For many students, this upcoming fall reading break is not a true escape from the stresses of schoolwork.
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This is your official guide on how you could be spending UBC's first-ever fall reading break, from exploring Vancouver to getting enough sleep for once.
As assignments, project deadlines and final exams loom, students say next year’s fall reading break will be crucial in helping students blow off some steam and catch up on studying.
“I hardly talk to anyone. How the hell was I supposed to know this wasn’t a thing?"
On May 27, the UBC Vancouver Senate passed a motion to adjust the winter session’s formal examination schedule and add a fall term break.
Senators discussed fall reading break, COVID-19 transcript notation, the final report from the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Diversity and Inclusion (SACADI) and the Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP), and other topics.
Senate is the academic governing body, and they make a lot of important decisions about academic matters like fall reading break, admissions and student awards.
To gather student responses and understand how students feel about the tradeoffs associated with implementing a reading break in the fall term, the Senate will be launching a student survey from February 26 to March 13.
As a newcomer to the Senate without any student government experience, Snow Wang has three main goals: implementing a fall reading break, improving course evaluation surveys and eliminating scaling, or down-curving.
On issues such at the fall reading break, he expressed frustration at the Senate’s sluggish pace.
Riley Ty is running for senator-at-large on a campaign of Senate review and student advocacy on affordable educational resources and implementing a fall reading break.
Fall reading break, which Burnham dubbed a “buzzword” of the Senate race, is her first priority.
Senate candidates crowded the Michael Kingsmill Forum on Thursday to discuss fall reading break, academic policy and space constraints on campus.
I say that as if you haven't had it marked in your calendars since August. With a whole 120 unadulterated academia-free hours, what ever will you do?!
Fall break will have to wait yet another year.
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