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Templates
The headlines, content and templates found here can be used in multiple ways. You can:
- use the content for email campaigns
- use the content for your website/landing page
- attach pdf's to an email
- make pdf's downloadable from your website
- print and hand them out
You might use any of the headlines or copy as is, or perhaps you might adjust it slightly to better suit your faculty, department, program.
Creating your own headlines and copy
We encourage you to work on copy and headlines that speak to your target audience. Brainstorm and ask yourself the following questions:
- What is unique/special about our faculty/department/unit?
- What does our faculty/department/unit do better or differently from a similar faculty/department/unit?
- Why would a student want to join our faculty/department/unit?
- What are the benefits of getting a credential from our faculty/department/unit?
- What do students who complete from our faculty/department/unit go on to do afterward?
- What is the overall feeling you want current/potential students to feel about our faculty/department/unit?
- Are there some areas of research or some researchers that are a particular draw for our faculty/department/unit?
After brainstorming, you'll want to put together a descriptive paragraph or two that helps to capture the essence of your faculty/department/unit. You'll want to be:
- Positive
- Friendly/Welcoming
- Confident
- Conversational
- Concise
Use short, simple sentences in an active voice (e.g. Use: "Bring your documents to our office." instead of "Your documents should be brought to our office.")
Use plain language. Not all who read your copy are native-English speakers and some people with disabilities need to use text to voice tools.
If you'd like for our office to review your headlines and copy, please email Stacey Makortoff: sam32@sfu.ca.
How to Use the Template to Create a PDF
We have three InDesign file templates: Grad Studies Overview, Faculty or Dept/Program. Use the headlines and copy from this page in the placeholders built into the template. You can combine two pdf's into one document (to become a 2-pager, back-to-back pdf) if you wish.
If you don't have InDesign, or require some assistance putting together your PDF, please send an email to Stacey Makortoff: sam32@sfu.ca.
Sample Templates
Sample Template: Grad Studies Overview
Sample Template: Generic Faculty
Sample Template: Dept/Program
Recommended Headlines and Copy
General Grad Studies
HEADLINES
- Building expertise within and beyond the field
- Co-constructing knowledge for evolving leadership
- Bold and relevant scholarship for knowledge mobilization
- Innovative research with real world results
- A collaborative research community that inspires change in society
- Collaboration that mobilizes knowledge
- Collaborate across disciplines to create meaningful research
- Flexibility and support for influential, independent thinkers
- Active engagement with community, industry and the world
- Embedded in communities, committed to your success
- Wide-reaching collaboration with local and global impact
- Follow your passion within and across disciplines
COPY
SFU Graduate Studies is a dynamic environment for diversity in perspectives, disciplines, collaborations and research. Graduate students grow within a supportive network of peers, faculty, industry and communities to create, share and mobilize knowledge for positive impact.
At SFU, graduate students pursue the research they choose, sometimes more deeply within a discipline and other times amongst and across disciplines. Our culture encourages student to challenge and question, take risks, engage their passions, and grow their skills through mentored research, community engagement and professional development opportunities.
Working with world-class researchers in eight facilities, graduate students contribute to scientific and social challenges, realizing SFU’s promise in the power of research as an instrument of change locally and globally.
Locations
HEADLINES
- Connect with local and international partners to co-create knowledge
- Study in Vancouver, Canada – connect to the world
- Where the research is as diverse and global as its students and faculty
- Engaged research, embedded in diverse communities
- Embedded in the nature of the West Coast
- Where the West Coast lifestyle meets the engaged university
- Research and explore possibilities in beautiful BC
- Mountains, cities and the ocean. And those are just our campuses
COPY
Explore the possibilities offered by SFU Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies on any one of their three campuses located on a mountain top, in the city, and next to the ocean. Located on the West Coast of beautiful BC, our graduate students, researchers, and partners embrace the diversity found within our geographical location and it's reflected in the impact of their research. Our graduate students collaborate within and between disciplines to engage with multicultural communities, connecting local and global partners to create, share and mobilize knowledge.
Faculty + Supervisors
HEADLINES
- Building leadership within a community of scholars
- Learning together with pioneering faculty members
- Nurturing your growth as a scholar and a researcher
- Where students and supervisors collaborate in meaningful research
- Cutting edge research alongside world-class faculty
- Guide your own research, with support to lead change
- Work with faculty, industry partners and policymakers
- Trail-blazing supervisors providing mentorship and guidance
- Supervisors invested in you, your research and your career
COPY
Within SFU Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, graduate students work alongside trail-blazing and world-class faculty members to pursue their own research. Supervisors and university and program staff offer the resources and support graduates need to take risks in their pursuit of excellence. Through mentorship and collaboration within and across disciplines, we invest in our students’ success to inspire social innovation locally and globally.
Reputation
HEADLINES
- Top Canadian university with real world local and international impact
- #1 Comprehensive university in Canada; endless research possibilities
- Generate and celebrate new ideas to create the world we want to live in
- Diversity in research, methods and students to co-create knowledge
- Research centres and institutes creating real-world impact
- Collaboration among students, disciplines and communities
- An interdisciplinary approach to individual research
- World-class research where all types, forms, subjects and topics are valued
- One of Canada's top research-intensive universities, invested in positive change
- Eight faculties. Fundamental, interdisciplinary and applied research. World-class results.
COPY
Supported by SFU Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, graduate students and their supervisors collaborate within and across diverse sectors to achieve research excellence and push the boundaries of knowledge. Ranked among Canada’s top research universities and with more than $160 million in research income, SFU’s research allow students to partner with individuals, industry, government and communities locally and globally to mobilize research that improves societies.
Student Experience
HEADLINES
- Where diversity is a strength and collaboration is valued
- Pursue research within and across disciplines
- Faculty, supervisors and peers dedicated to your success
- Space to take academic risks and push research forward
- Experience transformation in yourself, your communities, your research
- Find mentorship and collaboration in discovery and research
- Feel challenged and supported as you take risks and achieve excellence
- Support for your research and your goals
- Explore the unknown and contribute to a world of knowledge
- Develop your learning community with students, mentors and community members
- Search for answers, follow your curiosity, and make a positive impact
- Grow your understanding and expertise within a wider academic community
COPY
With SFU Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, graduate students join a supportive, diverse community of peers, supervisors and staff that are invested in their success. At SFU, we challenge and encourage graduate students to take risks and achieve excellence, in an environment of mentorship and professional development for individual growth and success.
Download the InDesign Templates
When working with these templates, we ask the following:
- Keep the template margins, please do not alter/change them
- Do not alter any colours/fonts: These are SFU branding standards
- You may use your own url to replace the generic GPS url as well as a contact email address, however you may not remove the footer or alter it in any other way
- You may need to alter the top/bottom placement of the text, please do not adjust the widths. If you need to adjust the width, it means you will need to adjust your content/copy to fit.
- You may change the types of content as long as you keep the margins.
- If you need assistance with using the templates, please send an email to Stacey Makortoff: sam32@sfu.ca.
- Optional: If you'd like to share your samples with us for how you used the templates, please send them to sam32@sfu.ca and we can share them on this page!
See how the Faculty of Science used the template to suit their needs.
