VIU's Nanaimo, Cowichan – campus and Trades Centre – G.R. Paine Horticultural Centre, and Milner Gardens and Woodland are CLOSED today due to severe weather conditions.
February 13, 2021
Saturday, February 13: Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus, Cowichan campus and Trades Centre, G.R. Paine Horticultural Centre, and Milner Gardens and Woodland are CLOSED today due to severe weather conditions. Powell River campus and the Parksville / Qualicum centre are closed as regularly scheduled. Any classes or exams that are on campus are cancelled. Classes or exams that are not on... Read more
VIU, NIC and Tourism VI Partner on Virtual Networking Event
February 10, 2021
CONNECT, which aims to build connections between employers, industry professionals, students and faculty, takes place Wednesday, March 3 from 3-5 pm. Vancouver Island University (VIU) and North Island College (NIC) are partnering with Tourism Vancouver Island (TVI) for an engaging, informative and interactive virtual networking event. CONNECT will take place Wednesday, March 3 from 3-5 pm. The... Read more
Speaker Addresses Racism in the BC Health-care Sector
February 3, 2021
WHAT: VIU’s Engaged Citizens Speaker Series WHEN: Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 6:30 – 8 pm WHERE: Zoom webinar Join Dawn Thomas Aa ap waa iik, Associate Deputy Minister for Indigenous Health with the BC Ministry of Health, who will be presenting An Island Response to In Plain Sight: Addressing Indigenous-specific Racism and Discrimination in BC Health Care. The presentation will be followed by... Read more
VIU Media Highlights: January 18 - 29, 2021
February 1, 2021
A bi-weekly roundup of VIU in the News. NEWS STORIES Top Performing article for the last two weeks: A VIU News Release: VIU Culinary Arts Student Cooking for Gold (featuring Culinary Arts student Ottis Crabbe) was picked up by CBC All Points West, Nanaimo Magazine, reddit, Ha-Shilth-Sa story reprinted by CTV News, The Vancouver Star, Yahoo News Canada, Canadian Pizza Magazine, Welland Tribune... Read more
VIU to Train More Community Mental Health Workers
January 18, 2021
Vancouver Island University (VIU) is excited to share the news that the provincial government has provided funding to run a second cohort of our Community Mental Health Worker program in 2021. To learn more, please read the BC Government News release. To learn more about VIU’s Community Mental Health Worker program, please visit the program homepage. If you are interested in applying, please... Read more
VIU Media Highlights: Top 24 of 2020
January 5, 2021
Happy New Year! For the first edition of the 2021 Media Highlights report, we wanted to take a look at some VIU-related stories that made an impact in the media last year. We were planning on doing a top 20 of 2020, but couldn’t stop there – from an extraordinary archaeological find, to chow mein sandwiches, to bald eagle footage, ancient brews and setting up your home work space, VIU employees... Read more
VIU Invites People to Experience University Life in Live Virtual Events
January 4, 2021
Experience VIU 2021 takes place January 16, 20 and 21 While the COVID-19 pandemic has meant that much of the teaching and learning activities at Vancouver Island University (VIU) are happening online this year, that isn’t stopping the University from hosting its open house events for prospective students. This January, VIU is rolling Discovery Days, the University’s biggest on-campus event for... Read more
Juno-Award-Winning Dub Poet Lillian Allen to Give VIU Gustafson Lecture and Reading
December 23, 2020
The annual lecture will take place online February 11, 2021 via Zoom Webinar Dub poetry emerged out of the 1960s Jamaican reggae scene to articulate the joy and protest of Black people. Canadian poet Lillian Allen is the “godmother of dub,” and was at the forefront of that international movement. Allen, who continues to innovate in poetry and creative writing pedagogy, has been chosen as... Read more
VIU and Island Health Partner on COVID Testing Location at Nanaimo Campus
December 22, 2020
Please Note: The testing and collection clinic has relocated to Nanaimo North Town Centre from Vancouver Island University's Nanaimo campus. Read more at Island Health. To improve community access to COVID-19 testing, VIU is pleased to partner with Island Health to enable drive-through testing in one of our parking lots on the Nanaimo campus. The collection site opened on December 1 and is... Read more
VIU Media Highlights: November 24 - December 7, 2020
December 9, 2020
NEWS STORIES Top Performing article for the last two weeks: CBC News: BC Poet Sings About Being Black in Nanaimo. Features VIU Creative Writing Professor Dr. Sonnet L’abbe. Reach: 7 million people. This story also appeared in the Nanaimo Bulletin. Other stories: Dr. Shannon Dames’ research into using psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD in health-care workers has had a big response from BC news... Read more