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Friday, June 11, 2021

Collaboration between Building Operations and UBC’s Plant Care Services to Improve Soil Quality at UBC’s Research Fields

A collaboration between UBC’s Plant Care Services and Building Operations is improving soil quality for researchers at Plant Care Services’ Totem Field and providing an…
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Friday, June 11, 2021

UBC’s National Forum on Anti-Asian Racism: Why has anti-Asian racism resurfaced?

Sʔəyəɬəq Elder of Chinese and Musqueam Ancestry, Larry Grant of Musqueam, discusses the persistence of anti-Asian racism in Canada.  
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Thursday, June 10, 2021

Parveen Mann joins UBC as Director, Human Resources

We are pleased to welcome Parveen Mann to the VPFO as our new Director of Human Resources, reporting to Vice-President, Finance & Operations, Peter Smailes,…
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Monday, June 7, 2021

UBC and community resources for those distressed by the recent residential schools coverage

We were heartbroken to learn of the confirmation of the burial site of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Our…
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Friday, June 4, 2021

VPFO Finance Realignments Following Workday Go-Live

Many members of our VPFO team played key roles in launch of Workday at UBC, and following the success of go-live we are ready to…
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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Consolidating capital expertise in the VPFO

We are pleased to announce the creation of a new Capital Financial Management team that will be responsible for the oversight and governance for UBC’s…
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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Campus Security honours victims of the Kamloops Residential School

This week, Campus Security has put on orange epaulets in shared grief and to pay our respects to the children of the Kamloops Residential School,…
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Changes to support VPFO Finance  priorities

Over the past few weeks, Vice-President Peter Smailes and our portfolio leadership team have shared their insights into how our unit priorities align with our portfolio strategic plan. We would like to share more specific details about one of those initiatives, a change to how…
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Monday, May 31, 2021

Operational Excellence Website Launches

UBC and the VPFO are currently undergoing a series of transformational changes. Our new Operational Excellence team has been created to help us navigate these…
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Monday, May 31, 2021

UniForum activity on hold until fall 2021

With the impact of COVID-19 and the implementation of Workday last fall, UBC decided to put UniForum activity on hold for 2020/2021. Over the next…
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