Changemaking: ready to be known

How do we create a more equitable, innovative, and sustainable world?

Collaboration.

Changemaking brings together all types of people — from across UFV to the communities we serve — to engage with the challenges and opportunities that impact us the most. Together, we can all be part of the solution.

Changemaking at UFV Ready to be known?

Changemaking at UFV

Ready to be known?

UFV Changemaking

Why changemaking?

UFV embraces changemaking as a lens to address contemporary challenges and shape a more equitable future for our students, employees, and communities. Through creative problem-solving and a dedication to understanding the human impacts of issues, UFV strives towards a future of engaged, empowered citizens.

How do we do that? With four guiding principles: empowerment, decolonization and Indigenization, sustainability, and reciprocity. By approaching every challenge with these four values, we aim to improve the lives of the people around us.

What is changemaking?

"Being a Changemaker is the actions we take to be a house of transformation. It’s the commitments that we make, both within the university and across our community, to be agents of positive change.”

Dr. James Mandigo | UFV Provost and Vice-President, Academic

Changemaking initiatives at UFV

Inclusive empowerment

Courses and credentials

Changemaking extends beyond campus, and UFV is exploring credentials that will empower students to collaboratively solve challenges of every shape and size far beyond the classroom.

Changemaking courses »

Decolonization and Indigenization

Indigenous Student Centre

The Indigenous Student Centres provide support for the nearly 5% of UFV students who self-identify as Aboriginal people, and cultural events open to all students.

How the ISC is changemaking »

Sustainable futures

Champions for sustainability

Many small actions can have a massive impact — and that's the approach Sustainable UFV takes to improving the day-to-day practices of departments across campus.

How the Sustainability office is changemaking »

Reciprocity

Changemaking is for everyone

Changemaking looks a little different for every project, initiative, and challenge. Learn what it means from changemakers working throughout UFV, and what it could mean for you.

Meet the Changemaking team »

UFV's Learning Outcomes

Each of UFV's changemaking principles is directly tied to our Institutional Learning Outcomes. These outcomes guide us to ensure that each learner graduating UFV can demonstrate the following skills, which we believe also embody the spirit of changemaking.