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Looking for skills growth in your business writing? Writing doesn’t come easy to everyone, especially in the business world! Check out the Business Writer’s Weekend to jumpstart your workplace-writing skills. Key skills you will acquire include the basics of writing a grant, writing a press release, and much more. Learn how to use your writing … Read more
The SOWK 380 course, typically taught by Professor Robert Harding, is a class that has a history of harnessing the creative and inventive juices of UFV students in the pursuit of social justice. This video acknowledging that UFV is in Sto:lo territory is just one example of their superior work and the video is open … Read more
The Post-PD report has been update. Please use the new form for all Post PD report submission as of September 11, 2017. Find the NEW Post PD Report at: http://www.ufv.ca/media/assets/human-resources/hr-forms/Post-PD-report.pdf If you have any questions please call the Professional Development Assistant at local 5133 or via email at in-service_pd@ufv.ca 10/31/2017
Frontier Life is a digital resource designed to enrich teaching and research, examining settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world from 1650-1920. With a vast array of primary source material previously unavailable in digital form, this resource enables research into the many dynamics of frontier existence and its lasting influence across … Read more
In an effort to make New Student Orientation more accessible, UFV has launched an online orientation program, delivered through Blackboard. Divided into three modules, the Online NSO delivers essential information in a convenient, engaging format. The first module, released in late May, covers course planning and online registration. The second module, released on September 3, … Read more
UFV Visual Arts Faculty Brenda Fredrick has an installation of recent work installed in the S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery through October 6 Exploration with the works and space will continue throughout the duration of the exhibition. Viewers are encouraged to use a cell phone flashlight to read the labels and textual information. To Oct 6 Mon-Fri; … Read more
A UFV Continuing Education course is making a difference in the lives of firefighters in Surrey. Evidence-Based Decision Making is aiding firefighters in making the tough decisions they face while maintaining a level of transparency when questioned about their actions. This Continuing Education course, and success the firefighters have found with the learning outcomes, is … Read more
The next Senate meeting will be on Fri, Sept 22. If you have any items for the Senate agenda, please send them to Lisa McMartin by 12 noon on Mon, Sept 11. http://www.ufv.ca/senate/ For more information, contact Lisa McMartin at lisa.mcmartin@ufv.ca 09/22/2017
Some events at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre to be aware of, as they affect traffic and parking congestion on and around campus. • Sat, Sept 9 – Touch a Truck Charity Event: 11 am (in UFV lots 4 and 5) • Mon, Sept 14 – Rise Against Concert: 7:30 pm • Sat, Sept … Read more
Renovations of the first floor of the Abbotsford library will continue into September, but the library will be open regular semester hours and is ready to welcome new and returning students, faculty, and staff. The first floor remains closed to access, so study space is reduced, and students will be referred to the computer labs … Read more
After an absence of nine years, the Ask Me! I Work Here buttons are back. All UFV employees are encouraged to wear an Ask Me! I Work Here button for the first two weeks of the fall semester. “By wearing these buttons, we are showing new and returning students that we truly do care: … Read more
Satwinder Bains has been appointed to the position of Principal, UFV India, effective September 1, 2017. Bains will provide oversight of UFV India academic operations and leadership for the faculty and academic staff team at the UFV campus in Chandigarh. She will work collaboratively with deans, directors and department heads responsible for academic programming delivered … Read more
UFV teamed up with two other BC universities to provide a venue for a conference normally held in the United States this summer. The Digital Pedagogy Lab is in its third year and is usually held at a university in the US. As a result of the US travel ban, the conference was looking to … Read more
Financial Aid and Awards — Tips for September Be sure to pay all of your fees before the September 19 deadline — penalties will be applied if fees are not paid in full. If you’re experiencing delays with government student loan funding, please contact Financial Aid and Awards right away. When you receive your Master … Read more
Welcome to #MisconductMondays here at the UFV Academic Success Centre. We’ll be releasing one academically dishonest critter per week until the end of August while we launch our very special new project intended to educate students about academic integrity and how to maintain it. We’ve already released Plagiarizing Panda, Cheating Cheetah, Impersonating Iguana, Improper Access … Read more