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Hello Friends, I hope you all had an opportunity to watch, or at least begin to watch Esi Edugyan the six-part CBC Massey lecture series over this last week. If you haven’t, I encourage you to do so. It’s an excellent series and its message is foundational to this year’s Black History Month theme — … Read more
To ensure the timely and accurate capture off all revenues and expenses for the current fiscal year in UFV’s financial statements, please forward the following information to Financial Services within the deadlines set out below: –EXPENSE CLAIMS – All outstanding expense claims for your department for the 2021/22 fiscal year are to be received by … Read more
Hello friends, It’s a day of celebration today. It’s the beginning of Lunar New Year and Black History Month begins today. I’ll be sending out a separate message for Lunar New Year, but I did want to say that both of these occasions are a time of celebration and of reflection, a time of both … Read more
A message from Sundeep Hans, UFV Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Happy Lunar New Year friends! Today marks the beginning of the first new moon of the lunar calendar year. Lunar New Year is celebrated annually as a festival lasting for fifteen days. It is considered one of the most important holidays of the … Read more
This is a notice of a new service management tool for Risk & Safety. https://itservicedesk.ufv.ca/TDClient/229/Risk-SafetyPortal/Requests/ServiceCatalog For more information, contact Mary Miller at mary.miller@ufv.ca 03/31/2022
Permanent employees who are eligible for the Health Spending Account and/or the Training and Development Allowance must submit claims for the 2021/22 fiscal by March 31, 2022. The claim forms for Health Spending Account and Training and Development expenses can be found on the UFV HR website: https://www.ufv.ca/hr/working-at-ufv/forms/ and account balances can be viewed by … Read more
Born and raised in Chandigarh, Ishpreet Anand began his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree at UFV India. Two years later, he traveled to UFV Abbotsford as an international student to continue his educational journey. When Ishpreet arrived on campus, he immediately connected with SASI (South Asian Studies Institute) where he was provided with an … Read more
UFV’s Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (CERA) is currently leading an initiative to achieve Age-Friendly University (AFU) status. The AFU designation and movement emerged from the World Health Organization call for global efforts to better needs of a growing older population and address the negative impacts of ageism. In response, Dublin City University … Read more
During a course project, it’s not uncommon for a student to propose a solution to a problem facing society — a solution that the instructor may affirm as promising and worth exploring further. The Esposito Family Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EFCIE) supports the development and refinement of such solutions through innovation grants. EFCIE innovation … Read more
As a UFV employee, if you have a social media account on LinkedIn, Twitter and/or Facebook, please consider sharing posted UFV career opportunities to your network of colleagues, clients, customers and friends to help spread the word, drive applicants to ufv.ca/careers and fill vacancies with great new hires! https://ufv.ca/careers/ For more information, contact Debra Fehr … Read more
The Risk & Safety department will join Information Technology Services in using TeamDynamix as its service management tool. The first phase of Risk & Safety’s deployment, which went live September 1, replaces many PDFs and MachForms with the new TeamDynamix ticketing system. https://www.ufv.ca/risk-and-safety/contact-info/ For more information, contact Mary Miller at mary.miller@ufv.ca 02/08/2022
UFV is developing a new Strategic Enrolment Management (SEM) plan that supports the implementation of IYAQÁWTXW: House of Transformation, UFV’s integrated strategic plan. You can view a brief outline of SEM and the engagement process here. As part of our consultation process, we are inviting all members of UFV’s internal community and other UFV supporters … Read more
Seasonal Closure: Important Timesheet and Payment information As in previous years, UFV will close for its annual seasonal closure at noon on Friday, Dec 24 and reopen on Tuesday, Jan 4, 2022. Please submit all coded and approved cheque requests and invoices by Friday, Dec 10. The final cheque run of 2021 will be on … Read more
A Sickness No One Could Escape: Examining Disease in the Pacific Northwest Researchers: Dr. Keith Carlson (UFV), Dr. John Lutz (UVic), in collaboration with research assistants: Michaela Sapielak, Holly Janzen, Maaria Zafar, Aliyah Friesen, Jackie Drummond. Report by Jackie Drummond and Aliyah Friesen ________________________________________ This summer UFV’s Peace and Reconciliation Centre launched a research project … Read more
Ken Ku is set to graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree (bio-honours, chem minor) but that’s not where university started for him. While Ken had a strong focus on science in high school, he was recruited to a US art school where he earned a degree in photography and print making. “It was … Read more