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“Dare to do things differently”: Retiring faculty remember SFU Beedie’s unconventional early beginnings

May 4, 2022

Starting with its early commitment to community engagement and innovation, Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business has embraced a radical and unconventional ethos from the beginning. Originally established as the Faculty of Business Administration in 1982, SFU Beedie has, since its inception, celebrated academic freedom and dialogue by bringing in diverse, progressive, interdisciplinary and innovative faculty. “We thought of ourselves as a radical campus at the time,” says Blaize Horner Reich, RBC Professor of […]

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