Senate met for the last time this year to discuss the student experience of instruction survey data, look at UBC’s research accomplishments and hear the annual library report.
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UBC recently sent 14 students, staff and faculty — some attending in-person and others virtually — to COP30, held in Belém, Brazil from Nov. 10 to 22.
On the heels of their annual provincial lobbying trip, AMS executives said their campaign for pushing student-run food bank grants and voicing concerns for the provincial post-secondary education review went “quite successfully.”
The Board of Governors voted to increase tuition fees by two per cent for domestic students and between two and four per cent for international students at their last meeting of 2025.
Protesters indicated further disruptions will continue unless UBC commits to divestment — but the university says it's already been communicating its progress on a "human rights framework" for responsible investment.
The future of the Friendlier reusable container pilot program is up in the air after months of negative feedback, lower-than-expected return rates and concerns about its financial and environmental impacts.
The winners beat out four other candidates, winning over 20 per cent of the vote each.
Winning 35 per cent of the vote, Matt Tan has been re-elected to the Board of Governors as a staff representative.
AMS Council met Wednesday last week to hear presentations on the impacts of its bursary funding, the relocation of the club commons space and changes to the student union’s investment strategy.
The review comes after a provincial post-secondary funding review was quietly shelved, and the federal government’s recently passed budget included plans to further cut the number of new international students across Canada by nearly 50 per cent.
Student groups have decried the province’s shelving of a long-promised post-secondary funding model, which they say will lead to budget reductions and layoffs.
Off the heels of a trip to Ottawa, President Benoit-Antoine Bacon told senators the federal budget wasn’t as bad for UBC as it could have been at their Nov. 19 meeting.
Proctorio’s lawsuit against former UBC staff member Ian Linkletter ended last week, after a five-year saga over tweets Linkletter posted that Proctorio alleged violated their copyright.
How the federal government’s plan to sharply reduce new international study permits will affect UBC’s budget remains uncertain, according to the university. The federal budget, released on Nov. 4, outlines a 49 per cent cut to new permits in 2026 from this year’s target, lowering the total to 155,000.
Nathan Herrington is running to be a staff representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is currently an international recruiter/adviser in the university’s international student initiative unit.
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