Jeff Lee

Jaiya Panchi is your next VP academic & university affairs.

Candidates spoke about open communication, mental health support and institutional neutrality at this year's elections forum moderated by the Indigenous Student Society (ISS).

Jasper Lorien is running for AMS president on a platform of “moral clarity,” arguing that Canada’s largest student union has drifted toward a corporate mindset that prioritizes profit maximization and bureaucratic efficiency over the lived realities of its nearly 60,000 members.

Dylan Evans, a fourth-year forestry student and the current VP administration, is running for president on a platform of moving the student society beyond recovery and into a new era of active, vibrant community building.

Live coverage of the AMS presidential candidates at the Great Debate. Present at the debate were candidates Dylan Evans and Jasper Lorien.

Students have called for the downfall of the Islamic Republic at rallies for months. Now with Israel and the United States bombing the country, some have rejoiced at the attacks.

Next Fall, students can expect to see on their syllabi "A statement on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) usage in student-submitted work that clarifies how the use of GenAI is permitted or not permitted."

UBC has removed the academic progress wheel from the Workday Student platform for some programs that use academic progress reports, such as the Faculty of Arts, saying the feature did “not accurately reflect the percentage of completion” for some students’ academic progress.

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.

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.

Mike Nichols is running to be a staff representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He is currently the client services manager in the Office of the Chief Information Officer, where he has worked for the past four years, and he is pursuing an MBA at the Sauder School of Business.

Aaron Cunningham is running to be a staff representative on UBC’s Board of Governors. He has been the associate director of student support and advising in enrollment services for the past five years, and has 20 years of experience working at post-secondary institutions.

What if you could not only take a university course on zombies, online dating, or Disney fandom — but create it yourself? At UBC, upper-year undergraduates can do exactly that through the Student Directed Seminars (SDS) program.

The AMS is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Oct. 22 at 6 p.m. The AGM provides a direct way for all students at UBC Vancouver to engage with their student government — and even influence how it operates in the following months or even years to come.

AMS Council convened last Wednesday to present last year’s financial statements, announce $2 million in new funding for undergraduate research opportunities, and discuss the recent Textbook Broke and SkyTrain advocacy initiatives.