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Thursday, January 18, 2024

Infrastructure Development website has been decommissioned

Infrastructure Development (infrastructuredevelopment.ubc.ca/) website decommissioned; all pages now redirect to the Facilities website. This change is a part of the VPFO Digital Transformation project.
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Thursday, November 30, 2023

New Campaign: Reimbursing Expenses Training Course

To assist staff and faculty in submitting expense reimbursements, Finance & Integrated Services has put together a Reimbursing Expenses – “Carpe per Diem” online course.…
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Wednesday, November 1, 2023

New campaign: Furniture Reuse Program

The Furniture Reuse program accepts donations of gently used, surplus furniture from faculty and departments and resells it to the UBC community and broader public…
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Thursday, October 26, 2023

New campaign: VPFO User Research Survey

We are conducting a survey to understand what tasks matter the most on VPFO websites as they relate to finance and payroll, buildings and spaces,…
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Friday, October 13, 2023

New campaign: ShakeOut BC

On October 19, 2023, practice how to Drop, Cover, and Hold On at 10:19 am during the annual Great BC ShakeOut earthquake drill. Help us…
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Thursday, October 5, 2023

New campaign: UBC Safe Vancouver App

Download the UBC Safe Vancouver app and make sure you turn on your push notifications to receive timely updates and urgent notifications. The UBC Safe…
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Kristy Lin and Katie Earle join VPFO Communications & Engagement

VPFO Communications & Engagement are pleased to welcome Kristy Lin and Katie Earle, Communications Strategists to the team. Kristy started October 20 in the Koerner…
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Thursday, September 14, 2023

New campaign: Safety Awareness Week is September 18-22

September 18-22, 2023 is Safety Awareness Week. We would like your help with promoting Safety Awareness Week to maintain a safe and secure campus for…
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Friday, August 25, 2023

New Campaign: Are you prepared for an emergency?

Safety & Risk Services’ Emergency Management team will be setting up a booth from September 5 to 7, 2023, for Ready Week to share information…
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Thursday, August 10, 2023

New tool: VPFO communications, engagement and change matrix

The VPFO communications, engagement and change matrix is a tool for assessing engagement goals, change readiness, influence, impact, and risk across high-level internal stakeholder groups…
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