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Thursday, September 24, 2020

Join UBC’s virtual ShakeOut drill on October 15th

We’re all spending more time at home at the moment, which makes it all the more important to prepare your home for the unexpected. Join…
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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

A beautiful plaque for Professor Santa J. Ono’s reappointment

In celebration of Professor Santa J. Ono’s reappointment as President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC, the Facilities team created a beautiful plaque and presented it to…
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Enrolment remains strong at UBC

Student enrolment numbers remain strong this fall at UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan—a sign of the university’s stellar academic reputation. Students are keenly interested in…
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Friday, September 18, 2020

VPFO Finance Teams Launch Finance Update

This new communication will be sent each Friday to consolidate and streamline communications to UBC's finance community from our central finance functions.
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Thursday, September 17, 2020

Get Ready for Hyperion 2.0

To support planning and forecasting activities within Workday, a new instance of Hyperion has been created — Hyperion 2.0. To help prepare UBC's finance community,…
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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Preparing for Workday Go-Live: Key Milestones

Information to help you prepare for the implementation of Workday, including key "cutover" information and upcoming Finance and Human Resources milestones, is now available on…
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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Erin Kastner, a sustainability champion for twenty years

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sustainability Coordinator program, Campus & Community Planning spoke to Erin Kastner, Geospatial Information Manager with Energy & Water…
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Monday, August 17, 2020

Philip Beck promoted as new Head in Soft Landscape, Municipal Services with Building Operations

Philip Beck is the successful candidate for the new Soft Landscape head position that was introduced to support Chris Longford, head of the Soft Landscape…
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Monday, August 17, 2020

The Future of Work and the VPFO

At the end of June, I asked you all to participate in HR’s Future of Work Survey to help us consider what working in this…
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Monday, August 17, 2020

What is Financial Planning & Analysis at UBC?

At UBC we have two central Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) functions that produce a wide range of data-driven insights, with financial models that support…
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