{"id":1410,"date":"2021-05-25T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T23:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2021-05-26T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T19:30:09","slug":"thank-you-and-happy-retirement-dianne-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2021\/05\/25\/thank-you-and-happy-retirement-dianne-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you and happy retirement Dianne Hicks!\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"line-height: 11.75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1412 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/05\/Dianne-Hicks-181x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/05\/Dianne-Hicks-181x300.jpg 181w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/files\/2021\/05\/Dianne-Hicks.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"line-height: 11.75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">After 32 years with the University of the Fraser Valley, Dianne Hicks will be retiring effective May 31, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0Dianne will be missed by staff, faculty and leaders across the University as she has been a stable, and dedicated source of human resources advice for the past three decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"line-height: 11.75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Dianne Hicks started her career with UFV on September 11, 1989, working with the University Bursar, Doug Thorpe as an Administrative Assistant.\u00a0\u00a0She made the move to Human Resources as Employee Relations Officer on August 23, 1999. On January 1, 2006 she took on the role of Associate Director, Employee Services and on November 16, 2009 she became the Director of Human Resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"line-height: 11.75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">In addition to her HR work with UFV, Dianne has served on several committees including the Joint Labour and Management Committee, the Joint Professional Development Committee, the Job Classification Audit Committee and numerous selection advisory committees just to name a few.\u00a0 She represented UFV externally on the Joint Committee on Benefits Administration and several Provincial HR committees.\u00a0 <span style=\"background: white;\">Dianne also played a significant role in Collective Bargaining over her many years in Human Resources.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"line-height: 11.75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">On behalf of the HR team, thank you Dianne for your countless hours of work.\u00a0\u00a0Often the last person to leave in the evening, Dianne\u2019s tremendous dedication to HR and knowledge about UFV in general will be greatly missed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xmsonormal\" style=\"line-height: 11.75pt; background: white;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Please join us in wishing Dianne Hicks a long, happy and very well-deserved retirement!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 32 years with the University of the Fraser Valley, Dianne Hicks will be retiring effective May 31, 2021.\u00a0\u00a0Dianne will be missed by staff, faculty and leaders across the University as she has been a stable, and dedicated source of human resources advice for the past three decades.\u00a0 Dianne Hicks started her career with UFV &#8230; <a title=\"Thank you and happy retirement Dianne Hicks!\u00a0\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/2021\/05\/25\/thank-you-and-happy-retirement-dianne-hicks\/\" aria-label=\"More on Thank you and happy retirement Dianne Hicks!\u00a0\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-stories","category-featured","category-information-and-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}