Dr. Allyson Jule

Allyson Jule is the new Dean of the Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development. She was most recently the Dean of Education at TWU. She has been an educator for over 35 years, teaching English in high schools and colleges in Alberta, Ontario and BC before entering academia. She studied and worked in the UK for ten years. She is a Full Professor.

Her contributions to gender equity and education were nationally recognized in 2012 by the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education’s Award. Over the years, Dr. Jule has received several teaching awards, including Canada’s prestigious 3M 2016 Teaching Fellowship, the national fellowship honouring excellence in teaching in Higher Education. She is a teacher’s teacher and cares deeply about equity, diversity and inclusion - and community access to education. She has been a popular conference presenter over the years.

She has written most widely on the topic of silence and language use in classrooms, including ten books and many peer-reviewed articles and chapters. Her most recent book is The Compassionate Educator, published last year by Canadian Scholars Press.

She is excited about this position at UFV because she deeply appreciates UFV’s commitments to EDI and its mission to engage learners, transform lives, and build community.