Anti-war activists may be happy to learn that the Department of National Defence has been gradually reducing its academic funding across Canadian campuses. But it looks like recruitment campaigns will continue at universities like UBC.
Pacheco-Vega now holds a PhD in political science, to go along with an MBA and a degree in chemical engineering—the former two being acquired at UBC. He may not be handing out diagnoses for diseases, but instead he is helping out people across the Americas through his environmental policy research.
In an attempt to bring more expertise to the country, Canada will be accepting up to 1000 international PhD students as permanent residents through the Federal Skilled Workers program every year.
Last November a group of 20 gamers banded together to form the UBC Starcraft Club, with the aim of propagating e-sports throughout campus.
Mary Kitagawa, a fourth-generation Japanese-Canadian and a member of the Greater Vancouver Japanese-Canadian Citizens Association, has started a petition to grant honourary degrees to UBC students forced into internment camps during World War Two, in an attempt to give institutional recognition to victims’ experiences.
Come September, students will no longer have to decide whether they want to login to the open wireless “ubc” connection or the safer “ubcsecure.” The former will no longer be a choice.
“Blackboard Learn will be an improved experience. Vista is a ten-year old technology, and we’re going to be implementing new technology which takes advantage of new developments in web publishing and LMS,” said Rob Peregoodoff, Manager of Learning Technologies at the Sauder School of Business.
Even though the Enrolment Services still use Canada Post’s services to conduct much of its communications, acceptance packages are still being sent out, transcripts are being mailed in and no complaints about significant delays by students have been made.
