FDU Vancouver Alumni Awards: Transforming Lives Through Excellence.

For nearly two decades, FDU Vancouver has been contributing to businesses and industries through workforce development across British Columbia and beyond. Since 2007, FDU graduates have stepped into boardrooms, classrooms, conferences, startups, and community organizations around the world — carrying forward an education built on three enduring principles: Personal. Global. Transformational.

This fall, FDU Vancouver is taking a step further to acknowledge outstanding alumni who have made a significant impact on their careers and communities. FDU Vancouver is launching the FDU Vancouver Alumni Awards. This is a formal recognition dedicated to FDU Vancouver graduates whose contributions have strengthened FDU as ambassadors of the university. These outstanding alumni have created meaningful and transformative contributions in their respective organizations, industry and community.

“With the opening of FDU Vancouver’s new campus at Oakridge Park this fall, this space will serve as a vibrant hub for innovation, culture, and community—one that reflects and celebrates excellence,” shared Damien Holland, Executive Director of Operations at FDU Vancouver. “It is a fitting setting to honour our alumni, whose achievements and contributions have helped shape our province and who we are today. As we look ahead to this exciting new chapter, we also acknowledge and recognize those who paved the way. The FDU Vancouver Alumni Awards are a tribute to their success, and we are proud to place them at the heart of this new beginning.”

FDU Vancouver Alumni Awards

FDUV Pinnacle Alumni Award

The university’s highest alumni honour, recognizing a graduate who demonstrates exceptional loyalty, leadership, advocacy, and service to FDU and the broader community. Recipients have achieved distinction in their careers, made meaningful contributions to their fields, and exemplify personal and global impact while bringing pride to FDU Vancouver.

FDUV Volunteer of the Year Award

Recognizes a graduate who has made significant volunteer contributions to FDU Vancouver, including support for academic programs, student development, recruitment, alumni relations, fundraising, student life, and community engagement.

FDUV Outstanding Young Alumni Award

Celebrates a graduate aged 29 or younger who has achieved exceptional early career success, demonstrated leadership potential, and contributed to FDU Vancouver and/or the Alumni Chapter.

Who Can Nominate

Anyone who knows an outstanding FDU Vancouver graduate, either as a friend, colleague, employer, partner or previous classmate, is welcome to nominate. This includes:

• FDU Alumni — all graduates of an undergraduate or graduate program at FDU Vancouver
• Staff, faculty, board and advisory committee members
• Current students, employers, and community partners
• Members of the public who know an FDU Vancouver alumnus

Self-nominations are welcome. Nominees must be FDU Vancouver graduates who have demonstrated progressive career growth, community or industry impact, contribution to FDU, and overall success since graduating.

Key Dates

• Nomination deadline: June 30, 2026
• Awards ceremony: Fall 2026 — FDU Vancouver Campus at Oakridge Park
• Nominate today at fdu.edu/vancouver-alumniawards

Why These Awards Matter

These awards reflect FDU Vancouver’s enduring commitment to excellence as a driver of meaningful change. FDU Vancouver continuously empowers graduates to lead with purpose, innovate with confidence, and create lasting impact across British Columbia and beyond. Through their achievements, FDU Vancouver alumni continue to shape industries, strengthen communities, and inspire future generations.

The FDU Vancouver Alumni Awards proudly celebrate these contributions, offering an annual opportunity to recognize graduates whose dedication to their professions, their communities, and the university exemplifies the very best of the FDU spirit.

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About Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Vancouver Campus 

Since 2007, FDU Vancouver has shaped professionals in British Columbia through personal, global and transformational education. As a comprehensive not-for-profit university, FDU Vancouver delivers industry-aligned undergraduate and graduate education in business, health, hospitality and tourism, humanities and information technology. Learn more about FDU Vancouver Alumni Awards at fdu.edu/vancouver-alumniawards

Media Contact 

Ben Ferkinghoff
Marketing and Communications Intern
vancouver.communications@fdu.edu