| I do wish you much luck with this. How we’ve tried, so far to no avail!
Kind regards,
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Suggestion to SFUFA: Can the administration be convinced to offer reduced rates for conference facilities for SFU faculty? I found a thread on this topic from 2012, when Carla Grabner (then SFUFA President) had taken it up with the administration. Did anything change as a result of these discussions? There seems to be wide (though not universal) dissatisfaction with the current funding policies. Even here at SFU Burnaby, I personally have experienced these challenges, as we had to pay to book rooms for seminars associated with our President's Dream Colloquium two years ago. It seems like there would be better ways to achieve balanced books, which would allow SFU Faculty to better "Engage the World" at our local campuses, rather than fleeing to a more generic and certainly less SFU-specific location downtown in order to attract international researchers to our meetings.
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