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Robbyn Bennett (MA, RCC) has joined UFV in a new position on the Vice President Students team, as the inaugural Director, Counselling and Student Wellness. This position is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction on student wellness programming and services, advancing a vision of holistic student wellness across the institution, which meets the needs … Read more
Your Academic Success Centre offers support for students through Blackboard Collaborate virtual rooms. Students can book appointments or drop-in to meet with a peer tutor. In addition to the usual one-on-one sessions, tutoring can be set up for small groups to practise presentations or review written work. WriteAway and TurnItIn are both available through the … Read more
Retirement Incentive Program. You may apply for consideration to receive the Retirement Incentive if you meet the following criteria (as of Dec. 15, 2020): You are 55 to 75 years of age; You have 10 or more years of pensionable service at UFV; You are a Type A or a Type B employee on continuing … Read more
Are you a parent who is also a student at UFV? UFV’s Child and Youth Care (CYC) program, in partnership with Student Services, is looking for student parents to participate in a survey. The purpose? To gather some information on the needs and challenges that parents face as they make their way through post-secondary education. … Read more
Tomorrow morning on Tues, November 17 at 8:15 am, our Virtual Employee Breakfast Cook-Off officially launches the 2020 UFV/United Way “Make a Difference” Campaign to support youth in need in our communities. All donations made until Giving Tuesday on Dec 1 will be matched, dollar for dollar, doubling our collective impact! Help celebrate our UFV … Read more
Please join President Joanne MacLean, Provost James Mandigo, and CFO Jackie Hogan for a faculty and staff virtual town hall. Tues, Nov. 24 3 pm Presenters will share information on UFV’s preliminary 2021/22 budget and answer your questions. You can register for the town hall here. You may submit questions in advance here.
The ShakeOut BC earthquake drill takes place across the province at 10:15am on Thursday, October 15 and UFV will be participating. This emergency drill should be practiced in a COVID-safe way wherever you are, offsite or on campus. UFV Alert, the system that delivers important emergency information during a crisis, will be activated. You will … Read more
The survey asking for your input on the strategic direction of UFV closes this Friday night. I extend my thanks to the more than 400 students, alumni, faculty, staff and community members who have taken the time so far to complete the survey – the thoughts you’ve shared have been extremely valuable. If you haven’t … Read more
UFV Risk & Safety will be hosting regular weekly Zoom sessions to answer your questions on Safe Return to Campus processes and protocols. Until mid-October, our team will host a Zoom call to share important information, update you on COVID-related matters, and answer your questions We will be hosting one sesson this Thursday: Thurs, Oct … Read more
Welcome to the following new employees, and congratulations to those changing jobs or moving into permanent positions Type B Faculty Position Mariano Mapili Assistant Professor, School of Land Use & Environmental Change Laura Buker Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies Aimee Brown Assistant Professor, Visual Arts William Maher Assistant Professor, Media Arts Joanne Robertson Assistant Professor, … Read more
Submitted by Sumitra Robertson At the end of June Peter Geller was looking for a more social team meeting for the 11 members of the Vice Provost Office. Rebekah Brackett, the Indigenous Academic Success Cohort Program Coordinator, invited colleagues to an artist skill share she was leading for the Abbotsford Arts Council in early June. … Read more
The Teaching and Learning Centre is offering an ongoing MicroCourse series of workshops (essential Blackboard tools for online courses), with synchronous sessions for each MicroCourse scheduled weekly. The primary objective of these MicroCourses is the pedagogy behind the tools and how they can be used to: *achieve learning objectives *promote student engagement *collaborate among peers … Read more
COVID-19 meant summer didn’t turn out exactly as you may have planned, but there were opportunities to get outside and enjoy summer. Show us your photos! Send your favourite one to ufvnow@ufv.ca (only one photo per email, please). You may submit more than one in separate emails.
Now that Adobe Acrobat Pro has been made available to UFV Employees, IT Services is providing all employees with a certificate-based Digital ID signature to facilitate secure electronic signing of PDF documents. For those that have Adobe Acrobat Pro installed on their UFV issued workstation, users can restart their workstations on July 27th to activate … Read more
UFV is a recipient of a 2020 BCcampus Open Education Foundation Grant. The purpose of this grant is to assist an institution that is launching, or relaunching, an open education initiative and that requires resources to maximize the impact of this effort. The BCcampus funds have been matched by the Office of the Provost and … Read more