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- 2022
- Dr. Yabome Gilpin-Jackson named SFU’s first Vice-President, People, Equity and Inclusion
- Chris (Syeta’xtn) Lewis joins SFU in advisory role on Indigenous Initiatives and Reconciliation
- A World of Difference: How universities must evolve in a post-COVID world
- Russian invasion of Ukraine
- SFU: What's Next?
- Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples day
- Please join us for the annual appreciation BBQ
- SFU begins process to become Living Wage Employer
- Staying engaged in an increasingly polarized world
- SFU: What's Next? - Message from the President to Faculty and Staff
- SFU: What's Next? - Message from the President to students
- Search Announcement: Provost and Vice-President Academic
- Statement from the VP, PEI: Addressing Racism and Hate at SFU
- 2021
- Welcome new SFU students
- UPDATED Jan. 6: My response to Dec. 11 event in SFU dining hall
- Celebrating Black History Month
- The University’s Role and Contributions to a Just Recovery Over the Next Decade
- Inspired by meetings with SFU Faculty and Staff
- Looking forward to Summer and Fall
- Opinion: This is why SFU is backing the Burnaby Mountain gondola
- External Review of December 11, 2020 Event
- Facing the future with hope
- President's statement on TransMountain Expansion Project and support for a fire hall on Burnaby mountain
- The road ahead
- Stronger Together: SFU, the pandemic and lessons for a better future
- SFU to observe moment of silence at 2:15 PM today
- Taking action: Reconciliation at SFU
- Join SFU President Joy Johnson for a tour of Burnaby campus
- Message from the President: Residential school findings
- Dr. June Francis appointed Special Advisor to the President on Anti-Racism
- My response to the open letter from SFU faculty and staff
- Resources and ways to support scholars in Afghanistan
- BC Vaccine Card
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- Return to campus planning updates
- Welcome Back
- Work to review contract vs. in-house cleaning and food services
- National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- SFU and SFSS united in commitment to climate action
- Inclusion benefits us all
- Moving forward with kindness
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- Temporary shift to remote learning January 10 – 23, 2022
- 2020
- Statement on academic freedom
- Welcome back faculty and staff
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- Statement on scholar strike
- Reflections on my first 30 days
- Taking care of ourselves, taking care of each other
- Equity, diversity and inclusion commitments
- Statement on SFU's Athletics Team Name Change
- Finding connection in times of adversity
- Wishing you a safe and restful holiday break
- Op-ed: SFU helping drive social, economic innovation in time of crisis
- 2022
- President’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award
- Strategic Plan
- Approach
- How to participate
- What we're hearing
- April 4, 2022: Updates and reflections
- April 19, 2022: Updates and reflections
- SFU: What’s Next? phase one results now available
- Research assistants shape SFU: What’s Next? analysis
- SFU: What’s Next? – Message from the President to Faculty and Staff
- SFU: What’s Next? – Message from the President to Students
- Search announcement: Provost and Vice-President Academic
- SFU: What’s Next? Phase 2 results now available
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SFU: What’s Next? Phase 2 results now available
SFU: What’s Next? is a cross-university collaboration to collectively express SFU’s vision, purpose, values and priorities. The final plan will help align efforts across the university.
From May to October, the SFU: What's Next? team hosted conversations across a number of communities, from faculty and staff to students to alumni and external advisors. Read the key themes and findings from dozens of round table conversations and input from over 1,000 students in the latest reports.
Student engagement process and findings
Throughout the first month of the fall term, SFU’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue led a by-students, for-students engagement process that saw more than 1,000 students share feedback on what should come next for SFU.
The team engaged directly with students during in-person activations at Convocation Mall and campus events including Week of Welcome and Clubs Days, and distributed a survey broadly through direct emails and outreach to student groups and organizations.
Student respondents were asked to rate and share ideas to improve educational quality, the student experience and the quality of campuses and facilities. The survey also examined the degree of student influence and student visions for the university’s future.
Phase two analysis and findings
Phase two of the SFU: What’s Next? community conversations involved the project team facilitating smaller round table discussions, virtually and in-person, with approximately 500 total participants representing faculty, staff, students, alumni and community partners.
Research assistants Catherine Jeffery, Elina Jin and Stan Hetalo analyzed over 113 pages of notes from these sessions. During that time, the session notes were coded inductively to identify themes and ideas that surfaced.
Several topics arose repeatedly, including improving SFU’s reputation and rank, how community engagement could be advanced to further Reconciliation and address the climate crisis, and expanding education for a diverse student population.
Conversation continues this fall
The next step in the engagement process is to share a draft framework. Faculty, staff and students are invited to register and share feedback with the president and provost through town halls on: