Asian Heritage Month has been celebrated in Canada since the 1990s, but 20 years ago, the federal government officially designated May as the month-long celebration. UBC has officially celebrated the month since 2004.
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The faculty of arts may cut its international student advisors in the next academic year.
Student senator attendance at Senate committee meetings this past year has proven variable. Senators who were unable to attend many committee meetings say scheduling flexibility would allow them to better fulfill their roles.
At the meeting, senators sent a proposed change to the Allard School of Law admissions process back to the faculty for further consideration and approved an pathway for Indigenous applicants into the faculty of dentistry.
On May 9, a group of UBC medical students gathered in Ottawa to advocate for universal access to contraception.
Starting in June, third-year environmental sustainability student Samantha Porter will fly herself and her family around the world on a single engine airplane to raise one million dollars for SOS Children’s Villages.
Advocates claim the budget contains insufficient student support and minimal progress on promises like student debt relief.
The number of visits increased from 649 visits in February to 1,226 in March, according to an April 20 update from Student Services Manager Mitchell Prost.
Yesterday, the Social Justice Centre (SJC), Options for Sexual Health, Abortion Rights Coalition Canada, the BC Humanist Association and Access BC held a rally to raise awareness on reproductive rights in the US in Canada.
The Community Making and Black Flourishing Through the Scarborough Charter symposium — which was co-hosted by UBC and SFU — closed out the universities’ two-day Inter-Institutional Forum of the Scarborough National Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education.
The AMS and UBC have just concluded a campaign to encourage student participation in TransLink’s 10-year priorities survey.
The UBC Human Rights Collective (HRC) and the UBC chapter of Scholars at Risk (SAR) are calling for students to support an imprisoned scholar as Iran moves to execute him.
At last night’s AMS Council meeting, the new execs and councillors met for the first time in person to fill committee vacancies and waive a presentation of the 2022/23 preliminary budget.
The Equity and Inclusion Office (EIO) is currently working on a project to make washrooms more inclusive at both UBC’s campuses, in line with the university’s broad commitment to inclusion.
The Board of Governors approved the province’s mandate letter for post-secondary institutions for the 2022/23 fiscal year at its meeting this morning.