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New Continuing Studies course focuses on understanding and identifying violent tendencies in youth

By on August 21, 2012

The relationship between violence and youth is one of the many topics that will be discussed in a new Continuing Studies course at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) this coming fall. Assessing Risk: Understanding Violence Potential in Youth is constructed for students, counsellors, professors, social workers, and anyone who works with youth, and [...]

The humble beginnings of UFV's Chilliwack campus.

UFV and Chilliwack go way back

By on August 20, 2012

Ever since the days of Fraser Valley College and a ‘college without walls’, the Chilliwack community has had a strong connection to UFV. Before the college even had any facilities to call its own, it ran its first classes in church basements in the daytime and Chilliwack Secondary in the evenings. For many years, people [...]

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Renovation and renewal: Stantec brings new life to existing structures in designing UFV’s future

By on August 20, 2012

Renovation and renewal are the cornerstones of Phase II of the UFV Canada Education campus, helping to redefine the buildings and bring a new vision the university. Having previously been built as  a military engineering school, the challenge was to repurpose, renovate, and expand this building to create an exciting and vibrant new campus for [...]

The puzzle-piecers of the jigsaw puzzle that is CEP.

Campus planning: One giant jigsaw puzzle, and a million details

By on August 20, 2012

There is always some chaos involved when finishing up a big building and renovation project and moving people in, but amidst the chaos last week were some very pleased UFV employees. They were in good spirits because, despite the fact that months of work remains to get all faculty, staff, and students moved in and [...]

The inside of the new CEP building.

Crunching some numbers: what went into the new building at Canada Education Park

By on August 20, 2012

The University of the Fraser Valley has room to grow for decades with its big move to the Canada Education Park. UFV owns 85 acres of land at the CEP, set adjacent to the Vedder River on the former Canadian Forces Base Chilliwack, which closed in 1997. On May 11, it officially opened the second [...]

The building before the renovations.

Extreme Makeover — UFV edition.

By on August 20, 2012

Call it Extreme Makeover — UFV edition. The new building at the Canada Education Park in Chilliwack that UFV opened this week isn’t exactly new, but it isn’t exactly old either. It is a bold reimagining of what was an engineering school (built for that purpose but never used for that purpose) that was mothballed [...]

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A new campus with a health and wellness focus

By on August 20, 2012

UFV is making a very exciting move into the new facilities at the Canada Education Park in Chilliwack. Joining the already established Trades and Technology Centre at the new CEP campus will be most of the programs from the Chilliwack campus on Yale Road. The new campus will have a special focus on health and [...]

UFV President Mark Evered welcomes members of the Rotary club to the new CEP building.

A timeline of UFV’s Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park

By on August 20, 2012

1995 — Federal government announces closures of several military bases, including CFB Chilliwack, as a cost-cutting measure. CFB Chilliwack winds up operations in 1997. 1997 — UFV (then UCFV) commissions study for an International Centre on former base lands. March 2003 — Partners submit proposal for Canadian Research, Education, Science & Technology Park to the [...]