community engagement at SFU. Thank you.
Community engagement has thrived at SFU because faculty and staff practitioners do the work. Sometimes (if not often), you do so in spite of persistent barriers, shifting challenges and ongoing isolation. Our hope is to mobilize supports (in the form of programs, strategies, advocacy and community-building) that strengthen SFU's institutional capacity to support you.
Take advantage of these potential opportunities to strengthen support for your work.
Sign up to take part in ongoing consultations about SFU's Strategic Community Engagement Plan.
The plan was written to empower you to create local, responsive strategies that are appropriate for your partnerships, as well as to provide a framework of values and principles to guide work across SFU and to help define and lift up key challenges.
For example: if you are not supported in building relationships, how can you possibly get to the point where you have co-created research questions or experiential education opportunities?
Not just another consultation. This fall, we will be offering up the SFU Strategic Community Engagement Plan for your thoughts and feedback. Our hope is to begin an ongoing process that provokes regular dialogue and productive feedback about SFU's collective approach to community engagement.
Sign up for your newsletter to make sure you are notified about when and how you can take part. You can also send feedback on the Plan to us directly, anytime, by emailing: community@sfu.ca
Get curious about the Canadian Pilot Cohort for the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification (and what it can do for you).
Sixteen Canadian post-secondary institutions, including SFU, are exploring the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification.
The goal: to enable the kind of transformational change that will position Canadian colleges and universities as leaders in partnering with communities to co-create solutions to the world's emerging complex challenges.
Consider applying for a grant to support community-engaged teaching, research and creative activity.
SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) offers small grants of up to $10,000 to SFU staff and faculty for projects developed with community partners that strengthen relationships and have meaningful impact.
This is an annual program – a new call for proposals goes out in December or January, application deadlines are usually in March, and funding decisions are made in June.
Nominate a colleague for the Warren Gill Award for Community Impact.
The Warren Gill Award recognizes and celebrates lifetime achievement in community engagement. It is given to an SFU staff or faculty member who has dedicated a lifetime of work to exemplary community-engaged teaching, research and creative activity, and who has built significant partnerships between the University and the communities served by SFU that have resulted in substantive, positive impact for those involved.
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Dr. Paola Ardiles Gamboa
Dr. Paola Ardiles Gamboa has made a lifelong commitment to deep, impactful and transformational community work. As a social change agent, systems thinker and collaborator, Paola remains deeply committed to a more equal, just and sustainable world through her teaching, research and service contributions. learn more →
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Dr. George Nicholas
A foundational principle of Dr. George Nicholas’ work with and for Indigenous communities over the past 30 years has been the belief that heritage is a basic human right and that Indigenous heritage is inseparably linked to issues of identity and rights and title. His journey to decolonize archaeology and other related heritage studies began while teaching at the SFU campus located on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Indian Reserve in Kamloops (1991–2005) and as founder and Director of SFU’s Indigenous Archaeology program there. learn more →
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Am Johal
Am Johal, a community convenor, a social connector, a critically-engaged scholar and teacher, and a fiercely supportive and respectful collaborator — Am has been instrumental in articulating and demonstrating what authentic community engagement looks like at SFU. learn more →
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Dr. Robert Hogg
Dr. Hogg is an internationally renowned HIV researcher, scientific leader, educator and mentor to many of Canada's experts in HIV. He has dedicated his career to working with BC clinicians, community organizations and people living with HIV to find ways to overcome barriers to accessing treatment and to initiate approaches to prevent HIV. His approach has been extra-ordinarily community-oriented and exemplifies SFU's goal of achieving exemplary, high impact, community-engaged teaching and scholarly activity. learn more →
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Dr. Bob Hackett
Bob has been instrumental in areas of major citizen concern for over three decades, including labour and peace/anti-war movements, human rights issues, environmental/climate justice and media democratization. He has led and engaged with others in critical analysis of political, economic and cultural issues and their effects on poverty, militarization, corporate power, labour rights and environmental degradation. learn more →
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Dana Lepofsky
SFU professor and archaeologist Dana Lepofsky’s commitment to research partnerships with First Nations communities has earned her SFU’s inaugural Warren Gill Award for Community Impact 2017. She has spent more than two decades at SFU. Her teaching and research focus on the relationships of Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples to their environments, in the past and the present. learn more →
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