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VIUpoint - VIU's Alumni Association enewsletter
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 During VIU's 2011 New Student Orientation, VIUAA hosted a welcome back barbecue which was sponsored by Fairway Market. |
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Welcome to your bimonthly VIU Alumni Association update, keeping you connected to your former classmates and VIU.
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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION UPDATE
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Items Needed for Alumni Online Auction
VIUAA will once again be hosting the Alumni
Online Auction for the Festival of Trees in November. Last year the auction raised more than $10,000 to support student scholarships, awards, bursaries and alumni initiatives. If you have an item to donate to this year's auction please contact alumni manager, Dave Forrester, at alumni@viu.ca or 250.740.6214. |
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Call for Alumni Award Nominations
We are now accepting nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Award, Alumni Horizon Award and Outstanding Service Award. Detailed procedures and the nomination package/forms can be found on the Honorary Credentials website. The deadline for nominations for Honorary Award candidates is September 30, 2011. For information on previous award winners click here.
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 New Journey Now Available The latest edition of VIU's alumni magazine is now out.
If you didn't receive your copy please let us know: alumni@viu.ca.
You can also view it online here.
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Renew with VIU Campaign
One of the goals of VIU's Alumni Association is to reconnect with alumni who may have lost touch with the institution after they graduated. To help us do that we've started a Renew with VIU Campaign to encourage all of our graduates to register with the Alumni Association. For more information please go to the Renew with VIU website.
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 New Campus for Cowichan
Students in Cowichan walked through the doors of a new campus on September 6, 2011. The new building is one of the most sustainable on Vancouver Island and features state-of-the art science and computer labs and classrooms as well as environmentally friendly features such as a solar heating system supplying hot water, a high-efficiency geothermal heating and cooling system and a rooftop garden which helps cool the building and decrease storm run-off. more
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 VIU Says "No" to Bottled Water An initiative spearheaded by VIU's Student Union (VIUSU) will see VIU become the first university in BC to ban the bottle -- plastic water bottles that is. VIUSU, with the full support of VIU's faculty and staff, hope to make VIU's campuses bottled-water free by June 2012. more |
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