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Financial Times at SFU: renewed + new class-discussion-starter feature!
Published by Mark BodnarI'm pleased to report that we've renewed our Financial Times subscription to June 2026. Funded in partnership with the Beedie School of Business, this subscription makes all FT content available for SFU students, instructors, and staff.
Our FT subscription was set up in the first year of the pandemic... and as I'm sure you know, budgets have been far from stable in the years since then. Normally just renewing a source isn't a big enough reason to write a blog post, but the FT is increasingly built into assignments and class discussions in many courses, so I felt it was important to share the news.
In the long run, we'd love to move to an ongoing subscription so instructors can count on having full FT access. Making that shift will require both funding (see above) and your feedback about its quality and value. I'm particularly interested in hearing about class uses of the FT:
Have you used articles or reports from the Financial Times as discussion starters or examples of topics you're teaching in your classes? Let me know!
Speaking of discussion starters...
The FT has recently launched a new feature to make it even easier to connect current events to economic & business theories in class discussions.
Try the new weekly Business School Professors' Picks series from the Financial Times: a "weekly curated selection of FT articles by and for business school faculty to connect classrooms to current events and to develop students’ critical thinking," each issue provides links to a few prof-selected FT articles as well as summaries and discussion questions to jumpstart class conversations.
For those who are new to the FT, check my earlier posts to learn about its visual & data journalism, videos, podcasts, special reports, and newsletters, as well as apps that you can use to access FT content on your phone or tablet.
Before you dive in, take a second to read through the special access procedure for the FT:
The FT has an unusual method of confirming you are a current SFU instructor, student, or staff member.
The first time you access the Financial Times (FT), you'll need to sign in at the Financial Times site using your SFU email address so they can connect you with our institutional subscription. They should recognise that your email address is with SFU and briefly bounce you over to SFU for authentication before returning you to their site where you will have full access to their content
After your account has been created, visit FT.com directly to read articles and reports. You will occasionally need to re-enter your SFU email address to log back into your FT account. Their system will briefly redirect you back to the SFU site each time for SSO (single sign on) access using your SFU ID (screen capture).
If you need help creating your account, email: customer.support@ft.com
As always, reach out if you have any questions...
-- Mark
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Mark Bodnar
mbodnar@sfu.ca
Economics & Business Librarian
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