Simon Fraser Student Society

The SFSS consists of over 26,000 students, with an annual budget of over one million dollars. Membership is mandatory, and all SFU students as members are charged fees collected by the university on behalf of the SFSS. The organization employs both permanent and student staff, and is located on the second level of the Maggie Benston Centre on SFU's Burnaby Campus. Since its founding in 1967, the organization has been highly politicized. Main campaigns have centered around opposing tuition fee increases and increasing student financial assistance. In addition, the Society has also campaigned for student-dominated university decision-making, academic freedom, improved student services, social democracy, women's rights, gay rights, First Nations, the disabled, and international students.