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.
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.
Eshana Bhangu is "ready to kick some ass" as your new AMS president
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 Board of Governors approved the province’s mandate letter for post-secondary institutions for the 2022/23 fiscal year at its meeting this morning.
The 2021/22 AMS Council met for the last time on Wednesday night to hear an end-of-year report on AMS services and to vote on executive transition honorariums.
In an emailed statement, Rae Ann Aldrige, executive director of UBC Safety & Risk Services — the department which includes Campus Security — said the university is reviewing the situation.
“As there are now signs of further Omicron variants and increased case numbers, experts have indicated that BC is about to enter into a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic."
According to a VPD press release posted yesterday, 35-year-old Alan “AJ” Birtwistle was last seen near International Village in downtown around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13.
The Notice of Appeal contains little information about the reasoning behind the appeal, but Linkletter’s team will have to prepare an appeal record and factum within 90 days of the notice.
UBC’s VP Finance and Operations Peter Smailes will be leaving UBC at the end of May.
Recent incidents of racial discrimination involving Campus Security and the RCMP and police brutality against BIPOC individuals have sparked a conversation around what a safe community means.
Eshana Bhangu will be your next AMS president.
In a broadcast message sent on Thursday evening, President Santa Ono and Principal of UBC Okanagan Lesley Cormack said masks will be required until April 30, the last day of Winter Session term two.