SFU Academic Freedom Group

Promoting open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in research and education

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  • Changes to SFU’s Faculty of Graduate Studies as a result of our suggestions

    The SFU Academic Freedom Group has prepared feedback on the proposal for a Faculty of Graduate Studies. Our letter has been signed by 44 faculty members. Graduate Studies responded to our feedback on the FGS proposal and made some significant changes to the proposal. The response is here, and the original letter is here.

  • Our groups feedback to a proposal to establish an SFU Faculty of Graduate Studies

    SFU sought feedback to a new Faculty of Graduate Studies, which contained some vague and worrying language. Our group created a letter to provide feedback to this proposal and collected 44 faculty signatures in support. The letter is here, and the response is here.

  • The SFU Academic Freedom Group founders at HxA 2024 in Chicago

    The four co-founders of the SFU Academic Freedom Group, Alexandra Lysova, Richard Frank (from Criminology), along with Rachel Altman (from Statistics and Actuarial Science) and Mark Collard (from Archeology), attended the Heterodox Academy conference in Chicago. All four of us are also co-chairs of the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at SFU and also the co-founders and…