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UFVAA & TD Financial Literacy webinar series — Financial Planning for Children’s Future — May 4

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If you have a desire to learn about the estimated lifetime costs associated with raising children, how to optimize investment opportunities, the types of insurance you may require, or what estate planning tools you may require, this webinar is for you. https://ufv-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aJm4zayeQYOngchEMotZMg Wed, May 4 12-1 pm Virtual Zoom https://ufv-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aJm4zayeQYOngchEMotZMg For more information, contact Bahara … Read more

TD Financial Literacy webinar series — Building Personal Wealth

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This webinar will assist you in building your personal toolbox for growing your wealth. Embedded in this webinar is an opportunity for Q&A related to the investment vehicles that will be discussed. From RRSPs and TFSAs to GICs and Bonds, this webinar will cover a wide variety of options, giving you the right tools to … Read more

UFVAA & TD Financial Literacy webinar series – 10 Lessons | TD Wealth for Women

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This webinar is designed to equip women with tools to build a financially secure future. Bring a friend and learn about creating a roadmap to achieve your financial goals. This financial literacy webinar covers young adulthood through to retirement. Register today: https://ufv-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Pl58uvCHTT6tpdxenNk24Q The UFV Alumni Association, in partnership with affinity partner TD Insurance, is pleased … Read more

Educators Journey towards Reconciliation & Weaving Knowledge Systemss

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Educators’ Journey towards Reconciliation June 13, 14, 2022 (9 am to 4 pm) UFV Abbotsford campus The Educators Journey Towards Reconciliation is a two-day workshop where we will go through a journey to discover challenges and best practices in decolonizing our education practice and spaces. Through reflecting on your experiences and knowledge of Indigenous history … Read more

How do you know that? Culturally relevant and responsive teaching workshops

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Internationalization includes integrating different ways of knowing into activities and curriculum. But what is a “way of knowing”? What if instructors aren’t familiar with different ways of knowing? How can they do it for content that is not “cultural” in nature? In this workshop, we will start by engaging in a cross-disciplinary exercise that activates … Read more

Senate Public Meeting — May 13

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The next Senate meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 13, 2022 at 1:30 pm on the Abbotsford Campus in A225. The deadline for submission for items for the agenda is Tuesday, May 3 at noon. Please email your submissions to UFVSenate@ufv.ca https://www.ufv.ca/senate/meeting-schedule/ For more information, contact Marlene Affleck at marlene.affleck@ufv.ca 05/13/2022

Volunteers needed — Thinking Playground summer camps

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Volunteer Opportunity: Thinking Playground Summer Camps Interested in helping children improve their reasoning skills? Volunteer with Thinking Playground Summer Camps! Volunteers assist camp counselors in leading activities, games, and supervising campers. The camps use the UNESCO-endorsed, Philosophy for Children (P4C) method of teaching through dialogue. All camps include community of inquiry sessions during which children … Read more

EFCIE student researcher awarded US$70K scholarship for graduate studies at Ivy League university

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Olena Bogdanov, an EFCIE student researcher and UFV alumna, has been awarded a US$70,000 scholarship to attend Cornell’s Dual Master’s program in Urban Technology in Fall 2022. The Dual Master’s program is centred around a major project, through which teams of students create and deploy advanced computing methods to make cities more sustainable. Over the … Read more

Chat-I (Chat Internationalization) — April 28

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Chat-I: Accent Matters with special guest, Yunyi Chen, Educational Developer at Queen’s University. Join us as Yunyi shares a few findings from a Queen’s University report on perceptions of accent and authority among instructors and her lived experiences as someone who speaks English as an additional language in Canada. Have stories to share? We will … Read more

Celebrate Learning — Two online events — May 3 and 4

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TLC is hosting two events to celebrate learning at UFV: CELEBRATE LEARNING — INDIGENIZATION The Celebrate Learning – Indigenization event on May 3 includes concepts related to decolonization, Indigenization, and Reconciliation efforts occurring at UFV. These can be demonstrated through relationship-building, infusing Indigenous worldviews and/or Indigenous Ways of Knowing and being into the classroom. CELEBRATE … Read more

Shakespeare Reconciliation Garden volunteer orientation — April 27

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Feel like getting out into the fresh air? Come to a volunteer orientation at the Shakespeare Reconciliation Garden. At the orientation, we will review which plants we consider to be weeds, how to weed, and where to put the weeds. We will also introduce you to our volunteer sign-up process so that your participation can … Read more