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For the first time in UFV history, six student clubs have collaborated to celebrate Lunar New Year. Happening on Friday March 6 from 7-10pm, the event will feature UFV’s celebration of the Year of the Sheep/Goat/Ram. The Chinese Students and Scholars Association are taking the lead on the event. Other student clubs involved include the … Read more
Garry Fehr of the Geography and the Environment department will speak at Abbotsford Learning Plus this week, and Karen Massier of Applied and Technical Studies will show her photographs the week after. Building Sustainability Into a Developing India 10 am Thurs, March 19 Garry Fehr will share lessons being learned in India which may have … Read more
The Social Work and Human Services department at UFV is currently planning a conference for April 28-May 1, 2015. Participants will learn about indigenous and international practice, anti-oppressive and feminist practice, and sustainable community development in a variety of practice areas such as human trafficking, child welfare, at risk youth, mental health to name a … Read more
Apply now for Co-Curricular Credit! CCR is getting a facelift! During the month of April, the co-curricular platform will be under construction while system upgrades are performed which may result in system outages. If you are working towards co-curricular credit, please request validation as soon as possible. All current “Pending Validation” requests will require validation … Read more
The HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) controls for Buildings A East, A West, B and G on the Abbotsfod campus are currently being upgraded. The work will be ongoing until the end of March 2015. The contractors have completed Building A East and A West. They are currently working in B and should finish … Read more
The UFV Board of Governors is extending the call for nominations for one faculty member to serve a three-year term, from August 1, 2015 to July 31, 2018. For information on membership and responsibilities of the Board, please review the Board bylaws. If you are interested in being a faculty member on the Board of … Read more
The UFV Senate is extending the call for nominations for the following faculty positions: • One member from the Faculty of Humanities • One member from the Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies Term of office is three-years, from August 1, 2015-July 31, 2018. For information on membership and responsibilities of Senate, please review the … Read more
Residence Services is hiring student staff! UFV Residence Services is looking for enthusiastic student leaders to hire as resident assistants or front desk assistants in Baker House for the upcoming summer semester and next academic year. Applications are now available through Career Link or the residence website. If you know of any students who would … Read more
The movie Wild (and the book that inspired it) has focused attention on long-distance hiking. Biology lab instructor Pat Harrison is president of both Hike Canada and Hike B.C. In that role, he coordinates work on the National Hiking Trail, a project that would link existing single-track and heritage footpaths, stretching 10,000 kilometres, from Port … Read more
The UFV Senate is extending the call for nominations for one staff member to serve a three-year term, from August 1, 2015-July 31, 2018. For information on membership and responsibilities of Senate, please review the Senate bylaws, at http://www.ufv.ca/senate/. If you are interested in being a staff member on Senate, please complete the nomination form … Read more
As part of our continuous upgrades to improve energy efficiency, we are adding metering to our buildings. To do this requires that we shut down incoming power to the building that we are adding the metering. On Sunday, March 15, we will be installing the metering for Abbotsford campus Building B, C, A West and … Read more
Come out and help us guess which iconic East or West Coast authors wrote famous literary passages. If authors are stumped, they get to call on the audience for help, so we need lifelines! This interactive literary event, which will take place at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies on UFV’s Abbotsford campus, pits BC authors … Read more
UFV wrestler Manheet Kahlon earned a silver medal at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) national championships, hosted by the University of Alberta in Edmonton on the weekend. Kahlon, competing in the men’s heavyweight (120 kg) division, battled his way to the final, where he fell to Kyle Nguyen of the Winnipeg Wesmen, last year’s CIS … Read more
The School of Business will be hosting a guest speaker for its March Research Seminar Series. Dr. Judy Zaichkowsky is an award-winning professor in the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University, and she will be presenting a seminar titled Counterfeit Culture. Tues, March 31. RSVP at busevents@ufv.ca http://www.ufv.ca/busadmin/research/research-seminar-series/ For more information, contact Emily … Read more
Tiina Higgins is the new the Executive Assistant to the Vice President — Students. Before coming to UFV, Tiina worked as Manager, Information and Office Services at Colleges Ontario in Toronto. Prior to that posting, she was the Executive Assistant to the CEO at Colleges Ontario (from 2003 to 2006). Prior to working at Colleges … Read more