Across Canada Challenge – June 22-30 Update Walk with us. In our Across Canada Challenge we have walked over 3,000,000 steps, which is almost to the Ontario border! Get moving today as we go for our final push before June 30. This week we are working on our fourth and final leg from Grand Falls, … Read more
Week of June 22 — 26, 2020 Minute-Taking This workshop provides introductory minute-taking skills in a digital environment. Participants will learn the steps in the minute-taking process including agenda, pre-meeting minutes, and minute template skills. Students may contact the facilitator at Lisa.McMartin@ufv.ca by Wed, June 24 if they have any specific topics they want covered. … Read more
This Sunday is Father’s Day — a day when we stop to reflect on what our fathers mean to us and to celebrate them and all they do. The Canadian Cancer Society works incredibly hard to improve and save the lives of all of those affected by cancer, but on Friday, June 19 they ask … Read more
There is still time to join the UFV staff & faculty community in our Across Canada Challenge. We encourage you to participate in this collective virtual trek across Canada via the Trans Canada Highway, which is 7,821 km long, equaling approximately 10,000,000 steps. Our goal is to cover the distance between Victoria and St. John’s … Read more
Week of June 15 — 19 Solving UFV’s COVID-19 Problems: A Design Thinking Approach In this hands-on workshop you will learn and apply the principles of design thinking to ideate solutions to challenges we are facing at UFV in the near- and long-term. You will work in online groups to reframe problems as opportunities and … Read more
COVID-19 has really turned our lives upside down, especially those of us with children. Regardless of their age, all children are facing individual challenges as they try to figure out how to adjust to lock-down, quarantining, and social distancing. Everything they took for granted has changed. They can’t hang out with their friends or extended … Read more
We need your help to step across Canada this June! Join the UFV staff & faculty community in our Across Canada Challenge. We encourage you to participate in this collective virtual trek across Canada via the Trans Canada Highway, which is 7,821 km long, equaling approximately 10,000,000 steps. Our goal is to cover the distance … Read more
Submitted by guest blogger Eric Davis, Special Advisor to the President Race is not something people can choose to ignore anymore. . . . These are very scary times for those who are just now realizing how justifiably hurt, angry, and terrified so many people of color have been all along. These are very stressful … Read more
Week of June 8 Resilience in a Remote World This virtual experience explores how to build personal resilience in this unprecedented global situation where we are striving to find new ways to collaborate and contribute to UFV’s success. Levels of stress are sometimes high, changes are often rapid, significant and uncertain leaving many of us … Read more
It never ceases to amaze me every year when the winners are announced for our staff and faculty excellence awards. We always receive many nominations for the various awards, with all of them bringing something different to UFV in many different ways. But one thing that is consistent with them all is the dedication and … Read more
