Career Services Workshops

FDU-Vancouver will be hosting 3 Free Career Services Workshops to help students with Career preparation. Barbara Adams from HR Architects www.hrarchitects.ca, a firm specializing in Strategic Human Resource Planning and Career Workshops with 20 years of experience will be facilitating the workshops. [more]

President Obama Visits FDU Metropolitan Campus

President Barack Obama took part in a campaign event for New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine on October 21 at the Rothman Center on the Metropolitan Campus. The event was available to our students at FDU-Vancouver via webcast. See photos from the day at the event page.

Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF)

The Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund (MMMF) is an outreach program of the World Bank Family Network. The fund provides financial assistance to women from developing countries during their studies in the United States or Canada. The MMMF annually awards about six to ten grants of approximately $12,000 each.  [more]

H1N1 Plans and Precautions (Swine Flu)

Fairleigh Dickinson University is working closely with health department officials to monitor the spread of H1N1 (swine) influenza.  Flu can be spread easily from person to person. Therefore, we are taking steps to prevent the spread of flu throughout the University, but we need your help to accomplish this.  [more]

New Vancouver Engineering & Graphics (VEG) Computer Lab

Not your average “VEG”… The new Vancouver Engineering and Graphics (VEG) computer lab is specially designed for students in the IT Degree Program. Each workstation has 4GB of memory and large hard drives. They sport large, high resolution 24” monitors which can be tilted vertically when needed.  [more]

FDU Student Prepares for Trade Mission

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Vancouver student, Javier Torres is getting ready for an experience of a lifetime. Later this month Torres will participate as one of a select group of students from across Canada to take part in a trade mission to Panama and Ecuador with Global Vision Canada. Global Vision, an organization founded in 1991 by Member of Parliament Terry Clifford, provides youth with real world experience, mixed with meaningful connections between business, development,  academic and student leaders. Global Vision has trained over 20,000 youth, many who have participated in trade missions and APEC Summits in over 22 countries (www.globalvision.ca).  [more]

Cecil Abrahams Named Campus Provost for FDU-Vancouver

A native of South Africa and a prominent opponent of apartheid, Cecil Abrahams spent nearly 30 years in Canada as a university professor and administrator. Since 2004, Abrahams has been a Visiting University Professor of English at Syracuse University. [more]

Global Scholars Program

A program for entering first-time, full-time freshmen at the University’s campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The concept for our Global Scholars Program was inspired by Fairleigh Dickinson University's founding mission as an institution that is "of and for the world."  As a Global Scholar, you will be part of a distinctive community of learners who are committed to world citizenship and to developing a global perspective as tomorrow's leaders.  [more]