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We are excited to announce in Manulife Vitality group benefits — employee education series. Manulife Vitality for group benefits helps members understand their current health, social and lifestyle habits, and then offers rewards for leading a healthy lifestyle! With a variety of activities, it gives members the tools and motivation they need to help reach … Read more
Both physical locations of the UFV Bookstore, as well as our online store, will be closed from Tuesday, March 29-Thursday, March 31 for our annual inventory count. We will be reopening on Friday, April 1. Please place any requests with us before Monday, March 28 so that we can ensure your orders are completed before … Read more
The library has received a grant from the BC History Digitization Program, Irving K Barber Learning Centre at UBC to digitize eligible BC cookbooks that will be added to UFV’s institutional repository, HarvestIR. We’ve been actively adding cookbooks from the Newman Western Canadian Cookbook Collection over the last two years and to date have digitized … Read more
UFV’s cybersecurity team has seen an increase in fake browser update warnings. These popups have appeared in Chrome, but may also appear in other browsers such as Firefox or Edge. Clicking the link in this popup will lead to malware. If you see a request to update your browser, do not click it. UFV employee … Read more
Abstract: The literature dealing with business models has considerably grown; however, most research takes place in large for-profit organisations in western settings, rather than small–medium enterprises (SMEs) with social goals. This presentation will illustrate an alternative way of thinking about business models for SMEs by integrating social innovation into its societal fabric. The talk will … Read more
Ey swayel. History 396, taught by Geoffrey Carr, and the Indigenous Affairs Office are asking help from the UFV community. Art Installation (name TBA) Scope: Installation of Children’s outfits Sizes 7–12 on UFV Abbotsford campus (indoors and outside). The outfits will represent the children from Indian Residential Schools in Canada. Installation day will be Tues, … Read more
Hello Friends, It’s been a busy week. Through these weeks of reflecting, celebrating, and learning about the history of Black Canadians, I hope the sheer diversity of the Black Canadian experience has been evident. When we speak about Black history we can speak about it within the Canadian context, and as we’ve seen via some … Read more
Study Title: Perceptions of Elder Maltreatment Dr. Lesley Jessiman, Dr. Andrea Hughes, and student research assistant Hope Buchanan from UFV’s Centre for Education and Research in Aging (CERA) are conducting a study to examine people’s knowledge and understanding of elder maltreatment. We wish to better understand what older and younger adults currently know about elder … Read more
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