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Workplace mental health matters. People are talking more openly about mental health and wellness — attitudes are shifting, awareness is growing — but the work we need to do to foster safe, supportive, and mentally healthy spaces is an ongoing effort. Like our physical health, we need to take care of our mental health. And … Read more
The Langar Project is a partnership project between the South Asian Studies Institute and UFV Library. The Library is proud to exhibit the project highlighting Langar’s history, spiritual meaning, preparation and protocol specifics. https://libguides.ufv.ca/SouthAsianStudies/Langar_Project For more information, contact Mary-Anne MacDougall at maryanne.macdougall@ufv.ca 11/29/2022
As part of a six-week consultation, the University Secretariat invites the UFV community to submit collaborative or individual feedback on the revisions to the Space Management (220) policy. Please review the documents on the website below. Please distribute to others in your area, as appropriate. The procedures to this policy are also attached for information. … Read more
What’s happening? On Dec 21, the UFV Library will be moving to a service called OpenAthens. This new service will have users sign in with their UFV single sign-on credentials (same as myUFV, myClass, myFiles, myMail) to provide a more seamless experience when accessing digital library resources (e.g., articles, videos, and eBooks). It also enables … Read more
We are in our final week of the UFV Employee Giving campaign! Thank you to everyone who has donated to this year’s campaign in support of the United Way and UFV. All employees who make a gift to the United Way or UFV until Nov. 29 (Giving Tuesday) will be entered into the weekly prize … Read more
What do I need to know? Building C on the Abbotsford campus will have fire alarm verification testing from 7 am to 4:30 pm on Tues, Nov 29. Fire alarm/bells may ring intermittently for about 10 seconds at a time between 7 am and 4:30 pm. Why? To link the new fire alarms with the … Read more
Thank you to everyone who has supported this year’s UFV Employee Giving campaign in support of the United Way and UFV. All employees who make a gift to the United Way or UFV until Nov. 29 (Giving Tuesday) will be entered into the weekly prize draw. There are two prize draws remaining, taking place on … Read more
As we approach the end of the Fall term, it’s important to remember we are in the midst of flu season and while we have progressed in the COVID-19 pandemic battle, BC’s health experts indicate influenza and other respiratory illnesses are on the rise. UFV remains committed to maintaining a healthy and safe environment for … Read more
As the holiday season is fast approaching, Human Resources has been asked to clarify the upcoming the seasonal break. We are pleased to confirm that the university will close at 4:30 pm on Friday, December 23, 2022 and remain closed until Tuesday, January 3, 2023. On behalf of the HR team, we hope this helps … Read more
We are midway through the annual UFV Employee Giving campaign in support of the United Way and UFV. Thank you to everyone who has donated thus far! All employees who make a gift to the United Way or UFV until Nov 29 (Giving Tuesday) will be entered into the weekly prize draw taking place Nov … Read more
Financial Services is pleased to announce that Web Time Entry (WTE) for hourly employees is coming in spring 2023. Web Time Entry is an electronic web-based time entry system designed to give UFV’s hourly timesheet employees a better way to report, track and review their hours. Web Time Entry improves accuracy and eliminates loss or … Read more
There’s more to a cookbook besides its recipes. Community cookbooks provide a snapshot of a time and place. They are a primary document about popular foods, current technologies, and cultural norms. Funded by the BC History Digitization Program at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC and the UFV library, researchers, students, faculty, and … Read more
Special thanks to everyone who has donated to the Employee Giving campaign to date! All employees who makes a gift to United Way or UFV from now until Nov 29 (Giving Tuesday) will be entered into a weekly prize draws every Friday until Dec 2! Congratulations Tanya Vanpraseuth, winner of the Nov 4 draw! If … Read more
Congratulation to Chris Schinckus! Stanford University recently published its updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators including the 2% most quoted researchers in the world for the year 2021. For a second consecutive year, Chris Schinckus has been included in this database for 2021 in the field of Business and Economics. https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4 For more … Read more
Dr. Lucy Lee is hosting a scientist working with Coho salmon and sea lice. They are looking for recreational fisher people who may be catching coho salmon (salt or freshwater fish). They only need the fresh carcass, i.e., tails or heads or innards. “If anyone has been lucky fishing healthy coho recently and do not … Read more