UNIVERSITY COLLEGE of the FRASER VALLEY

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Volume 6, Number 20

June 24, 1992

TOP GRADUATES —Criminal Justice
grad Angie Esau and Business Admin.
grad Joseph Martin received the
Governor General’s and Lieutenant
Governor’s medals respectively at the
graduation ceremonies on June 18. For
more grad news see page 4.

Funding expected for major campus

expansions

The University College of the Fraser
Valley expects to receive almost $45
million from the Ministry of Advanced
Education, Training and Technology to
construct extensive new facilities on the
Abbotsford and Chilliwack campuses
over the next three years.

The Ministry has approved $2.66
million for site development and
planning for the new Chilliwack campus
and $240,000 for planning the next
expansion of the Abbotsford campus.

A sum of $20.6 million has been
tentatively identified in the Ministry’s
1992/93 capital budget to award the
contracts to construct these new facilities.

A further $1.2 million in planning
funds has been targeted in the Ministry’s
1992/93 capital budget to design a
further $20 million expansion to UCFV

facilities in 1993/94 for a total of $44.7
million in new construction.

Planning will begin immediately for
the new buildings at both the Chilliwack
and Abbotsford campuses. Construction
is expected to begin in the spring of
1993 with the first $20.6 million worth
of expansions completed by August
1994. Construction of the additional $20
million worth of expansions is expected
to be completed during the fall of 1995.

“This funding will do a great deal to ~
meet the dramatic need for increased
access to post-secondary education in
our region,” said UCFV Board chair
Brian Minter. “In the western area, the.
demand for more space continues at an
unrelenting pace. In the eastern area, our
communities will finally see their long
standing dream and many years of hard

work fulfilled with a major new campus
in Chilliwack.”

UCFYV planning committees have
begun the task of identifying exactly
which new facilities will be constructed
first. Their recommendations will be
based on earlier college plans and
priorities as well as updated plans due to
the new degree programs.

Among the priorities previously
established for the Chilliwack campus
are new classrooms to replace aging
portables, laboratories, student services
and activities areas, and a drama theatre.

In Abbotsford earlier planning
identified the need for a new library,
more classrooms and laboratories, as
well as new and expanded facilities for
other programs-with rapidly growing

Please see page 3