"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels."
— United Nations
Sustainable UFV
Sustainable UFV
"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels."
— United Nations
The UFV PARC, in partnership with the Stó:lō Nation, the Stó:lō Tribal Council, the Stó:lō Research and Resource Management Centre, and the Stó:lō Grand Chief’s Council, launched a new, collaborative program initiative:
“Xwelítem Siyáya: Allyship and Reconciliation Building.”
This program - which was designed in direct response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action - seeks to help build people’s capacity for reconciliation-building by teaching the importance of authentic allyship and providing skills for building relationships between colonial settlers and Indigenous communities here in the Fraser Valley and beyond.
Related SDGs:
Reduced inequality-Partnerships
"Give a welder a communications challenge and they will express it in metalwork." The war being waged by Russia against Ukraine hit too close to home for Maciej Kaczor, a program technician in the Faculty of Applied and Technical Studies at UFV, who is originally from Poland. Kaczor’s colleague, welding instructor Matt Olafson, sought ways to help the university express a message of peace and solidarity with the beleaguered Ukrainian people. The two worked together to craft a symbol of peace: a ‘hedgehog’ mounted on top of a map of Ukraine, with the words End War and a Ukrainian symbol mounted on top. They then challenged students in the Welding Foundation program to create their own peace hedgehog and received permission to place it in a prominent spot at a main entrance to the Chilliwack campus.
President MacLean formed a President’s Task Force on EDI to provide leadership in creating and fostering an environment that supports and creates best practices, policies, and pedagogy for EDI. The task force focuses on the identification and elimination of barriers to equity access and opportunity blocking career advancement, recruitment, and retention of underrepresented groups in our organization. They developed an EDI Action Plan to provide a framework to embed EDI in UFV's institutional practices.
Related SDGs:
Reduced inequality
Chowiyes-Xwithet/Rise Up-Wake Up brought together the diversity of students, programs, faculty and staff at UFV. The event, held at the Gathering Place on the Chilliwack campus, honoured the shxweli (“life spirit”) of children lost to residential schools, survivors, and their families and is dedicated to reconciliation and revitalization of Halq’eméylem, the up-river dialect of the Stó:lō people. The event featured bilingual Good Medicine Songs, written in Halq’eméylem and English. The song lyrics are steeped in Sxwōxwiyám (“stories from the distant past”), and Sqwélqwel (“true family stories”). Good Medicine Songs create a unique cross-cultural space for people of all backgrounds to enjoy, learn and sing together in Halq’eméylem.
Related SDGs:
Partnerships
