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Lack of support for First Nations Studies at SFU, says Senate

Discussion regarding the current status and role of SFU’s department of First Nations studies (FNS) broke out in the latest SFU Senate meeting on February 5.   Single-digit faculty When a motion to approve the action plan for the department resulting from its external review was proposed, senator David Burley began the discussion by commenting that he had noticed in the Dean’s summation and commitment of resources that the faculty consisted of only 3.5 members. “I don’t know if any department in any university on the scale of SFU would have a department of 3.5 members,” he said. Senator Burley…

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