May 13, 2021

The 2021-2022 Council has been hard at work for the last two weeks attending orientation sessions on Legal Responsibilities of Directors, SFSS By-Laws, Collective Agreement, Robert Rules, SFSS Finances, and Anti-Oppression. The virtual meetings aimed at training the group of over forty student leaders that are now the SFSS legal decision-making body. 

Council is thankful to the SFSS Staff that have been leading these orientation sessions and sends a special thank you to Kalamity Hildebrandt from The Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG) for leading the Anti-Oppression Workshop (pictured below).

2020-2021 Council attends Anti-Oppression Workshop with SFPIRG

Background

Students that attended the October 26th, 2020, Annual General Meeting (AGM) approved four by-law proposals that aimed at bringing student power back. With the new governance structure, decision-making is no longer centralized in the hands of a few Directors. Council is now the official representative of the 25,000+ undergraduate students at Simon Fraser University.