Purpose
The Faculty of Education is leading the collaboration of the RESPECT project, which responds directly to SFU's ARC report's, Walk This Path With Us, Call #7: “Develop intervention programs teaching cultural safety and anti-racism for all employees at SFU”.
- Create an understanding of how to build respectful and sustainable relationships with the host nations of SFU to ensure their knowledges, languages, cultures, and protocols are honoured by SFU employees.
- Build capacity of SFU employees understanding of Indigenous Peoples' past, present, and future.
- Ensure all SFU employees take up their individual responsibility to reconciliation through the collective work of decolonization and Indigenization.
- Foster and sustain a culture of life long (un)learning and respect for SFU employees.
- ‘Enhance’ ongoing professional development in the areas of cultural safety, decolonization, and Indigenization for SFU employees at all three campuses.