SFU Academic Freedom Group

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

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  • 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…

  • The Canadian contingent at HxA 2024 in Chicago

    The Great White North was well represented at HxA 2024. At last count, there were over 40 HxA members from Canada in attendance. These individuals study or work at 20 institutions, including the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Brock University, Camosun College, Concordia University-Montreal, Dalhousie University, Laval University, McGill University, McMaster University, Memorial University of…