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Friday, June 18, 2021

Peter Lincoln joins Infrastructure Development as Project Coordinator

Peter Lincoln is the successful candidate for the position of Project Coordinator in Project Services within Infrastructure Development. David Kosub will be retiring at the…
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Update on Air Canada Refunds for UBC

Air Canada recently revised their COVID-19 refund policy, and as UBC is a corporate account holder the university is centralizing this refund for members of…
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Thursday, June 17, 2021

Asset Replacement & Improvements joining Infrastructure Development

The Asset Replacement & Improvement (AR&I) division, including the Transition Team and Construction Office, has started the process of joining with Infrastructure Development to form…
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Monday, June 14, 2021

BC Ministry of Advanced Education building auditors will be on campus starting June 21

BC Ministry of Advanced Education has contracted VFA Canada to audit 136 buildings on the UBC Point Grey campus starting June 21 to the end…
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Monday, June 14, 2021

Procurement Modernization update — Sharing our service delivery levels

Since Workday go-live our Financial Operations and Operational Excellence teams in the VPFO have been developing ways to share key metrics relating to service delivery…
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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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