UBC Vancouver Senate met last night to discuss the discontinuation of the university’s rapid testing program and an emergency motion to halt all academic relations with Russian organizations.
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Current Arts Dean Gage Averill has been appointed to serve as the provost and vice-president academic pro tem for UBC Vancouver.
The caucus — composed of all eighteen student senators in the Vancouver Senate — hope the new website will increase the governing body’s transparency and awareness.
Former UBC staff member Ian Linkletter’s anti-SLAPP application against Proctorio has been dismissed, meaning that Proctorio can go ahead with most of its lawsuit.
The faculty of education’s second search for a new dean has been “unsuccessful,” according to a memo from President Santa Ono.
The Senate’s academic policy of deregistering students who don’t adhere to UBC’s COVID-19 vaccine declaration and rapid testing program is essentially defunct, now that the university has ended the program.
Three of the four referendum questions on this year’s ballot passed.
Erin Co is your next VP external.
Eshana Bhangu, Romina Hajizadeh, Anisha Sandhu, Dana Turdy and Georgia Yee are your next student senators-at-large.
Rita Jin will be the AMS’s next VP finance.
Eshana Bhangu will be your next AMS president.
Max Holmes and Georgia Yee have been reelected to UBC’s Board of Governors (BoG).
Dana Turdy is your next AMS VP academic and university affairs (VPAUA).
Ben Du is your new VP administration.
UBC’s endowment holds about $3 million worth of shares in Kremlin-controlled fossil fuel companies and a majority state-owned bank.