Aboriginal Reconciliation Council
How we can help decolonize educational institutions
July 5, 2023By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer Content warning: mentions of colonialism, residential schools, and unmarked graves. Decolonizing SFU has to be about more than just taking a day off and wearing orange. While these are small steps in raising awareness, higher education institutions — not just SFU — have to commit to doing more. Think about the systems we have in place “Systems,” in this case, lumps a lot of things together. The education system, social systems, institutions that we encounter in our daily lives . . . we need to think about what systems we currently have in place, who…
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Grad Minutes
October 14, 2018Written by: Youeal Abera, Staff Writer The GSS partners with the SVSPO Graduate student Council speaker Nathan Lodewyk announced that the Graduate Student Society (GSS) will partner with SFU’s Sexual Violence Support and Prevention Office (SVSPO) for Sexual Assault…
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Funding uncertain for SFU’s Academic Summer Camp for Aboriginal Students
September 18, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor Updated September 21, 2018: Dr. Veselin Jungic has reached out to The Peak to indicate that the paraphrase at the end of this article which indicated that "he is convinced the camp's future on this…
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Aboriginal reconciliation report calls on university to indigenize campuses, classrooms
September 26, 2017The Aboriginal Reconciliation Council (ARC) at Simon Fraser University has unveiled its final calls to action which will guide the university in allocating its $9 million reconciliation fund over the next three years. The report calls on the university to…
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