SFUFA Equity Committee

The SFUFA Equity Committee is dedicated to human rights and equity. Its mandate is to address equity issues related to faculty across all sectors of the university and within the Association, propose policy changes, advise the SFUFA Executive Committee on any matters requiring attention, acquire and share relevant information, and conduct member-engagement initiatives as appropriate.

Priorities that the Equity Committee is addressing in 2025-2026:

  • Identifying equity and workload issues (based on data colleced from the 2024 Fall equity survey)
  • Collecting and analyzing Departments’/Schools’ constitution and TPC documents

Examples of issues that the Equity Committee addressed are:

  • The impact of COVID-19 on faculty in a joint project with SFU Academic Women and SFUFA. The report “Invisible Struggles: Impacts of COVID-19 on SFUFA Members” may be accessed here.
  • SFU and SFUFA Salary Anomaly Joint Committee recommendations and report are available here.

The Equity Committee blog “Tales from the Mountain (and Beyond)” may be found here.

Membership

Members of the SFUFA Equity Committee are representatives from various Faculties. The Chair of the Committee is a member of the SFUFA Executive Committee. The Terms of Reference (ToR) may be found here.

  • Mark Lechner,  Chair, Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Katie Gravestock, SFUFA rep
  • Claudia Wong Einwag, Department of Linguistics
  • Xinying Hu, Department of Labour Studies
  • Julia Lane, Faculty of Education
  • Edana Beauvais, Department of Political Science

SFUFA members are encouraged to suggest areas of concern and engage with the Committee.