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Archives for March, 2009

death by a thousand cuts? / briefly analysing the sfu budget

I promised (a while ago) to analyze the SFU budget that will be proposed tomorrow morning at the Board of Governors‘ Finance Committee meeting.  You can grab a PDF copy of the budget (here) and page through it, if you’d like, and I’ll try to make references to page numbers as I make my analyses. [...]

envision education / re-elect me!

It’s election season at Simon Fraser University, and I’m running for re-election as a student member of the Board of Governors and of the Senate of the university.  I’d appreciate your support — if you’re an SFU student (no matter grad or undergrad) you can vote in the election, which will be online on March [...]

proposed university budget now available

I’ve just received my copy of the university’s public budget document for SFU for 2009/2010.  This document sets out the $390 million budget and, in fairly broad strokes, what we plan on doing with it. It’s important to note that the $390 million budget is an increase from last year of only $8 million — [...]