![]() Eighteen months later, on September 9, 1965, the university began its first semester with 2,500 students. ![]() The campus faces northwest over Burrard Inlet. Architects Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey won a competition to design the university, and construction began in the spring of 1964. From a variety of sites that were offered, Shrum recommended to the provincial government that the summit of Burnaby Mountain, 365 meters above sea level, be chosen for the new university. Shrum was appointed as the university's first chancellor. The original name of the school was Fraser University, but was changed because the initials "FU" evoked the profane phrase "fuck you". The university was named after Simon Fraser, a North West Company fur trader and explorer. He recommended the creation of a new university in the Lower Mainland and the British Columbia Legislature gave formal assent on March 1, 1963, for the establishment of the university in Burnaby. Simon Fraser University was founded upon the recommendation of a 1962 report entitled Higher Education in British Columbia and a Plan for the Future by John B. The newly constructed university in 1967, with the Academic Quadrangle as a centre of the campus Among the list of alumni includes three premiers of British Columbia ( Glen Clark, Gordon Campbell and Ujjal Dosanjh), Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini, Prime Minister of Lesotho Pakalitha Mosisili, Max Planck Institute director Robert Turner, and humanitarian and cancer research activist Terry Fox. SFU faculty and alumni have won 43 fellowships to the Royal Society of Canada, three Rhodes Scholarships and one Pulitzer Prize. In 2015, SFU became the second Canadian university to receive accreditation from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. Consistently ranked as Canada's top comprehensive university and named to the Times Higher Education list of 100 world universities under 50, SFU is also the first Canadian member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the world's largest college sports association, as well as its only member outside of the United States. Undergraduate and graduate programs at SFU operate on a year-round, three-semester schedule. SFU has also partnered with other universities and agencies to operate joint research facilities such as the TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, which houses the world's largest cyclotron, and Bamfield Marine Station, a major centre for teaching and research in marine biology. SFU is a member of multiple national and international higher education associations, including the Association of Commonwealth Universities, International Association of Universities, and Universities Canada. The university was created in an effort to expand higher education across Canada. The 170-hectare (420-acre) main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and comprises more than 30,000 students and 160,000 alumni. ![]() Simon Fraser University ( SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver.
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