Councillors approved a fee increase for the AMS/GSS Health & Dental Plan and code changes during last night’s AMS Council meeting.
Incumbents Kareem Hassib and Kamil Kanji will be returning to the Senate, along with newcomers Jasper Lorien, Taushifa Shaikh and Solomon Yi-Kieran to serve as next year’s student senators-at-large.
Here we're covering major platform points from candidates in every race — president, VP academic and university affairs (VPAUA), VP administration, VP external, VP finance, Senate and the Board of Governors.
Here we're covering the Great Debate on February 29 where the candidates for all positions debated each other.
Here we're covering the second debate on February 27 where the candidates for the Board of Governors, VP academic and university affairs, VP external and VP administration debated each other.
Kamil Kanji is running for reelection to the Senate on a platform of increasing academic support, implementing more equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) initiatives and improving Senate efficiency and transparency — things he’s run on before but that he says require more time to complete.
Most students probably have never met or heard of Pickford. As the AMS’s administrative assistant, she mostly works in the background, offering support to the student executives and doing other behind-the-scenes administrative work.
AMS Councillors appointed Kai Rogers as the new Speaker of Council at last night’s AMS Council meeting.
Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada plans to double the financial requirement for student visa applicants and potentially limit the number of visas granted starting in 2024.
Before her leave of absence, AMS President Esmé Decker had been learning on the job as she worked to accomplish her goals around relationship building with student groups and transparency — although her priorities related to food security remain uncompleted.
Although UBC Vancouver advertises almost all of its undergraduate programs as four-year degrees, more and more students are taking at least five years to graduate, according to data from UBC’s Planning and Institutional Research Office (PAIR).
Disabled UBC students, faculty and staff are co-leading a national campaign for more accessible course formats and disability-friendly policies at Canadian post-secondary institutions.
UBC using floor lounges as temporary housing for first-year students.
As students walked across the stage during a May 2012 commencement ceremony, the crowd burst into an applause that was decades in the making. This applause was unique — it wasn’t just to celebrate graduation, but to recognize 76 Japanese Canadian UBC students who were forced into internment camps in 1942 before they could complete their degrees.
Two UBC students from Richmond who created the petition said the continued suspension of the 480 has made commute times longer for students travelling from Richmond, Delta and Surrey.