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A message from Provost and VP Academic Eric Davis and the UFV 2025 Visioning Committee: What FIVE GOALS must UFV achieve? Come and create the Education Plan, 2016–20 on Fri, Nov 20. The visioning exercise began with this question: What should UFV look like in 2025? Your voices and your ideas have helped shape our answer: … Read more

UFV alumna Bonnie Reilly Schmidt will launch her new book on women’s experience in the RCMP on Nov 17 at 4 pm in the rotunda outside of the Abbotsford library. Silenced: The Untold Story of the Fight for Equality in the RCMP, offers a comprehensive history of women in the RCMP from 1873 until today. … Read more

Forty years ago it was rare to see a woman in a police uniform. And when you did, chances are she was in a skirt and kept her gun in her purse. Now women comprise 20 percent of all police officers in Canada. Women in policing have faced challenges along the way, and many have … Read more

President Mark Evered met with entrance scholarship recipients recently to welcome them to UFV. See photos here. Many supporters of UFV braved heavy rain on Nov 12 to come to UFV’s inaugural Town and Gown fundraising dinner and boost UFV scholarships. See photos here and a Storify summary of the evening here. And here are … Read more

It was an ultra artistic day at The Reach Gallery Museum in early October when a multitude of UFV arts disciplines converged for an art marathon as part of Creativalley festivities. Joy TV’s Fraser Focus show came and did a piece on it that really captured the spirit of the day. The segment features several … Read more

Fashion Design alumna Adelle Renaud was on CBC’s Dragons Den on Nov 4 with her business associate, Canadian women’s national soccer team goalkeeper Erin McLeod, successfully pitching their company Peau de Loup, which designs clothing for women with a tomboy twist. See it here.

Satwinder Bains, director of the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, was interviewed by CBC’s The National on Nov 5 on significance of the appointment of four members of the Sikh faith to the new Liberal government’s first  cabinet. See it here. She was also quoted in an article on the same topic in the Globe and … Read more

UFV has redesigned its online academic calendar. The changes were made along with the publishing of the new Winter/Summer 2016 calendar on Nov 2. The main updates to the calendar include: Mobile-friendly design, allowing students and other users to better view and navigate the calendar on phones and tablets. A visual update, to better reflect … Read more

As usually happens, things got a little freaky at UFV around Halloween. Employee parties on the Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses on Oct 30 made from some creepy and fun photo ops. See them here. The UFV Bookstore held a successful Customer Appreciation Day on Oct 28, including the now legendary UFV swag fashion show! See … Read more

In Darren Blakeborough’s latest course, Zombies on the Brain: Popular Culture & the Living Dead, he uses cultural objects as teaching examples to open up “the same theories by the same dead old white guys.” Blakeborough sees the true value of this approach as the way it makes those otherwise drier concepts more accessible to … Read more

Welcome to new employees and congratulations to those moving to a new job Kuljit Badesha — Janitor, Facilities Amber Johnson — Janitor, Facilities Camilla Coates — Senior Graphic Designer, University Relations; moved from Graphic & Digital Design Mac Technician, Graphic & Digital Design Karsten Renaerts — Advisor, Disability Services Lori Fowler — Assistant, Program Development, … Read more

See summaries and photos of the launch of the Chilliwack Creative Commission, hosted at the UFV Aboriginal Gathering Place on the Chilliwack campus on Oct 22;  the second annual Kin Day (Oct 19);  and the Feeding 9 Billion Challenge, held over the Oct 17/18 weekend.