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Vancouver is an attractive destination, but the high cost of living presents a challenge to our graduate students.</p> <h2><a name="action" id="action"></a>Action</h2> <p>Working closely with the provost, the dean of graduate and postdoctoral studies, SFU Advancement and with graduate students (through the Graduate Student Society), we will study ways to shift our limited resources to better support research graduate students. This includes study of tuition waivers, scholarships and bursaries. We will also work with SFU Advancement, provincial and federal funding agencies to grow resources available for graduate student support both for existing graduate students and to grow our research graduate student body. Within a year, we will set a university-wide minimum funding level for PhD students.</p> <h2><a name="goals" id="goals"></a>Project Goals</h2> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item1"> <p>1. Consult on minimum funding for research master’s students</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item1"> <ul> <li><b>November 2024</b><br> Data collection was completed in Fall 2024 and BASS funding consultations started in Fall 2024. </li> <li><b>September 2024</b><br> Data collection continues and will be completed early in fall 2024. Consultations will continue throughout the fall term.</li> <li><b>March 2024</b><br> Consultation and data gathering for programs will commence in summer 2024.<br> </li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item3"> <p>2. Enhance supports for high-quality supervision</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item3"> <ul> <li><b>November 2024</b><br> The Graduate Program Chair Handbook has been updated to provide additional resources to aid Graduate Program Chairs with supporting the graduate student journey. <br> </li> <li><b>November 2024</b><br> Consulations began on the scope of program-level supervisory policies.</li> <li><b>September 2024<br> </b>To enhance supports for high-quality supervision, in fall 2024, Graduate Studies hosted various supervision workshops for new faculty members, continuing faculty members across different campuses as well as worshop for new Graduate Program chairs.  </li> <li><b>April 2024<br> </b>A program-level supervisory policy will be reviewed in summer 2024. </li> <li><b>March 2024<br> </b>Three supervisor workshops were held in March 2024. Workshop plan for the remainder of the year is under development.</li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item5"> <p>3. Create/update plan for Graduate Student Housing at the university</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item5"> <ul> <li><b>October 2024</b><br> New residence spaces were allocated for graduate students from the existing supply of on-campus accommodation. This change will be in effect by summer 2025. </li> <li><b>October 2024<br> </b>Planning to further expand graduate student spaces as new housing supply comes online has begun.</li> <li><b>September 2024</b></li> <li>A mediated consultation took place between Residence and Housing and Graduate Student Society representatives in summer 2024 to discuss the current and potential future states for on-campus graduate student housing at all three campuses.</li> <li><b>March 2024</b><br> Higher level conversations are underway in the Housing committee to prioritise housing for graduate students.<br> </li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item6"> <p>4. Create a dashboard/integrated system to track graduate student funding</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item6"> <ul> <li><b>December 2024</b><br> A system is being developed by IT Services that can track student funding to ensure that minimum funding commitments are being upheld</li> <li><b>April 2024<br> </b>Discussions are ongoing with IT services to create a system by Fall 2024 that can generate reports for student funding for different programs. A more dynamic tracking system will be developed by end of 2024.</li> </ul> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item12"> <p>5. Support student success in obtaining internal and external awards and career development</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item11"> <p>6. Complete review and update of Graduate General Regulations (GGRs) </p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item13"> <p>7. Monitor the impact of new student visa requirements on international graduate student recruitment</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class=""> <h2><a id="goals"></a>Completed Goals</h2> <h3>2024</h3> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item9"> <p>Encourage and support more, higher-quality scholarship applications</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item9"> <p>Graduate Studies held several workshops to introduce and provide an overview of scholarships and awards as well as workshops focused on writing Tri-Agency research proposals. Indigenous Graduate Entrance Scholarship (IGES) competition process has been improved. Graduate Studies also provides weekly “office hours” for students who have questions about applying for scholarships.</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item10"> <p>Provide research-oriented supports and workshops for students</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item10"> <p>A workshop in the form of a roundtable discussion with SFU faculty members who serve as journal editors held in April 2024 for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Two skills-building workshops were organized for research graduate students. </p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class=""> <h3><b>2023</b></h3> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item8"> <p>Set a university-wide minimum funding level for PhD students by the end of 2023</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item8"> <p>A <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/gradstudies/faculty-staff/resources/funding-ga3/funding-limits/minimum-funding-ggr1-17.html">minimum funding policy</a> (annual funding of at least $28,000 for 12 terms) that applies to all research PhD students was approved by the Senate as a graduate general regulation in December 2023. Programs will develop their own funding policies that align with the university-wide policy. These will be approved by Graduate Program Committees and Graduate Studies.</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggle item7"> <p>Examine all support mechanisms (e.g., scholarships, bursaries, tuition, housing) for graduate students</p> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <div class="toggleContent item7"> <p>In June 2023,  the Board of Governors <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/dashboard/faculty-staff/news/2023/06/additional-funding-for-eligible-phd-students-to-begin-fall-2023.html">approved a $5,400 scholarship for eligible PhD students</a> entering programs in fall 2023 and those in the first four years of their program. 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