Trigger Warning: Residential School, Colonialism, Intergenerational Trauma, Genocide RE: Acknowledgement of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Residential School Survivors and all Indigenous People(s) We acknowledge the impacts and trauma the current events regarding the Kamloops Indian Residential School have brought to Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, as well as Indigenous People(s) and communities across Turtle Island. We want to […]
The Simon Fraser Student Society is currently looking for someone to mobilize and build up a supporter base of student organizing on various campaigns on social justice, academic justice, racial justice, climate justice, and equity issues on and off-campus. The Campaigns and Mobilization Coordinator is a full-time (up to 35 hours), unionized role at $26.54/hr […]
The Simon Fraser Student Society is currently looking for someone to coordinate necessary research on behalf of the Society in support of Society campaigns and initiatives as well as interpreting, maintaining and developing Society and other policies. The Policy, Research and Community Affair Coordinator is a full-time, unionized role at $32.96/hr with benefits. Read the detailed […]
Nimrit Basra was appointed as the Associate Vice-President External & Community Affairs at the last SFSS Executive Committee meeting that occurred on May 25, 2021. Nimrit will be the first to hold this position and set precedence with the work she will complete this year. As AVP External & Community Affairs, they will be working […]
The Simon Fraser Student Society is currently looking for students to be part of the Independent Electoral Commission [IEC]. The team will work together to ensure that the Society’s elections, by-elections, and referendums adhere to all related policies, by-laws, and regulations. There are four vacancies for IEC Commissioners and one for IEC Chief Commissioner. These […]
The Simon Fraser Student Society is currently looking for someone to coordinate the communications work of the Society, including materials design and production, media liaison, public relations strategies, planning, projects and website maintenance. This a full-time, unionized role at $32.96/hr with benefits. Read the detailed job description and apply here by no later than 9:00 […]
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 […]
The SFSS has made significant changes and additions to the policy, student life, and more in the last month of their board term. April 9, 2021 Motion passed to approve the WUSC x SFSS Scholarship that will award one domestic student with a refugee background and one domestic black student per term with a total […]
As the 2021/2022 Executive Committee begins their term, they are looking forward to adding fellow students to the team to help build student power stronger. During the term’s inaugural Executive Committee meeting, on May 7th, 2021, Priyanka Dhesa was appointed to the position of Associate Vice President (AVP) Academic and University Affairs by the Vice […]
The SFSS Executive Committee has released a statement in support of the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Transgender people (MMIWG2S) remembered on May 5th. The document acknowledges the minimized and disregarded genocide against Indigenous People(s) by institutions, governments, and societies that have disproportionately implicated Indigenous women, Girls, […]