AGENDA for the Regular Meeting - Public Session of the University of the Fraser Valley BOARD OF GOVERNORS Thursday, December 1, 2016 Meeting: 5:00 PM Rivers Dining Room - TTC, Canada Education Park Campus, Chilliwack
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. 1. WELCOME from the CHAIR - John Pankratz (5:00-5:10) . 2. PRESENTATIONS (5:10-6:00) . 2.1. UFV Alumni Association - Nik Venema . 2.2. Faculty of Access and Continuing Education Presentation - Sue Brigden and Susan Francis . 2.3. Updates from Community Leaders Assistant Superintendent Rohan Arul-pragasam, Chilliwack School District . 3. CALL TO ORDER - John Pankratz (6:00-6:05) . 3.1. Agenda 2016 12 01 THAT the agenda for the December 1, 2016 meeting of the UFV Board of Governors public session be adopted as presented. . 4. PRESIDENT'S REPORT - Mark Evered (6:05-6:45) . 3 - 53 4.1. Institutional report . 4.2. President's verbal report . 5. BOARD MEMBER ATTENDANCE AT COMMUNITY EVENTS - John Pankratz (6:45-6:55) . 6. INFORMATION ITEMS (6:55-7:00) . 6.1 Approved items from Board in-camera sessions To see additional information on these items, please contact Linda Dahl, Executive Assistant, UFV Board of Governors. . 6.1.1 Board in-camera session, 201610 06 AVED Quarter 2 Ministry Forecast 2015-16 Statement of Financial Information (SOFI) Annual Board Work Plan
Page 1 of 53 UFV Board meeting Agenda, Public Session December 1, 2016 Page 2016-17 UFV Five-Year Capital Plan Board Financial Report – period ending August 31, 2016 Board Education and Planning Sessions Receiving reports from UFV Alumni, FSA, and SUS . 7. ADJOURNMENT and NEXT MEETING The next public meeting of the UFV Board of Governors is on March 7, 2017 at 5 pm at the Chilliwack campus, TTC, Canada Education Park . 8. BOARD MEMBER IN-CAMERA SESSION
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President’s Report
Reports received from academic and service units are included below. An update of the President’s activities for the month of October and November will be presented at the meeting.
College of Arts (Jacqueline Nolte, Dean)
Communications:
Faculty and Student Engagements The College of Arts welcomes Dr. Rita Atake to the Communications department. She joins us from UFV’s Academic Success Centre. Sam Schechter is teaching in Chandigarh this fall; it’s been over 10 years since a Communications instructor has been there to teach. He was also selected to be the external reviewer and chair of the External Review Team for Kwantlen’s Public Relations program. Dana Landry was invited to be a panelist at the re-launch for the journal, Canadian Journal for the Study of Discourse and Writing and has a forthcoming article on writing centers in Canada for a special journal issue called The Future of Writing Centers in Canada. Travis Gingerich completed GEOG/CMNS 257 with Cydney Meyers, Mariana Mapili, and Michelle Riedlinger and organized UFV’s Centre for Sustainability waste audit with the help of Michelle Riedlinger.
Criminology:
Faculty Engagements Michele Giordano Helped the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice host a Naloxone training workshop October 4-5. The training was provided by a Naloxone trainer from Fraser Health Authority, Erica Thomson and Fraser Health’s Harm Reduction Coordinator, Erin Gibson. Both sessions were sold out.
Irwin Cohen In an upcoming book, published a chapter with Raymond Corrado and Garth Davies, entitled Counter-Terrorism Prevention in the International Crime Prevention. Corrado, R.R., Cohen, I.M., & Davies, G. Terrorism Crime Prevention Policies in Liberal Democracies: Challenges, Dilemmas, and Options. J. Winterdyke (ed), Crime Prevention: International Perspectives, Issues, and Trends. CRC Press Published a chapter on Intimate Partner Violence in Canada: Policies, and Prevalence, in Domestic Violence in International Context with Amanda McCormick and Darryl Plecas.
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Amanda McCormick Published an article titled Criminal Abuse of Women and Children: An International Perspective, in the Journal of Police Practice and Research. McCormick, A.V., Cohen, I.M, & Davies, G. (2016). Assessing the Deployment of Automated License Plate Recognition Technology: Strategies to Improve Public Safety. In L Moriarty (ed). Criminal Justice Technology in the 21st Century (3rd edition). (In press).
Amy Prevost Delivered presentations with Dr. Irwin Cohen, Yvon Dandurand, and three fourth-year students (top of page 4) at the Future of our Cities forum, on October 25. The School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and the Centre for Global hosted the event. Attended with Dr. Irwin Cohen, Dr. Amanda McCormick, Michele Giordano, and Yvon Dandurand the 2nd annual Breakfast with the Abbotsford Police Chief on October 26.
Hayli Millar In mid-May, attended with Professor Yvon Dandurand (UFV) and Ms. Vivienne Chin (International Centre for Criminal Law Reform (ICCLR)), the Children of Prisoners Europe (COPE) annual conference in Zagreb, Croatia on Children with a Parent in Conflict with the Law: What are their Best Interests? How can they be Met? In mid-May, at the invitation of Professor Dandurand, attended, as an observer and guest of ICCLR, the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice’s (CCPCJ) twenty-fifth session in Vienna, May 23-27 and its related side-events. In mid-June, attended the one-week 2016 Summer Institute for Faculty peace training session at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame along with two other UFV faculty. In July, as a co-author (Millar, Tamara O’Doherty and Katrin Roots), submitted an article for publication, What and Whose Evidence? Critical Reflections on Researching Canadian Anti-Trafficking Laws to the Anti-Trafficking Review, an international peer- reviewed journal. The article was accepted on initial screening and has been sent for peer review. In fall 2016 and winter 2017, co-supervised (with Dr. Jon Heidt) an undergraduate student’s honors thesis on right-wing extremism. Currently supervising a MA student’s major research project on high risk youth (including street entrenched youth) and service provision gaps in the Lower Mainland. Currently co-supervising (with Professor Dandurand) a UFV undergraduate student to research and summarize landmark Canadian human smuggling case law for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) Sharing Electronic Resources and Laws on Crime (SHERLOC) smuggling case law database as part of the students’ ICCLR research practicum with Professor Dandurand. The student will accompany Professor Dandurand as an invited expert to an UNODC Expert Group meeting in Vienna, November 2016. As a co-author (O’Doherty, Millar, Supporting Women’s Alternatives Network (SWAN) Vancouver, is currently revising a book chapter entitled Misrepresentations, Inadequate Evidence, And Impediments to Justice: Critical Reflections on the Human Rights Impacts of Canada’s Anti-Trafficking Legal Efforts for December 2016 submission to the editors (Durson, van der Muelen, Bruckert) of a book on Sex/Work: Regulation, Agency, and Resistance.
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Currently working with Professor Dandurand to co-research and co-write two book chapters – (1) The Confused and Erratic Response to Migrant Smuggling, Human Trafficking and the Mass Movement of Refugees: The Growing Conflation of these Issues in National and International Policies and Practices and (2) Linking Global, National and Local Action against Trafficking in Persons and Migrant Smuggling for an April 2017 publication deadline for John Winterdyk’s (editor), Palgrave Handbook of Human Trafficking. Currently working as a co-investigator (Zina Lee, McCormick, Millar) on a $220,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant on Antisocial and Prosocial Digital Activities in Youth: Risk and Resiliency. Currently working as a project team member on a Public Safety Canada funded project Strengthening the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law that will work with two Indigenous communities to strengthen the protective environment for children who are identified as being vulnerable because of their parents’ conflict with the law and involvement in the criminal justice system. This is a multi- partner initiative between the ICCLR, Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, the Legal Services Society of British Columbia (LSS), the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association, and the School of Criminology of the University of the Fraser Valley. Currently working as a co-applicant and co-investigator to revise a Simon Fraser University-Hong Kong University-University of the Fraser Valley partnership with SWAN Vancouver. The SSHRC Partnership Development Grant application on Bylaw Enforcement Drivers for the Sex Industry (BEDSI), which will examine expanding forms of governance in relation to the regulation of sex work in several Lower Mainland cities. This will include seeking small project grants in 2016-2017 and resubmitting a $200,000 SSHRC grant proposal in fall 2017.
Jon Heidt Will be presenting at the American Society of Criminology conference Free Will, Determinism, and Criminology: A Metatheoretical Analysis. In the 1980s, the sociologist George Ritzer identified a sub-field of sociology called metatheorizing, which involves the systematic study of theories and their underlying assumptions. This sub-field has received little attention in criminology; however, in recent years there has been increasing discussion of the various assumptions that underlie criminological theories (Agnew, 2011; Walsh, 2014). This paper will trace the development of assumptions about determinism and free will in criminology with a special focus on contemporary theories of criminal behavior. The assumptions made by these modern criminological theories will then be compared to recent findings about free will and determinism from philosophy, psychology, the neurosciences, and quantum physics. Insights generated by this analysis will be useful for informing future attempts at theory building and integrating theories in criminology.
Student Engagements Five undergraduate students, David Heibert, Jessica Jahn, Ashley Heaps, Sarah Ferencz, and Daniel Cochran had an opportunity to volunteer and participate (for free) in a conference in Vancouver (UBC downtown campus) on Follow the Money: Corruption, Money Laundering, and
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Criminal Justice Policy, organized by Transparency International, the ICCLR and the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. Three four-year students (Jessica Jahn, Ashley Heaps, and Sarah Ferencz) delivered presentations in the Future of our Cities forum on October 25.
Fourth-year degree student, Ashley Heaps represented the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the UNODC Expert Group meeting on Financial or Other Material Benefit Element on November 15-16. MA in Criminal Justice student, Preetpal Basanti received $1000 support for her student-led research project on the effect of protection orders on domestic violence victims’ perception of safety. Her supervisor is Dr. Amanda McCormick.
Economics:
Department Changes The department has worked towards implementing innovative and accessible curriculum for non-program students. This has culminated in the fall semester offering of ECON 199, The World Economy. The course has no prerequisites and is intended to provide interdisciplinary access to consideration of the ideas, the conflicts, the trends, and the individuals that have been shaping the world economy. These include world trade, globalization, economic development, as well as monetary and fiscal policy. The course has proven very successful and student feedback has been extremely positive. In addition to this new curriculum, the Economics department continues to incorporate contemporary issues to its current coursework. Students in ECON100 continue to examine the potential benefits and costs of the Trans Pacific Partnership and the system of supply management governing dairy production and sale in British Columbia. Energy markets and Canadian dollar fluctuations were considered in various courses. Income inequality remains a featured topic in our global development courses that students have noted particular interest in. Third-year students of international trade have examined proposals inherent in the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the potential economic implications of BREXIT. Finally,
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students currently engaged in directed studies are pursuing research topics pertaining to the development and global influence of the Chinese economy. Dr. Bosu Seo will recruit a student for work study grant, Faculty of Colour in Canadian Academia for winter 2017. Members of the department continue to work closely with the School of Business, serving as external advisors on Program Working Groups for a new applied program in finance at the graduate level. Recently, UFV students of Economics have taken the first steps towards the formation of the UFV Economics Association (EconSA). The department welcomes two new contract faculty members. Sheila Fagnan (MA, University of Calgary) joins the department following an extensive career in public service. She brings valuable industry expertise in public policy pertaining to the environment and aboriginal affairs. Ms. Fagnan is working towards incorporating her experience in these fields in unique, applied curriculum at the first- and second-year level. Kristin Dust (MA, SFU) has impressive undergraduate teaching experience and a teaching and communication style that embodies UFVs commitment to effective classroom practices. The Department of Economics would like to congratulate Dr. Ahmed Hoque, a joint Limited-Term Appointment (LTA) faculty member with the School of Business, on his recent Ph.D. thesis defence at the University of Victoria. The department would also like to congratulate former LTA faculty member Dr. Fatemeh Mokhtarzadeh on her successful Ph.D. thesis defense at Simon Fraser University and wishes her the best in her new appointment at the University of Victoria.
Faculty Engagements Ding Lu Peer reviewed journal activity, “China’s ‘Two Centenary Goals’”, East Asian Policy, 8(2): 79-93, 2016 Working paper, “Trilogy of Economic Development: Income Growth, Distribution Equality, and Environmental Quality”. Writing Chapter 6, “Pay Back the Overdraft” in China’s Centenary Goals, a book to be published by the World Scientific Press. Speaking event, “China’s Economic Growth Performance and Potentials in the Lens of the Unified Growth Theory”, Antai College, Shanghai Jiaotong University, May 2016. Speaking event, “Controversy over the L-shape Trajectory of China’s Economic Growth”, EAI Seminar, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, July 2016. Research paper, “China Surmounting the Middle-Income Trap: Impacts of Capital Formation and Demographic Transition on Growth Potentials”, Asian Economic Panel, Seoul, Korea, March 2016. Research paper, “China’s Growth Performance and Potentials in the Lens of the Unified Growth Theory”, The 2016 North America Conference of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), Sacramento, California, USA, April 2016. Research paper, “Challenges to China’s ‘Centennial Goals’ in the Post-Demographic- Transition Era”, The 2016 China Conference of the Chinese Economists Society (CES), Shenzhen, China, June 2016.
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Michael Maschek Peer reviewed journal activity, “Learning General Equilibrium – Simultaneous Genetic Algorithm Learning over Both Sides of Multiple Interdependent Markets”, Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, under review. Working paper, “Mixed Strategy Entry Decisions in the Cobweb Model with Evolutionary Learning”, with Jasmina Arifovic (SFU). Senior Research Member, Centre for Research in Adaptive Behaviour in Economics (CRABE), Simon Fraser University.
Bosu Seo Visited Cheonnam National University and Korea University – Sejong campus in August, 2016 and represented UFV for a partnership in student exchange and visiting programs. Speaking event, “Social Capital and Health of Elderly People with the Advent of the Baby-Book Generation’s Retirement – Revisited” at a joint meeting Korea-America Economic Association and Korea Institute of Public Finance, August, 2016, Seoul, Korea. Work study grant: “Faculty of Colour in Canadian Academia”, winter 2017.
English:
Faculty Engagements Michelle LaFlamme Contributed to UFV’s collaboration with the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology’s outreach program in Bella Coola, BC, a multi-departmental initiative to deliver degree- level programing to the Nuxalk Nation. Delivering a compressed version of English 368 (Special Topics in Canadian Literature: Aboriginal Drama), Michelle met with students, elders, NVIT faculty members — and a grizzly bear. Michelle writes, “Rarely in my twenty-five years of teaching have I encountered such a dedicated group of learners. Their eyes feasted on the anthology of Native literature in Canada and they were inspired to continue reading more work by Native writers…. By entering their territory and their classroom, I too was transformed, enlightened, and healed by the experience”.
Nadeane Trowse Visited Bella Coola in late November, as the same teaching initiative, as mentioned above, wrapped up. Nadeane will be offering support in writing techniques to about a dozen students who are completing written assignments in the program.
Carl Peters Presented a talk in the Abbotsford campus library on November 17. Carl’s most recent book is Studies in Description: Reading Gertrude Stein’s “Tender Buttons.” He discussed poetry and poetics as they relate to contemporary painting, theatre, and cinema.
Miriam Nichols Recently returned from a few days in Brussels where she presented a paper to the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment. Her paper was titled Wild Space: Thinking Space through Modern Poetry and Indigenous Painting. Miriam reports that this gathering of scholars was truly multidisciplinary: “Participants came from disciplines ranging from the hard sciences to poetry and literary theory. From the sciences, the discussion turned on the elements and relationships of
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various environments; from the humanities side, it examined human/non-human interfacings, human attitudes toward nature, and modes of representing the non-human world.” Dr. Nichols will be following this international venture with a talk a bit closer to home. She will present a paper in the Special Collections department of SFU library titled I’m Writing a Biography. The paper will describe her experiences in working with archival materials as she researches her biography of the West-Coast poet Robin Blaser.
Rajneesh Dhawan On November 25 and 28, Mr. Dhawan’s play, A Full House premiered at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre. Directed by English faculty member John Carroll, and with a cast and crew that featured students and alumni from the English program, the play explores the timely issues of immigration and international terrorism.
Events Poetry Reading The department planned an end-of-term poetry reading that took place in the Abbotsford campus bookstore on November 29. Our resident poet and Creative Writing instructor Rob Taylor invited three local up-and-coming poets to read from their recent books. Bren Simmers, author of Hastings Sunrise is currently artist-in-residence at Ranger Stage Art Gallery, Harrison. The reading will be an opportunity for students in our Creative Writing program to interact with published writers.
Geography and the Environment (GATE):
Staff Updates Department Assistant Myra Hughes returned to Chemistry and Physics as their Department Assistant in July. Ashley Friesen joined Geography and the Environment as the temporary department assistant until the new permanent assistant, Sarah McLean, began on October 17.
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Faculty Updates Steven Marsh On June 28, Steven Marsh and research students (current and former) met Senior Scientist Dr. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink and guest at the rowing dock at Fort Langley to conduct our bi-monthly sampling of the Fraser River. The guests included Carol Mayer (Curator Africa/Pacific of Enthnology/Ceramics), Skooker Broome (Manager Design, Museum of Anthropology, UBC), April Ingham (Director, Pacific Peoples Partnership), Julia Paine (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Intern working under the supervision of Dr. Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink and undergraduate student at University of Miami), Claytus Yambon (Village Councillor and artist, Korogo Village, Papua New Guinea), Nancy Wani (artist and bilum maker, Korogo Village, Papua New Guinea), Edward Dumoi (artist, Palembei Village, Papua New Guinea). UFV students included Audrey Faber (UFV GATE alumni), Madelaine Bourdages (UFV GATE major and French major and current research assistant working with Steven Marsh), Alanna Strangway (UFV GATE major and research assistant working with Steven Marsh), and Donovan Toews (UFV GATE major). o Bernhard and the UFV students explained and demonstrated the sampling protocols used for the collection of water samples and the water geochemistry data. Our guests from Papua New Guinea are intending to initiate time series sampling of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea.
Terah Sportel As one of the two new Limited-Term Appointments (LTAs) this year, she will be teaching a number of human geography courses.
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Mariano Mapili Also one of the two new LTAs this year, Mariano is teaching the quantitative courses and special topic courses. Mariano will instruct GEOG 300J, Conservation GIS and GEOG 300N, Forensic Mapping in the winter semester.
Lenore Newman Will have her book, Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey, published by the University of Regina Press on January 15, 2017. Lenore has also published with former post doc, Dr. Denver Nixon an article, The Efficacy and Politics of Farmland Preservation through Land Use Regulation: Changes in Southwest British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve, in the journal Land Use Policy. Lenore’s Canada Research Chair (CRC) has also been renewed. Led a group of students on a tour of Mt. St. Helens and the Channeled Scablands in Washington State with Carolyn Atkins and Steven Marsh (picture below left). They investigated the impact that the eruption in 1980 had on the surrounding landscape and the recovery that has occurred since then. They traveled through the Columbia Gorge and then through a significant portion of the Channeled Scablands where they studied the impact that the glacial floods had on the landscape.
Cherie Enns Presented on responses to child refugees at the International Making Cities Livable conference in Rome in June (picture above right). Organized the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship (QES) interns traveling to East Africa and African students traveling to study here at UFV. PhD candidates Given Justin and Elitruder Makupa arrived here in August and have been studying within the department.
Student Engagements Geography has two students working this year in the computer lab and has initiated a renewal of programs that will continue over the next eight months, informed by declining enrollments, changes in faculty and changes in the collective agreement. UFV students, Jeremy Wagner and Lisa Harrington were recently featured in videos on the Universities Canada website. UFV students, Kristin Swardh, Dallas Peeling, Maddie Stewart, Gurpreet Jaswal, and Claurien Zanoria, are currently in East Africa completing internships. Their experiences can be followed on the following blog: https://ufveastafricainternships.com On September 9 a photo exhibit on the 2014 GATE Study Tour to New York was unveiled in the Global Lounge.
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Annual Welcome Back Pizza day for Geography students was on September 22. Guests at Pizza Day included: Bao-Van Hill, Brielle Mulder, So Jeon and Jessica Peakman from the Career Centre; Rhonda Colwell from the Advising Centre; Chelsey Laird from International Education; Kyle Baillie from Student Life and Development; Madelaine Bourdages, President of the Association of Undergraduate Geography Students; and Aneesha Dhillon (UFV GATE alumni) speaking on the behalf of the Feeding 9 Billion Challenge. On September 23 the Association of Geography Undergraduate Students, held a fundraiser at the Phoenix. They were able to sell over 100 tickets and raised over $2,500. They plan on using these funds to support upcoming student events and to offer financial support to students traveling to conferences to present results of their research projects. This will include travel to the annual conference of the Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers to be hosted by Western Washington in March 2017 and the spring meeting of the Association of Washington Geographers to be held in Ellensburg, WA in May 2017.
This fall semester, GEOG 202 geomorphology students are investigating the various landforms and processes found in Aldergrove Regional Park under the guidance of Claire Hay. Students are visiting the park on four occasions to collect field data that will be analyzed in class and used to illustrate a wide variety of geomorphic processes. On October 3, students investigated a slope failure that occurred in May 2009 to determine the size of the failure, its geomorphology and sediment characteristics.
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The Association of Geography Undergraduate Students have been active since their fundraiser in September. They have organized a day out to the Roadside Harvest Social Corn Maze. The maze had suffered from the recent storm but the tasting stations of the local craft beers were still attracting enthusiasts.
On October 20, UFV welcomed Dr. Simon Springer from the University of Victoria as he gave a talk as part of the Discovery and Green Series talks. Dr. Springer gave an inspired talk on the plight of homeless people in Cambodia.
On October 29, we began sampling the Fraser River for micro plastics. This protocol involves sieving 200 litres of water through a fine mesh sieve, freezing the samples collected and shipping the samples to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) for analysis. One of Steve Marsh’s research students, Madelaine Bourdages will travel to WHOI to analyze these samples in fall 2017.
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GATE held the annual Geography Awareness week November 13-19. Students held a Be a Geographer event that was staged on the Green to demonstrate equipment and field techniques. The department invited local high school geography classes to participate. Students assisted Scott Shupe with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) day events and Michelle Rhodes organized the annual networking event where current students were able to connect with alumni that are working in either the environment or planning fields. Alumni that confirmed include: Sophie Smith (GATE) Alouette River Management Society; Sheryl Hall (BGS) facilitator for BC Dairy Association; Heidi Martin (GATE) working for Aquilini Development; Alyssa Bougie (BSc Biology and Physical Geography) Manning Park; Christian Parr, and Loren Muth. Travis Gingerich will moderate the event.
Social, Cultural, and Media Studies (SCMS):
News Kim Isaac and Brenda Philip from the Library joined SCMS on October 27 at their monthly department meeting. The Sociology caucus is in the process of hiring an LTA for Chantelle Marlor, who will be on a one-year sabbatical starting January 1, 2017. Eric Spalding published a review. o Spalding, Eric. (2016). Taking Parodies Seriously: A Review of Pierre Huard’s Parodie dans la bande dessinée franco-belge (“Parody in French and Belgian Comics”). Scholarly and Research Communication, 7(1): 0103267, 6 pp. D132, now named “The Rec Room” is up and functioning as a hub for SCMS student activities. SCMS work-study student Olivia From has organized the library, set up a monitor schedule, and helped with the finishing details of the room. Students are really enjoying the space!
Student Resources/Connections Eric Spalding hosted a guest speaker in MACS/SOC 369 (Media Law and Ethics): Jessica Peters, a journalist from the Chilliwack Progress. Soc/Anth Union of Students (SAUS) hosted a pub night on November 12 at Finnegan’s. All SOC/ANTH/MACS faculty and students were invited.
Course/Program Information SCMS is working on a priority list of course reviews (of which we have many).
Theatre:
“Bright Ideas”: UFV’s 2016-17 Season of Theatre Possible Worlds UFV Theatre’s first ever student-directed mainstage production ran from October 20-30. Possible Worlds, written by Governor General’s Award winning playwright John Mighton, was directed by fourth-year student Noel Funk and featured hair and makeup design by Bethany Caldwell; costume design by Reilly Ellis; sound design by Jennifer Los; and set, projection, and lighting design by Matthew Piton. The production was beautifully directed and designed and flawlessly performed, a testament to the creativity and skills of the Theatre department’s students. (photo top of page 13)
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Upcoming Performance: 7 Stories The second production of UFV Theatre’s Bright Ideas season runs November 24- December 4. Canadian playwright Morris Panych’s absurd comedy 7 Stories is a directing collaboration by fourth-year students Natasha Beaumont and Courtney Kelley. The play tells the story of a man deliberating suicide on the ledge of a high-rise building who is drawn into the bizarre personal lives of the building’s residents. “One of our goals with this show is for audiences to recognize that every person is living their own unique life, and that this life can look completely different from an outside perspective,” says Kelley. “Contrast, perspective, and personal attitudes are all explored in 7 Stories, and we are aiming to do this in a very approachable way for the audience. We are working on showcasing the humour in the piece just as much as the distress. We want to highlight that both can exist in the same space at the same time, and just how that relationship works.” Tickets are available through UFV Theatre’s new website: www.ufv.ca/plays.
Theatre Major The long-awaited BA, Theatre Major will launch in January 2017. The program, which is unique in the Lower Mainland, combines opportunities for substantial applied, practical theatre experience with the strengths of a liberal arts degree, allowing students to develop the transferable skills—such as professional communication, creative problem-solving, collaboration, and analytic thinking--that today’s employers demand. Students can now declare a BA Theatre Major by contacting Arts Advising.
Community-Engaged Performance UFV Theatre is collaborating with the Reach Gallery in Abbotsford and the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre to create Grand Theft Terra Firma: Stories of (Re)conciliation. This performance project explores how S’ólh Téméxw — the traditional and unceded lands of the Stó:lō (People of the River) —began being colonized
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in the mid-1800s and asks how that history is lived today, by people of both Indigenous and settler ancestry. The performance will be devised (created by the performers involved) and will ask challenging questions about the ongoing legacies of colonialism in Canada and how healing and harmony between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people might be achieved. The Theatre department hosted two information sessions about the project in November at the Aboriginal Gathering Place at UFV and the Sto:lo Research and Resource Management Centre. Performances will take place April 6-9 and April 20- 23, 2017.
Faculty of Science (FoS) (Lucy Lee, Dean)
Dean’s Office:
The FoS welcomed Dr. Paul Levett, Clinical Director from the Saskatchewan Disease Control Laboratory on October 5. He spoke to a room of 60+ students and faculty focusing on animal reservoirs of leptospirosis and the human activities that lead to infection.
Over 130 UFV science students, faculty and staff enjoyed pizza, music and door prizes at our 19th Annual Science Social held on September 29 at the SUB. Science Student Clubs and Associations were on hand to provide information about their groups and to sign up new members. Our VP Academic & Provost, Dr. Eric Davis, was also present for the duration of the event which was appreciated by all. Thanks to the event organizers, Karen Cooper and Rilla Apostolakis from the Advising Centre and Wendy Gracey and Caroline Majeau from the FoS Dean’s Office.
Nominations for positions open on our Science Faculty Council (SFC) were held the end of September. Greg Schlitt’s two-year term as SFC vice-chair came to an end. He agreed to let his
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name stand for an additional term and was appointed by acclamation. We received four nominations for the two vacant student positions, so an online election was held through OReg. The successful candidates were Perrin Waldock and Rebecca Robertson and each will serve a one-year term.
The Centre for Environmental Sustainability (CES) completed their Waste Audit on October 6. The rain on the campus green didn’t stop the volunteers, it turned out to be an incredibly successful event and was covered by various local news media. The final results of the Waste Audit will be available soon.
All-Divisional Review Committees for Promotion and Tenure for the Faculty of Science have been formed. Members began training on November 14.
Biology:
A former student, Genevieve St. Martin has successfully published her first article with Dr. James Bedard: St Martin, G., Bedard, A.C., Nelmes, J., Bedard, J.E.J. 2016. “Preparing Nurses for Genetic Medicine: Integration of a Brief Education Session in an Undergraduate Nursing Curriculum.” Journal of Nursing Education (Accepted Oct 26)
Whereas, Dr. Sharon Gillies continues to be active in research and has recently published the following: Gillies, S., Clements, D.R. and Grenz, J., 2016. Knotweed (Fallopia spp.) “Invasion of North America Utilizes Hybridization, Epigenetics, Seed Dispersal (Unexpectedly), and an Arsenal of Physiological Tactics.” Invasive Plant Science and Management, 9(1):.71-80
The information session for the Department of Biology’s 2017 Tofino Field School was held on October 12-13. Both sessions were well attended by students with over 70 students interested in the Field School. Biology professors Allan Arndt and Alan Reid are spearheading this field school which is scheduled for May 19-30, 2017, and depending on interest, a second Field School could be set for July.
Biology Professor, Christine Dalton, hired a group of UFV science students to assist with this year’s Super Science Club outreach program which began the week of October 17. The program is running at Eugene Reimer Middle School in Abbotsford and invites grade 5 students from the feeder elementary schools. UFV offers this program in collaboration with Science World.
Chemistry:
The Chemistry department welcomed 28 students in the honours grade 11 chemistry class from Sardis Secondary School on October 7. They were given the grand tour of our Chilliwack campus by Shawna Dyck, Chemistry/Biology Lab Technician. Following the tour, the students used our Vernier equipment to discover the melting point on some caffeine they had extracted. This marks the fifth year that Sardis Secondary has visited the campus for this activity.
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The department of Chemistry got into the Halloween spirit by enhancing their cabinet display by adding some spooky props.
The BC Chemistry articulation meeting for 2017 will be hosted by UFV on May 5, 2017, and preparations are underway under the direction of Dr. David Fenske.
Dr. Noham Weinberg continues to be active in research as well as in teaching and service. Two recent publications that included student co-authors are: Spooner J, Weinberg, N (2016) “A Comparative Analysis of Empirical Equations Describing Pressure Dependence of Equilibrium and Reaction Rate Constants”, Can. J. Chem. in print. Spooner J, Smith B, Weinberg, N. (2016) “Effect of High Pressure on the Topography of Potential Energy Surfaces”, Can. J. Chem., in print.
Math & Stats:
The first Math Mania for the year was held on October 5 at Sandy Hill Elementary School in Abbotsford. Faculty members Ian Affleck, Ben Vanderlei, Stan Manu, Cindy Loten and Karin Loots in addition to 25+ UFV student volunteers provided 1½ hours of fun math activities. The turnout by parents and students from the Sandy Hill Elementary community was fantastic.
Implementation of a new minor in Applied Statistics, which received approval earlier this year, is being planned for the fall of 2017. This is an interdisciplinary minor that could be of interest to a broad range of students in various faculties.
Math faculty have been steadily publishing their work in various peer-reviewed journals, one recent article is from Dr. Erik Talvila: Talvila E. (2016) Higher Order Corrected Trapezoidal Rules in Lebesgue and Alexiewicz Spaces. Journal of Classical Analysis, 8: 77–90.
Physics & Engineering:
The Physics Student Association (PSA) invited Dr. David Sivak, Biophysicist from SFU to speak to a large group of our science students on October 31. Dr. Sivak was pleased by the number of UFV BSc graduates who are now pursuing grad studies at SFU. Highlighting a few: Koos Van Nieuwkoop, PhD Candidate; Etienne Dreyer, PhD Candidate; Simerdeep Arora, MSc Candidate; Meldon Deglint, MSc Candidate; and Timothy Richards, MSc Candidate.
The PSA invited physics lab instructor, Carmen Herman to speak to a group of science students on October 17. Her talk was about current scientific communication practices and what they can do to become an effective communicator.
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On September 30, Derek Harnett with a group of over 20 UFV Physics and Engineering students had the opportunity to tour one of the premier physics facilities in the lower mainland. D-Wave Quantum Computing Company is located in Burnaby.
The Faculty of Science and Research, Engagement and Graduate Studies hosted a reception on September 27 for Derek Harnett. A group of his colleagues and friends had the pleasure of congratulating him on his recent Research Excellence Award. He was previously recognized at convocation in June but was unable to attend as he was completing his sabbatical. Adrienne Chan, Associate Vice President of Research, Engagement, and Graduate Studies welcomed everyone and presented Derek with his award, however not before hearing some nice words from John Pankratz from the UFV Board of Governors; Eric Davis, UFV Provost and Vice President, and Lucy Lee, Dean of Science.
Faculty of Health Sciences (Joanne MacLean, Dean)
Health Sciences Take Community Partners to the Town & Gown Fundraiser
The faculty rewarded valued community members and partners with an evening focused on celebrating the impact UFV has on the community and lives of students. At the Health Sciences table was Dr. Angela Wolfe from Fraser Health, Dr. Mark Huang who is a dentist in Chilliwack, Dr. Darin Cherniwchan a practicing physician in Chilliwack and Abbotsford, Patti MacAhonic the Executive Director of Anne Davis Society in Chilliwack, and Michelle Favero from Abbotsford Family Practice. At this event, health sciences showcased their programs and facilities— taking guests on a virtual tour. Take the virtual tour at: https://youtu.be/0k1IKLbCj34
The Fall 2016 Dean’s Speaker Series- Recap
The fall 2016 Dean’s Speaker Series featured internal research and teaching initiatives from five members of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Watch the full video of the speaker series at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/health/fall-deans-speaker-series-2016/
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School of Health Studies:
Help is Help — Afghanistan War Vet Turns to Nursing at UFV
Stephen Clews isn’t your average UFV nursing student. Clews was the same age as many classmates, 18, when he joined the Canadian Forces in 2003. Deployed to Afghanistan in 2007, he was three weeks into his first tour when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated under his tank. The gunner’s leg was shattered. Clews and his commander’s backs were pulverized, and the tank’s loader didn’t remember anything until waking up in Canada, 10,000 kilometres away. Read the full story at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/blog/2016/11/help-is-help-afghanistan-war-vet-turns-to-nursing-at-ufv/
UFV Brings Community Together for Flu Clinic
On November 24, UFV held a health and wellness fair that included a flu clinic, HIV/AIDS/STI/hepatitis awareness initiatives, blood pressure measurements, chronic pain booth and Nursing student displays. Read more about the event in the Chilliwack Progress: http://www.theprogress.com/news/400469671.html
UFV Nursing Students put on Health Fair at Sevenoaks Shopping Centre
From childhood immunizations to stroke prevention for seniors, the Health Fair at Abbotsford’s Sevenoaks Shopping Centre offered advice for the entire family. On October 28, fourth-year UFV nursing students hosted the health fair to continue a tradition that has now spanned 17 years. Fairs traditionally operate once in the spring and fall, with students creating booths and offering information on approved topics. Read more about this year health fair at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/health/nursing-health-fair-fall-2016/
Health Studies holds Two Recruitment Info Sessions
On November 2 and 8, UFV health studies held info sessions for prospective students. At the two events, over 75 guests toured the facilities and learned more about programs in Nursing (BSN), Practical Nursing, Health Care Assisting and Dental Assisting. More recruitment events are being planned for the New Year.
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Department of Kinesiology:
Kin Day Showcases Student Opportunities and Careers
On November 16, the Kinesiology Student Association organized the third annual Kinesiology Day (aka Kin Day) bringing together students, faculty, and staff to explore various aspects of the field of kinesiology. Find out more at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/health/kin-day-2016/
Kinesiology Professor Joanna Sheppard part of Project Awarded RBC Learn to Play Grant
Community-based physical literacy project received funding to help build capacity for physical literacy in children and youth. Project members include Dr. Joanna Sheppard (UFV), Steve McGinley (UBC), and Jeff Stromgren (School District #43). They are the proud recipients of a $25,000 RBC Learn to Play grant. The RBC Learn to Play Project provides grants to local organizations and community groups that are building the physical literacy of Canada’s kids and youth. Find out more at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/health/learn-to-play-grant/
Kinesiology Students Serve up Funds for Jumpstart
For the second year, UFV kinesiology students organized a charity volleyball tournament in the Chilliwack community to raise funds for the Jumpstart program. The Jumpstart program provides financial support to kids in the local community so that they are able to play organized sports and stay active. This year’s tournament raised $3,400 for Jumpstart, bringing the two-year total to $6,500 that will be used to support the Chilliwack community.
Read the full story at: http://blogs.ufv.ca/health/charity-volleyball-tournament/
Faculty of Professional Studies (Tracy Ryder Glass, Dean)
Adult Education Department (ADED):
ADED is pleased to welcome Dr. Linda Pardy as a new faculty member in the department. Linda is a former graduate of the ADED program and is currently an Associate Professor with eight years of experience as a faculty member with Communications at UFV. She has extensive
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experience in post-secondary institutions and networks in BC, and we are confident that she will prove to be an asset not only to ADED but to the whole faculty.
Dr. Ian Hunt has retired but continues to support ADED in various capacities. Sessional faculty member Dr. Tara Gibb is taking a break from teaching this semester; currently, she is home caring for a new baby, Kaya. Janice Johnson continues to work with ADED as a Sessional. Seonaigh MacPherson agreed to continue on as Department Head having completed her first three-year term.
Both of the ADED 2015-2016 concept papers were approved by Deans’ Council and the Senate and Board in the spring to move forward with the development of a full proposal:
Instructional Design Certificate (undergraduate certificate) to offer BA-ADED students a credential in recognition for the specific instructional skills they acquire in the program – which are recognized as equivalent to 15 of the 22 credits of the PIDP (Provincial Instructors diploma program) Graduate Certificate in Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning –collaborating with the Teacher Education Department (TED), Social Work, Nursing, and potentially Psychology, this certificate will offer a ladder to, or elective cluster within, graduate degrees in the target professions, including K-12 (University of Calgary); Adult and Higher Education (UBC and University of Calgary); and Nursing (UBC and UVic).
Department Head, Seonaigh MacPherson completed a seven-day training program with the Centre for Mindfulness Studies in Toronto in August. This training qualified her as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) instructor, though she is currently being mentored to complete the certification process. In addition, faculty members have been working closely with Educational Technology Services (ETS) to implement new Blackboard capacities in courses, including Kaltura CaptureSpace, Collaborate, and e-portfolio.
Seonaigh MacPherson continues to work with Chilliwack Healthier Communities as the Faculty of Professional Studies / UFV rep. and to serve on the Measurement and Monitoring Working Group. This month she was invited to join the Mental Health and Addictions Task Team. Recently, she was approached to serve on the Board of CASAE (Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education) as the BC representative.
Linda Pardy presented papers in the Congress in Calgary in May/June for both CASAE and the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education (CSSHE). She continues research on several funded research projects as well. Seonaigh presented three papers at CASAE and is in the final stages of publishing a paper on comparative approaches to diversity education in Canada, the USA, and India.
ADED will be engaged in a UFV Program Review this year with the site visit anticipated in May 2017.
Child, Youth and Family Studies Department (CYFS):
On October 17, the CYFS hosted the screening of the film Screenagers 01. The film discussed the pros and cons of screen time for kids, youth, students, and parents.
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On October 25, CYFS hosted a panel discussion on the topic of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The panel included four dynamic youth who spoke about their experience with this label in their lives and four parents who shared how the diagnosis has affected their families.
In August 2016, CYFS attended the International Federation of Educative Communities (FICE) Congress and Child and Youth Care (CYC) World Conference in Vienna, Austria. Sue Hunt, a CYC graduate who won the Dean’s Medal in June 2016, was invited to present her research project poster and received great reviews and was featured in their “highlights of the conference” photo display.
CYFS faculty members Cindy Rammage, Christine Slavik, and Maple Melder Crozier presented on how they have woven the elective curriculum of the CYC program to integrate well with needs in the field and requests of employers, as well as complement the core curriculum to create a beautiful tapestry of care for children, youth and families.
Christine presented individually on Mindfulness Practice and how it has been successfully added to CYFS programming and to the practice of some of our community partners.
Maple also presented on a panel with educators/practitioners from California, Ontario, New York, and South Dakota on the topic of Navigating the Path from Youth to Adult, based on work she does in our Abbotsford community.
Cindy, Christine, and Maple were asked to write an article about the innovative curriculum that they presented at the conference. That was done quickly on their return and it has now been accepted and published in the September 2016 Journal of Relational Child and Youth Practice.
The Professional Studies SPARK! presentation spurred on discussion within CYFS and has resulted in an invitation of the CYC 202 Indigenous Perspectives instructor to do a grounding and planning session with all CYFS faculty at the next department meeting.
Maple attended a two-day decolonizing training by Abbotsford Community Services entitled Uplifting Hope: Witnessing Resistance to Trauma and Violence given by Dr. Vikki Reynolds. The books in the accompanying photo by author Debora Abood were reviewed for addition into the ECE curriculum.
CYFS faculty member George Melzer presented an Exploratory Activities and Toys workshop at Child Care Resource and Referral (CCRR) in Abbotsford and again in Chilliwack in September and participated in a planning meeting in Abbotsford regarding shaping future services for families in this community.
Maple continues to be the UFV representative on the Abbotsford Local Action Team for the Shared Care Division of Family Practice Mental Health Collaborative, along with 20+ other community partners. This group is serving to lessen the stigma and barriers for support and services for families with mental health concerns.
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This past summer Christine taught the course Child Life and Community Health, as a one-week intensive here on the Abbotsford campus. Students from UFV were joined by students from the University of Victoria undergraduate and graduate degree in CYC, Grant McEwan University in Alberta, Douglas College, and graduates from other related programs in Saskatchewan and Ontario to learn how to deliver evidenced-based biopsychosocial care to children and their families experiencing health challenges in hospitals and community settings. Christine, who is a Certified Child Life Specialist incorporates many high impact learning opportunities in the course. A unique class activity features the use of “body outline dolls” which children in hospital utilize to learn about and cope with their illness and related hospital procedures. During the course, students have the opportunity to personalize their own doll and then use them to simulate teaching a child about an intravenous start or having a needle. The dolls are hand made by volunteers. Christine has a relationship with the local chapter of the Telus Community Ambassadors who sewed up 45 dolls of varying skin tones for use in the class. Thank you to Linda McGenn Jackson, Donna and Rose for spending the time to make the dolls for the course this year.
On September 24, Christine met with students from the Human Service Career program at the Neighborhood Learning Centre in Chilliwack. This is a follow-up to a day-long workshop on Mindfulness Based Practices that 34 high school students and 18 UFV student mentors participated in in January. The students will now be going out to elementary schools in the Chilliwack School District to teach some of the practices to young students in Kindergarten to Grade 2. Christine will be assisting the Grade 11 cohort of the Human Service Career program to develop the curriculum and experiential activities they will bring to the elementary schools.
On September 12, Christine was an invited keynote speaker to The Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), Abbotsford Chapter’s first meeting of the new academic year. CFUW is committed to improving the status of women and girls, promoting quality public education, and advancing the status of women, human rights, justice and peace.
Christine’s topic was Incorporating Mindfulness into Your Personal and Professional Life. The concepts as they relate to health and wellness was well received and the participants enjoyed the opportunity to explore some mindfulness-based practices.
Computer Information Systems Department (CIS):
CIS is happy to welcome their newest faculty member Maryam Siahbani who started with CIS this fall. Maryam’s specialization is in Machine Learning and Speech Recognition.
The upgrades have now been completed for D242, D248, and D250. The new labs have fast network speeds and are connected to D building’s new fibre backbone. The computers are now high-end machines with realistic CPU speeds, which will enable teaching advanced AI topics, as
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well as, greatly improving our ability to deliver all content. A big thank you to all involved in this renovation project to have it ready in time for our students this fall! On September 13, the Minister of Advanced Education, Andrew Wilkinson, visited our new labs and announced funding for coding programs across the province. UFV was awarded $50,000. CIS will work with Continuing Education on the development of a coding program.
School of Business:
The first week of classes, a Welcome (back) BBQ was held for School of Business students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Two hundred and thirty participants enjoyed food, lawn games, networking, and a live band.
BBA student Keenan Beavis received the honor of being this year’s University of the Fraser Valley Ch’nook Scholar. Founded by the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia in 2002, the Ch’nook Initiative has focused on increasing aboriginal participation in post-secondary business education studies in the province of British Columbia and Canada. Ch’nook’s mission is to promote business, management and entrepreneurship as viable career opportunities for aboriginal students in order to contribute to creating a sustainable and self- sufficient economic future for First Nation communities in British Columbia and across Canada. Shirley Hardman represented the UFV School of Business at the Ch’nook Scholars Fall Gathering at which Beavis received his Ch’nook scholarship.
The UFV School of Business hosted the 5th annual seminar on Global Leadership for the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Switzerland. Twenty participants from Switzerland and two selected UFV students partook in various lectures and fieldtrips, including amongst others a reception hosted by the Consul General of Switzerland.
Faculty members in the School of Business have been active in research including the following journal publications and conference papers:
Brcic, J., & Latham, G. (2016). The effect of priming affect on customer service satisfaction. Academy of Management Discoveries. doi:10.5465/amd.2015.0052
Dayanandan, A., Donker, H., Ivanof, M., & Karahan, G. (2016). IFRS and accounting quality: legal origin, regional, and disclosure impacts. International Journal of Accounting & Information Management, 24(3), 296-316. doi:10.1108/IJAIM-11-2015-0075
Cheng, Q., & Ng, A. (2016). State ownership, governance and financial performance of Chinese state owned enterprises. Paper presented at the 12th Global Business and Social Science Research Conference, Beijing, China.
Latham, G. P., & Brcic, J. (in press). Toward an integration of goal setting theory and the automaticity model. Applied Psychology: An International Review.
McQuarrie, F. (2016). Characteristics and usage of transfer credit agreements in business and management programs. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
McQuarrie, F. A. E., & Kondra, A. Z. (2016). Exploring the process of institutional isomorphism in patchy organizational fields. Paper presented at the Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA.
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Ulbrich, F., & Borman, M. (in press). Extended dependency network diagrams: adding a strategic dimension. Strategic Outsourcing: An International Journal. doi:10.1108/SO-05-2016-0019
Faculty member Dr. Fiona McQuarrie was interviewed by News1130 radio in Vancouver about the possibility of labour disputes in the BC school system this year: http://www.news1130.com/2016/08/25/will-supreme-court-case-lead-to-more-labour-troubles-in- bc-schools/
Director of the School of Business, Dr. Frank Ulbrich has been elected as President-elect for the Organizational Systems Research Association, a special interest group within the Association for Information Systems (AIS). AIS is the premier professional association for individuals and organizations who lead the research, teaching, practice, and study of information systems worldwide.
Frank has been appointed as Track-chair for the 2017 Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA, August 10-12, 2017.
School of Social Work and Human Services (SWHS):
SWHS is pleased to announce the hiring of two new tenure-track faculty members: Anita Vaillancourt, PhD and Melanie Scott, Master of Social Work, and new LTA Eli Manning, PhD.
Melanie Scott, B-Faculty, was granted a Master of Social Work from University of British Columbia and we are proud to share that she completed her Bachelor of Social Work at UFV. Melanie has held an LTA position in SWHS since 2011, and worked as a sessional at UFV for 18 years. Melanie has extensive professional experience as a supervisor, trainer and consultant with Xyolhemeylh Child and Family Services.
Anita Vaillancourt, B-Faculty, was awarded her PhD from University of Toronto and holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Calgary. She comes to us from Algoma University where she was an Assistant Professor and previously she worked in a Term Appointment, as a sessional/adjunct professor at University of Toronto, UNBC, and Ryerson University. Her research interests include practice and policy.
We also would like to thank and welcome Mandy Klepic, who has returned from retirement, part-time, to temporarily assist SWHS with Student Advising.
Eli Manning (LTA) was awarded a Master of Social Work from the University of Victoria and is a Registered Social Worker. Eli’s defense of her PhD from Simon Fraser University in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies took place in November. Her practice has focused on health advocacy, disability rights, HIV/AIDS, harm reduction and community development.
This semester, faculty member Dr. Glen Paddock is the first SWHS faculty to teach at Xian Fanyi University in Xian, China. He describes the 22 students as ‘young and eager to learn, budding social workers’. He is acting as an ambassador and leader for SWHS.
On September 29, SWHS together with the Fraser Valley BC Association of Social Workers and SWHS Alumni, hosted a wellness event for SWHS students. Joani Mortenson, MSW, RSW, E- RYT, RCTY facilitated an experiential workshop using an innovative approach to self-care that is informed by yogic wisdom and catalyzes social justice.
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Faculty members in SWHS have been active in research and scholarship:
Manning, E., & Bungay, V. (2016). “Business before pleasure”: the golden rule of sex work, payment schedules and gendered experiences of violence. Culture, Health & Sexuality, 1–14. http://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2016.1219767
Manning, E., & Gagnon, M. (in press). The complex patient: A concept clarification. Nursing and Health Sciences.
George, M., Vaillancourt, A & Rajan, I. (2016). Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India: Conceptual Framework of Repatriation Success. Refuge – Canada’s Journal for Refugees. November.
Teacher Education Department (TED):
TED has seen some staffing changes this year and welcomes new and returning members in new roles.
Barbara Salingre’s position within the university has changed. She is no longer working in a staff capacity; but, rather, applied for and won the Assistant Professor position that we posted in the spring. She will now be teaching and acting as coordinator of the Summer Institute.
Chuck Charles continues as an LTA this year. He has worked for the department for a number of years in a variety of different capacities and will be mentoring teacher candidates.
Nancy Norman takes on the LTA role this year. Nancy has worked for the department for quite a while, teaching Educ 200 (the Ed Psych course) and the courses in working with special needs students in the BEd.
TED has a number of new sessional instructors this year: Judy Larsen, from Open Access Learning, is teaching math methods courses; Ruth Hodgins is teaching elementary language arts, and Sandy Murray is teaching Educ 300. Returning sessional instructors include: Joanna Sheppard, Stefan Stipp, Jasdev Makkar and Leslie Waddington.
TED held its inaugural Summer Institute (SITE) in July. Courses were offered to certified elementary and secondary teachers who were interested in professional development or certification upgrade. The call for proposals for SITE 2017 has now gone out to various list serves. The Summer Institute will run from July 10-29, 2017. Applicants are encouraged to submit a proposal related to Innovation in Education K-12. Please visit our website for more information.
In addition to welcoming a new cohort of 66 Bachelor of Education students on August 29, TED is very pleased to announce that ALL STUDENTS from the 2015-2016 cohort have been hired; in fact, some have walked into actual teaching positions, beyond the usual beginning step of being a Teacher on Call. While most have remained close to home, working in our partnering districts of Mission, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Fraser-Cascade and Langley, some have gone further afield: one graduate moved to Calgary and was hired there and two others are now beginning their teaching careers in Cairo, working at an off-shore BC-based curriculum school there.
This coming year also marks the 10th Anniversary of the TED programming. Celebrations planned include an Alumni Gala reception that is tentatively scheduled for Friday, April 7 in the Great Hall in the Student Union building and a speaker series in keeping with the focus on Truth
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and Reconciliation and the Indigenization of TED. Dr. Jan Hare, Associate Dean, Indigenous Studies for the Faculty of Education, UBC, spoke on November 22 on Strengthening Our Commitments to Reconciliation: Opportunities and Challenges for Education. It was open to all UFV students to attend.
Shannon Thiesen, from Cohort 5 (2011/2012) was awarded the 2016 Young Distinguished Alumni award. She was honoured at the Town and Gown event on November 9. Shannon is well- known in the Abbotsford Arts community and currently teaches at North Poplar Elementary.
Faculty member Sheryl MacMath has published the following:
The Canadian Teacher magazine published Sheryl’s article on evaluating 21st century competencies in their latest release. http://www.canadianteachermagazine.com/article_2016_ti_evaluating-21st-century.html
Sheryl co-authored an article about the Sqewlets website project in Journal of Social Archaeology http://jsa.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1469605316668451v1.pdf?ijkey=P0SsK4LVCWLBKal&keyty pe=finite
Faculty of Access and Continuing Education (Sue Brigden, Dean)
Dean’s Office:
Sue Brigden continues as Chair of the BC Deans and Directors of Developmental Education committee, which met at the downtown campus of Vancouver Community College on October 13. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss policies and issues pertaining to Adult Basic Education, Adult Special Education, and English as a Second Language programs offered at BC post-secondary institutions.
Congratulations go out to long-time Assistant to the Dean, Laura, who was recently married and is now known as Laura Wiebe.
On October 27, the Faculty welcomed four representatives from the Adult Education Division of the Ministry of Advanced Education: Bryan Dreilich, Director; Barbara Binczyk, Senior Policy Analyst; Louis Chen, Senior Policy Analyst; and Tegan Tang, Education Officer. During their visit, our guests were treated to whirlwind tours of the Chilliwack campus, Trades and Technology Centre (where they were hosted by John English, Dean; and Randy Kelley, Director School of Trades), Abbotsford campus, including the Student Union Building. In addition to meeting with Dr. Eric Davis, Provost and Vice-President Academic, they met with staff and faculty from the English as a Second Language department, Financial Aid Office, Indigenous Student Centre, and Upgrading and University Preparation department. According to Nicola Lemmer the Executive Director of the Colleges and Skills Development Branch, “Bryan, Barb, Louis and Tegan all came back raving about what a positive experience it was and how much they learned.”
Applied Business Technology (ABT):
Applied Business Technology is well into month three of the fall intake with 50 full-time students in attendance. The January cohort is already full, with a short wait-list in place.
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A second full-time faculty member was hired in August. Christine Nehring, Program Head, is pleased to have Mary Higgins, who has been a sessional with the program for the last three years, as a permanent colleague. With a Master of Education in Communication Technology from the University of Manchester and extensive social media and information technology experience, she is a welcome addition to the Applied Business Technology program. In addition to Christine and Mary, there are four dedicated sessional faculty without whom the program would not succeed: Ashton Howley, Gary Kwan, Brenda Molnar, and Linda Swanepoel.
Faculty continue to maintain an active social media presence for the program (Facebook, Twitter, ABT blog) and have built a number of professional contacts through these media. Faculty social- media activity models good practice for the student-led projects in ABT160 Web-based Business Communications, where students develop a business idea from concept to product launch and implement an accompanying social-media campaign. The course culminates in an ABT trade show, where student groups display and present their business products and services. In the spring of 2016, Mary and Christine founded a UFV blogging group for like-minded social media faculty and staff. The group meets regularly and discusses social media issues and shares effective strategies and best practices. Group members have provided enthusiastic feedback and new members continue to join the group.
May 2016 proved to be a busy month for Christine and Mary. At UFV’s 2016 PD Day, they and their fellow Facilitating Learning Online participants synthesized their collective course experiences and presented strategies for effective student engagement and course design in the online learning environment. Later in May, Christine and Mary presented at Vancouver Island University’s third annual Teaching and Learning conference in Nanaimo. Their presentation, Blogging in WordPress, which introduced attendees to the use of WordPress as a social media tool and emphasized the importance of image attribution, especially in the Internet, was very well received.
Faculty sit on various committees including the provincial ABT Collaborative Committee and UFV’s Human Research Ethics Board, Field Placement Committee, Digital Technology Working Group, and FACE Curriculum Committee.
Employers continue to contact the program directly as they seek to hire ABT graduates. Recent employers include the City of Chilliwack, the City of Abbotsford, UFV, the Abbotsford School District, the Chilliwack School District, the Surrey School District, and various private companies in the Fraser Valley.
Continuing Education (CE):
Liana Thompson, Director, is pleased to announce that three new staff have recently joined the department. Susan Francis, Program Manager, and Kim Daley, Program Coordinator, have filled two vacant permanent positions; and Lisa Boldt, Program Coordinator, has been hired on a part-time temporary basis. They join the rest of the CE team that includes Ryan Coreau, Program Coordinator; Laura Crawford, Department Assistant; Carol Peters, Receptionist; and Emiko Petit, Program Coordinator.
CE continues to experience steady enrolment and high student employment rates following program completion.
The Ministry of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training recently agreed to fund a Medical Office Assistant certificate program for 12 unemployed/underemployed youth at a cost of $127, 500.
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Curriculum writing and community consultation are underway to prepare for the planned Coding Bridging course that is funded through the Ministry of Advanced Education and scheduled for June 2017.
Exciting news about Continuing Education’s Paralegal programs! UFV’s Criminology department and Continuing Education have negotiated a laddering agreement so that Paralegal graduates can apply 18 – 24 credits toward the Criminology degree. This agreement is an excellent example of a pathway that includes an applied program that students can follow to earn a degree. Recently, the British Columbia Paralegal Association (BCPA) voted to recognize and endorse CE’s Paralegal diploma and certificate programs.
English as a Second Language (ESL):
Faculty members Raymonde Tickner and Naomi Born have retired after being with the ESL department for over 20 years. We all wish them well on the new chapter in their lives, which, fortunately for the department, has included returning as sessional instructors on an emergency basis.
Since 2008, ESL has taught Pre-University Business English for ESL (BU75) in Chandigarh, India. Four sections of BU75 ran this past summer each of which enrolled more than 20 students. Many of these students are in the Computer Information Systems (CIS) or the Bachelor of Business Administration programs. Students in this course learn research and documentation expectations for post-secondary study, and presentation and group work skills, while upgrading their reading, writing, listening comprehension, and speaking skills.
ESL hosted two visiting faculty from Hunan University of Arts and Science (HUAS) this past summer in our ESL classes. Although the scholars, Xiong (Tony) Qi and Nini Wang, were here to observe CIS courses as part of a collaboration between UFV and HUAS, they took advantage of their visit and attended our 70- and 80-level ESL writing and speaking classes, giving them the opportunity to upgrade their skills and observe UFV’s English language teaching practices.
The department created a quick assessment tool for potential exchange and visiting students from Fuzhou, Hebei, Shandong, Sichuan Normal, and Xi’an Universities who were unable to provide International English Language Testing System (IELTS) or Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Using the newly created assessment tool, the ESL department was able to advise receiving departments about the English language proficiency levels and abilities of the students, which assisted with placement and course selection.
The ESL department became an approved Canadian Language Benchmarks Placement Test (CLBPT) Centre. We are the only approved test centre in the Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, Langley, Maple Ridge region. The department currently has six trained and qualified CLBPT invigilators/assessors. Administration of the test centre is a collaboration with the UFV Assessment Centre.
Indigenous Student Centre (ISC):
Self-Identified Aboriginal Students The Office of the Registrar (OReg) fall 2016 reports indicate there are 379 self-identified Aboriginal students, 136 of whom are new students. This number reflects students enrolled in upgrading and university-level programs, but excludes Applied and Technical Studies and Continuing Education students. The ISC spaces in Abbotsford and Chilliwack recorded a total of
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557 visits from 160 (42 percent) self-identified students during the first half of the fall 2016 semester.
Peer and Volunteer Tutors The ISC, in partnership with the Academic Success Centre, has an Aboriginal Peer Tutor working with students at both ISC locations. In addition, a fourth-year Aboriginal student volunteers his time once a week to help students with their writing assignments, and a faculty member volunteers her time once a week to support students in research writing. Both initiatives have proven to be very beneficial for and well used by students.
Cultural Activities ISC staff have facilitated a number of cultural activities, including drop-in craft sessions, potluck gatherings, and an Elders’ Tea. Students who participate learn a traditional craft that supplements their coursework and helps them connect with Aboriginal culture.
The drop-in crafts, which are open to everyone, are hosted at each ISC location, the Global Lounge, and the Student Life Centre. Craft activities were offered in the Halq'eméylem class so students could make dream catchers while learning appropriate Halq'eméylem terms. During the first two months of the Fall 2016 semester, 75 students participated in the craft sessions, which is a significant increase from past years.
The potluck lunches held monthly at each campus have attracted 58 students, staff, and faculty. Lunches help students build connections with Elders, staff, faculty, and peers; and provide the sense of “home away from home” for them.
Twelve Elders, twelve students, and eight staff and faculty attended an Elders’ Tea in late September. As valued members of the UFV community, the Elders provided encouraging words to the attendees and emphasized the importance of building a positive future through honoring the past. They also spoke about the importance of healing and the impacts that the Indian Residential Schools had on them.
Resident Elders To meet the demands of students and the university, another Stó:lō Elder, Terry Prest, has been contracted to provide student support and work within the institution on Indigenization efforts. Terry, who was welcomed back to UFV in September, will help Elders Theresa Neel, Rene Inkster, and Eddie Gardner respond to the needs of students, staff, faculty, and UFV.
Resident Elders provide student support during Tea Time with the Elder and workshops that are open to everyone. The institution requests for Elders have declined, but this may be attributed to people learning how to conduct territory acknowledgements. Most of the requests are for traditional welcomes and classroom activities.
Student Support The ISC Director provides support to Aboriginal students through appointments and drop-in meetings at both the CEP and Abbotsford campuses. The Director has met with 23 students through booked appointments, and 48 drop-in sessions. Although this number is down from last year, the decline is a result of the new and first-year students working with the Indigenous Student Transition Coordinator (ISTC). This new position has allowed the Director to provide additional support to third- and fourth-year students.
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ISC Staff Changes UFV secured one-time funding from the Ministry of Advanced Education to address a gap in service delivery and to support Aboriginal student retention. These funds have allowed UFV to hire Betty Peters as the Indigenous Student Transition Coordinator (Coordinator) for a one-year term.
As the Coordinator, Betty will work with new Indigenous students to support their transition into, retention in, and successful completion of UFV programs. She looks forward to working with students to ensure they get the academic and support services they need to be successful in their studies. In addition to supporting new students, she will develop a mentorship program that will provide training to third- and fourth-year Indigenous students so they can mentor others.
For the past six years, Betty has worked in the Indigenous Student Centre providing support to Aboriginal students, UFV Elders, and others from the UFV community and the communities it serves. Betty is familiar with high school students and their needs through her past work with the Chilliwack School District Aboriginal program where she supported and mentored high school students, working with their families to ensure students’ success.
Stacy Hulbert has been hired as the new Department Assistant while Betty is the Coordinator. A welcome addition to ISC and UFV, Stacy brings several years of experience working with Aboriginal communities, education, Elders, students and their families.
Upgrading and University Preparation (UUP):
In September 2015, UFV began charging tuition fees for Adult Basic Education (ABE) courses. As a result, the Upgrading and University Preparation (UUP) department has seen a decline in enrolment, especially at the lower levels. In an effort to increase enrolment, the department is working closely with community agencies to ensure that potential students know about the Adult Upgrading Grant provided by the Ministry of Education, which covers tuition, fees, and textbooks for the majority of students who apply.
As of September 2016, the department began offering several Advanced and Provincial ABE math and science courses previously offered through the Faculty of Science: BIO 093 Pre- College Biology II; CHEM 083 Preparatory College Chemistry; MATH 094 Introduction to College Math I; MATH 095 Introduction to College Math II; and PHYS 083 Preparatory University Physics I. To ensure students’ needs are met, science courses are offered at the Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses, and the department has updated and purchased required lab equipment and materials. The demand for these courses is high because they are often required for admission to other UFV programs or are prerequisites for first-year courses. Similarly, the demand for Advanced and Provincial English courses is also high and enrolments are good.
Due to insufficient enrolments, the department has not offered any programming at the Mission campus for several semesters; however, it continues to offer computer, math, and English courses at the Hope Centre where enrolments are good. It also maintains its collaborative partnership with the Chilliwack School District and Chilliwack Community Services by providing English and math courses at Central Elementary Community School as part of the Chilliwack Family Literacy program.
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Research, Engagement and Graduate Studies (REGS) (Adrienne Chan, Associate VP)
Dates to Note 2017:
Faculty Microlectures
Event Date: Tuesday, February 21, 11:30 Road Runner Lounge, A Building
Publication Celebration
Event Date: Tuesday, February 21, 12:30 Room A225, A Building
Student Research Day
Student Microlectures
Event Date: Wednesday, March 29 Time and Location: TBA
Student Poster Presentations
Event Date: Wednesday, March 29 SUB Conference Room
Undergraduate Research Excellence Awards
Event Date: Monday, May 29 Quality Hotel & Conference Centre
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More information on these and other activities in the REGS Office can be found at https://www.ufv.ca/research/events/ or via email to [email protected]
Note: Many REGS related activities are reported under the Faculties or other sections of the President’s report.
Students and Enrolment Management (Jody Gordon, VP)
Counselling Services:
On October 5, the Counselling department held an event focused on stigma reduction and mental health awareness on university campuses. The event Movies 4 Mental Health was in partnership with Art with Impact, a nonprofit that uses the emotional power of short film to reduce stigma around mental illness on college and high school campuses. The event occurred during Mental Illness Awareness Week, October 2-8. The Counselling department is part of an initiative focused on stigma reduction and mental health awareness on university campuses. This event had a positive social impact among students, and encouraged them to access campus and community resources. The UFV Peer Resource and Leadership Centre, UFV student volunteers, and the Partners for Mental Health Figure 1 - Art with Impact facilitator Maya Grodman organization came together to create a diverse panel. Students completed evaluations and indicated the following impacts of the event:
69 percent of students said they are more likely to reach out for help as a result of the workshop 72 percent of students felt that the workshop created awareness of mental health issues 100 percent said that the workshop reduced stigma related to mental health Pictures are featured on the Art with Impact site:
http://www.artwithimpact.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=177
The Cascade newspaper, featured the Movies 4 Mental Health event and other Mental Health Awareness Week initiatives that took place on campus and are found here: http://ufvcascade.ca/student-mental-health-a-silent-epidemic/ http://ufvcascade.ca/looking-back-on-mental-health-awareness-week/
The annual mental health screening day, Beyond the Blues, took place on October 6. Five employees and five volunteers helped out at this event. The screening results from students are as follows:
Depression 58 percent showed symptoms of depression 15 percent reported thoughts of suicide
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62 percent have never been treated for depression Anxiety 46 percent showed symptoms of an anxiety disorder 81 percent have never been treated for an anxiety disorder Alcohol 85 percent reported low risk drinking patterns Well-Being 19 percent have low well-being 69 percent have moderate 12 percent have high
The second part of Student Life’s Peer Resource & Leadership Centre student peer-helper training took place on September 2 at the CEP campus. The workshop focused on communication skills and addressed common challenges that peer helpers in any role at UFV often face. On October 20 and 25, a pilot Study-Skills Lunch and Learn workshop was delivered to students in the Indigenous Student Centre. Students joined the workshop to learn about ways to manage time and stress, and enjoyed a lunch together. Common time pressures and student stressors were identified by the group, and helped to normalize the student experience while learning about counselling resources.
Additional workshops held this fall included: Health Care Assistant program - Stress Management and Study Skills workshop September 15 (24 students) ABT Stress Management and Study Skills workshops with two cohorts September 19 and 21 (25 students) Career Peer-Coach Counselling Skills training September 30 (6 peer coaches) Bachelor of Science Nursing program - Stress Management workshop October 12 (48 students) Career and Life Planning workshop October 26 (13 participants)
The increases in service demands did not prevent the department from remaining committed to their areas of service: Personal Counselling and Mental Well-Being; Crisis Counselling and Support; Career and Life Planning; Study Skills Instruction and Student Success; and Consultation with faculty, staff, and administrators. The Counselling department continues to operate efficiently by meeting the needs of students in a strategic and timely fashion.
Athletics and Campus Recreation:
It’s been an exciting fall season for the UFV athletic department, and as of early November, all of the Cascades sports teams had tasted game action. The UFV soccer teams both made the playoffs, but both were eliminated in the first round of the post-season. The Cascades women spent four weeks in the U Sports Top 10 national rankings, but Figure 2 - Men's Soccer they were upset 3-2 by the Victoria
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Vikes. The men’s team suffered a 2-0 quarter-final defeat at the hands of the Calgary Dinos. Both teams had two players named to the Canada West all-star teams – Monika Levarsky and Tristan Corneil for the women, and Tammer Byrne and Daniel Davidson for the men.
The Cascades volleyball teams both began PACWEST play in mid-October, and though their home opener was cancelled due to a storm-related power outage on Figure 3 - Women's Soccer the Abbotsford campus, the rest of the season has progressed as planned. The Cascades golf teams ended the regular season holding lofty spots in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) national rankings – the women were ranked No. 1 coming off a decisive Pacific Western Athletic Association (PACWEST) conference title, and the men were No. 2 after winning the PACWEST silver medal. Both teams fell short of their own expectations at the national championships in Stratford, PEI – the women finished fourth overall, while the men were ninth. Nevertheless, the Cascades affirmed their status among the top programs in Canada. Two female golfers – Sharon Park and Hannah Dirksen – were named CCAA All-Canadians, and head coach Chris Bertram was named the CCAA national coach of the year for the third time in four seasons. Figure 4 - CCAA Coach of the Year: Chris Bertram
The UFV basketball teams tipped off the Canada West regular season at home, taking on the Saskatchewan Huskies the first week of November. Both teams have a promising blend of veteran talent and youthful enthusiasm, and figure to contend for playoff berths in Canada West.
The Cascades wrestling teams opened their Canada West campaign at the Calgary Dinos Invitational in late October, and Brad Hildenbrandt (silver, men’s 120 kg), Ashley Coupal (silver, women’s 48 kg) and Amtoj Dhaliwal (bronze, men’s 82 kg) earned individual medals.
The Cascades’ club programs also saw game action – the rowers had some strong performances at Western Washington University in late October, while the baseball team played a fall exhibition schedule ahead of the Canadian College Baseball conference season in the spring. Figure 5 - Men's Basketball
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Look for exciting announcements from the UFV athletic department in the coming weeks regarding the Cascades Scholarship Breakfast in February featuring a guest speaker, a brand-new Cascades Hall of Fame set to launch in 2017, and a new club program which was announced mid- November.
On the staffing front, the Cascades recently hired Katrina Owens to serve as event coordinator. Katrina joins us from the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) of BC.
Disability Resource Centre (DRC):
The Disability Resource Centre continues to see intakes several times per week, with numbers approaching 1,100 students, up from 640 students in 2013.
As of November 10, the DRC had invigilated 225 exams on the Abbotsford campus, and 45 at the Chilliwack (CEP) campus.
The Self-Determination and Disclosure symposium took place on November 2 and was very successful. The symposium featured four staff presentations and a DRC student panel. The student panel generated interesting questions from the audience. Feedback was received from audience members stating that the symposium was very helpful in understanding and building compassion for the difficult process many students go through in disclosing their disability. One academic advisor commented that it was good to learn how she can be more sensitive to our students who are navigating UFV for the first time. One of the panelists announced that she has been approved to hold a regular mental health feature on CIVL radio. A second panelist used the event to investigate whether there might be opportunity to start a DRC peer-support group. DRC staff are thrilled to support these student-led initiatives in the New Year.
With members of the Counselling department and the Academic Success Centre, DRC continues to organize and participate in the upcoming conference Safe Spaces, held by the Learning Specialists Association of Canada at UFV. The conference is scheduled for December 9 and we are currently recruiting presenters.
Student Life and Development:
Advising Update
The Qualifying and Exploratory (Q+E) Advisors have been working closely with the Office of the Registrar (OReg) on a communication plan for the conversion group of Program Path students over to Qualifying Studies (QS), as per the Strategic Enrolment Management Plan (SEM). The first email went out September 9, to all QS students who are currently registered for the fall 2016 semester, and who still have an active hold on their account. The Q+E Advisors are currently working with OReg and IT to identify who will be blocked from winter 2017 registration. Once these students are identified, the Advising Centre plans to call them and book them in to see an Advisor. The Q+E Advisors are planning to run double drop-ins in the morning and afternoon from November 21-December 2 in an attempt to accommodate the QS students who have been blocked from registering.
The Q+E Advisors are currently doing High School On-Site Advising (HSOA) and have been to a total of 23 schools: nine schools in Abbotsford, one school in Mission, two schools in Langley, four schools in Chilliwack, one school in each of Hope and Agassiz. There has been a total of 245 high school students seen through HSOA to date for the fall 2016 semester.
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Financial Aid and Awards
The FinAid Banner 8.6.1 upgrade is almost ready for installation. This upgrade will allow us to switch to a secured file transfer for electronic confirmations of enrolments, withdrawal reporting, Adult Upgrading Grant (AUG) reporting and Institutional Appendix uploading. An AUG patch has been installed for staff to begin extract testing. Once we have verified that the revisions are working well in test mode, we can begin reporting the Aboriginal student information the Ministry is requesting.
The Financial Aid and Awards office saw an influx of students this fall requesting emergency assistance and fee deferrals. We are working with the Indigenous Student Centre Director to ensure permissions are in place to share data with the Ministry for Adult Upgrading Grant (AUG) reporting requirements. Financial Aid and Awards advisors will be available for drop-ins at the Indigenous Student Centre on Tuesdays alternating between CEP and Abbotsford – this is to let students know what we do and give information or assistance as needed. This service will be offered at CEP from 11:15am – 12:45 pm and at Abbotsford 11:00am – 12:30 pm. Financial Aid and Awards staff welcomed approximately 600 students at both CEP and Abbotsford events.
Co-Curricular Record (CCR)/MyCampusLife Update
This semester we began working with departments who mentor and develop large student groups to provide CCR recognition to every student who contributes. These groups included Ambassadors, Global Engagement Volunteers, Friends Without Borders, and Work Study students. A total of 246 students were uploaded under this initiative.
In partnership with the Transitions and Student Engagement Coordinators, this fall we launched the First-Year Challenge. The purpose for this project was to provide new, in-coming students with information about on-campus resources available to them, as well as familiarizing them with the student engagement portal, myCampusLife. Every new student has the opportunity to participate, which resulted in 2,108 students receiving an invite to join. The project runs in collaboration with 15 other UFV departments and will run for the entire semester.
A new, official CCR layout has been developed and is now in use. The new layout mimics the UFV Academic Transcript.
The myCampusLife and CCR continue to draw the attention of students, staff and faculty through the use of innovative marketing campaigns such as the For the Record contest that took place in September 2016. This week-long treasure hunt created a buzz on campus with students searching for vinyl records that were hidden in public areas of the campus. The myCampusLife GO Team promoted this contest through a variety of activities. All promotional items were branded with myCampusLife and CCR and the result was increased traffic to the social media sites as well as the myCampusLife system as students endeavored to find out more about the contest.
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In October, the Student Union Society ran their By-Election through the myCampusLife portal for the first time. It is a great step towards a partnership between the Student Union Society and myCampusLife.
Student Leadership Development
The second installment of Essential Skills Training drew 31 students to seven different sessions, averaging nine students per session. First Aid and Food Safe courses also ran successfully in October. The date for the third round of Essential Skills will be on February 9, 2017.
The Student Engagement Team has been very active this fall. In collaboration with the Culinary Arts students, they hosted the very successful annual Thanksgiving Dinner for 120 attendees. The first of a series of Cans for a Cause events was held to raise funds for travel expenses of practicum and intern students. The Engagement Team is also an important part of bringing back The Elf Training Institute as a part of SUS’ Angel Tree Project. Other projects include work with the Peer Resource & Leadership Centre, Campus Recreation, and trying to bring community breakfasts and/or dinners to both campuses on a regular and regulated basis. In addition to supporting other departmental initiatives, such as at New Student Orientation (NSO) and the First Year Challenge, they are providing a valuable second tier function of recruiting other students for NSO, the Peer Resource and Leadership Centre (PRLC), and Student Union Society (SUS) committees. Three students are going to present at the Canadian Conference On Student Leadership, and three of their proposals were accepted for presentation by the conference. The next large project they face is planning for the End of Winter retreat. More than half the students who attended this year are actively engaged on an ongoing basis in both Abbotsford and Chilliwack.
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Coast Capital Savings Peer Resource and Leadership Centre (CCSPRLC)
Over the summer, the CCSPRLC Assistant attended the Sexualized Violence Symposium at UBC to learn more about what is being done province-wide in response to the legislation requiring all post-secondary institutions to have a policy around sexualized violence. The Assistant is now a member of the University’s committee to create a policy as per the legislation.
Over the summer, staff from the University of Victoria came to UFV to run Let’s Get Consensual facilitator training. This training allows staff and students to run 90-minute workshops about consent. UFV now has ten facilitators from various disciplines and departments.
In the summer, UFV and the CCSPRLC sponsored a table at Fraser Valley Pride and handed out rainbow buttons to visitors while showing support for the local LGBTQ+ community. The CCSPRLC arranged for a representative from Qmunity to come and deliver a four-hour Queer Competency training to staff from Student Services, the Office of the Registrar and UFV International. Following this training, Qmunity offered a three day Train the Trainer and there are now eight staff members that are able to deliver 60-minute LGBTQ+ awareness workshops across UFV.
The CCSPRLC partnered with Student Life, Counselling, International, the Disability Resource Centre (DRC), Student Services, and the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) to deliver Essential Skills training for its volunteers. There were 21 students who attended all three full days of workshops, and another fifteen students who attended a workshop on LGBTQ+ awareness that was open to students across UFV. Some of the workshops offered were: Intercultural Communications LGBTQ+ Awareness Boundaries Setting Peer Counselling Figure 6 - Buttons handed out at Fraser Valley Pride Crisis and Referrals Mental Health Awareness Campus Resources
On October 14, there was another offering of Essential Skills training with six workshops offered to students across the university. There were 25 students who attended workshops over the course of the day.
The President’s Leadership Lecture Series (PLLS) featuring keynote speaker Benjamin O’Keefe was held in September. This event was attended by approximately 150 students, staff, faculty, and community members. The CCSPRLC booked the speaker and organized the event with the assistance of the President’s Office and University Relations. In order to make the event more accessible, the CCSPRLC worked with the Disability Resource Centre to hire two ASL interpreters for any deaf guests in attendance.
After the event, a group of 40 student leaders and administrators were invited to attend a dinner with our speaker and Dr. Mark Evered. This was the first PLLS proposed and planned by a co-
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curricular unit of the university and was met with many accolades from students, faculty and staff alike.
Figure 7 - Benjamin O’Keefe at the President’s Leadership Lecture Series on the Abbotsford campus
October 3-7 was Peer Leader Appreciation Week across the university. The CCSPRLC helped with serving breakfast on October 3 to peer leaders and offered cake on October 4. Within the CCSPRLC, peer leaders were given small gifts and thank you cards in appreciation of their service to the Centre. This week was also Mental Health Awareness Week and on October 5, the CCSPRLC Assistant was part of the Art for Impact panel discussion, as organized by Counselling. This panel allowed the Assistant to share information about the services and Figure 8 - Cake for peer leaders resources that the CCSPRLC offers to UFV students.
Residence Life
All seventeen student staff participated in Overdose Prevention and Response training facilitated by Toward the Heart; a project of the Provincial Harm Reduction program in BC. The student staff learned to recognize the difference between an overdose from opiates vs. amphetamines, and learned how to administer Naloxone to someone who is overdosing from opiates. Student staff received their training alongside staff from UFV Security as well as Securiguard.
Six student staff and the Manager of Housing and Residence Life, attended the Residence Life Professional Association’s (RLPA) annual student leadership conference in Nordegg, Alberta. Three of the student staff who attended received recognition for the passive programming boards they created on Consent Culture, and one student staff was recognized for his contribution in a Case Study presented by UFV Residence Services.
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In the words of one of the Resident Assistants (RA) that attended “I needed this weekend, and I needed this conference. This weekend was so packed full of inspiration and wonderful people that I feel renewed as a leader. As the semester was starting to wear me down, and my identity as a student leader was failing, LEAD swept right in to remind me why I love to do what I love to do. I came back to campus with a vision of how I could be a better leader and a more genuine human. I was reminded of the importance the RA role holds and truthfully strengthened in my role. I built connections and learned so much, but in my opinion, most importantly, I returned to Baker House with a smile on my face, excited to share with my fellow student leaders, and so excited to work on connections with my residents and be a better person, student, leader and RA.”
Once again, Baker House collaborated with Safety and Security to participate in the BC Great Shake Out on October 20. Approximately 90 student residents were in Baker House during the drill. This year Safety & Security did not include an evacuation. Students were asked to drop, cover and hold on while a simulation of an earthquake was played over the public announcement system.
Twenty residents participated in a two-hour pumpkin carving workshop. The Residents learned about the history of Halloween, common Halloween traditions and how to carve a pumpkin. The event was very successful in fostering connections between domestic and international students. The pumpkins were used to decorate the Residence hallways and to identify units that were participating in the Baker House Trick or Treat event.
Over 45 percent of the residents living in Baker House participated in a traditional Halloween Trick or Treat party. This activity was organized by our international student staff and a group of international students.
Residents who participated decorated their unit doors, and doled out candies to other residents who were dressed up to go door-to-door chanting Halloween rhymes and looking for candy. Students reported that it was a great opportunity to get to know and socialize with people they had not met yet, and that it created a lot of vibrancy in the building.
Housing Operations
As of November 1, twenty-six students are expected to move out at the end of the fall 2016 semester. Twenty-five room offers have been extended to incoming students; of these, two are outstanding. Of the twenty-five incoming residents, three are domestic and twenty-two are international. Eleven of the incoming international students are single-semester exchange students. The winter semester totals will include seventy-five domestic students and one hundred and twenty-three international students, which brings the percentage of international students to sixty-two percent.
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Canine bed bug inspections were recently completed by A.D. Detection services, and no bugs were found. This is Baker House’s 3rd semester with no positive alerts.
Office of the Registrar (OReg):
Staff participated in the Orientation sessions for students new to UFV for January, providing them with information on how to successfully navigate course registration and reminding them to pay attention to those very important dates in the schedule that tend to sneak up on new students especially.
Considerable progress is being made on the Degree Audit system, which, when implemented, will help advisors and students map their progress towards achieving their academic goals. It is anticipated that implementation will begin in the Winter Semester after thorough testing is completed.
The fall 2017 admissions cycle began October 1 and, while it is very early in the process, applicants continue to show strong interest in UFV programs.
University Relations (Leslie Courchesne, Executive Director)
University Relations is comprised of the Advancement, Alumni Relations, Communications, Marketing and Student Recruitment teams. Our mission is to build awareness, great experiences and lasting relationships that foster understanding, engagement, advocacy and funding to support UFV's success.
2016/17 Strategic Priorities 1. Enhance and protect the university’s reputation. 2. Attract prospective students and support student retention in accordance with UFV’s strategic enrolment goals. 3. Foster donor relationships and partnerships to increase giving to UFV aligned with UFV goals and priorities. 4. Partner with the UFV Alumni Association to engage every alumni through their time, talent or treasure. 5. Support our people, culture and work environment. 6. Streamline operations; promote and use best practices.
UFV Town & Gown
We raised $132,000 net for student awards at the 2nd annual fundraising dinner held at the Student Union Building on November 9. More than 250 attended the sold-out evening to benefit the UFV’s Changing Lives, Building Community Endowment. President Mark Evered and student Sahil Chawla spoke. Dr. Malwinder Dhami announced he will establish three new endowments: one to support the Dental Assistant program, and two to support language studies (in Punjabi and in Halq'eméylem). UFV Alumni Association (UFVAA) Chair Nik Venema presented Distinguished Alumni and Young Distinguished Alumni awards to Gary Bass and Shannon Thiesen. Our sincerest thanks to presenting sponsor Prospera Credit Union and the many other sponsors, our community leaders
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team instrumental in table and ticket sales, silent auction donors, and all attendees for making the evening UFV’s first six-figure fundraiser event.
Student Scholarship Video We created a short video highlighting the impact of financial awards on the lives of students. The video profiles the inspiring story of one student, Randi Seguin, a single mother of three maintaining a high GPA as she works toward her goal of becoming a social worker, and well as Kyle Baillie, UFV Director of Student Life & Development. The purpose of the video is to inspire potential donors to support financial aid for students at UFV. The video was shown at Town & Gown on November 9 with Randi in attendance, receiving a standing ovation. View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R5LDbYk3TQ
Events
We produced the President’s Leadership Lecture event featuring Dr. George Peary on October 12, at UFV’s Abbotsford campus.
Also on October 12, we produced the UFV Alumni Association AGM and reception, rescheduled from late September due to a power outage. At the reception, UFV Board Chair John Pankratz and UFVAA Chair Nik Venema signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations, a document we produced in conjunction with the President’s office and the UFVAA over the past year.
On October 13, together with the Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies, we hosted an event for Chilliwack MLA John Martin and Chilliwack- Hope MLA Laurie Throness and Mark Evered to announce trades training funding at the Trades and Technology Centre. The investment will benefit students in the heavy-duty mechanic foundation, plumbing, and carpentry programs. Equipment includes a heavy-duty tire changer and other critical trades training items.
On October 24, we produced the UFVAA Speaker Panel event on Avian Flu at the Aboriginal Gathering Space, CEP campus.
UFV sponsored the Mission Diwali Celebration of Light at the Clarke Theatre on October 26. We showcased our publications, including the latest Skookum featuring UFV India, and gave balloons and sweets to the crowd. Board member Elyssa Lockhart brought greetings from UFV on the main stage.
On November 7, President Evered signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the co-presidents of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) – Abbotsford Chapter. We negotiated the five-year agreement, outlining how our two organizations will partner on initiatives and events. UFV provides meeting space for the CFUW, and the CFUW funds scholarships at UFV.
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Emergency Communications
We used the UFV Alert system and other communication channels during power outages on September 28 and October 14, the Great BC Shakeout drill on October 20, and for a gas leak on the CEP grounds November 2. The UFV Alert system now has more than 2000 subscribers.
Media
University Relations Communications’ Dave Pinton and Darren McDonald were featured in several media outlets including Global TV, CKWX radio, CKNW radio, CBC, and The Abbotsford News, for UFV’s Public Health Advisory regarding condoms available for free on campus that were suspected of having been tampered with. The total audience for all media coverage of this announcement totalled 970,000 viewers, readers, and listeners across the Lower Mainland. Fiona McQuarrie, Associate Professor, School of Business at UFV wrote an Op-Ed piece for the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business that examined recent hiring and employment trends.
UFV’s Leah Douglas, Associate Professor in Social Work at UFV was quoted as a subject matter expert in trauma recovery for an Abbotsford News item on the tragic death of Letisha Reimer at Abbotsford Senior Secondary.
Internal Communications
We launched UFV Now, a weekly curated internal newsletter highlighting photos, stories, events and Cascade athletic updates. The open rate for the email newsletter has jumped 13 percent over the old format in the first month since launch.
Advertising
As UFV recruiters visit schools during this fall’s recruitment season, University Relations placed some “out- of-home” advertising in key locations: Cottonwood Mall, Chilliwack; HighStreet Mall, Abbotsford (left); and the Hwy 11 digital sign, Abbotsford (far left).
These ads increase overall brand awareness for UFV in the community. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) included on the ads (ufv.ca/go) is a shortcut to our future student’s site, which includes key information for prospective students organized according to what our analytics tell us about user activity on our website. It also includes videos and other content created to show the value of attending UFV.
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Publications
University Relations worked together with UFV India to update and redesign a brochure for a post- graduate degree pathway offered through a partnership between UFV India and the University of Windsor. Students can complete a Management Post-degree Certificate at UFV’s Chandigarh campus, which leads into the Master of Management program at University of Windsor.
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News from the History Department at University of the Fraser Valley
November, 2016
The summer was eventful for the On October 11 the History Department History Department. Like most fac- and the Association of History Students ulty we enjoy some time off, but the hosted “What to do with a History De- summer is also when courses are gree”, an event designed to highlight the designed or refreshed, reading, re- career opportunities for students with a search or writing that was left unfin- history degree. Many history students ished during the teaching semesters choose teaching as a career goal while a is finally attended to, and the depart- few anticipate law school. These are fine ment meets for its annual retreat in ambitions and a history degree provides August. In addition, we received the the content and skills to support them. In delightful news that the Peace and addition, a few of our students will pursue Conflict Studies (PACS) degree was graduate studies in history; UFV has a fine approved by the Ministry of Ad- record in preparing students for this path. vanced Education. History faculty However, many other opportunities await member Dr. Steven Schroeder devel- our students. The panel invited to present oped the PACS program, and seeing some of these opportunities represented a it come to fruition is a feather in his diverse range of occupations. These in- cap. Students will be excited by the September, cooking up some cluded work in museums, political offices, varied content of the program that wieners and chatting with new and diverse kinds of research opportunities includes a large number of history and returning students. There is including graduate school. Quite unique courses. Revealing the relationship plenty of evidence to suggest was a business that specializes in genea- between disciplines while respecting that young students who physi- logical research for legal disputes their individual methodologies is a cally visit a university campus concerning estates. Another public strength of any interdisciplinary pro- and meet faculty, are more like- research office represented the Kwantlen gram and PACS encourages students ly to choose that institution and First Nation and examined the impact of to see those connections. public policies and development proposals are even more successful once on their ancestral lands. Summer meetings set the stage for they arrive. Connecting with events during the new academic students is crucial for recruit- After the panel presentations and the year. The Association of History ment and a service that the His- “question and answer” session it was clear Students (AHS) and the department tory department faculty have that history students are well equipped for hosted the annual History Dog Day. embraced, both officially or as the job sector. Research and Faculty and students broke bread in individual initiatives. communication skills, especially the ability to write, were all deemed essential for employability. However, students The History have to be aware of the importance of Department held those skills while they are completing their its Annual degrees, systematically develop them, be Retreat in able to market themselves as having them, and must demonstrate initiative as August self-starting creative individuals.
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Professor Martin, while ostensibly retired, maintains an active research schedule, and his adjunct status allows him access to university library databases to support this research productivity. The most recent example (March 2016) is a history of St. John, New Brunswick, “Geography and Governance: the Prob- lem of Saint John (New Brunswick) 1785- 1927.” Access to library resources is the primary appeal of such an arrangement for Professor Martin. But for the institution and the department, the ar- rangement offers a great deal more. Ged Martin (PhD, Cambridge, FRHS) is a scholar of international reputation who, before his retirement was the Direc- tor of the Centre of Canadian Studies at the Universi- ty of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom's first perma- nent Chair of Canadian Studies. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books, and dozens of schol- arly articles. In a long a varied career, Professor Mar- tin was also a Research Fellow in History at Australi- an National University, Canberra; Lecturer in History at University College Cork, Ireland; and, more re- cently, was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at Hughes Hall, a graduate College of the University of Cambridge. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Ireland, Galway, contributing visiting lectures twice annually. While Professor Martin’s work has embraced themes related to Australia, Britain, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa, with forays into themes touching India and the United States, a Canadian af- filiation is an especially good fit for Professor Martin. His work has a high profile in Canada, and he is an acknowledged expert on the subject of Confederation, a topic that is likely to generate more interest than ever as the 2017 anniversary approaches. Professor Martin has always been generous with his time, being available for media interviews, conferences and even classroom visits. He has cheerfully engaged with first-year students at 4 o’clock in the morning Ireland time, discussing John A. Macdonald with students who had read some of his work. Favourite Son? John A. Macdon- ald and the Voters of Kingston 1841-1891 was awarded the 2012 Ontario Historical Society's James J. Talman Award “for the best book on Ontario’s social, economic, political and cultural history.” This was followed by a well- received popular biography, John A. Macdonald: Canada’s First Prime Minister (Dundurn, 2012). Affiliation with a scholar of Professor Martin’s stature can only enhance the prestige of the institution and department. The adjunct arrangement also facilitates a joint study Professor Martin has been engaged in with Barbara Messamore. This is a study of nineteenth-century private correspondence networks between British Secretaries of State for the Colonies and governors-general of Canada. This quasi-official channel of communication to London often reveals more about policy considerations than the formal despatches to the Colonial Office. In addition, he is engaged in research for a book on the death penalty in Canada, something that may interest col- leagues in Criminology.
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Brian Radant: The Abbotsford Online Poppy Album
History Department stu- dent Brian Radant researched and compiled the information on the home addresses and photographs of Abbotsford casualties in World War II. Starting with only the names on the Abbotsford cenotaph, Brian traced their information Johannes Mulder from newspaper files at The Reach Archives, as well as Hans Mulder is a UFV History student and an infantry officer in training from local land registry rec- in the Canadian Forces Primary Reserve since 2009. He recently participated in ords and online resources at a brigade level training activity that replicated the modern unconventional bat- Library and Archives tlefield, with multiple potentially hostile groups, civilians, and NGOs played by Canada. actors utilizing Hollywood type special effects. A system comparable to laser tag is integrated with all participants' personal equipment and weapons, adding a final level of realism to the 10 day exercise. The mission was an incredibly complicated and delicate stability operation set in a fictional country with gov- ernment forces, militias, rebel and guerilla groups engaging in atrocities, requir- ing coalition forces (US Army and several States' National Guards) to utilize skills and techniques learned from modern conflicts.
History Hot Dog Day The Online Poppy Album commemorates 24 recruits from Abbotsford who died in World War II. It does so in a unique way, by showing where these individuals lived when they signed up, and connects us to the life-altering events of the past through geography. The Abbotsford Legion, Branch 15, hosts the The Abbotsford Online A joint History Department and Association of History Students event Poppy Album on their that features hot dogs with condiments that reflect the course offerings of website. Department members.
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Annual History Tea and Student Awards Associate History Professor Barbara Messamore completed a number of projects this year, including “A Critique of Bill C-569: Some Historical Background to the Appointment and Removal of Governors General,” appearing in the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law, and “The Case for George Brown as Confederation’s True Father,” for the Globe and Mail Online.
She also wrote an entry for the Encyclopedia of Empire, edited by John Mackenzie, enti- tled “British North America (Canada), 1783-20th c.”, and contributed a chapter on “John A. Macdonald and the Gover- nors General: a prime minister’s use and abuse of the Crown,” in a collection edited Patrice Dutil and Andrew Smith, called John A. Macdonald at 200: New Reflections and Legacies.
While she was a Visit- ing Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Messamore delivered a paper entitled “The Meaning of Canada’s Confederation: Three Weddings and a Divorce”, to the Humanities Research Forum at Cambridge.
Among her other activities is the preparation of an expert witness report for a constitutional case concerning the division of financial responsibility between the federal and provincial governments. She continues to edit the Journal of Historical Biography, an online, open-access scholarly journal published at UFV, which features a special issue devoted to the theme of biographies of historians, and is guest edited by: Doug Munro (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand); Geoffrey Gray (University of Queensland); and Christine Winter (University of Sydney). With three co-authors, she is revising a condensed version of their earlier-published Canadian history survey textbook, for University of Toronto Press.
This October, in an interview about Canada’s Prime Ministers for Maclean’s magazine, Messamore was quoted as saying that Laurier sometimes chose “a moral evasion,” because his decision on French-language rights in Manitoba “fundamentally represented an abandonment of those rights.”
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Gerald Lefurgy graduated from UFV in 2005 with a B.A. in Criminal Justice and an Extended Minor in History, and went on to complete a Graduate Diploma in History at the University of Melbourne. Continuing to pursue his Graduate Studies, Gerald has since emigrated to Australia and now lives in Sydney with his wife, Vanessa. Soon, he will follow his dream to join the New South Wales Police. Gerry has a wide range of historical interests, having published articles on former New South Wales Premier Jack Lang, Joseph Merrick, 'The Elephant Man', the 1923 Melbourne Police Strike and the Great Depression in inner-city Sydney, Australia. He is presently working on a number of projects, such as articles entitled “To Usurp the Functions of the Courts: The Illegal Vice-Regality of Sir Philip Game and the Dismissal of the Lang Ministry”; “Big Fascist Machine: An Illustrative Study of the New Guard and Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs” and “Dutiful Disquiet: Great Depression-Era Riots in Australian and Canadian Policing”. Recently, Gerry served as research assistant for Christer Holmgren, on the sources related to Jack the Ripper, assisted in researching sources on the Royal London Hospital, and also conducted research at the Lincoln Cottage Museum in Washington DC. Gerry Lefurgy His other interests have introduced him to several Civil War historians and re-enactors such as Dr. Curt Fields (General and President, Ulysses S. Grant and Doug Baum of the Texas Camel Corps. His research has led to completing a project for the Dja Dja Wurrung people of Australia, and he also helped a good friend in his appli- cation for his Certificate of Aboriginality by conducting research in Sydney’s Mitchell Library. The evidence then successfully supported his friend’s claim. In his spare time, Gerry enjoys his favorite activities -- natural bodybuilding and travelling, and serves as the Secretary of the Polar Dawn Historical Society of Sydney, a group dedicated to furthering knowledge, enthu- siasm and historical research for both polar regions. Gerry has fond memories of the outstanding History Department Faculty whose courses he attended, and has compiled a list of guidelines for students who want to become historians: -- develop public speaking skills -- when doing research, make sure that you’re near a coffee shop and stationery store -- seek out 'life experience' to develop people skills -- make notes and writing not just for fun to read but to 'see', with things like creative acronyms, (i.e. British Columbia Daily Colonist, BCDC). -- be able to reason critically, logically and offer a good explanation. -- turn over every last stone in search of evidence. -- believe in yourself! You're as good as any other historian on the block!
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Sonny McHalsie has served as Cultural Advisor/Historian for Stó:lō Nation since 1994. Before that, he was a Research/Cultural Assistant for Stó:lō Nation/Tribal Council. He is presently Cultural Advisor and Historian for the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre at Stó:lō Nation.
His work and interests Indigenous communities. revolve around education and As the Cultural Advi- the transmission of Stó:lō sor / Sxweyxwiyam oral history, history and (Historian) at Stó:lō Re- social organization, Stó:lō search and Resource Man- Place Names, Stó:lō agement Centre, Stó:lō Na- storytelling, Halq’emeylem tion, Sonny’s journey in language revitalization cultural and history preser- and preservation, and vation and transmission be- aboriginal rights and title. gan in 1978. Sonny began These areas intersect and working in his home territo- overlap with the disciplines of ry as an archaeological as- archaeology, anthropology, sistant but was soon drawn Indigenous studies, leadership, into the oral histories and and resource management, the stories of the Stó:lō. His geography and, especially natural gift as a storyteller history. and Sxweyxwiyam led him
His appointment will to listen closely to the Stó:lō allow him to expand on his elders and to generously current relationships with share what he learned at UFV, as an individual and in every opportunity. In 1985 his capacity as Cultural Sonny began work for Advisor / Historian of the Stó:lō Tribal Council Stó:lō Research & Resource (currently Stó:lō Nation) as Management Centre at Stó:lō a heritage researcher and Nation. He will bring to the later as a Cultural research- UFV the Stó:lō traditional Sonny McHalsie er. His work with Stó:lō has led him to being an Execu- system of teaching and Nation and the University of Saskatche- learning, which relies on the tive Director supervising wan. He brings to the Department of His- archival, genealogical, herit- oral transmission of tory a lifetime of cultural work that not knowledge as well as cultural age, justice and environ- only preserves Stó:lō traditional systems mental staff. Simultaneous- knowledge and expertise. of teaching, learning and cognition on ly, Sonny served as a Professor McHalise their own terms, but draws on both Indig- Si:yam (on Chief and Coun- presently serves as enous and Western epistemologies to cil) for his community of co-instructor with Dr. David build long-lasting social, cultural and eco- Shxw’ōw’hamel. Schaepe for the Indigenous nomic relationships between Coast Salish Maps, Films, Rights and and settler cultures. He is able to provide Naxaxalhts’i has pro- Land Claims Certificate – mentorship and advice for Indigenous and duced numerous published (Hist 396i), and has been non-Indigenous students, provide guest and unpublished papers, and the primary instructor and lectures and workshops within and with- participates as a Director, mentor for the Ethnohistory out the department, help develop intern- Chair and member of many Field School, offered by the ship and practicum opportunities, and as- committees, including University of Victoria sist students with graduate school or ap- UFV’s Aboriginal Commu- in partnership with Stó:lō plied employment opportunities in nity Council. 6
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In recent years, Experiential Learning across Canadian post-secondary institutions has gained greater prominence in terms of both teaching and learning methods as well as establishing its presence on campuses. UFV is no exception. Numerous experiential learning opportunities such as internships, practica, field trips and study tours, both local and international, have been taking place on a required and extra-curriculum basis for many years, with great expertise accumulated among our faculty and tangible benefits gained by students. As well, UFV has been known for often engaging in projects that bring together instructors, students and admin- istrative staff members and strengthening a sense of community. Student engagement in volunteerism and community-based service learning also contrib- utes to the roster of experiential learning opportuni- Peter Inkman, a decorated Canadian veteran of the ties that enrich their educational journey and creates Korean War, gave a presentation to lasting and meaningful memories of their time spent Larissa Horne’s students at UFV. All of these activities contribute to our students’ personal and professional growth, make them better thinkers, and more compassionate and responsible citizens. Based on my personal teaching experience in History, I have witnessed first hand how my students’ ability to reflect, analyze and synthesize complex issues has been served through experiential learning models both locally and internationally, inside and outside the class- room, and how much more meaningful their previously gained theoretical knowledge has become.
The Experiential Education Coordinator position, to which I have been recently appointed, aims at building a leading-edge, student-centered model of coordination between various aspects of experiential learning at UFV, and serves to support, enhance and promote such opportunities across the institution. One of the tasks is to create a comprehensive inventory of opportunities, which is accessible to students, faculty and external partners. In addi- tion to this, my role is to create a database of all the necessary toolkits, handbooks and other documents, to help students navigate a multidimensional world of experiential learning. This database will also become a platform where instructors can share new organizational tools and practices. The Coordinator’s mandate also includes building a greater capacity for Experiential Education by identifying new sources of external support and funding.
“Learning by doing,” “Learning through experience,” and using an “applied learning” model” – are only some of the definitions that UFV’s instructors use when speaking of their teaching methodologies and the specifics of their disciplines and programs. In my role, I intend to further cultivate the sense of a teaching and learning com- munity in Experiential Education at UFV, so that the best practices can be documented and shared, new internal and external partnerships built, and students’ interests best served.
From Left to right: Convocation 2016, Association of History Students Paintball Tournament, Award Presentation at the Grad Party
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