You would be forgiven if you believed that Daphne Donaldson had invented the phrase “keep calm and carry on.” After a 30-year career at UVic and many years as the university’s emergency planner, she concedes that “the moment I hear a fire truck I hesitate because I wonder if something has occurred. I’m attuned to those sorts of noises.”
UVic’s new Chancellor is certainly no stranger to being in the public eye—or ear, as the case may be. Over her many years as a journalist and CBC Radio host/producer, Shelagh (after speaking to her for a few minutes, you really can’t think of her as “Ms. Rogers”) has travelled all over the country, gathering and sharing the stories of thousands of Canadians.
Celebrating exceptional staff The celebration of this year’s President’s Distinguished Service Award recipients, hosted by President Jamie Cassels, took place Feb. 25 at the University Club. Before the recipients were named, Valerie Kuehne, UVic’s acting vice-president academic and provost, recognized and congratulated all those who had been nominated.
There is no question Sean Adams has made his mark on UVic: much of the world-renowned scientific research conducted on campus over the last two decades was produced with the help of instruments he created. Adams is a scientific glass blower in the Faculty of Science. He creates highly specialized glassworks for use in scientific experiments—the sorts of one-off things you’d never be able get from a commercial or industrial glass producer. “Researchers here are often creating new science for which equipment does not yet exist,” he explains. “They come to me with very specific needs and I work with them to design or modify equipment for their specific purposes.”
The University of Victoria's Board of Governors announced today that Dr. Valerie Kuehne, an exceptional academic and institutional leader and a dedicated member of the UVic community for 25 years, is the university's new Vice-President Academic and Provost, effective July 1, 2015 for a five-year term. She is currently acting in that capacity.
If proof of a rich life is the cultural treasures by which you surround yourself, then Iona Hubner is wealthy beyond measure. As the Visual Resources Curator for the recently renamed Department of Art History and Visual Studies, Hubner has been imme…
Looking to create a personal website? A blog to discuss your latest research? Maybe you want a place to show off photos of your cat? Thanks to the Online Academic Community (OAC), current University of Victoria employees and students can now create their own websites and blogs—all you need is a NetLink ID. With more than 100 themes and plugins available, UVic faculty, staff and students can create, customize and manage their own sites—professional or personal—through a university-supported WordPress platform.
Since September, 67 job competitions have been completed using UVic Careers, the university's new online job management system, with almost 50 more in process as of late December. Job seekers are able to apply for jobs, save resum&e#180;s and track …
Since ‘go-live’ in September, 67 job competitions have been completed using UVic Careers, the university’s new online job management system, with almost 50 more in process as of late December.
Every university aspires to be a natural home for knowledge, and an easy place for sharing information. And along with the remarkable diversity, scale and specialization of operations that help shape UVic’s extraordinary academic environment also co…
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The Computer Help Desk has expanded its operations to provide more knowledgeable staff, extended hours and twice the number of locations. Faculty, staff and students can now contact the Help Desk by telephone and email from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. weekends, and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on stat holidays; and visit any one of eight physical locations.
The Campus Checklist is a brief campus news digest delivered biweekly to all UVic faculty and staff via their university-supplied email. Our goal is to strengthen communications between faculty and staff in different areas, support UVic's culture of respect, inclusion and collaboration, build a sense of shared enterprise and improve campus communications. How are we doing so far? We'd like to hear from you.
Apply now for the Staff Mentorship Program. This program establishes a relationship between two staff members to provide informal guidance, coaching, knowledge-sharing and enhanced understanding of the UVic environment. Open to all staff, but space is limited. Application deadline is Oct. 17.
Launching as a pilot later this month, a new biweekly Campus Checklist email newsletter will deliver essential information about our changing campus to all UVic faculty and staff. Providing briefs about new administrative processes, upcoming events and looming deadlines that are relevant to the broadest range of faculty and staff, the Campus Checklist aims to improve on-campus communication and reduce single-issue campus-wide “blast” emails.
It’s time to wave a final farewell to the uHire job posting system as Human Resources gears up to welcome UVic Careers, the new online job management system that will go live in Sept. 2014. Beginning Sept. 8, the UVic Careers system will be the recruitment tool for CUPE 951, CUPE 917, Exempt Support, Management Excluded and PEA positions.
