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UFV Today: Mon May 10, 2010
Contact us: ufvtoday@ufv.ca
News
• Follow UFV student teachers via their blog from the Caribbean
• Fall 2010 book adoptions due May 15
• Hope Centre closure
• Alumni Relations office has moved
• Food services summer hours
• SAC closed May 14 weekend
• Distinguished Alumni award — call for nominations
• Read Nick’s blog
• New baby for Humphries family!
Events
• Educators Without Borders speaker series
Opportunities
• Bootcamp wants you!
• UFV rowing program needs a few more rowers
• Writing matters: An institutional discussion about writing
• Learning Specialists Conference
• You’re needed to help make Convocation 2010 a success!
• Yoga in Chilliwack
• World Partnership Walk
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Deadlines
• Academic Standards meeting and agenda deadline
• UPAC agenda deadline
• PD meeting deadlines
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News
Follow UFV student teachers via their blog from the Caribbean
The Champions for Health Promoting Schools is a program that brings
15 student teachers from UFV to schools in Antigua/Barbuda, West Indies, for a four-week period. Working side-by-side with local educators, the students promote health education in innovative and effective ways that:
a) enrich the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms;
b) help students see opportunities to play leadership roles at school
and in the community;
c) relate school work to care for self, others, and the environment;
d) integrate skills for reading, music, drama, storytelling, and art
with health promotion; and
e) build bridges between community health projects and school projects,
for example, safe communities and environmental protection.
Their job is to:
a) raise awareness of how education and health work together to improve
the lives of young people;
b) model new teaching methods that energize students’ imagination,
curiosity, ambition and talent;
c) involve community partners such as Red Cross, hospitals, planned
parenthood, and the police in classroom activities.
The Antiguan students learn:
a) to take better care of themselves and others;
b) about the roles they can play as leaders, young citizens, helpers,
and care providers;
c) to apply what they are learning to decisions about health at home
and in the community;
d) to respect each other, take pride in their work, build knowledge and
skills, develop creative solutions to today’s problems, and approach
the future with optimism.
Please follow this blog throughout the month of May to find out more about the
Champions program as well as ask questions to our students as they teach the importance of physical education and health education. http://ufvchampions10.wordpress.com/
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Fall 2010 book adoptions due May 15
It’s time to get your books ordered for Fall semester. Please visit the online edoption site below to submit your orders. If you forgot your password or have not been supplied with one, please email me. You can also enter through the bookstore main site and click on faculty and order textbooks on line. http://ufv.bookware3000.ca/eSolution/adoption/
The courses will be accessible on the website by Fri, May 7.
You can also fill out an interactive or paper adoption form if you prefer. It is available on the public drive under Temp and Bookstore, or from faculty reception. Please submit it to me by email or inter-campus mail.
Please ensure that you have a valid ISBN number and have verified the current edition. Be advised that editions do change and the edition you may want to use could be out of print or be subbed to the new edition by the distributor. If there is a access card needed with a text, please quote the appropriate ISBN # associated with that package.
Publisher reps have been pushing instructors to use custom publications that instructors can put together from various sources. Please note that this is not cost efficient. For some distributors the return policy is 10 or 15 per cent and can result in thousands of dollars that the department placing the order would be responsible for.
Textbook orders cannot be processed over the phone or by email, unless a form is attached.
The bookstore is currently carrying a large amount of stock. If department heads or instructors could take a quick look at our shelves and let us know if there is a book that is no longer being used, that would be great.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you,
Joanne Hutter
Acting Assistant Manager, Course Materials
joanne.hutter@ufv.ca
Loca 4514
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Hope Centre closure
The Hope Centre will be closed on the following days:
Mon May 10, and Tues May 11. Regular office hours are Mon–Thurs 12:30–4:30 pm.
Hilary is on her way to watch her daughter graduate from UPEI in Charlottetown!
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Alumni Relations office has moved
UFV’s Alumni Relations office, home of the UFV Alumni Association has moved to Abby B317.
Drop by and see us in our new office. Check out our 2010 commemorative wine and be sure to pick up copy of the latest issue of our award-winning alumni magazine, Aluminations.
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Food services summer hours
Please note that as we are moving into the summer, the operating hours for our food services have changed. These changes are effective from now until Tues, Sept 7
Cascade Café — Abby campus
Monday to Friday — 8 am–2 pm
Saturday, Sunday and holidays — closed
Clikz Café — Tim Horton’s
Monday to Thursday — 8 am–9 pm
Friday — 8am–4 pm
Use Your Bean & Road Runner
Closed
Chilliwack Café
Monday to Friday: 8:30 am–4:30 pm
Rivers Cafeteria — TTC campus
(Effective June 11 to Sept 6) there will be no food and beverage services on the TTC Campus. Rivers Cafeteria will re-open on Tues, Sept 7. Catering services will start the week of Sept 13.
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SAC closed May 14 weekend
On May 14 through May 16, the Student Activity Centre North gym and Envision Athletic Centre South gym will be closed for the U17/U18 national volleyball championships. The fitness centre will be open during regular operational hours.
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Distinguished Alumni award — call for nominations
This award is given annually to a UFV graduate who has achieved outstanding distinction in career, education, and/or community service. This non-monetary award recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of exceptional UFV alumni and offers excellent media exposure through Aluminations (UFV's alumni magazine), media releases, website exposure, and through a prominently displayed Distinguished Alumni award plaque.
Past recipients of the award include TV and film producer Mary Anne Waterhouse, (Dip ’86), Terry-Lynn Stone (BA ’98), past editorial director for the Alive publishing group, and Amar Kingra, (Cert ’94) a sergeant with the Abbotsford Police.
The deadline for application is Sat, May 15. This year the award will be conferred at the annual UFV Awards night held on Fri, Sept 17.
If you know of a distinguished alumnus/a, please contact us for the application package.
For more information please contact:
Nancy Armitage
Alumni Relations office, 4086
Nancy.armitage@ufv.ca
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Read Nick’s blog
New UFV grad Nick Steeves is crossing the USA asking the 'man on the street' what he should do with his shiny new Business Administration degree.
Read his blog at http://tinyurl.com/38fc5en
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New baby for Humphries family!
Congratulations to UFV’s Security Coordinator Chris Humphries and his wife Kara.
Their son Declan was born at Chilliwack General Hospital on Tues, May 4 at 6:30 am weighing in 8 pounds, 5 ounces.
Declan’s big sister Brooklyn is thrilled to welcome him into the family.
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Events
Educators Without Borders speaker series
Join UFV ESL instructor Sarah-Beth Gould while she discusses education issues in South Africa.
Sarah-Beth has just recently returned to Canada after many years in South Africa working (teaching and administration) with local disadvantaged primary and middle school students. She has worked with SchoolTrade, an education development network committed to improving education outcomes for first language speakers of Zulu.
Fri, May 21
Noon–1 pm
Abby B163
Coffee and cookies will be provided. For catering purposes please register with laura.larson@ufv.ca or call local 4541.
Speaker series is open to everyone.
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Opportunities
Bootcamp wants you!
The fourth annual Bust Your Butt Bootcamp starts in just three weeks!
The Employee Fitness Challenge, in partnership with the Employee Development Centre, challenge you to enter our four-week fourth annual Bust-Your-Butt-Bootcamp.
Starting Mon, May 31and continuing until June 25, Janene Erickson and Colleen Moore will whip you into shape every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1–2 pm on the Abby campus green.
This is the program for you if you want to: lose weight, lose inches, lose body fat, decrease stress and tension, improve your endurance level, improve strength, improve flexibility and balance, improve self-esteem and/or improve agility and speed.
To sign up, please contact Tara Rozenek at tara.rozenek@ufv.ca or local 4536.
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UFV rowing program needs a few more rowers
UFV's employee/faculty rowing program has begun and we have a few spots left on our team. If you’re interested in participating, please send an email to liz.chisholm@ufv.ca or drop down to the boathouse on one our practice days this week. No experience is necessary, and our fees are $50 for the entire session. This cost includes, coaching, boat use, insurance, and the final race at Deep Cove Rowing, on Sat, June 12.
Tuesday/Thursdays
5:30–7pm
Fort Langley boathouse (home of UFV's Cascades Varsity Rowing program)
Liz Chisholm
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Writing matters: An institutional discussion about writing
The Writing Centre is hosting a forum for faculty to discuss student writing and the teaching of writing, and for students to discuss issues surrounding writing in their courses. The central goal is to elicit two lists of concerns, one faculty and one student so that we can collectively examine writing and begin to offer more integrated writing instruction at UFV.
Wed, May 19
1–2:20 pm
Abby B163
We encourage members from all areas to attend and to inform your students as well.
Please contact the Writing Centre at local 4282 or email Dana.Landry@ufv.ca for further information.
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Learning Specialists Conference
UFV employees are invited to the Learning Specialist of BC's spring conference. The theme for this year's event is ransformational learning.
Fri, May 28
Abby B121
Lunch and refreshment breaks are provided with the conference fee
Workshop #1: Supported Learning Group: students guiding the learning process. Organizing student-led support groups for high-risk courses and stories of transformation.
Workshop #2: Learning for the practical workplace. How trades instructors prepare their students for the reasoning demands of the job site.
Workshop #3: Experience the Transformational Power of Portfolio Learning: Gathering the material for a portfolio and reflecting on it is an experience in itself.
Workshop #4: Getting Students to Take Responsibility for their Learning. Why won't the "millennial" generation do their homework? What are we seeing in the classroom and how might we respond.
LSABC Conference fee includes the 2010-20100 membership fee and December conference: $100.
Make cheques payable to LSABC, c/o Richard Zajochowksi, LSABC Treasurer, Camosun College, 4461 Interurban Road, Victoria, B.C., V9E 2C1
For more details, visit http://lsabc.net/
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You’re needed to help make Convocation 2010 a success!
Join Team Convocation 2010 and be a part of UFV’s premiere event! With four ceremonies in the Envision Athletic Centre in June, your assistance is required to ensure the successful staging of convocation so that our graduates receive a fitting acknowledgment of their accomplishment.
UFV has always been fortunate — and senior management has always been appreciative of — the volunteerism exhibited by staff, faculty, alumni, and even current students in getting involved and assisting at convocation.
Members of Team Convocation are involved in an event with a strong positive atmosphere. Food and refreshments will be provided and members will receive a very special Team Convocation keepsake!
Sign up for a shift to help with gowning, grad marshalling, ushers, document distribution, coat check, and more! We are also looking with a volunteer who has a Class 4 driving licence.
The four ceremonies are:
• Thursday June 10 at 9:30am and 2:30pm
• Friday June 11 at 9:30am and 2:30 pm
If you are unsure as to which ceremony you would like to help at, please check the ceremony/program line-up at www.ufv.ca/convocation or email convocation@ufv.ca for a volunteer shift schedule.
Once you’ve decided which ceremonies you’re available for, please email us and send a copy to your supervisor. If you have a specific area/position at Convocation that you would like to be involved in, please note this at this time. We are extremely appreciative of all help received and positions will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
To sign up, please send email to Auriel Heron, auriel.heron@ufv.ca , Marketing and Events Assistant.
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Yoga in Chilliwack
Learn stretching, breathing, concentration and meditation techniques to improve your health and general well-being. The class is suitable for all levels of experience. Please bring a mat to each class.
Tuesdays, May 11–June 29
4:45–5:45 pm
Chwk D215
To sign up, please contact Tara Rozenek at tara.rozenek@ufv.ca or local 4536.
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World Partnership Walk
UFV’s Educators Without Borders is proud to be part of the World
Partnership Walk with the Aga Kahn Foundation Canada. Please support our team in our efforts to help alleviate global poverty. Make a donation, or register to participate in the World Partnership Walk. You’ll make a world of difference!
It is a 5km walk on Sun, May 30 starting at Lumberman’s Arch in beautiful Stanley Park.
Check out the website www.worldpartnershipwalk.com and click on search
participants and enter UFV to either join or donate to one of us who have already committed to walking.
Aga Kahn Foundation Canada is a registered Canadian charitable organization that supports social development projects in low income communities of South and
Central Asia and East Africa. World Partnership Walk raises funds to help improve the lives and livelihoods of families and communities in Africa and Asia through health, education and rural development programs as well as community-led initiatives. All of the funds raised go directly to programs supported by Aga Khan Foundation Canada, a private, non-denominational, Canadian development agency.
Not a cent is spent on administration.
Thanks!
Team leader
Laura Larson
Local 4541
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Deadlines
Academic Standards meeting and agenda deadline
The next meeting of the Academic Standards committee (ASC) is 10:30 am on Fri May 21, in Abby D215.
The deadline for items to be included on the agenda is noon on Thurs, May 13.
Please have any submissions to Sheila Kheleh no later than noon on May 13, to allow sufficient time for Printshop deadlines.
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UPAC agenda deadline
The next meeting of the Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee meeting is 10 am on Fri, May 21 in Abby A225. Please note that this will be the last UPAC meeting before summer.
The deadline for items to be included on the agenda is noon on Thurs, May 13.
If you have an item that has been to Pre-UPAC and approved by your curriculum committee, faculty council, and dean, please forward the submission to Amanda Grimson at amanda.grimson@ufv.ca by noon on May 13.
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PD meeting deadlines
There are only two PD meetings left before summer. If you are planning a PD activity, please have your PD applications to Laura Chomiak by either May 12 for the May 19 meeting or June 9 for the June 16 meeting.
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