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		<title>From clerical post to VP, Jackie Hogan helped build and guide UFV</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Candy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[She walked in the door as an accounts payable officer in 1989. She’ll retire this month as Vice-President, Administration. There were many steps along the way, including an unexpected year as Interim President. Jackie Hogan has grown up with the University of the Fraser Valley. Before she joined as an employee at the age of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Arts education prepares UFV alum to support sustainability work</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Candy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shantini Klaassen uses her arts education to imagine a future without fossil fuels. As people and culture manager at the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative, Shantini, who earned a BA from UFV in 2007, supports global experts and activists working to create a roadmap for a just transition away from coal, oil, and gas.   “We have an infrastructure that completely relies on fossil fuels, and what we need to do is invest in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Nathan Speedie and team foster on-campus student housing culture</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Candy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As Nathan Speedie, UFV’s new director of student housing, looks up at Lá:léms Ye EverGreen, the brand-new six-storey, 398-bed building on UFV’s Abbotsford campus, he’s struck by the notion that he has returned to a university that has grown and changed in many ways since he was a student in 2003. And he’s changed too.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>UFV alumnus turns frost disaster into smarter cranberry farming</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan Candy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Climate change doesn’t always arrive as drought or wildfire.  On May 28, 2021, Travis Hopcott found it in the form of an unexpected cold snap that wiped out 90 per cent of a cranberry field, a $130,000 loss in a single morning.  “If you ever wanted to see a grown man cry, that was the night,” recalls the UFV agriculture alumnus, a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shayla Bird combines love of Black history, advocacy, and empowerment to shape unique career</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Biondi]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you want a deep dive into the history of Black Vancouver, Shayla Bird is the guide for you. Recently designated as an experiences host by Airbnb , Shayla specializes in tours of Hogan’s Alley, the original Black community in Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood where she now lives. Much of the Hogan’s Alley neighbourhood, was destroyed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>UFV sparks successful career for master electrician</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anthony Biondi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Tempted by the promise of a trade in which he’d always be inside and dry, UFV alumnus Martin Mwariga (Cert ’16) set his sights on being an electrician after high school. While that promise didn’t always hold true (he’s found himself working outside in the rain more than once), he found a rewarding career path. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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