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The fall schedule for the Municipal Pension Plan free member seminars is now posted on the mpp.pensionsbc.ca website. We’re excited to get the seminar season under way with seminars offered across BC. Member seminars Your Pension, Your Future (1.5 hours) is for new and mid-career members. Thinking About Retiring (2 hours) is for members within … Read more
The IT Services help desk will be moving into its newly renovated space in Abby B241 during the last two weeks of August. At that time we will also will be transitioning to a new name. The help desk will become the IT service desk. Our email address will be changing from helpdesk.its@ufv.ca to ITservicedesk@ufv.ca … Read more
The responsibility for Parking Services is transitioning from Facilities to Ancillary Services, effective Monday, Aug 17. All parking conditions and processes will continue as usual. For additional information, please contact Parking Services via email at parking@ufv.ca or via web form at ufv.ca/parking/contact-us/. Additional parking information can be found online at ufv.ca/parking. 08/24/2015
The Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, supported by the Visual Arts department at UFV and UFV International, presents the exhibition (Mis) Interpretation: Sikh Feminisms in Representations, Texts and Lived Realities. Opening reception Tues, Sept 29, 5pm S’eliyemetaxwtexwArt Gallery Featuring a keynote address from Dr. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh of Colby College (Maine, USA). The exhibition will … Read more
The College Pension Plan has announced online pension estimators have been updated for plan design. Members can now use the online estimators to calculate what their pension benefit may be for retirement dates after Jan 1, 2016. For more information please go to http://www.pensionsbc.ca/portal/page/portal/pen_corp_home/cpp_home_page/ or contact Debbie Dyck in HR at local 4653. 09/30/2015
When she arrived at the University of the Fraser Valley in 2007, Lisa Roman had never laid hands on an oar or set foot in a racing boat. Today, she’s in Europe with the Rowing Canada senior women’s national team, competing in major international regattas with an eye on qualifying for the 2016 Summer Olympics … Read more
Whitney Fordham has joined the University Relations team at UFV in the role of Manager, Alumni Relations. This is a term appointment until January of 2016. Fordham replaces Nancy Armitage, who left UFV to take the position of Director of Alumni Relations at BCIT. “I am very pleased to welcome Whitney to the University Relations … Read more
Many at UFV will be saddened to hear that longtime UFV chemistry professor Lesley Dance (née Spier), passed away on July 8, 2015 from pancreatic cancer. Lesley was the wife of fellow longtime chemistry professor Nigel Dance. She had recently retired from UFV. The following is adapted from an obituary published in the Abbotsford News: … Read more
Aaron Pauls closed the book on his sparkling university golf career on Saturday, helping Team Canada to a historic finish at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea. The Canadian men’s golf squad, featuring Pauls and helmed by his longtimeUFV coach Chris Bertram, battled their way to sixth place – the best-ever finish for the … Read more
To improve service security and performance, IT Services will be working on Banner system upgrade during the regular maintenance window: Sun, August 2 7-11 am Banner Self-Service will be unavailable during that time. MyUFV, My UFV Course Tools, and Student Files will experience service interruptions. Online Learning, and Student and Employee email will be available. … Read more
The UFV Library is very excited to report that after three years of working towards establishing an institutional repository (IR) at UFV, we will launch our IR in Fall 2015. But we need help naming it! Our Institutional Repository Libguide provides information on what an IR is and offers some guidelines for name suggestions. Please … Read more
UFV Library is putting together a cookbook to celebrate the newest addition to the library’s special collections: The Newman Western Canadian Community Cookbook Collection. This special collection of community cookbooks began in the Fall of 2014 at the suggestion of Dr. Lenore Newman, UFV’s Canada Research Chair in Food Security and the Environment. Cookbooks are … Read more
Why Attend? This symposium gives educators in BC’s post-secondary institutions a venue to share their teaching and learning questions, gain insights and report on progress about ongoing investigations about their practice, as well as obtain feedback with a goal to network and connect educators across institutions and disciplines. Scholarly inquiry involves educators investigating a question … Read more
At its June 19, 2015 meeting, the Board of Governors approved the following policies, policy direction, and bylaw: BRP 205.01 — Board Policy on Tuition and Other Fees BRP 230.01 — Board Policy on the Student Union Society BPD 230 — Board of Governors Policy Direction on Student Support, Student Co-Curricular Learning, and Student Societies … Read more
UFV’s Faculty of Science is sending science student Kevin Kobes to London for the highly revered London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), where he will meet up with over 400 students from 60 participating countries. Kevin will be blogging this experience along the way at blogs.ufv.ca/science/category/trips/science-in-london/ The scope of LIYSF extends further than broadening scientific … Read more