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INDIGENIZING
UFV
Making our university more welcoming and relevant for Aboriginal people
Skookum: good, best, ultimate, first rate. That’s what UFV aims to be: the best undergraduate university in Canada, which is why we’ve named our university magazine with this strong word from the Chinook jargon, a trade dialect that was used as a cultural bridge among groups of aboriginal peoples and multi-ethnic newcomers to British Columbia.
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FEATURES 06 UFV & NASA How is UFV connected to the space agency?
08 MAKING HISTORY History students bring new life to Fraser Valley stories of World War II
10 INDIGENIZING UFV Making UFV a more welcoming and relevant place for Aboriginal people
14 A BANNER YEAR Women’s volleyball brought home the title; UFV Athletics had banner year
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16 LEARNING OUTCOMES What knowledge, skills, and abilities should every UFV grad possess?
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DEPARTMENTS & SECTIONS
ALUMINATIONS
GIVING
4 A message from President Mark Evered
21 Alumni Association Chair’s Letter
5 UFV News — New administrators and a major award for our new campus
21 Alumni news
28 Agrifutures — Working together to build School of Agriculture
22 Young Distinguished Alumni winner Alex McAulay
29 UFV Five Corners — Bringing education to the heart of downtown Chilliwack
23 George Hemeon receives UFV Distinguished Alumni award
30 Herron legacy — Family scholarship will keep memories alive
25 Keeping in Touch
31 Giving helps — Your support really does make a difference
Cover photo: Jace Chappell of the Semoya Dancers (semoyadancers.com) performed at the UFV Indigenizing the Academy conference. Photo: Rick Collins.
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A SKOOKUM TIME OF YEAR A MESSAGE FROM UFV PRESIDENT MARK EVERED
Spring is definitely a skookum time of year! Along with the return of warm, sunny weather, we celebrate the achievements of the many students who will receive credentials at convocation this June. Well over 2,000 students completed their programs this year, in the full range of disciplines we offer. We take pride in each one, as they move to the next stages in their lives. Some will be starting new careers or returning to previous ones with new knowledge and skills, some will be moving on to further educational opportunities, and some will be taking leadership positions in our communities. We do not say goodbye, but rather celebrate the beginning of a new relationship with our graduates this spring, as they join tens of thousands of other members of our UFV alumni family. Our success as a university will be judged not only by their personal successes, but also by their service to our communities and our world. I have no doubt that they will make us proud. And I am certain that future editions of Skookum will record their remarkable achievements.
Speaking of achievements, you will find in these pages reports of some remarkable new developments at your university. Learn about new directions, new people, new programs, new research, and new facilities. Read about some mutually beneficial, community-based research by our students. Discover how your university is taking leadership in addressing the important challenge of better serving Aboriginal students and their communities. Learn about the newly established learning outcomes that will guide the development of all programs, regardless of area of study, to ensure that all our students are well prepared to succeed in an increasingly complex, rapidly changing and technologically connected world. And see how the generosity of donors is directly changing the lives of students and enabling us to do even more for them and our region. What’s more skookum than that? Warm regards,
Mark Evered, PhD President & Vice-Chancellor, University of the Fraser Valley
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UFV NEWS NEW BUILDING AT CANADA EDUCATION PARK WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD The renovation included converting an outdoor concourse to an indoor one.
The new Chilliwack campus at the Canada Education Park has been named “Best in class: University Building” by the World Architecture News (WAN) education awards. The project, designed by Stantec, was the only award winner from the Americas in 2013.
the project to fruition. Truly an iconic building, it celebrates the natural environment surrounding the campus through the beautiful display of B.C. wood and natural light,” noted Craig Toews, UFV’s executive director of Facilities and Campus Development.
“It’s a tremendous honour for our Stantec team to be recognized on the international stage,” commented Mark Travis, Stantec’s lead design architect for the UFV project. “This was a unique undertaking with intricate challenges, and to be recognized along with well known architects from around the world really speaks to the quality of design that our team achieved, in addition to the strong relationship we were able to establish with UFV.”
“The new building is quite a transformation from the old military engineering building, converting what once was an outdoor courtyard into a vibrant public space. Its energy-efficient technologies, including a geo-exchange system, solar thermal hot water, and light harvesting contribute to a forecasted 60% reduction in energy consumption and undergird our LEED® Gold certification. Most importantly, the new building was designed around a ‘town square’ concept and has developed a stronger sense of community for students by bringing together academic programs and services into one cohesive space with study pockets and social nodes interspersed amongst the learning spaces.”
Architects at Stantec amalgamated four existing and two new buildings in their design, completely gutting the existing structures to create a renewed connective space. Anchoring the project is a new central atrium, which brings the buildings together as a single construct. The renovations and additions have bred new life and purpose to what was previously an abandoned site. “We are incredibly proud of our new campus building at the Canada Education Park in Chilliwack and the team effort that inspired the design and drove
Based in London, the annual WAN Education Awards are a major international competition judged by a panel of renowned architects and designers from around the globe.
NEW APPOINTMENTS AT UFV Left to right: Dr. Sue Brigden, Dr. Adrienne Chan, Dr. Vladimir Dvoracek, Jody Gordon, Dr. Lucila (Lucy) Lee.
Dr. Sue Brigden is the new Dean of the Faculty of Access and Open Studies at UFV.
University of Kent at Canterbury, an MSW from UBC, and a BA from UVic.
Comprised of the Continuing Studies, English as a Second Language, and Upgrading and University Preparation departments, as well as Aboriginal Access, Assessment Services, and Open Studies, the programs and services housed in Access and Open Studies help students of all backgrounds meet their personal, educational, and career goals.
Dr. Vladimir Dvoracek is UFV’s new Associate Vice President, Institutional Research and Integrated Planning. The role combines two previously separate portfolios into one.
Brigden joined UFV as an instructor in the Upgrading and University Preparation department in 1999, and became department head of UUP in 2005. Brigden has a Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, and a PhD, all earned at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Adrienne Chan has recently been appointed Associate Vice-President, Research, Engagement, and Graduate Studies at UFV. Chan has worked in both the college and university system in B.C., and since 2004 has been working at UFV. Chan has an excellent research record and played a leading role in the development of UFV’s Master of Social Work degree. She is also a UFV Teaching Excellence award winner. She holds at PhD from the
Dvoracek is a CFA charterholder and holds a PhD in economics from Simon Fraser University, an MA in economics from Queen’s University, and a BA, joint honours in economics and mathematics, from the University of Waterloo. He was first hired at UFV as an instructor in 1995. Since then he has chaired both the departments of Business and Economics, and served as acting director of Institutional Research. Jody Gordon is the new Vice President, Students at UFV. Gordon’s portfolio encompasses the Student Services division (including Counselling and Educational Advising, Disability Resources, Student Life, Residence Services, Financial Aid), as well as Athletics, the Career Centre, and the Writing Centre.
Gordon came to UFV from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she was Associate Vice President, Students, and an adjunct instructor in the Criminology department. She holds BA and MA degrees in criminology from Simon Fraser University and a certificate in executive leadership and management from WACUBO at Stanford University. Dr. Lucila (Lucy) Lee joined the University of the Fraser Valley as Dean of the Faculty of Science last fall. Lee is an experienced university teacher, researcher and administrator, having had faculty appointments in three provinces: Acadia University in Nova Scotia, the Western College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan, and Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. For the past decade and a half at WLU, she excelled as both a professor and department chair of biology. She brings not only a wide range of experience but also a passion for the sciences. She earned all of her university degrees at the University of Waterloo: a BSc, MSc, and PhD.
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UFV & NASA
RESEARCH ODD UNDERWATER LIFEFORMS UFV’s Dan Huesken (left) and UNBC’s Theo Mlynowski (right), pulling up the vibrating head of a coring device during a collaborative research project at Kelly Lake in the Cariboo region.
BY ASHLEY WRAY
Working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is a dream for many scientists. And it’s something a group of UFV students were able to experience during a summer research trip to south central B.C. The group spent two days at Kelly Lake (near Clinton) in July 2012, collecting data to learn more about the lake’s history. The lake is of interest to NASA as it contains unique rock formations called microbialites, which are considered to be rare carbonate rock structures formed by microorganisms. The four students associated
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with UFV were joined by Dr. Olav Lian, a UFV geography instructor and 2012 winner of UFV’s research excellence award, and two students linked with NASA’s Ames Research Centre. With the help of Dr. Brian Menounos, a University of Northern British Columbia associate professor of geography, and his graduate student Theo Mlynowski, the group used a boat and special equipment to carry out its research. The expedition’s purpose was to core the lake’s bottom to collect sediment that has accumulated over time. Dr. Darlene Lim, a research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, described the coring process as similar to putting a straw in a glass of cola, capping the top, and then bringing the straw upwards. “The cola that’s trapped in the straw is essentially your sample,” she said, adding that in the lake’s case, the sample at the bottom is the
oldest, and the top is the youngest. “So to understand the history of this aquatic system, you can tap into that sediment as a record, or historical book, of what’s happened to this environment over long periods of time,” said Lim. “That’s essentially what we’re interested in — that history of accumulation, and what’s happened surrounding the lake, and also within the lake, over long periods.” While NASA has been working in the Kelly Lake area since 2004 with the Pavilion Lake Research Project, learning more about the microbialites, Lian has been conducting geology research in the area for 20 years. The collaboration is important to NASA in determining the region’s history, which they believe will assist them in understanding more about the formations, such as how they’re created and why they are here. NASA and UFV connected on
THE PROJECT
WHAT’S A MICROBIALITE?
For the past few years, scientists from the NASA SETI group (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), have been studying odd life forms that live at the bottom of some of BC’s deep lakes. Those life forms are called microbialites.
Microbialites are unique rock formations that are considered to be rare carbonate rock structures formed by microorganisms.
The first lake studied was Pavilion Lake, and they have now moved to Kelly Lake. (Both located in the Clinton, BC, area.)
WHY ARE THEY LOOKING FOR MICROBIALITES?
Together, NASA and the UFV team are looking at the history of the lake.
While they have been seen in fresh water, and in the Earth’s history, microbialites are rare.
“What we’ve been doing is trying to understand what the characteristics are of Kelly Lake and Pavilion Lake, that allow them to support the development of these microbialites,” explained NASA’s Darlene Lim.
“They’re really cool because you don’t see them in a lot of systems around the world,” — Dr. Darlene Lim.
THIS PROJECT HAS CONNECTIONS WITH… MARS? This project uses deep-water submersibles and a full communications system for testing at at Pavilion Lake. While a deep-water submersible will never go to Mars, Lim explains, “the way that we use them is certainly akin to how, say, an astronaut would use a pressurized rover to go out, drive along the surface of Mars, or fly into an asteroid and anchor to it. Everything is set up to support the science, and that’s the really unique value added by our program to NASA’s portfolio.”
The team wants to know how the microbes interacted with their environment to form these rocks. “We’re trying to figure out what it is exactly that they were doing to build these really interesting structures,” said Lim.
the project thanks to the long-time research done by Lian. He had spent a lot of time in the area as it was in the heart of his PhD field study area, where he worked to understand the history of ice ages in the region and its effect on the landscape that surrounds Kelly Lake. Lian was in the area when NASA was doing an open house in Clinton in 2011. After connecting with the NASA team, Lian was invited to give a talk at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California.
Lian also introduced Lim to Menounos, a physical geography professor at UNBC who is an expert in extracting sediment cores from deep lakes and inferring changes in environment from them. As a group, they decided to spend a couple of days at Kelly Lake last summer in an attempt to core the lake bottom. “Dr. Lim’s interest in this is gaining a better understanding of the environment in which the microbialites have lived,” said Lian. “Lake-bottom sediments are an archive for long-term environmental change; this is my interest as well, but I am also interested in knowing how long the lake basin has been there. If we can date when sedimentation started, then we have a limiting date on the age of the lake basin. The lake was cored using boat-mounted equipment, which is owned by UNBC.” Another key aspect in the
collaboration is involving the students. “We always try to bring as many students with us as we can,” said Lian.
“We’re not the type of scientists that like to work in isolation — mentorship of students is incredibly important to us.” “Students are extremely important to any field team and research group,” added Lim. “Otherwise things just stagnate, and don’t move on and get published, so we totally believe in bringing students in all cases.” The students who participated from UFV included physics student Brie Mackovic, who worked with Lian in his luminescence dating lab. CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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MAKING HISTORY IN DIGITAL AGE
Photo: Rick Collins
Innovative history course puts local stories from WW II online Michael Schmidt took the History 440 course and examined the local Mennonite reaction to WW II.
BY DESSA BAYROCK
From an outside perspective, a history paper seems not only an insurmountable task, but an absurd one. Even after the sources are tracked down, the books checked out of the library, and the newspaper clippings photocopied, it seems almost insurmountable to look at events of the past and organize them into some kind of cause-and-effect order. And once that’s done, it’s an
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absurd thought that such a hefty stack of double-spaced pages — representing an intimidating amount of research, time, and effort — goes no farther than the professor’s desk.
This is why one history class at UFV is changing the name of the game. In the same way that books are evolving into e-books and journalists are diving into social media, history is moving into the digital era. The idea is still in the fledgling
phases, but two professors in UFV’s history department tested the waters of this new direction. Scott Sheffield and Robin Anderson joined forces to teach History 440: Local History for the Web. It’s a course that allowed UFV students to explore the local history of their communities around the Fraser Valley, Sheffield explains, as well as strengthen the bonds between UFV and Fraser Valley communities by preserving the events of the past. But here the similarity to other
history courses ends: instead of pouring their research into a final paper, the students enrolled in History 440 built websites to house their research — from scratch.
“We’d seen some, but very few examples of this kind of work in other history programs.” — Robin Anderson “We’d seen some, but very few, examples of this kind of work in other history programs of students doing this research and turning it into something — not just research papers, but blogs and websites,” Anderson explains. “New media is really changing the face of the historical world — archives and museums, and the way we store things and study things.” Over the course of several years, Sheffield and Anderson built the course around two objectives — combining the traditional element of research with web design. It’s this combination of new media and primary research that gave this course a spark. “New media skills are becoming increasingly important after our students graduate,” Sheffield explains. “Employers in the history sector ask us to teach these skills alongside traditional skills — they’re becoming more and more in demand.” A chance to develop web skills was one of two key elements the course offered to students; it also gave students an opportunity to try their hand at research of their own. “It was neat for the students to feel like they were making history — not just reading other people’s take on it,” Sheffield says. “That’s
what real historians do — work with primary sources and draw conclusions.” Both professors felt that it was important to get the students out into the field; despite the fact that many were in the final year of their degrees, many of them hadn’t had the opportunity to explore archives or try their hand at primary research. Depending on the topics they chose for their projects, the students drew directly from documents and other materials housed in municipal archives and historical societies around the Fraser Valley, spending hours at a time poring over materials and trying to understand events and social situations that are over half a century old. “Municipal archives are eclectic creatures,” Sheffield says with a smile, “But in all the archives that we worked with, the students really found a wealth of resources.”
Because these are smaller local archives, the students were delving into history that hasn’t been explored in depth before. “They looked at areas that haven’t seen a lot of study, and compiled high-quality historical information about the Fraser Valley,” Sheffield says. “They really constructed a rich resource, and filled a real void of information.” But all things considered, researching was fairly familiar ground to history students; the foray into the digital world was the real challenge. Both professors felt it was important to build the websites from the ground up rather than plugging the information into a cookie-cutter
design, but their plan to include web-building as an element of the course had one small flaw: neither Anderson nor Sheffield had any experience with website design or construction. “Neither Robin or I are particularly tech-savvy,” Sheffield confesses. “We were basically a blank slate in terms of technology.” This is where Marlene Murray, the history department assistant at the time, stepped in. With a background in graphic design and experience putting together websites, she was perfect for the job. As the lab instructor for the course, she says that teaching the ins and outs of web design to 13 students and two professors wasn’t as much of a challenge as it may seem. “The fact that the students had little to no experience was a blessing, because they were all on the same level,” Murray says with a laugh. “The main challenge was how quickly they had to learn, and how quickly they had to figure it out.” There was apprehension on all sides, but Murray says she was able to snap them out of it right away. “They were obviously concerned about whether they’d be able to do it, so on the first day I had them code a page in HTML,” she explains. “It was just three lines, and a single webpage, but it gave them an idea of what they were going to do and that they could do it.” It was the combination of new media and traditional research that intrigued fourth-year history student Michael Schmidt (who has since graduated) and led him to register in the course. His website, which explored tensions in the Fraser Valley Mennonite community CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
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For anyone new to academia, there’s a bit of confusion and trepidation. For Aboriginal students, the gap between their worldview and mainstream academic culture can be even wider. Throw in decades of systemic racism within Canadian society; the devastating experience of many families with residential schools, foster care, and adoption outside of their communities; and the misrepresentation and stereotyping of Aboriginal people in the dominant historical narrative, and you have a lot of reasons for them to be wary of post-secondary education. 10
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MAKING UNIVERSITIES MORE WELCOMING FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLES
INDIGENIZING THE ACADEMY
BY ANNE RUSSELL As the academic year launched in late summer 2012, UFV hosted S’iwes Toti:lt Q’ep — Teaching and Learning Together, a conference with an Indigenizing the Academy focus, at its brand new longhousethemed Aboriginal gathering place on the new Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park. Over 275 participants from 33 post-secondary institutions across Canada attended. Keynote speakers included wellknown Aboriginal educators Joanne Episkenew and Eber Hampton, and the conference dinner was graced with an informal visit and talk by then–Lieutenant Governor Steven Point, a local Stó:lo¯ person and UFV alumnus and honorary degree recipient. The conference grew out of several years of development and activities aimed at indigenizing UFV, many
of them inspired by a 2006 report, Indigenizing the Academy, authored by Stó:lo¯ educator and consultant Mark Point after he consulted with the Aboriginal and UFV communities. (See sidebar, next page.) Even with all of UFV’s past, current, and future activity in the area of aboriginal education, the question of “what exactly does indigenizing mean?” arises. Shirley Hardman, UFV’s senior advisor on Aboriginal affairs, is justifiably proud of the progress that has been made at UFV on the indigenization front, but she says the toughest challenge is finding ways to accommodate indigenous ways of knowing into the traditional academic structure. “For me, indigenizing means creating an environment where we as Aboriginal people do not have to give up part of ourselves in order to take part in academia, and where
For detailed coverage of UFV’s Indigenizing the Academy conference, go to: blogs.ufv.ca/indigenizingtheacademy
Indigenization:
A growing number of universities and colleges are recognizing the need to make their campuses welcoming places for Aboriginal cultures, their knowledge and their learners. The formal name for the process is indigenization.
we see ourselves reflected in the everyday life of the institution,” says Hardman. “It’s an environment where people easily make connections between the past and now, and see how events of the past two centuries have influenced indigenous peoples. It acknowledges a link between history and current social reality and prepares the next generation of professionals working with Aboriginal people to have a better understanding of all of that, as well as more empathy, whether they are Aboriginal themselves or not.” Hardman asserts that people in power don’t set out to hurt Aboriginal students or negate Aboriginal culture, but that “the feeling of welcome and safety needs to be defined by those who use the service.” UFV has already implemented courses and programs with local Aboriginal content, including courses in the Halq’eméylem SKOOKUM | SPRING 2013 | VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 1
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The three goals developed by UFV’s Aboriginal Community Council (right) focus on increasing capacity, creating a culturally safe environment, and developing responsive programs. Above: Rachael Chappell of the Semoya Dancers performs at the conference.
language, Stó:lo¯ history, and indigenous ways of knowing. It has run an Aboriginal carving certificate as part of the Visual Arts certificate. Last year’s Lens of Empowerment Program enabled students to use photography and video to explore the lives of women in Stó:lo¯ territory.
“We need to make universities natural places for Aboriginal people to be.” The new curriculum of the Practical Nursing program comes with a new emphasis on understanding the health care needs of Aboriginal populations, and fourth-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing students were placed in the Seabird Island Health Centre for an Aboriginal community
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health experience. The Indigenous Studies: Maps, Films, Rights, and Land Claims certificate is offered in partnership with the Stó:lo¯ Nation. Social Services offers a First Nations option within its diploma program. Recently Dr. Wenona Victor has been hired as the first faculty member designated to teach Indigenous Studies full time. Victor’s role at UFV includes teaching Indigenous content courses in various disciplines, helping UFV implement the major/minor in Indigenous Studies, and working with the Office of Indigenous Affairs and Aboriginal Access Services to increase Indigenous student enrollment and programming. “The key question as we move forward with indigenizing the academy is: How do you administer it?” says Hardman. “How do you arrange to have a master Aboriginal carver teach in a Visual Arts program for university credit when
he doesn’t have an academic degree? How do we categorize an instructor who spent 15 years learning Halq’eméylem, an endangered language, so that she could teach it? She couldn’t take her training through a university, as no courses existed. Why can’t that be considered as good a preparation as a degree?” Then there’s the challenging question of academic freedom. Can you require instructors to incorporate indigenous content or ways of knowing into their course curriculum? Hardman is finding that educating
The Vancouver Foundation grant of $20,000 toward the Indigenizing the Academy conference was instrumental in supporting this meaningful collaboration with decision-makers of the Aboriginal community. The positive impact of this generous gift has spawned ongoing dialogue and engagement long after this gathering. Thank you!
faculty members about Aboriginal history and issues is an effective way of encouraging them to consider the Aboriginal perspective when building their courses. Also, it’s a hot property in the employment market. “People who embrace the idea of indigenization are finding that they move forward in academia. There is a market for it. “One of the hardest things about indigenous curriculum development is that non-Aboriginal institutions are afraid of making a misstep as they try to make meaningful changes.”
“Fear of offending is a major boundary to getting things done.” So when they gathered by the hundreds for the S’iwes Toti:lt Q’ep — Teaching and Learning Together conference at UFV last summer, there were plenty of challenges for participants to discuss. But it was evident that UFV’s senior administration is ready to listen and to adapt. Dr. Mark Evered, president of UFV, opened the conference with a frank admission: “Far too many Aboriginal people find our campuses unwelcoming. Far too few are graduating from university. We need to change that, and we also need our non-Aboriginal students to graduate with a richer understanding of culture and heritage of our founding peoples, and for our faculty and staff to have a richer appreciation for it as well.” Dr. Eric Davis, UFV provost and vice-president academic, explained that when he arrived at UFV more than 20 years ago, he was completely unaware of local Aboriginal culture. “Growing up in the Jewish
community in Montreal, then doing doctoral studies in England, meant my upbringing left me extremely unprepared for the task of administering indigenization in the Fraser Valley. But I have learned. When I first arrived, nobody told me I’d come to the traditional territory of the Stó:lo¯ people; now it is the first thing we say. As I became more aware, for first time in my life I felt like a colonizer. When I became an administrator, I became aware that I had an obligation to change the way the university operated. “But how do you reconcile university administrative practices with indigenous governance? How do you undo 200 to 500 years of colonialism, including an educational system largely dominated by harm and abuse? “People like me have to undo some of the training and education that we’ve got, unlearn what it means to be a university, and question our assumptions.” Indigenizing the Academy keynote speaker Dr. Joanne Episkenew, director of the Indigenous Peoples’ Health Centre in Saskatchewan, likens the work of those trying to indigenize the academy to the folks on TV who investigate scientific myths. “We are the indigenous myth busters — first the academy, and then the world!” She then went on to say that Aboriginal people often are living the social issues that are talked about at an academic level. She herself has two grandchildren living with her. “And similar to my grandchild feeling she has to ask the white kids if she can play with them and sometimes they say no, we still find we have to ask if we can play with the academy.”
The origins of the conference The conference grew out of several years of development and activities aimed at indigenizing UFV, many of them inspired by the 2006 Indigenizing the Academy report authored by Stó:lo¯ educator and consultant Mark Point after he consulted with the Aboriginal and UFV communities. Point’s report outlined a desire for UFV to develop an Indigenous Studies program, enhance Aboriginal research capacity, boost Aboriginal enrolment and improve retention and success of Aboriginal learners. It led to the creation of the senior advisor on indigenous affairs position, held by Shirley Hardman, who had previously been Aboriginal access coordinator. UFV, located on traditional Stó:lo¯ territory, has made it a formal practice to recognize and respect indigenous ways of knowing, and many public events are opened with a statement reflecting this. Nearly five percent of UFV’s student body self-identify as Aboriginal people. UFV’s Aboriginal Access Services department provides culturally appropriate delivery of services for current and prospective students, including an Eldersin-Residence program. The senior advisor on indigenous affairs provides leadership for the development of indigenous programs, the recruitment and retention of Aboriginal faculty and staff, and the development of strong links with Aboriginal communities. Even prior to 2006, UFV had significant links with its local Aboriginal communities. UFV hired Theresa Neel (a former UFV student and now a UFV elder-in-residence) as First Nations Access coordinator in the 1990s, opened an Aboriginal Access Centre in 2002, had an Aboriginal Community Council since 1997, and worked with the Stó:lo¯ community on partnerships and programs since the 1970s. Mark Point’s 2006 report inspired the UFV Aboriginal Community Council to develop a strategic plan for Aboriginal relations at UFV entitled Indigenizing Our Academy. In October 2008, the UFV Board received three goals and accompanying actions. The plan itself is built around core values that were identified by the local community as values that guide a “good life.”
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SUCCESS IS SPELLED CASCADES
UFV ATHLETICS ENJOYS BANNER YEAR
Photo: Courtesy of Lakeland College
BY DAVID KENT
It’s no longer a question of “Where is Abbotsford?” It’s more like, “Oh no! We have to play the Cascades again?” UFV Athletics enjoyed a banner year that included the school’s first-ever women’s CCAA national championship (volleyball), the two basketball teams sitting in the CIS national top 10 almost the entire year, and a men’s golf team that captured its third Pacwest title in six years. On one special day, January 7, the women’s volleyball team was ranked number one in the country at the college level, and the women’s and men’s basketball teams were ranked first and fourth respectively at the university level in Canada. Three of UFV’s four winter sport programs were in the top four in the country.
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Golfer Aaron Pauls’ putt on the final hole clinched the Pacwest title for UFV.
Cascades on fire Women’s volleyball team wins national collegiate championship Men’s and women’s basketball teams nationally ranked all year Women’s basketball division champions
Photo: Bob McGregor
“We had a remarkable year in our court sports, they did an unbelievable job of representing themselves and our school,” said UFV athletic director Rocky Olfert, who is completing his first year at the helm. “I feel very thankful for the opportunity to work at a great place like UFV. It’s provided me with a new challenge that I am really excited about, and to work alongside great UFV staff and student-athletes doing what I love is all anyone can ask for.” UFV established several school records that were broken a year earlier. The women’s volleyball team finished with an amazing 27–2 record (22–2 regular season and 5–0 post-season) for a winning percentage of 93 percent. The Cascades won the program’s first-ever Pacwest league title by one game over VIU, defeated crosstown rivals CBC Bearcats 3-0 in the Pacwest championship game to capture the team’s first conference title, and two weeks later defeated Alberta’s Lakeland College Rustlers by a 3-0 score to earn the program’s first national crown. The volleyball program was no stranger to the individual medal podium. Kayla Bruce, a fifth-year middle, won every award possible for her amazing season. Bruce was selected a first team all-star, Pacwest volleyball player of the year, Pacwest female athlete of the
Two regional championships (golf and women’s volleyball) Female college athlete of the year 14 allstars/national award winners
year, most valuable player of the Pacwest championship, first team CCAA All-Canadian, CCAA female volleyball player of the year, CCAA female athlete of the year, first team all-star at the CCAA national championship and UFV’s female athlete of the year. Bruce was not alone at the conference level. Brittany Stewart, Kate Bilodeau, and Krista Hogewoning were named to the second Pacwest conference all-star team, and Kira Tome was named the Pacwest conference rookie of the year Jenna Evans was named the most valuable player of the 2013 CCAA national championship tournament in Lloydminster, Alberta. The women’s basketball team also shattered the program’s record book, winning their first-ever Canada West Pacific Division title with an 18-4 regular season record, two wins better than the second-place UBC Thunderbirds at 16-6. The Cascades defeated the University of Saskatchewan Huskies two games to one in the conference quarterfinals at the UFV Envision Athletic Centre, and advanced to the conference Final Four for a third straight year. UFV needed one win at the Final Four to earn the school’s first-ever ticket to the CIS elite national championship. UFV fell to eventual Canada West champion University of Regina Cougars 84-77 in the semifinal, but in the bronze
UFV Cascades women’s volleyball team celebrates national championship win.
medal game, UFV outscored the University of Alberta 30-8 in the fourth quarter to capture the bronze medal with a 68-57 win, earning the program’s first Canada West medal and a trip to their first CIS national tournament. At the CIS Final Eight, UFV represented Canada West and the school by playing very competitive basketball against Saint Mary’s Huskies. UFV battled their Atlantic opponents for the entire game and came back from a 14-point deficit to narrow the score to 51-50, but Saint Mary’s held on for a 62-57 victory. In the CIS consolation semifinal, the McGill Martlets of Quebec defeated UFV 70-52 to end the Cascades’ very successful season. UFV finished with 21–8 record (18–4 regular season and 3–4 post season) for a 73 percent winning mark. CONTINUED ON PAGE 34
Quickfacts: The UFV Cascades are members of Canada West (CIS) and Pacwest (CCAA) UFV soccer and basketball teams compete at the university level in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport and volleyball competes at the college level in the Canadian Colleges Athletics Association. 140 student-athletes participate on nine varsity teams in basketball, rowing, soccer, volleyball, and golf. UFV Athletics plays its home games in the Envision Athletic Centre (Abbotsford, BC), and Exhibition Field and Chilliwack Golf & Country Club (Chilliwack, BC), and rows at the Fort Langley Rowing Club (Fort Langley, BC). Follow the Cascades Twitter: @UFVCascades Facebook: UFV Cascades Athletics Website: ufvcascades.ca
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UFV leads the way on Institutional Learning Outcomes The University of the Fraser Valley, located on traditional St贸:lo炉 territory, recognizes and respects Indigenous ways of knowing. UFV is committed to providing our communities with a variety of high-quality, student-centred programs that honour diversity and foster a passion for learning.
The goal is for each UFV graduate to possess the following abilities and demonstrate the following interconnected institutional learning outcomes:
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INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING OUTCOMES PROVIDE “VALUE-ADDED” EDUCATION FOR EVERY UFV GRAD BY ANNE RUSSELL
A university education should consist of more than the accumulation of a body of knowledge in a certain discipline. That’s the premise of a process that’s been ongoing at UFV since 2011. Many people have brainstormed, planned, deliberated, contributed, and worked together to create the university’s Institutional Learning Outcomes. The ILOs, as they are known, are a set of knowledge, skills, and abilities that the UFV community has collectively decided that every graduate should be able to demonstrate that they possess. And by every graduate we mean everyone from a criminology or social work student finishing his or her master’s degree, to a welding student graduating with a 10-month entry-level trades training certificate, to a bachelor’s degree student majoring in history or biology. Students with disabilities taking the TASK workplace training program, nursing students preparing for a health-care career, future teachers and future carpenters — they’re all included. Choosing a set of benchmarks that one could reasonably expect each of the more than 2,000 students who graduate from UFV each year to have achieved was an intense and highly consultative process. “The drive to create learning outcomes at the institutional, program, and course levels is an unstoppable, international phenomenon,” said Eric Davis,
UFV provost and vice president academic. “It is a response both to top-down pressure from outside the institution to be accountable to governments, accreditors, employers, students, and parents, and, more fundamentally, to a bottom-up desire on the part of educators to improve the quality and real-world relevance of student learning and enhance the likelihood of student success. A learning outcomes exercise, when done well and from the bottom up, is about education, pedagogy, and transformation: transformation of students, ourselves, our communities, and the world.” UFV’s strategic goals include providing the best undergraduate education in Canada, and the learning outcomes provide a way of defining what “best” means. “We believe that well defined ILOs are one of the ways of measuring excellence,” said Wendy Burton, UFV’s director of teaching and learning, who facilitated the ILO consultation in the 2011/12 academic year and is guiding its implementation in 2013. “Not only can a science graduate say ‘I am a good biologist’ because of the content of their curriculum and educational experience, they will also have defined ‘bonus’ attributes related to areas such as communication, ethics, leadership, and critical analysis.” The concept of learning outcomes also ties into the co-curricular record, a concept being implemented at UFV that will formalize recognition of UFV activities that students engage in outside of course times, such as volunteerism, club activity, or working for the student newspaper.
Burton adds that having institutional learning outcomes that cover areas such as critical analysis, self-reflective learning, effective communication, and problem solving helps to differentiate UFV as more than simply a skills-training or fact-acquisition facility.
“We believe that well defined ILOs are one of the ways of measuring excellence.”
“Students are getting more from their encounter with our institution than basic skills, and defining our ILOs helps us to articulate that, and to highlight the quality of our education and explain why our programs are as intensive and long in duration as they are,” she explains. “The institutional learning outcomes assure our constituent groups that we are producing the type of graduates who will enrich their community. They will be creative and innovative, capable of self-reflection, ethical, and ready to contribute regionally and globally. They will get out there and make this world a better place, which is why the community wanted a college, and then a university, here in the first place. Our ILOs hold UFV accountable to our promise to our communities and to our students.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 20
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A HEARTFELT
THANK YOU
The University of the Fraser Valley was built through the spirit, generosity, and strength of our citizens and community. Your generosity transforms the lives of students. Thank you. In the following lists are over 450 donors who made a commitment to education with donations of cash, property and gifts-in-kind from 2008 to 2012. Your legacy is building UFV and the future of the Fraser Valley.
FROM UFV
CHANCELLOR’S CIRCLE City of Abbotsford
PATRON’S CIRCLE
Bank of Montreal
Envision Financial The late Alfred Knowles
BENEFACTOR’S CIRCLE
$50,000–$99,999
Connie Braun and Erwin Braun Jake Friesen and Erna Friesen Kinsmen Club of Langley The late Evelyn McKenzie
Estate of Gladys Kipp District of Mission
Estate of Joy Gertrude Palmer Helders TD Commercial Banking Toyota Canada Inc.
May Lockhart and John Lockhart MMC Software Canada Corp.
Royal Bank of Canada
PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE $25,000–$49,999 Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce Anonymous Marian J. Dyck EP Industries Ltd. Helitech Support Services Loyal Protestant Association
The Mertin Family RBC Foundation Rotary Club of Chilliwack–Fraser Rotary Club of Chilliwack Volkswagen Group Canada Inc.
KPMG Lally Farms Inc. Brian Lee Lohn Foundation Lorne Knechtel Richard W. McMullan Mennonite Faith and Learning Society Mennonite Foundation of Canada on behalf of Anonymous Meyers Norris Penny (Abbotsford) Minerva Foundation for BC Women Brian Minter and Faye Minter
Margaret A. Motz Quantum Properties Inc. Rempel Bros. Concrete Rimex Supply Ltd. Rotary Club of Abbotsford Nachattar Sangha and Harpal K. Sangha Seikhon Farms Don Simpson Norman Taylor Terralink Horticulture Inc./Richardson Seed Peggy Turner and Wayne Turner Xerox Canada Ltd.
$10,000–$24,999
Anonymous Auto Source Enterprises Ltd. Satwinder Bains and Parm Bains BC Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General The late Everdina Beugeling in memory of Paul Wright Hord Bowers Medical Supply Co, Canadian Federation of University Women Mission–Abbotsford Certified General Accountants Association of BC Chartered Accountants’ Education Foundation of BC Roy Chun
Clearbrook Iron Works Ltd. Coast Mountain Bus Company Nancy den Boesterd Herman Driediger and Pat Driediger Enterprise Rent-A-Car Canada Ltd. Mark Evered and Maureen Evered Farm Credit Canada Jeff Fortin and Shauna Fortin Patsy George Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Society The Herron Family Jaymac Foundation
Community Foundations
Our local community foundations have provided support to students through awards and bursaries, and funding for essential UFV programs.
Abbotsford Community Foundation
Mission Community Foundation
Chilliwack Foundation
Vancouver Foundation
Media Sponsors Abbotsford News Abbotsford Times Chilliwack Progress Chilliwack Times
Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation
$100,000–$499,999
Chrysler Canada Inc. Coast Capital Savings
GOVERNOR’S CIRCLE
$500,000 +
Kheti Magazine Punjabi Patrika Sonic Nation 98.3 Star FM
UFV-Affiliated Donors
. Below are the UFV internal groups that made a commitment to education with donations from 2008 to2012.
UFV Student Union Society UFV School of Criminology and Criminal Justice UFV Alumni Association UFV Computer Information Systems department UFV Faculty of Trades and Technology UFV Theatre Students Association UFV Communications department UFV Modern Languages UFV College of Arts UFV Faculty & Staff Association UFV Applied Business Technology department BC Centre for Safe Schools and Communities Friends of the UFV Theatre UFV Writing Centre
UFV Student Life BC Centre for Non-Profit Development BC Centre for Social Responsibility Library & Information Technology Student Association UFV Geography department UFV Career Centre UFV Biology department UFV Visual Arts department UFV Theatre department UFV Athletics department UFV Kinesiology and Physical Education Student Association Friends of UFV Society
UFV is dedicated to providing recognition of our donors. We apologize for any errors or omissions on this list.
SENATOR’S CIRCLE
$5,000–$9,999
Agrium Inc. Air Canada Pilots Association Akali Singh Sikh Society Anonymous Baker Newby Lawyers BC CropLife BC Provincial Council Canadian Daughters League British Columbia Lung Association Bradley J. Campbell John J. Campbell Canaccord Wealth Management Canadian Security Intelligence Service BC Region Anita Lynn Carmichael Caroline S. Chan Chase Office Interior
ALUMNI CIRCLE
Peter Chick Chilliwack Society for Community Living Clayburn Industries Ltd. Virginia Cooke Credit Union Foundation of BC Eric Davis David DePape Gail Fromson Mohindar Gill and Jagdish Gill Gurdev Thandi & Sons Ltd. Katherine Hammond G. W. Harris IPEC Consultants Ltd Jake Janzen and Betty Janzen Lydia J. Jenkinson and Paul Jenkinson
Khalsa Credit Union Khalsa Diwan Society of Abbotsford Elisabeth Klerks and Kees Klerks M. J. Kreml and Gina Kreml Douglas MacAdams and Wendy A. Young McLean Foundation Menno Home Employees Association Roxanne Murdoch and Stephen Murdoch Mutual Fire Insurance Company of British Columbia Neova Technologies Robert Nicklom and Orla Nicklom North American Telecommunications Group Optimist Club of Abbotsford Phillips, Hager & North Gayanendra Prasad and Kamla Prasad
Rotary Club of Aldergrove Alvin J. Schimpky and Luella Schimpky Ruth Simpson D.K. Soutar and Marion Soutar Larry Stinson and Karola Stinson Garnet Strahl and Marje Strahl Sucha Chatha & Sons Summit Logistics Judy Teichrob Telus Communications Sucha Thandi Patricia Todd Transglobe Property Management Eldon Unger Lori Ann Waites and Jim Waites
$2,500–$4,999
A & P Fruit Growers Ltd. Abbotsford Garden Club Aldergrove Credit Union B & A Farms Ltd. Rajeev Bakshi Harold A. Bassford and Jane L. Darville Rajinder Bathe and Jaswinder Bathe Don Bauerfind and Rochelle Bauerfind BC Council of Garden Clubs Savinder Bhogal and Mohinder Bhogal Edward Bishop Sandra A. Bishop Bobcat Country Sales Inc. Emmalee Broadfoot Arvinder Bubber Eleanor J. Busse Klassen and Bryan Klassen Camp River Woodworking Ltd. Cascade Aerospace Inc. Central 1 Credit Union
LEARNER’S CIRCLE
Questions? Please contact Madeleine Hardin, Executive Director, University Advancement to discuss your giving at 604-851-6300.
CFP Marketing Adrienne S. Chan Vi Chappell Chilliwack Dental Group Chilliwack Garden Club Chilliwack Players Guild Coretech Industries (1991) Ltd. Michael Craddock Dawson Bradley Waterproofing Inc. Shamsher S. Dhaliwal Malwinder S. Dhami and Rajinder Dhami Dr. Diane Kjorven Inc. Dr. Mark Huang Inc. Karen Evans and Jason Evans F.K. Morrow Foundation Bruce Fernstrom Fraser Valley Packers Inc. G & R Growers Ltd. Gladwin Optical Ltd.
Derek Harnett Paul Herman Jackie A. Hogan Fern Hubbard Fay Hyndman Irving K. Barber British Columbia Scholarship Society J & J Farms Ltd. Jakes Construction Ltd. Henry Jansen John Jansen Khalsa Credit Union (Head Office) Kinsmen Club of Abbotsford Darlene Kress Lamb Properties Inc. M. C. Muxlow Holdings Ltd. M&L Painting Ltd. Balbir Mahil Majuba Management Corporation
Mana Management Ltd Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour Ian McAskill MNSD Aujla Farm Ltd Barbara Moon Roger Moren and Lori Moren Isabel Murray Ocean Bluff Consulting Ltd. P.E.O. Sisterhood, Chapter R Corey Pannu Pearson Canada Inc. Douglas Pedersen and Debbie Pedersen Darryl Plecas and Joanne Plecas PoCo Garden Club Punjabi Patrika Querin Holdings Ltd. Resolution Reprographics Ltd. Michelle Rhodes RJR Construction Management Ltd.
Rotary Club of Abbotsford-Matsqui Rouge Campus Inc. D.J. Sandhu Balbinder S. Sangha and Nimrat K. Sangha Tim Segger James Servizi and Jean Servizi Kathleen Simpson and David W. Simpson Lyanne Smith T. Braun Services Paul Tacon Townline Growers Ltd. Transworld Travel Ltd. Mahesh Upasdhyay Rana Vig and Rupa Vig Paul Wadhawan and Pree N. Wadhawan Charles Webb
Canadian Pacific Airlines Pilots Canadian Pacific Railway Canex Building Supplies Ltd. Len Chepil Ryan Chiarot Chinook Winter Management Snow & Ice Ltd. Rae Churchill CKNW Orphans’ Fund Clarke Foundation Bruce Corbeil Leslie Courchesne CRP Pitas Ltd. D. T. Bos Physoitherapist Corporation Yvon Dandurand and Vivienne Chin Debra Davis and William Davis Derek de Lange and Margaret de Lange Dhugha Farm Cecelia M. Dirksen Dan Dodman Diane Dornbierer Dr. Raymond Dyck Inc. Edge Advantage Enterprises Ltd. Elite Fire Protection F.V. Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation Centre Garry Fehr Ian Fenwick and Lynne Wells First West Credit Union Susan Fisher FortisBC Sheldon Frank Fraser Valley Building Supplies Fraser Valley Dental Society Fraser Valley MRI Clinic Fraser Valley Stage Production Society Fraser Valley We Care Home Health Services Debbie French Friends of the Abbotsford Libraries Friends of the Chilliwack Library Roger Friesen FWC Holdings Ltd. G. Hartzell & Son G. Jack Harris Q.C. Barrister — General Jack Gaston Gurmail S. Gill Nash Gill and Rajinder K. Gill
Gilland Enterprises Ltd Beth Gillespie and David Gillespie Wanda Gordon and Robert Gordon Jane Grafton and David Hart Ellen M. Gray Great Canadian Gaming Corporation in memory of Jen Simpson Deborah Greenfield and Keith Greenfield Diane Griffiths and Barry J. Griffiths HACAMAC Enterprises Ltd. Clint Hames and Laura Hames Madeleine Hardin Jason M. Hari and Parm Hari Jack Harris and Lynne Harris Debbie Hebel Manmohan Heer and Sukhvir Gill Heli-One Canada Inc Christiane Hodson Eugene Hogue Dave Holmberg Sr. Martin Hyatt Investors Group Financial Services Inc. IPAC Chemicals Limited Kim Isaac and Brad Whittaker JMV Woodworks John Redekop Construction Brock Johnston Randhir Kailey Kenbri Holdings Ltd. Rosetta Khalideen Birinder S. Khangura and Baljeet K. Khangura Barbara Kinahan Wayne B. Kivi and Deborah Kivi Kiwanis Club of Chilliwack Golden K Diane Kjorven Klein Lyons Catherine Klerks Deanna Klerks Braden M. Kool La Quinta Custom Homes Ltd. Lacey Developments Ltd. Wendy Lalli Vijay Lanji and Karie Lanji Jan I. Lashbrook Green Lepp Farm Market
Dean Lock Loewen Welding & Manufacturing Ltd. London Drugs Foundation M. & G. Bros. Farms Ltd. Marilyn MacDonald Mahairhu Farms Ltd. Steven A. McAlister and Joan M. McAlister Lucille McCarthy Christine Meadwell and Ronald Meadwell Mertin Chevrolet Cadillac Pontiac Buick GMC Ltd. Mertin Hyundai Mid Valley Insurance Agencies Ltd Brian Minter and Faye Minter Mission Gur Sikh Society MSA Computer Ltd. MTR Roofing Ltd. Barbara Murray Sylvie Murray and Gregory Schlitt Amrik M. Narang Christina L. Neigel Optimist Club of Chilliwack P & B Growers Joyce Paquette Kathleen D. Parsons and Robert J. Parsons Rod Pennington and Corinne Pennington Peterbilt Pacific Inc. Arthur Peters Brian Peterson David Piotrowski Lesley J. Poh Gwen Point and Steven Point Polar Electric Inc. Norman Polson John Potts Prospera Credit Union Tony Quo Vadis Gayle Ramsden Peter Rasquinha Henry Rempel and Rose Rempel Patricia Ritter Joanne Riva Ronald Allan Clothiers Ltd. Rosa Bea Farm RT Agencies Inc. Anne Russell and Daryl Rose
S & S Sandhu Farm S. Schlagintweit Plastic Surgery Inc. Makhan S. Sanghera and Devinder K. Sanghera Heather A. Scherer Sevenoaks Shopping Centre Anne Shepherd and Earl Shepherd Bhagwant S. Sidhu Jatinder S. Sidhu and Surinder Sidhu Walter Siemens Jillian Smith William D. Smythe and Verna Smythe Ian A. Soutar James A. Soutar South Coast BC Transportation Authority Police Service Bryan Stephenson Joan Striha Sumas Mountain Chiropractic Inc Sun Life Financial (Abbotsford) Suzanne’s Wentworth H. Taylor Jennifer Temple and Kevin Temple Toastmasters International – Rise and Shine Club Tradesforce Inc. Transx True Blue Wire Products Inc. Unisource Canada John Urquhart and Barbara Urquhart Carol Uszkalo and John Uszkalo Valley Autohouse Van der Pauw Landscaping Ltd. Van Eyk Manufacturing Corp. VanCity Community Foundation Vedder Transport Limited W. Mader Excavating & Trucking W.K. Rutledge Alter Ego Trust Ajay Wadhawan and Parwinder Wadhawan Rory Wallace Susan Wasserman and Jerry Wasserman Sharon Weslowsky Brian Wierks Windsor Plywood Steven Yuen and Jeannie Yuen Richard Zingel and Lydia Zingel
$1,000–$2,499
533410 BC Ltd. 543258 BC Ltd. A.S. Bubber & Associates Inc. Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre Abbotsford Heat Hockey Ltd. Abbotsford Hyundai Abbotsford Quilters Guild Abby Lites Ltd. Allure Lingerie Inc. Terry Anderson Rick Andrew and Mary-Ann Andrew Andrew Sheret Ltd. Anonymous AWM Productions Ltd. B & R Blueberry Farm B N N Enterprises Ltd. Bagicha Amrik Farm Chattar S. Bains Daljit Bains Roderick Barman Deborah Bartlette Richard Bate and Barbara Bate Harmit K. Bath and Avtar Bath BC Association of Social Workers BC Human Resources Management Association BC Landscape & Nursery Association BC Library Association BC Young Farmers Assocation Estate of Donald M. Beaupre Bel Par Industries Chris Bertram and Kara Bertram Rajinder Bhatti and Raj Bhatti Binpal & Associates — Barristers and Solicitors Black Gold Industries Ltd. Black Press Lower Mainland Michael Boot Bower Medical Charity Pro-Am Brali Enterprises Inc. Kim Brar and Ranjit Brar Timothy L. Braun Eva Brett Tracy Broadfoot and Bill Broadfoot Robert Buchan George Buytendorp Canadian Association of Equipment Distributors
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THE PROCESS
“The process we used to arrive at our list is also the best example of UFV’s approach to learning,” noted Burton. “It was participatory, and was recognized as an ongoing and evolving conversation with our various communities. UFV is in constant dialog with its communities. That is one of our biggest strengths. We are of our community, and these objectives arise from our community.” The process was initiated by Davis as a way of ensuring that the university had a voice in determining its own vision of UFV graduates’ ideal learning outcomes. “We wanted to get a head start, as we were getting messages from the provincial government that if institutions didn’t develop their own outcomes, they would do it for us,” noted Burton. Assisted by Scott Varga and Ruby Ord, Burton conducted a very intensive consultation process for ILOs over the course of the academic year, guided by the Teaching and Learning Advisory Council. They held internal forums, attended faculty councils and department meetings, and presented the project to the Minister of Advanced Education and the Alumni Association board. They also visited community groups, churches, temples, and mosques, as well as Rotary Clubs, Kinsmen clubs, Abbotsford Community Services, Mission Indian Friendship Society, Soroptimist clubs. These visits culminated in a community-wide “charette”. Participants learned about the charette process, which gathers creative ideas in a brainstorming environment, and engaged in idea20
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generating and refining methods such as drawing their image of a certain goal and “dot-mocracy”.
dot-mocracy: participants place dot stickers next to ideas with which they agree
UFV education instructor Sheryl MacMath created a synthesis draft, which was circulated widely, and presented on posters for a Provost’s Forum in March. Participants were encouraged to edit, annotate, revise, and contribute. At A UFV-wide professional development day session, all were given the opportunity to say one word that answers the question, “what is a university?” At the end of that day a penultimate draft was created using all feedback. A team of volunteer editors worked on the document and presented their final version at Teaching and Learning Advisory Council. It received final approval from UFV’s Senate. In the end, hundreds of community members, instructors, students, staff members, and administrators had a hand in shaping the outcomes, which collectively define the UFV graduate. Burton says that many factors are combining to make universities more accountable these days. “International protocols such as The Bologna Accord (which facilitates transfer of credits between European universities) are asking what a person with a BA should have achieved. In the U.S., the Department of Education is asking ‘what does a credential mean?’ In Canada, with the ongoing mini-recession, potential students and their families are asking, ‘what will I actually get for the cost of my education?’ And governments are saying they want quality assurance if they are going to be providing a
significant part of our funding.” UFV is the first public postsecondary institution in BC in recent years to ratify formal institutional learning outcomes. Now that the Institutional Learning Outcomes have been approved, it’s time to bring them to life and put them into action. The focus for the 2012/13 academic year has been alignment of the specific learning outcomes of individual programs with the defined ILOs. “By the end of this year every department will have articulated their particular program outcomes and demonstrated how they feed into the institutional ones,” says Burton. NEXT PHASES
The next phase will see every department examining every one of its courses and field experiences to determine whether what it is offering is relevant to the overall ILOs and its own learning outcomes, and seeking to eliminate redundancies in course content. The fourth phase is prioritization, looking for what needs to be added to the curriculum to ensure all the outcomes are addressed. When all is said and done, not only will every program be well prepared to articulate its outcomes and how they align with the institutional ones, they will be better equipped to deal with mature students who come into the system with considerable life and career experience that they may wish to receive credit for through the Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition process. “A person will be able to come in and say, ‘I have some of that, or all of that. How can I receive credit for it?’” Burton concludes.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CHAIR’S LETTER
It’s been a busy time these past few months for your Alumni Association and the Alumni Engagement office on campus. We will be watching proudly as more than 1,200 students make the transition to alumni when they walk across the convocation stage this June. We hope you’ll take advantage of the growing number of perks and privileges that being an Alumni Association member gives you. Our Alumni Association Facebook presence continues to grow. We added Hospitality and Event Planning and Fashion Design alumni groups this winter. We’ll be busy again at convocation when we post hundreds of fun photos of our new grads. We also made strides into the world of Twitter and Linked In and hope you will join us there.
Plans to provide a photo ID membership card to the whole alumni population are underway. Stay posted online at ufv.ca/alumni for details as they unfold. The cards are sponsored by Envision Financial, with whom we now partner to offer alumni a very special financial services package. We have also launched a number of new affinity programs with the Sandman Inn, Abbotsford Nissan, and the Mission Chamber of Commerce. You can read more about these special discounted offering for alumni. Taking advantage of these partnerships also means that revenues from these programs will support our student scholarships. To all our alumni, thank you for your support and participation. We hope you will enjoy reading about our activities and programs.
I hope you enjoy reading about our Distinguished Alumni Award recipients in this issue and join us in celebrating their achievements.
Tony Luck, BBA ’96, BA ’07 Chair, UFV Alumni Association
ACTIVITIES
ALUMNI NEWS
Signing of the 2012 MOU seals continued shared vision Alumni Association chair Tony Luck and UFV president Mark Evered sat down together to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the university and the Alumni Association. The inaugural MOU was drafted and signed by Stacey Irwin, then chair of the Alumni Association and then-UFV president Skip Bassford in 2008. We’ve witnessed much growth and change since then and this updated MOU will continue to guide our mutually beneficial relationship for years to come.
Convocation grad fair
Alumni Association chair Tony Luck and UFV president Mark Evered at the MOU signing ceremony.
Alumni helping out at Convocation photobooth.
The inaugural UFV grad fair was a big success with over 250 soon-to-be grads participating. The fair highlighted the steps that graduating students need to follow in order to participate in convocation, including ordering regalia, caps, and tassels, and all the membership perks that come with becoming a UFV alumnus. Information about the many benefits available to alumni was available and new affinity program partners such as the Sandman Hotel, Abbotsford Nissan, and the Mission Chamber of Commerce participated.
Convocation grad fair.
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Photo: Jenna Hauck. Courtesy of the Chilliwack Progress
YOUNG MAN
GOING PLACES Alex McAulay receives inaugural UFV Young Distinguished Alumni award BY ASHLEY WRAY
From dreams of growing up and becoming a doctor, to evolving into the CFO of a public company, many things have changed for Chilliwack’s Alex McAulay. But the one thing that has remained the same is McAulay’s drive. He’s always been a hardworking, multi-tasking
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individual. Those qualities were recognized when UFV presented McAulay with the Young Distinguished Alumni award. While the Distinguished Alumni award has been handed out since 2003 — highlighting the achievements of alumni who have outstanding distinction in career, educational, and community service — this was the first Young Distinguished Alumni award. It is presented to a UFV graduate under the age of 35 who has demonstrated excellence in volunteer work, humanitarian efforts, community contributions, commitment to others, leadership, and innovation. While several strong nominations were submitted, McAulay came out on top, accompanied by positive letters of reference from the community. One such letter was submitted from his business partner, Joel Primus, president and CEO of Naked
Boxer Brief Clothing. “Once Alex came fully on board with Naked, his problem-solving ability and knowledge of all things business helped us grow to the international company we are today,” wrote Primus. “But despite all his occupational and educational success, the quality I most admire in Alex is his commitment and fearlessness in striving for greatness.” For McAulay, receiving the award was an honour — so much so that he and his new wife Kaila decided to delay their honeymoon to accept the award. “I think that speaks to how honoured I am to receiving the inaugural award,” said McAulay. “It’s such a nice opportunity to reflect on where I’ve been in my short life. And it really forces me to look forward to determine how I’m going to continue to make more meaning.” During his time at UFV, McAulay CONTINUED ON PAGE 35
Photo: John Van Putten
“George has a leadership style that strives toward consensus, mutually positive outcomes, and sustainable action.”
UFV DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI
WINNER George Hemeon honoured for career and artistic accomplishments BY ANNE RUSSELL
Typically, awards recognize a major strength of the individual receiving them. But George Hemeon (BA ’04) the latest Distinguished Alumni award winner, was lauded for multiple strengths. Hemeon was honoured for both his career achievements and his artistic talents. He has accomplished a lot in the past decade. The former landscaper
earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from UFV in 2004,majoring in criminal justice and minoring in applied ethics and political philosophy. During his time at UFV he studied the theories of politics and public policy, but also put them into practice by serving on the Student Union Society and the universitycollege council. His experiences at UFV, along with some encouragement from his professors, led to a move across the country to earn a Master of Public Administration from Dalhousie University in Halifax. Currently a senior aboriginal advisor for TransCanada Corporation in Calgary, Hemeon has also been senior procurement advisor for BC Hydro, where he took a lead role in implementing BC Hydro’s aboriginal procurement policy and strategy. He’s playing a similar role at TransCanada. “I’m still in a position where I
can influence positive change in aboriginal communities by opening up economic opportunities for them.” Criminology professor and newly elected MLA for Abbotsford South Darryl Plecas has high praise for Hemeon. “George has a leadership style that strives toward consensus, mutually positive outcomes, and sustainable action.” While building a career in administration and aboriginal affairs, Hemeon has concurrently been developing as an artist, gaining growing acclaim as an aboriginal carver. While working as a teaching assistant with a special focus on aboriginal curriculum for the Abbotsford school district, he dug out some carving tools and learned along with the students. He had tried carving earlier in his life, but didn’t have the patience for it then. CONTINUED ON PAGE 35
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ALUMNI NEWS SPONSORSHIPS AND EVENTS LIBIT students and alumni gather for speed-mentoring
Alumni Evenings of Theatre hosted over 250 UFV alumni
Library and Information Technology students and alumni came together on March 9 to reconnect and share career experiences at UFV during this fun speed-mentoring event. Sponsored by the UFV Alumni Association, and presented by the UFV LIBIT department, LITSA, and BCLA’s Library Technicians & Assistants Section, the event opened with “lightning lectures” from alumni on topics ranging from continuing education opportunities to cloud collaboration tools. Students then had the opportunity to connect with alumni, and ask questions about their career experiences in a round of speed-mentoring. UFV alumni travelled from as far as Penticton to participate in the event.
The UFV Alumni Association hosted the 8th annual Alumni evenings of theatre March 21 and 22, featuring Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. The event launched the 2013 alumni commemorative wine. Alumni Association chair Tony Luck introduced Anne Franklin (BFA ’12) as this year’s winning artist featured on the 2013 wine label. Check it out on UFV Flickr.
2013 Alumni commemorative wine and the alumni winning artist Congratulations to Anne Franklin (BFA ’12) winner of this year’s alumni artist competition. This is a great opportunity for some tremendous exposure. Anne’s artwork was rendered onto the 2013 alumni commemorative wine labels. The alumni commemorative wine has become a highly anticipated annual tradition at UFV. It is produced in honour of the graduating class and is sold throughout UFV communities as a fundraiser for the Alumni Association’s student monetary awards. See more details, and find out how to order your wine can be found at ufv.ca/alumniwine
Alumni Games — hold the date: Sat, September 28
Absolute Style Fashion Show On April 25 the Alumni Association hosted and sponsored the Absolute Style Fashion Show wine-and-cheese reception. Over 15 UFV Fashion alumni attended compliments of the Alumni Association, enjoying reserved seating and a complimentary glass of commemorative wine..
Absolute Style Fashion Show
Party at alumni games
It’s an exciting day full of Alumni vs. Cascade matches including men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, volleyball, and rowing. Alumni: be sure to mark your calendars. You won’t want to miss the games and the party featuring live music, beer, and food. Come out and support your teams as they battle it out. .
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BFA Grad Show reception The opening wine-and-cheese reception for the 2013 BFA Grad show on April 26 was sponsored and hosted by the Alumni Association. Alumni of the program received a special invitation. The exhibition featured works by the 2013 graduating class. BFA alumni joined the reception and received a complimentary glass of wine.
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BENEFITS: UFV Alumni are entitled to many benefits and privileges. Get your new photo membership card at the Campus Card office on the Abbotsford campus and start taking advantage. Visit us at ufv.ca/alumnibenefits to see all you are entitled to.
Detail from alumni commemorative wine label by artist Anne Franklin (BFA ’12).
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• Abbotsford Nissan • Sandman Hotel Group • Mission Chamber of Commerce • UFV rings • Sasquatch Crossing Eco-lodge
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Let us know what you’ve been up to Send us a short write-up on what you’ve been doing since graduation and we’ll print it in the next issue of Skookum and enter you to win a prize. Send a photo too! Email: alumni@ufv.ca. Congratulations to Rob McKinnon for his Keeping in Touch submission in the Spring issue. Rob has won a set of UFV alumni wear.
Thayer-Alexander Williams, Dip. ’10 and Libby Kirkland, BA ’10 — When he was nearing graduation with his CIS diploma, Thayer applied to several public service competitions, focusing on information technology/information management. In 2011, he began a career with the RCMP in Surrey as an information management specialist. Thayer’s wife, Libby, is also a UFV alumna, graduating with the dean’s list honours and an outstanding achievement award. Libby has put her sociology degree to good use as a parole officer for the Correctional Service of Canada, where she works closely with offenders throughout their rehabilitation. Lorraine Noble, BA ’81 — After completing her first two years of university transfer courses at Fraser Valley College, Lorraine went on to SFU to complete her PDP in education. She worked as a classroom teacher in Mission for several years before going back to SFU to finish her degree. Lorraine was given an opportunity to become a librarian with the school district, and found herself back in the learning game at UBC, where she completed her Library diploma program, and also decided to top up her psychology major.
Lorraine Noble
Lorraine is a year away from retirement, which she is looking forward to very much. It will give her the opportunity to spend more time teaching, and performing, American Tribal Style belly dance, as well as travelling to visit other ATS troupes around the world. She believes the older you get, the more exciting life can be. Never stop moving, it does a body good.
Jessie Somers
Jessie Somers, BFA ’10 — Not long after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Jessie worked at the Mission Arts Council for a summer teaching classes, and displayed her paintings in multiple gallery shows around the Fraser Valley. In 2011 she teamed up with a local pen artisan and has been painting and selling one-of-a-kind, hand painted fountain pens all over Canada and the USA. Jessie is returning this fall to start her Library and Information Technology certificate and plans to branch out further in education and fine arts. Her time spent at UFV shaped her way of learning and creating and helped her realize her that art is her true path in life. Her work is viewable at her personal website: www.cloakworks.webs.com
Amber Warnat, BA ’09 — was the first political science graduate from UFV. She has gone on to do a Master of Philosophy in justice and transformation with a specialization in conflict resolution at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. While she was there she started a small not-for-profit organization, which helps families buy chickens to start their own small businesses. She also interned at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. Currently she is back in Canada prepping to do her PhD. While doing her master’s degree Amber found that she missed the UFV environment, and the staff at UFV who are student focused, nurturing, and holistic in their education style. She sincerely hopes that as UFV grows it clings tightly to student-focused values, because it’s what makes UFV such a special place!!!!
Kerin Seikhon
Kerin Seikhon, BA ’07 — After completing her studies in criminal justice at UFV, Kerin attended law school at the University of British Columbia and received her law degree in 2010. Kerin is now practising family law as an associate lawyer at the law firm of Krentz & Hedman in Abbotsford. Kerin is grateful for the educational and life experiences she gained from attending UFV.
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Sarah Percival, Dip ’09 — since graduating with a Business Administration diploma, Sarah has been drawn towards finance and helping people. She attended UBC to obtain her mortgage broker licence and is now in the family business working with her dad as a licensed mortgage broker with Dominion Lending Centres. Sarah is looking forward to helping people to obtain financing. She’s grateful for the memories UFV gave her and misses the students, teachers, and the great atmosphere.
Irene Adams, Dip ’98 — finished her diploma in social work and moved to Victoria and graduated from University of Victoria with her Bachelor of Social Work degree in 1992. She then moved home to Lytton and worked for her band for five years. She then attended the University of British Columbia where she graduated in 2002 with her Master of Social Work degree. Irene is presently the supervisor of social work at Stó:lo¯ Nation, and has worked there for 14 years. For Irene, attending Fraser Valley College was a huge stepping stone. It provided her with a good foundation to keep moving ahead in her chosen career.
Jaspal Singh, BBA ’11 — After graduation, Jaspal decided to explore career opportunities in the financial services industry. After working as a financial advisor with Sun Life Financial for nearly a year (and completing another economics/ finance course at UFV), he realized that he wanted to pursue a post-graduate education, specifically related to finance. He has been accepted into SFU’s Master of Science in Finance program and he is completing preparatory classes to transition to being a full-time graduate student in September.
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Cassie Silva, BA ’08, BSW ’12 — As soon as the Winter 2012 semester ended, Cassie went off to backpack Central America. She was sad to miss Convocation, but got the opportunity to put her social work degree to immediate use, volunteering with kids at an isolated orphanage in the Guatemalan jungle. Since returning home, Cassie has accepted the position of mentoring coordinator with Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Fraser Valley. She would love to hear from any UFV students or alumni who are interested in volunteering their time as a Big Brother or Big Sister in Mission, Abbotsford, or Chilliwack. You can reach her at cassie.silva@ bigbrothersbigsisters.ca
Dave Dunster, BA ’08, TEP ’09 — was hired by the Fraser Cascade School District and taught in Hope for two years after graduating. Last year he moved to Hungary with his wife, Mel Dunster, whom he met in the UFV theatre program, and their two daughters. He is now starting his second year teaching in a bilingual language program in Budapest. As a native English teacher he shares the responsibility of teaching several subjects alongside Hungarian teachers. The cooperation of two professionals, often teaching the same lessons together, has been a very rewarding experience. His daughters attend the same school and his wife has worked as a drama teacher for adults and children in the Hungarian capitol. They will return to Canada next year where he will resume a post with the Fraser Cascade School District. Dave directly relates his success to the collaboration of UFV with its surrounding public school districts. His position in Hope gave him the experience necessary to be accepted in the overseas program, and his entire family has hugely benefitted from their amazing adventure abroad
write the company’s corporate history, which dates back to 1902. In the evenings, Sherylynn maintains her writing dreams in the form of a blog: sunshine-ing-sher.blogspot.ca, but after her wedding, she hopes to be able to focus on completing a non-fiction book that encourages and inspires young women. .
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Sherylynn Niezen, BA ’11 — After completing her degree, Sherylynn took off for Australia and Europe to see some of the amazing historical places that she had learned about the past four years while earning her history major. Upon returning she enrolled herself yet again at UFV and obtained her Bookkeeping certificate in December 2011. While working towards her certificate she was also completing her year-long commitment as the treasurer for UFV’s literary magazine, The Louden Singletree, in April 2012. Since then she has been working as the accounts payable person at Ironside Design Manufacturing, a roll-form equipment manufacturing company in Chilliwack, and was given the opportunity to
Jay Havens, Dip ’03 — designed the set for UFV Theatre’s January 2013 production of Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, by First Nations playwright Tomson Highway. Jay, an accomplished artist and designer with First Nations heritage from the Mohawk Nation, also designed the superb set and costumes for last season’s hit production of The Arabian Nights. Since graduating Jay has worked professionally in the Vancouver theatre community, designing sets and costumes for several companies. He has twice designed the set for productions of Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters. Jay’s talents are not limited to theatre design work: he was also commissioned to create six murals within the
Abbotsford community and a large example of his work can be seen on the walls of the Abbotsford Aboriginal Centre on Gladwin Rd., where Jay was artist in residence. Jay has also created murals for School District 34 in Abbotsford and was artist in residence at the Abbotsford School of Integrated Arts. The mural in the picture is one of Jay’s larger pieces and adorns the walls of the Alexander Elementary School in Abbotsford. The evocative piece, entitled First Salmon Celebration, includes an elder cooking salmon, two dancing children and a drummer. Jay always tries to include an elder and children in his work to symbolize knowledge passing from one generation to the next. Jay hopes that his work will enable both aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians to appreciate their own cultures.
Jelisa Fast, ABT ’10 — Jelisa graduated from the Applied Business Technology program in June 2011. She has been working at UFV full-time since graduation. Jelisa started out as an auxiliary support staff working throughout the university in various departments. She is currently working in the Alumni Engagement and Advancement offices. She has had nothing but great experiences at UFV. Jelisa has many great instructors to thank who have helped her throughout the program and also placing her at UFV for her practicum. Without their help, she wouldn’t be at UFV loving her job and connecting with many different people.
Caitlin Gleboff, HEP ’12 — Since graduating last June from the Hospitality Event Planning program, Caitlin was hired on as an events assistant intern with the University Advancement office at UFV. During her time there, she assisted in the planning of numerous events, including the 2012 Changing Lives awards ceremony. After her internship was completed, she briefly worked as an auxiliary support worker at UFV, helping out with an event for the Advancement team. Currently, as office assistant, Caitlin fills many roles and is looking forward to further advancement within the university. Caitlin loved attending UFV as a student, and loves it even more now as an employee.
Laureano Ralon
Laureano Ralon, Associate of Arts ’02 — Shortly after graduating, Laureano completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Simon Fraser University School of Communication. Complementing his graduate studies, Laureano worked as a teaching assistant for SFU’s Centre for Online and Distance Education, and as a research assistant for the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology, the New Media Innovation Centre, and the 2006 Telecommunications Policy Review Panel. He produced numerous articles and essays on various topics related to communication, technology and society, and has interviewed and impressive score of internationally renowned scholars — from Eric McLuhan to Noam Chomsky. Alongside his academic career, Laureano worked as an English/Spanish/French interpreter. Putting his communication and interpersonal skills at the service of new immigrants to the Greater Vancouver Regional District, he gained an understanding of the challenges facing newcomers to Canada. Working for the Provincial Language Service (part of British Columbia’s Provincial Health Services Authority) he provided language assistance to skilled workers and refugees in a wide variety of settings. Shortly after graduation, Laureano was accepted to a number of doctoral programs at various internationally renowned universities — including Columbia University and The London School of Economics — but returned to his home country instead as Director of the Canadian Observatory at the Argentinean Centre for International Studies. Laureano is the founder and editor-in-chief of Figure/Ground Communication (figureground.ca), a student-led blog dedicated to academic journalism that won first place in the education category at the 2012 New Canadian Weblog Awards.
Lorena Krause and curator Kelly MacIntosh at VPAG Gopops exhibit.
Lorena Krause, Dip ’10 — presented her GoPoPs (Glass on Painting on Paper) in a solo exhibit at the Vernon Public Art Gallery. Lorena’s art was developed after the passing of her mother in 2010 and each of the more than 200 pieces were a journey for two years past the grief forming an extensive series of chronological meticulous stain paintings with glass that evolved. Even though the initial pieces were dark in nature, soon enough they became more vibrant and playful until all was light again. The pieces not only touched adults who had gone through this type of experience in the past but also resonated with children to which Lorena’s art spoke to in a different way. Lorena Krause graduated with a Fine Arts diploma in 2003 and is a full time visual artist based in Langley. The exhibition was curated by another UFV alumnus, Kelly MacIntosh (BA ’07), and ran from January to March 2013.
Philip Sherwood, BA Ad Ed ’03 — recently completed a contract as managing editor for the MSA Museum Society’s new publication MatsquiSumas-Abbotsford Pioneer Stories 1890–1950. The lavishly illustrated 388-page case-bound coffee-table book contains 199 stories told by over 150 local pioneers or their descendants. Find out more about Lifewriters, Philip’s company that focuses on memoirs, corporate histories, and personal stories, at lifewriters.ca.
Ben Reed (BCIS ’07) and Megan Strom (BA ’07) were married on June 11, 2012. Ben is a former president of the Student Union Society. His mother Patricia also earned her degree at UFV.
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Image: Architectural rendering of the new agricultural facilities, to be built at the Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park.
UFV, partners, and donors team up to fund Agriculture centre UFV has committed $750,000 toward the construction of the first stage of a new BC School of Agriculture on its Chilliwack campus at the Canada Education Park, and two key partners plus community donors have brought that total to $2.2 million. UFV will pay $750,000 of the cost of building the first phase of the centre, which will include a greenhouse and a barn. The university has a commitment from the Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation (CEPCO) for $250,000 in funding. The provincial government has also committed to providing $1 million. This three-way partnership to provide initial funding will enable the university to build a greenhouse and barn that will open by Sept 2013. Other community partners are also stepping up to the plate. Envision Financial has committed $150,000 to name the Envision Financial Demonstration Barn (a
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Community celebration Watch for our grand opening celebration this fall!
sod-turning was held June 18). “Envision Financial has a long history of supporting the agriculture industry. In fact, one of our founding organizations was established to meet the needs of Fraser Valley farmers,” says Shelley Besse, president of Envision Financial. “We also have a strong commitment to give back to the local community and are a long-time supporter of UFV. That’s why we’re proud to be contributing to the development of UFV’s BC School of Agriculture in such a significant way.” Financial support from the community is vital to building the best possible facility, according to UFV VP external Harv McCullough. “We are hoping that this commitment will demonstrate that we are serious about continuing to run, and build upon, a highquality agriculture program,” said McCullough. “We need the support of the agriculture community, both corporate and individual donors, to make this a truly state-of-the-art facility. We are looking for an
additional $1.3 million so we can expand the facilities that we are building and equip them properly with the latest technology.” UFV president Mark Evered is grateful for the support of the community and the government. “As the university for the Fraser Valley region we recognize the importance of agriculture to the ongoing economic development of our communities, and we are committed to a vision of a British Columbia School of Agriculture based at UFV,” said Evered. “We know that our community shares this commitment to agriculture, not just as a past economic driver, but as a future one. To continue to develop this sector, we need well educated graduates conversant with the latest innovations.” UFV has been offering agricultural education with a focus on horticulture and livestock since its early years as Fraser Valley College.
If you’re interested in supporting agriculture programming at UFV, contact Karina Chow at karina.chow@ufv.ca
Major donation launches UFV Five Corners Dignitaries at official announcement of UFV Five Corners.
UFV will be a major presence at Five Corners in downtown Chilliwack thanks to a major gift from the BMO Bank of Montreal. BMO Financial group donated its building at the historic Chilliwack location to UFV in early 2013. The university will renovate and refurbish the facility in order to create UFV Five Corners, a downtown education centre with a focus on programming related to business development and training. BMO Financial Group donated the land and building, valued at approximately $850,000, to UFV. The Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation (CEPCO) is providing $650,000 to renovate the building, bringing the total value of the project to approximately $1.5 million. “We see a real value in having a space right at the core of Chilliwack’s downtown,” said UFV president Mark Evered. “This generous donation by BMO and the additional support provided by CEPCO will help us to play a lead role in the revitalization of the area and address the educational needs
of the business community.” “At BMO we see this donation as a triple win. Not only does the use of our former branch building assist the university in its goal to launch a downtown business learning centre, it aligns nicely with CEPCO’s mission to stimulate economic partnerships and activity in the region. We also foresee the exceptional value of UFV Five Corners as a centre of business learning — for small to mediumsized businesses clients and for the all-important agribusiness sector,” said Dean Kirkham, Vice President, Commercial Banking, BMO Bank of Montreal. CEPCO (the economic development arm of the City of Chilliwack), is responsible for promoting and enabling the economic growth of the community; it sees the value in having a university presence in the downtown core, according to CEPCO president John Jansen. “We believe that by investing in the building in its new role as an education centre for the business community, we will be further facilitating the rejuvenation of downtown Chilliwack.” Harv McCullough, UFV’s vice president of external relations and a long-time Chilliwack resident, said that receiving such a major
donation from one of Canada’s leading financial institutions, along with the support of the city of Chilliwack through CEPCO, signifies a new era in the development of the university. “CEPCO’s contribution shows that the city recognizes the important role UFV plays as an economic driver in our community. As a university, investments like this are what we require in order to grow and keep up with the expanding Fraser Valley population.” Once the renovation is complete the UFV Five Corners education centre will include classrooms, a boardroom, and office space for UFV instructors and staff. It will offer a variety of courses, workshops, and programs to support the business community. Programming will focus on professional development and continuing studies, and custom courses may be designed and offered at the request of the community. The new facility will be located in close proximity to the offices of the Chilliwack Chamber of Commerce, CEPCO, and the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association, allowing for greater cooperation and synergy between the university and these groups.
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The Herron family has many current and historical connections to Chilliwack.
BY ANNE RUSSELL You know your family has been in the community a long time when there is a road named after you. A few families in the Fraser Valley qualify for this distinction, including the Herron family, descendants of which still live in the area. And there is more than one road in the area bearing names connected to this family. Murray Herron and Brenda Sharpe are first cousins, and two of the five living grandchildren of Thomas and Eva Herron, who settled in Chilliwack and operated a prune orchard starting in 1920. The orchard was off Corbould Street, where Herron Avenue can be found today. Brenda’s roots in Chilliwack go even deeper than that. Her maternal grandfather was John 30
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launch a scholarship that would benefit a university student, promote the family’s love of music, and give back to the Chilliwack area in which their family has so many connections. The University of the Fraser Valley CONTINUED ON PAGE 33
Your legacy can have the same ongoing, profound impact for your children, grandchildren, and future generations in the community. An endowment can be created by a gift today that provides you an important tax benefit with the opportunity to see the positive impact of your gift, in your lifetime. Please consider your legacy gift today. Your family may choose to contribute together and/or name your endowment. Whether you choose educational programming, equipment, or awards as the focus of your endowment, you’ll know that your investment is a legacy for the generations to come. Measuring the return as a percentage alone doesn’t do it justice. There is also the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping others in your community. For more information on establishing your legacy, please contact Hilary Beard, UFV Senior Manager of Principal and Planned Gifts, at 604-851-6326, or Hilary.beard@ufv.ca.
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Herron roots go deep in Chilliwack: Endowed scholarship will keep memories alive
Ryder, namesake of the community of Ryder Lake, and her maternal grandmother was a Knox of Knox Avenue. Thomas Herron, the farmer who operated the prune orchard starting in 1920 and the cousins’ grandfather, was a well-travelled adventurer before he settled in Chilliwack. But even back in the 1950s, he saw the value of education. A profile of him as Chilliwack’s Citizen of the Year in The Chilliwack Progress quotes him as saying that young people should be pursuing a trade, rather than being a jack of all trades. “The world seems to be following a trend towards specialization,” he said. Education was always an important priority for the Herrons, with several members of the extended family having attended and graduated from UFV in its various incarnations. Even before there was a college in the Fraser Valley, many young people earned money to buy schoolbooks by picking fruit in the family prune orchard during the depression. Brenda still lives in Chilliwack, after having raised five children here, and Murray is a PhD candidate at Deakin University in Australia. When Murray’s mother passed away, Murray wanted to find a way to honour her memory and that of Brenda’s late son. He decided to
Your support changes students’ lives Criminology student Nikki Dionne succeeds in the face of hardship, with the support of a UFV scholarhip
BY ANNE RUSSELL
Photo: Darren McDonald
If you have any doubt about whether your support of UFV through your philanthropy indeed changes lives, all you have to do is listen to the story of a student who has been helped. Your support may mean the difference between being able to focus on studies or having to juggle school priorities with a job… or three! Criminology student Nikki Dionne is a shining example of how a student can be helped through the support of donors. The list of troubles she’s been through while trying to pursue postsecondary education sounds like a particularly poignant country music song: two provinces, three schools, stepdad left mom, mom got severely depressed, she left school to care for mom and brothers, boyfriend left her for her best friend, mom said “go back to school!”, she tried again, struggled financially, juggled three jobs, helped a friend in emotional crisis, got severely depressed herself, and then found the help she needed at UFV. But it’s all true, and very real, and that’s only the short version. “I always knew I was going to go on to post-secondary education, but I’ve faced many struggles along the way,” says Dionne, who is now happily pursuing a BA in Criminal Justice and maintaining a near-perfect 4.2 grade point average. When her first foray into post-secondary at a large Ontario university didn’t work out,
she successfully completed a two-year diploma and became a lab technician. But she still had academic dreams to pursue, and came to UFV to study criminal justice. Her earlier struggles had depleted her financial resources, and she was relying on student loans, and many hours of work at multiple jobs to fund her studies.
Last year she started to burn out from all the stress, and found herself saying ‘yes’ to all the questions on a depression screening test.
Nikki Dionne’s future is brighter because of a scholarship from the Canadian Federation of University Women, Abbotsford club.
“I had a huge depressive episode and it was a big struggle, but I kept going to class and maintained my GPA,” she recalls. “During the snow week in January, I spent the whole time in bed and was becoming suicidal, but still I kept going to classes once they resumed. I utilized all the fantastic services available through UFV: free counselling, great therapy. I was really supported through this extremely hard time by UFV.” After emerging from this crisis, Dionne decided to set some new goals that included travel and study abroad. Thanks in part to a scholarship she received from the Canadian Federation of University Women, Abbotsford Club (CFUW), she’s able to focus more on studies. “When I was told by the counsellor and the financial aid officer about the financial support I’m getting, I was at a loss for words,” says the lively and talkative Dionne. “For me, it means I can work 30 hours a week instead of 50. I can go travelling. And I can get involved in other things again instead of just working and studying. “I want to be one of you,” she told the crowd at the CFUW meeting, many of whom were shedding a tear or two while listening to her story. “I want to be successful and give back to people who have helped me out. I want to be like my grandma: a strong, independent, community-focused woman. And I want to be like my grandpa, a leading criminologist. You will help me achieve these goals!”
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during World War II, won a UFV Undergraduate Research award for the 2011/12 year. “When I heard about the class I thought it would be a good challenge, and kind of different from the other history classes offered at UFV,” Schmidt explains. “It comes down to the fact that history can only flourish if you’re able to present academic research in an accessible way.” Schmidt says he was drawn to the Mennonite community as a topic after hearing both his and his wife’s grandfathers talk about their experiences during the war. “It really surprised me, because I was under the impression that all the Mennonites had were all conscientious objectors — that they refused to go to war with one voice,” Schmidt says. “But that simply wasn’t the case.” As he dove into this conflict within the World War II era Mennonite Community, Schmidt found himself branching into several different collections and archives to get the whole picture. “Magazines and newspapers of the time weren’t too concerned with the religious conflict that was going on at the time, but there were some pretty heated town hall meetings out in Yarrow,” Schmidt explains. “It was mainly through Mennonite authors and Mennonite historians that I found my information.” But digging up information was the easy part. Putting it into a website was another story. “Robin assured us that no web design was needed, but getting into the computer lab for the first time was definitely a bit of a shock,” Schmidt says with a laugh. “But we were determined to give it our best. Historians are taking note that 32 SKOOKUM | SPRING 2013 | VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 1
they can’t be so removed from the general public outside of academic circles, but that a popular history is available and is really what interests people.” The idea of translating traditional research into other forms is one that this course really hoped to tackle, Anderson says. When nearly every university student has a smart phone and any school child can research a class project on the internet, it’s time for historians to start thinking about the evolution of their studies. “How do we adapt our discipline to this new age and this new way of communicating?” Anderson says. “That’s the question we grapple with, and one that history, as a whole, is grappling with. But I think there is a good marriage there. You can have a piece that is academic, but still readable and adaptable. It tests and challenges the linearity of an essay, and tests our ability to adapt to this new media and still get our message across.” The transition from paper to web wasn’t easy, and it challenged how students thought about the ways information can be presented. Paragraphs that would be linked together were instead split apart into separate sections that stood alone. Instead of a single block of text, students played with subtitles, visuals, and sidebars. And at the end of the term, when most classes were winding down for good, the students of History 440 watched their websites go live. It was a moment that all involved took pride in. “It was a challenging experience, but a beneficial one,” Schmidt explains. “When you challenge yourself and tackle things you think might be too much for you, you test
yourself and you see what you’re made of and what you’re capable of. “I think that’s what this experience was for me — opening myself to a new way of pursuing history — and it was an ultimately a very rewarding experience.” NASA AND UFV COLLABORATE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7
UFV geography graduates Winter Moon and Justine Cullen, who are working under Lian’s supervision while completing their master’s degrees at Simon Fraser, also attended. Daniel Huesken was another one of the students on the trip. Working in UFV Geography’s Luminescence Dating Lab for the summer, he was grateful for the opportunity to work with other students and gain field experience, all without having to be a graduate student. “It’s pretty exciting to get out in the field and collect data, because you learn so much about it in the classroom,” said Huesken. “To get out here and get your hands dirty, playing with the dirt and sediments, it’s pretty fun. I feel super fortunate that UFV has a really great commitment to undergrad research. So it’s been a great experience.” INDIGENIZING THE ACADEMY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13
She added that the model that said “to succeed you must be like us” — embodied in the residential school system and foster care, didn’t work. “When people learn the history of treatment of Aboriginal people in Canada, what actually happened, their world shifts!
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Dr. Lynn Davis, another presenter at the Indigenizing the Academy conference and director of the Native Studies PhD program at Trent University, added that simply learn ing more about Aboriginal history changes peoples’ minds.
Dr. Wenona Victor has joined UFV as the first faculty member in the Indigenous Studies category.
Theresa Neel started out as an FVC student, became UFV’s First Nations access coordinator, and is now one of UFV’s two elders-in-residence.
“When people learn the history of treatment of Aboriginal people in Canada, what actually happened, their world shifts! There are ‘aha’ moments when they hear about blankets infected with smallpox, and about laws that prevented Aboriginal people from having a lawyer.” Aboriginal education pioneer Dr. Eber Hampton noted that “Education in the western tradition was more like subtraction than addition. There were parts of me that I had to check at the door!”
And UFV elder-in-residence Eddie Gardner reminded the conference audience that Aboriginal culture is an evolving entity. “When we look at Aboriginal culture we often think of it as something stuck in the past, precontact, yet we as a people adapt! We look at new realities.” Dr. Steven Point said he was glad we have arrived at a time when questions are being asked about indigenizing the academy, and reminded the audience that it is the grassroots level that education is needed the most. A huge challenge is seeing that primary-level students in isolated communities get the resources they need. “The key is making sure the little kids of Kingcome Inlet can get educated.” He then mused on the dynamic tension between people needing to leave their home communities to gain access to education and employment, and wanting to stay close to home to stay connected to their culture. “Are we teaching people how to be a successful person in mainstream Canadian society or how to be successful in our own communities so that we can stay home?” he asked. It’s not just a question of how to indigenize the academy, but how to indigenize Canada! Indigenous people have some wonderful things to offer this world. Leave your communities if you must, but take your feathers and red paint with you, and remember the elders’ advice!”
met all of these needs and an endowed memorial scholarship was established. Coming from a family that values both long-ago ancestors and those who left us relatively recently, Murray thought that it would be fitting to remember his cousin Brenda’s son Colin as well. Thus the name of the scholarship is the Herron Family and Colin Michael Sharpe Endowment Scholarship. Because music has played a special role in the lives of many members of the Herron family (many of whom played an instrument), the scholarship will go annually to a student enrolled in UFV’s History of Musical Theatre course (THEA/MUS 306), who can also demonstrate high academic learning, community involvement, and performance ability. Music was particularly important to Brenda’s son Colin, who passed away at the age of 27 in 2004. Colin, who was the son of Brenda and Milton Sharpe and grew up in Chilliwack with three brothers and one sister, was a music teacher at New Westminster Secondary. He had completed a BA in Jazz Studies at Capilano, and a BEd at UBC. His students affectionately referred to him as “C#” (musical notation for C Sharp). The scholarship will be awarded for the first time this fall. Murray’s action to create an inclusive memorial that brought branches of the original family together, accomplished even more — it provides a legacy that strengthens the community through local UFV students, and affirms the value of musical endeavours.
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Cascade Aieisha Luyken was named to the Canada West second all-star team. Luyken led the Cascades in scoring with 294 points for a 13.4 point per game average. She led UFV in assists with 100, and steals with 52, and recorded 77 total rebounds. She averaged 30 minutes per night while starting 21 of the 22 regular season games. This is her first selection to the Canada West women’s basketball Elite 10 all-star team. She joins Samantha Hill (2007/08) and Tessa Klassen (2011/12), as Cascades that have been selected to the Canada West all-star team. Alexa McCarthy received the 2013 CIS Sylvia Sweeney award for outstanding community service. The men’s basketball team was ranked in the CIS top ten poll for 14 of the 20 weeks during the 2012/13 season. UFV had a banner year under some challenging circumstances. The team went through many changes over the summer of 2012, with three starters either graduating or transferring and the head coach moving on. The Cascades turned to first-year head coach Adam Friesen to take control of the nationally ranked program. Led by veterans Sam Freeman, Kyle Grewal, and James York, the team posted a 12–10 regular season record, good for fourth place in the Pacific Division of Canada West. In the post-season, UFV shocked the Canada West basketball world by going into Saskatoon and defeating the heavily favored Saskatchewan Huskies two games to one. UFV broke a school record in the 92-76 victory-clinching game, as six different Cascades were in double figures led by veteran Klaus Figueredo with a team-high 22 point performance. 34
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One win away from a second straight trip to the CIS elite Final Eight tournament, UFV gave the defending Pacific Division champions UBC Thunderbirds all they could handle in the Canada West semifinal. Leading by ten at the half, the young Cascades could not hold the lead in the second and eventually fell to UBC, 68-61, in the Canada West semifinal. Playing the next day for the conference bronze medal, the University of Winnipeg Wesmen defeated the Cascades, 90-84. The Cascades finished the 2013 season with a 14–13 record (12–10 regular season, 2–3 playoffs) for a 52 percent winning mark. Sam Freeman, a former Canada West rookie of the year, was selected to the 2013 Canada West men’s basketball first all-star team. He is the second UFV Cascade in the team’s seven-year Canada West history to be named to the first allstar team; the other was Joel Friesen in 2011/12. Freeman, a guard, has been the heart and soul of the men’s basketball team, along with Grewal. Freeman has grown each year alongside the program, from the team’s first post-season berth in 2010 to their second straight Canada West Final Four appearance. He led UFV in scoring with a 21.2 points per game, second best in Canada West. He broke the school singlegame scoring mark on January 18 when he scored 41 points against the University of Calgary, in an 88-84 loss. The men’s golf team won its third Pacwest title under the leadership of head coach Chris Bertram. UFV narrowly defeated Camosun College Chargers for the Pacwest championship on the final putt of the regular season. Aaron Pauls
finished the 2012 Pacwest regular season as the silver medalist with a four-tournament score of 583, narrowly missing the overall title by five strokes. Pauls, who was named to the Pacwest all-conference team, was instrumental in the Cascades’ comeback to win the Pacwest title. He shot a remarkable 138 for the two-day event to lead UFV to a two-way tie with Camosun College. It was Pauls’ putt on the final hole that clinched the Pacwest title for UFV. He was also selected a firstteam CCAA All-Canadian. With 11 student-athletes named to either the Canada West or Pacwest all-star teams, one conference player of the year award, two national awards and one conference coach of the year, the Cascades had a very successful year representing UFV. The Cascades have now had two straight record-breaking years and with 120 of the 140 student-athletes returning next September, the expectations are high for another banner year in 2013/14.
Aieisha Luyken made the Canada West second all-star team, a cap to a stellar season for her and the Cascades.
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was enrolled in the Bachelor of Business Administration program. He pursued the accounting avenue to develop a strong financial understanding so he could build a business after graduation. As he entered his third year of studies, he became heavily involved in the university. Already representing the citizens of Chilliwack on the local school board, McAulay also became president of the Business Administration Student Association. In addition, he sat on the Board of Governors, and took part in the presidential search committee, which was heavily involved in the process that led to the hiring of UFV president Mark Evered in 2009. McAulay has since worked as a chartered accountant, and done community service as a director of Chilliwack Community Services. He also helped start The Naked Brand Group (operating as Naked Underwear). As the company’s CFO, he has helped the brand expand into department stores across North America, and become publicly traded on the stock market. “It’s a pretty amazing experience being able to put all your university and professional training into your work like I have, and I’m only 28,” said McAulay when he received the award. “So it’s hard not to be excited about life.” Looking to the future, he is focused on building a strong marriage with his wife Kaila. In the business world, he’s looking towards more growth with Naked, but also has the hopes of starting his own tech company. And later in life, he’s interested in starting a donor-funded private school, and re-entering politics. He credits UFV with giving him the time to learn to be more humble, and motivate others.
“Everyone at university is so intelligent and strong mentally, so it becomes painfully obvious that you can accomplish so much more working with people then trying to do things on your own,” said McAulay. “I truly learned how to delegate and empower once I had that mindset.” It was also his time to push boundaries, and put theories into action. “I think one of the things a university does is it provides a serious opportunity for you to grow yourself into a powerhouse for the real world,” said McAulay. “It’s a playground to make all sorts of mistakes and try different things.” For any young entrepreneurs, he has these words of advice. “Be grateful! Find ways to always be grateful even in moments filled with gloom and not much hope. It will constantly keep you up in life and help you find meaning to periods of your life that are difficult to get through.” GEORGE HEMEON CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23
Now he has exhibited and/or worked on carving projects in Japan, at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, and in his hometown of Mission. During the Olympics he and his sons carved a Salish spindle whorl at BC Hydro’s Powersmart Village. “I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to watch George develop into a highly skilled, exceptionally talented and respected Salish carver in a short period of time,” said Nancy Arcand, executive director Mission Arts Council. Like many of his generation, Hemeon, whose mother is aboriginal, grew up without much knowledge of his culture and history.
“During my time at UFV, I started to learn about the relationship between the First Nations and the Crown, and I began to appreciate our history. I was interested, and began looking into the Supreme Court of Canada decisions addressing aboriginal rights and title. Then, when I was working as an aboriginal teaching assistant, I began to connect with aboriginal colleagues and Stó:lo¯ culture.” Although Hemeon’s award recognizes his career and artistic achievements, he also used the occasion to reflect on the good fortune he’s had along the way and the support he’s received from his wife Teresa and sons Harrison and Garrett. “We often find ourselves working hard at living, and constantly balancing life and career,” he notes. “Receiving this great honour gives me and my family a moment to pause and reflect on the paths we’ve taken. I still have lots of goals I want to achieve, but this is a great moment to share with my family and friends. I’m not entirely comfortable with all the attention, but it’s nice just the same.” “The Distinguished Alumni Award was established by the UFV Alumni Association to recognize an alumnus of UFV who has achieved outstanding distinction in career, educational achievement, or community service,” said Nancy Armitage, UFV manager of alumni engagement. “Though there were a number of exceptional nominations this year we were very pleased to select George to receive this award. George has an impressive record of achievement, and we are very proud to be able to present George with this important award. We look forward to seeing his name stand in UFV’s Alumni Hall as an example of leadership to our students.”
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Ever-striving… As UFV approaches its 40th birthday next year (we were proclaimed into existence as Fraser Valley College on April 4, 1974) we might be excused for resting on our laurels a bit. But we’re not that kind of university. UFV is an evolving university where we live our core values of striving to offer the best undergraduate education in Canada, and to be a leader of the social, cultural, economic, and environmentally responsible development of the Fraser Valley. So rather than be complacent about the fact that we’ve been working with our Aboriginal communities since the 1970s, we are actively seeking to fully indigenize our university by increasing indigenous content and creating a culturally safe environment for Aboriginal people. Rather than assume that we are producing the type of graduates that our communities need, we took a long hard look at what kind of knowledge, skills, and abilities every grad should possess, and formalized them into a set of Institutional Learning Outcomes. As you read about undergraduate students and UFV geography alumni working with NASA scientists at Kelly Lake, BC, history students bringing local stories from WW II into the digital age, Cascade athletes tearing up the record books, and our successful Distinguished Alumni winners, know that they are living proof that UFV is dedicated to changing lives and building community. And as you read about donors who are helping us open new facilities and provide needed funding to students, know that they are key partners in the process. Enjoy.
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