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One of the founders of the University of the Fraser Valley has passed away. Doug Hamilton, the first chair of the Fraser Valley College board, died on January 23, 2016. He was 91 years old. Hamilton was a key part of a community coalition that lobbied for access to post-secondary education in the Fraser Valley … Read more
It’s not often you find two UFV presidents (current and former) at the same event, but when your very successful basketball coach hits a career milestone, it’s an occasion. Women’s basketball coach Al Tuchsherer was honored for 500 games on Saturday night. Pictured with Al are President Mark Evered, Al’s wife Denise (also a UFV … Read more
UFV RECOGNITION AWARDS The UFV Board of Governors is launching three new awards to recognize and celebrate UFV staff and faculty excellence in service, leadership, and teamwork that supports the values, mission, and goals of UFV. Nominations are now open for the UFV Staff Excellence Award, the UFV Inspirational Leadership Award and the UFV Teamwork … Read more
Business professor Fiona McQuarrie was busy fielding media interviews on the Supreme Court’s announcement that it has agreed to hear a case related to the provincial government’s use of legislation to change teachers’ bargaining rights in 2002. McQuarrie spoke on this issue to CBC Radio, Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, and The Vancouver Sun. … Read more
Tourism Abbotsford has been selected by UFV Business students for their winter semester class research project. The project topic is: to find out what types of visitor experiences would help develop the destination brand and overall experience. The students will be conducting focus groups to better understand the purpose of visits to the community, duration … Read more
Blackboard E-Portfolio Thurs, Feb 25 11:30 am-12:30 pm Balckboard Files & Folders Tues, Feb 16 11:30 am-12:30 pm http://events.ufv.ca/tlc/ For Faculty & Staff For more information, contact Suvi Bains at suvi.bains@ufv.ca 02/26/2016
Welcome to all of UFV’s newest employees, and congratulations to those who have changed positions: Sherry Rempel — Administrative Assistant, Career Centre moved from Department Assistant, Institutional Research Michael Karpys –Mechanical Maintenance Worker, Facilities Marla Martin — Assistant, Enrolment Services, Office of the Registrar Rita Atake — Coordinator, Academic Success Centre
Each year the Research Advisory Council (RAC) and the Research Office invite faculty researchers to be a part of the continued success of the UFV Microlecture series. Our goal is to provide “snapshots” to students and UFV faculty of the range and depth of faculty research, as well as highlight the interdisciplinary nature of their … Read more
As part of the consultation process, the University Secretariat invites the UFV community to submit collaborative or individual feedback to the Vice Provost and Associate Vice-President Academic by emailing carol.dickson@ufv.ca. The deadline for submitting feedback is Fri Jan 29, 2016. Supporting documents are online here. For more information, contact Linda Dahl at linda.dahl@ufv.ca 01/31/2016
After carefully considering the feedback and suggestions received in Sep 2015, the UEC Policy Subcommittee made further edits to the Grading System (101) policy. These changes include revising the grading scheme for better balance between the grade levels and providing further explanation in the grade descriptions. Since the revisions are fairly significant, the subcommittee is … Read more
Members of the UFV Arab Club and other supporters filled a UFV truck with items to help equip households for Syrian refugees and delivered the items to the Middle Eastern Friendship Centre in Surrey on Tues, Dec 8. See photos here. For more information, see the story on this initiative that we ran last week.
Join faculty and students from Communications, Political Science, Geography, Global Development Studies, Indo-Canadian Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies and Media Studies in a lively debate on this issue. From Beirut to San Bernardino we are reminded that terrorism impacts people all over the world. Terrorists do not respect state borders, rules of just war, or … Read more
Planning an event in the Winter 2016 semester? Wondering what to give guest speakers, special graduates, or honoured faculty and staff? The UFV Alumni Commemorative Wine makes a great gift for all of the above. This award-winning wine celebrates and honours the outstanding achievements of the graduating class of 2015. The wine labels feature the … Read more
A notice for employees aged 65 to 70 who currently receive CPP retirement pension. As of January 1, 2012, deducting CPP contributions from your pensionable earnings is mandatory up to the age of 70. However, employees over age 65 but under 70 may elect to stop making CPP contributions by completing a CPT30 form “Election … Read more
If you elected to have your Health Spending Account (HSA) benefit rolled into an RRSP this year, please be reminded that this taxable benefit will be processed on the Dec 15 pay (the actual RRSP contribution was made earlier in the year). Your Dec 15 pay may be up to $68.30 lower than usual if … Read more