Office of the Associate Vice-President (Administration)

The Associate Vice-President (Administration) provides leadership, administration and promotion of a diverse portfolio supporting the University campuses. Supported by over 400 staff, the portfolio is responsible for 6.41 million square feet in over 100 buildings on 690 acres and has an operating budget of $50 million and an ongoing capital budget of $80-120 million annually. The portfolio includes responsibility for five units: Architectural and Engineering Services, Operations and Maintenance, Campus Planning, Office of Sustainability and Smartpark, the University’s research and technology park.

Associate Vice-President (Administration)

  • Raman Dhaliwal

    Raman Dhaliwal (pronouns: she/her) is a seasoned higher education administrator and a visionary leader with a keen sense for strategy and forward thinking. She has ten years of experience in leading, designing, developing and implementing administrative structures and advancing critical projects and priorities that have shaped the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and the University of Manitoba (UM).

    She graduated from the University of Manitoba in 2007 with a Bachelor of Commerce Honors Degree in Actuarial Mathematics and Finance.

  • Raman Dhaliwal, Associate Vice-President (Administration) at the University of Manitoba.

More about Raman Dhaliwal

She is a Level III Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) candidate and is currently pursuing her Master’s Degree in Business Administration through the I. H. Asper School of Business.

She holds a unique and unprecedented dual position at the UM as the Associate Vice-President (Administration) and the Executive Director Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. She is the first woman who has held the Associate Vice-President (Administration) position. There are approximately 1500 individuals that report to her across both her portfolios.

Reporting units

Responsibilities

The Office of the Associate Vice-President (Administration) supports the university's mission through strategic and project planning, building and maintaining our campuses. We strive to be a trusted service provider with a work environment that promotes creativity, integration of ideas and sustainable utilization of resources. We are committed to engagement with the community to fulfill this vision.

University Art Collections

The University of Manitoba boasts an art collection numbering over 1500 items including large and small-scale paintings, drawings, ceramics, wall hangings, stone sculptures, prints, portrait busts, outdoor artworks, murals and much more.  Many of these works were gifted to the University by generous donors; others were commissioned to commemorate persons or events that have played an important role in the life of the university. Most of them are currently held by the university’s faculties, departments, colleges and administrative units where you will find them enlivening classrooms, reception areas, offices, libraries and hallways as well as the university’s grounds.

Indigenous Student Led Indigenous Art Purchase Program (ISLIAPP)

ISLIAPP is a student led committee of seven Indigenous students from the University of Manitoba community who meet with artists and curators, visit studios, to select artwork to be acquired by the University of Manitoba University Art Collections.

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More about University Art Collections

From time to time a limited number of artworks - primarily paintings, drawings, prints and small-scale sculptures - become available for temporary installation in secure public areas. If your faculty or unit is interested in exhibiting an artwork from the collection, please contact the University of Manitoba Art Collection Registrar/Preparator, C.W. Brooks-Ip at c.w.brooks@umanitoba.ca. Requests are met on a first come, first served basis.

If your unit already has University of Manitoba artworks in its care, this is a reminder that the University of Manitoba Art Collection Registrar/Preparator must be contacted if you need to relocate or store any art works (even temporarily) for any reason including renovations, space reorganization or staff changes.

The process of acquiring, caring for and placing artworks around campus is guided by the University of Manitoba’s Art Collections Policy and administered by the university’s Art Collections Committee.

Contact us

Office of the Associate Vice-President (Administration)
Room: 416 Administration Building 
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry Campus)

66 Chancellors Circle, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2

For questions related to the Office of the Associate Vice-President (Administration) please contact Tatjana Blazevska at:

Tatjana.Blazevska@umanitoba.ca
204-474-8265
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.