VIU Baking Program Launches Exclusive Signature Chocolate
November 18, 2021
A-one-of-kind signature chocolate created and designed by students is now available. It’s hard to top the taste of quality chocolate and in the case of a new creation courtesy of the Professional Baking and Pastry Arts program at Vancouver Island University (VIU), there’s nothing else like it in the world – literally. And starting this month, people can experience for themselves exactly what an... Read more
VIU Indigenous Speaker Talks About Journalism’s Role in Reconciliation
November 10, 2021
Investigative reporter Connie Walker is the keynote speaker for VIU’s seventh annual Indigenous Speakers Series on November 22. Connie Walker has devoted the past decade of her investigative journalism career to exposing the truth about the impacts of residential schools, and helping Indigenous people tell their own stories. “We’ve all been touched by this legacy, our lives have been shaped and... Read more
The Strategic Plan: Making it a reality
November 10, 2021
Now that the Strategic Plan, People, Place, Potential has launched, we wanted to get the perspectives of senior leaders on what the plan means for VIU. Over the next few issues of VIU Voices, we will share interviews with the members of the Senior Management Team who will explain how it affects their areas and the Foundation Plans that will be supporting the commitments embedded in the Strategic... Read more
RockVIU 2021: Welcome to Campus, a Message of Appreciation
November 9, 2021
Dear VIU Community, I hope you all are keeping well. We are emailing you with an update about RockVIU 2021, facilitated by the Office of Co-Curricular Engagement & Learning, an office within the Centre for Experiential Learning. RockVIU 2021 was re-imagined this year into an inclusive, hybrid orientation experience that supported VIU students from all campuses (Nanaimo, Powell River, Cowichan... Read more
VIU Community Planning Students Host National Conference in November
October 19, 2021
PLACE21 is free to attend and features student and industry presenters from across the country. Vancouver Island University (VIU) will play host to a Canada-wide conference this November, thanks to a group of students in the Master of Community Planning program. The conference, known as PLACE21, takes place virtually over two days and will feature presenters and students from across the country... Read more
New Program for Indigenous Elders and Residential and Day School Survivors Launches at VIU
September 29, 2021
The Literacy Circle will be tailored to what each individual student wants to learn. A new course for Indigenous Elders and Residential and Day School Survivors as well as 60s Scoop Survivors who want to learn basic language skills such as reading and writing is set to launch this October at Vancouver Island University (VIU). The program came about after Indigenous Elder Linda Jack gathered... Read more
Recognizing Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
August 4, 2021
VIU welcomes yesterday’s news from the provincial government that BC will recognize the new federal statutory holiday – the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – as a BC public sector holiday. VIU’s campuses and facilities will be closed on September 30 (except for the Library on the Nanaimo campus which is open 24/7); the day has been designated as a time to ‘recognize and commemorate the... Read more
Indigenous Youth Exploring Issues through VIU Art-based Literacy Project
June 23, 2021
VIU community-engaged research team working with youth to use art as a conduit for self-care, language learning and as a relationship-building tool. A team of Vancouver Island University (VIU) community-engaged researchers is working with Indigenous youth on a project that is empowering them to explore important issues and share knowledge with the wider community through an artistic work. The... Read more
Scaling up and Shifting online: 10th Annual MED Research Conference
April 29, 2021
Each spring Dr. Rachel Moll, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education, organizes and hosts the MED Research Conference so second-year VIU Master of Education (M.Ed) students who are working on their theses can share their work. It also provides first-year M.Ed students a chance to learn from the presentations as they develop their research proposals. The opportunity to present at the conference... Read more
BSN Students Make Positive Impact on Opioid Crisis
April 29, 2021
By Pat Woods, Nursing Instructor Last year, 2020, was British Columbia's deadliest in relation to drug overdoses, with 1,716 people dying due to illicit drug use -- a 74 percent increase over the 2019 number of deaths. To raise awareness and provide training and resources, third-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students Riley Kirkpatrick, Therese Pirie and Hanni Zhao planned and... Read more