What a year!
The University of the Fraser Valley continued make significant contributions to the educational, cultural, and economic landscape of our region in 2010.
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| UFV president Mark Evered with a 2010 graduate. |
This year we:
• Once again celebrated earning top marks in the Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report, maintaining our lead as the top public university in British Columbia, and one of the top ones in Canada
• Sent more than 1,800 new graduates into the workforce or on to further education
• Served more than 16,000 students
• Celebrated a third-place bronze medal finish for our women’s soccer team at the Canadian national championships
• Were full to the brim in many programs
• Began a major renovation that will see much of our Chilliwack campus move into modern facilities at the Canada Education Park on the former CFB Chilliwack
• Launched a new Master of Social Work program
• Celebrated the approval of long-awaited majors in philosophy and political science
• Congratulated the first graduates of the Chandigarh, India, cohort of our Bachelor of Business Administration program
• Welcomed leading Mennonite scholars and writers to special events to help us plan our new Centre for Mennonite Studies
• Honoured top academic medal-winning students Kim Williams, Philip Westendorp, Karl Bardossy Tanya Jonker, Joddi Alden, Ashley Epp, and Christina Henderson
• Congratulated computing students Derek Froese and Slava Minin on winning a provincial Cisco networking competition and placing third in Canada, and fashion design student Sabrina Breitenmoser on qualifying for the prestigious Telio competition
• Applauded alumna Lisa Kelly as she received a prestigious Trudeau Foundation scholarship, worth $180,000 over three years, to help fund her doctoral studies in law at Harvard
• Were wowed by third-year geography student Justine Cullen when she won the Geological Society of America’s 2010 Farouk El-Baz student award
• Watched with admiration as alumna Lisa Shepherd had her Metis-inspired Coke bottle design chosen for the Coca Cola art bottle competition
• Recognized Dr. Glen Baier as our Teaching Excellence award winner and Tracey Vanderaegen Jones as our distiguished alumna
• Conferred honorary degrees on Frank Malloway, Wally Oppal, Tantoo Cardinal, and Catherine Marcellus.
• Received almost $1 million in donations from our generous community of donors.
• Hosted science camps, science fairs, numerous guest speakers, conferences, microlecture lunch hours, and a university lecture series featuring noted UFV faculty members
• Continued to support numerous faculty research initiatives
• Presented our annual season of theatre and a director’s festival
• Launched Skookum, our new university magazine
• Participated in national university-level athletics in basketball and soccer, as well as at the college level in volleyball, golf, and rowing
• Had students, faculty, alumni, and staff involved with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games as researchers, consultants, and volunteers.
